Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-06

srntt County gegister.
BY ELI d. AXE.
The Ohio medical law has been de-
clared constitutional in the lower
courts 1t requires physicians to
register and have certificates based
upon practice or examination.
THOMAS STEEP, the Cuban cores
pendent of the Scripps-McRae league,
Is alive. A cablegram has been re-
ceived at the league headquarters
saying that he is safe at Kingston, Ja-
maica.
SENATOR OBvnLE Fl. PLAT, of Con-
necticut, was married, on the goth, to
Mrs. Jennie P. Hoyt, of Upper Mont
clair, n. J. Very few of Senator Platt's
colleagues were aware of his intended
nuptials-
THE regents of the Michigan state
university at Ann Arbor have rendered
Harry J. Hutchins, dean of the law de-
partment, the presidency of the uni
versity during DIR. Angeles absence as
minister to Turkey.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the lst,
as reported by r. G. Dun & Co., were
237 against 23s for the corresponding
week last year. In Canada the failures
were 40, against 81 last year.
A DISPATCH from Manila, capital of
the Philippine islands, says that $4,000
insurgents, who have not submitted to
the Spaniards, have taken up a posi-
ton in the mountains and are offering
q stout resistance to the troops
A DISPATCH from Athens, on the 26th,
said: The report that King George
was compelled to sign decree recall
ing Prince Constantine from the front
is unfounded. The crown prince will
remain at the head of the army.
A TELEGRAM received from Athens,
on the 3Oth, said great battle had been
fought at Velestino between Turkish
force of 5000 and Gen. Smolenski's
brigade. The dispatch added that the
Turks were repulsed with enormous
losses
PRIVATE letters from the interior of
Cuba report wholesale starvation.
Some of the cases are especially heart
rending. Children are dying in the
streets of Matanzas, and babes have
been found dead in the arms of their
exhausted mothers.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT DAVIDSON of
Kentucky says that 100000 fictitious
pupils were enrolled in the school CEN
sus last year in Louisville, Lexington,
Covington and other towns, involving
a loss to the state in the per capita dis
tribution of $3.50, 900.
AT French cabinet meeting. on the
goth, the minister of foreign affairs, NJ.
Hanoteaux, explained the course of
events in the east and the progress of
the negotiations of the powers to bring
about a settlement of the dispute be-
tween Greece and Turkey.
A DISPATCH received at one of the
embassies in London from Athens, on
the 27th, says that King George of
Greece may at any moment be deposed
or assassinated, and that the mob is
likely to take possession of the city.
The dispatch adds that the worst is
feared.
THE Atlantic Transport line steamer
Mobile, Capt Layland, which was
scheduled to sail from London, on the
goth. for New York, had the contents
of her main hold severely damaged by
fire the day before, which lasted five
hours. Her departure was therefore
delayed.
THE executive committee of the Flood
Sufferers Relief association of Mem
phis, Tenn, published an announce
ment, on the goth, to the effect that all
refugees would be provided with means
of transportation to their respective
homes, thus relieving planters of this
responsibility.
WITH wondrous pageant by land and
water and in the presence of 1000, 900
spectators, the nation, on the 27th, dedi-
Gated the massive and beautiful maui
SOleum at RlVerSlQe park, New 1Ork,
that is designed forever to hold and
protect the body of the hero of the age.
Ulysses 5. Grant.
THE Turkish government, acting upon
the recommendation of the ambaSsa-
doris of the powers, has authorized the
Greeks in the service of the consul
ates, hospitals, foreign missions and
post offices to remain in Turkey. All
other Greeks, however, will have to
leave the empire.
ARNOLD HALEY, a bookkeeper and
ex-lieutenant in the German army, shot
himself in the temple at his boarding
house in Chicago, on the 25th, in an at
tempt to commit suicide. The attempt
was unsuccessful, however, and HALEY,
raising the window, plunged to the
ground, distance of 25 feet, receiving
fatal injuries
WHILE the Grant memorial exercises
were in progress in New York, on the
27th, the residents of Galena, Ill,
where the general made his home for
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