Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-22

THE crest of the southern food. ON
the 10th, was still above EicEsburg, md
the weather bureau issued an emphatic
warning to the people of Louisiana to
remove from places that have been
| flooded in former years, as the danger
was imminent and pressing.
JAMES Fl. GoRDY was convicted at
Georgetown, Del, on the 18th. of muir
| der in the first degree for the killing of
his wife, formerly Mrs. Mary Estena
Lewis, of New York, by throwing her
into the Broadkil river at Milton, Del,
March IL.
FROM reports made to the committee
in charge of the land parade at the
dedication of the Grant mausoleum in
New York, it is figured that SO. 600 men
will participate, including regulars, ma
tional guards, veterans and civic So
cieties.
GEN. WEYLER, tired of trying to sub
jugate the Cuban insurgents in the
| field, is now trying to strike them
through their source of material aid in
this country by seeking to encompass
the arrest of the junta and its agents
in New York and Washington.
BUT one weak dixie and a tottering
railroad embankment stood, on the
18th, at Omaha. Neb., between the yell
low food and millions of dollars worth
of city property in the shape of ware
houses and big manufacturing estab-
ishments on the low lands.
THE Lowell observatory, which was
transferred from Flagstaff, Ariz-, to
Mexico, early in December last, for the
purpose of observing the opposition of
Mars md fOy. f11aT IF h
ern double stars, has been dismounted
and shipped back to its original loca-
ton after three months remarkable
service.
THREE lepers, natives of Iceland,
have arrived at the lazaretto at Ira
cadie. Gloucester county, n. B. They
were taken from Winnipeg, Man, in a
freight car. which was directly behind
the locomotive, and was placarded to
warn the people to keep away from it.
THE captain and crew of the Norwe-
gian ship SentaX, 81 men in all, from st.
John, n. B., for Newport, England,
before reported passed abandoned,
were landed at Philadelphia, on the
10th, by the British steamer Snowflake
from Penarth.
A TELEGRAM was received by the
Cleveland co. Leader. from Asheville,
n. c., on the 10th, stating that Mrs. S.
NJ. Hanna, the mother of Senator Han
ma, had died at that place from pneu-
monia, aged 81. She had been sick only
about week.
CASHIER STICKNEY, of the Great Falls
national bank, of Somersworth. n. H.,
was brutually murdered, on the 10th,
by two unknown robbers, who after
wards escaped with an amount of
money estimated at Sc. GOO.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the 10th showed:
Available cash balance, 1921, 617, 900;
gold reserve, S154,6O3. 125.
MINISTER De LONE has informed the
department of state that, while his
government fully recognizes the right
of the United States to be represented
at an investigation into the manner of
the death of DIR. Ruiz, it does not at all
follow that this representation should
involve the appointment of a special
commissioner
CHIEF BROUFAS, who was the soul of
the Macedonian rising last year, and
upon whose head Turkey set price of
1000 francs, and who was supposed to
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organizing an invasion of the Chalet
dixie peninsula, with a view of divert
ing the Turkish army from Macedonia.
ADvICEs from Natchez and other
points below Vicksburg, on the 18th,
indicated that the supreme test was at
hand. The swift current, which was
rising steadily, was beating against the
levees with such force as to cause the
gravest apprehension at many places.
THE London Times correspondent 1T
Constantinople denies that there is any
effective Turkish war party. He says
that the sultan, the seraskierat (minis-
try of war; and some of the other min
listers, are strongly opposed to HOSTILE
ties with Greece.
WILLIAM II. BROWN, wealthy farmer
OF Huntington, Ind, was found guilty
of subornation of perjury by jury IN
the Allen county circuit court and SEN
fenced to II years in the penitentiary. |