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

THE Turkish authorities havS con-
demned to death the murderers OF the
agent who was distributing the British
and American relief funds at Diarbekir,
Asiatic Turkey.
ORDERS were issued at Toulon, on
the 2sth, for further detachments of
French infantry to be ready to leave
for Crete at a moments notice.
A SMALL tornado passed just west of
Solomon. Kas., at 10 a. m. of the 28th-
Telegraph poles were blown down and
wires badly wrecked.
For the first time since the food
reached its height the river at Cairo
went below the danger line on the
2Sth.
SHERIFF MCDONALD, of Omaha, Neb.,
went to Lincoln. on the 2sth, to arrest
J. S. BARLEY, ex-state treasurer,
on charge of embezzling S2O1,O
THE delegates to the postal congress
are beginning to arrive from all quar-
tiers of the globe.
DETAILS of a terrible slaughter of
Spanish soldiers by Cuban dynamiters,
show that a Spanish column of 1000
men was utterly put to rout by Gen.
Calixto Garcia on the 10Th, and instead
of ten soldiers killed, as the official re-
port declared, 200 were blown up by
the bombs and $50 were slain by the
insurgents during the confusion and
excitement of the panic-stricken Span
ish column.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL HALL at
Santa Fe, n. NJ, received word, on the
18th, that Black Jack had been killed in
Arizona, IS miles west of Clifton, by
posse of deputy marshals. 1t was at
first thought the man killed was Sid
Moore, but the body was later identi-
fed as that of Black Jack. Big re-
wards offered for the arrest of Black
Jack will be paid to the posse.
w. J. DUNN, prominent contractor
of Pittsburgh, Pa, who was charged
with forging assignments of city esti-
mates on contracts, entered a plea of
non contende on one Indictment, on
the Goth, and was remanded 20 Jail for
sentence. There were II other indict-
ments, involving about $50 900, still
pending against him.
a SPECIAL dispatch to the Berlin
Nord DeutSch Zeitung from Athens, on
the Goth, said that King George had
signed a decree withdrawing the eX-
equateurs of all Turkish consuis in
Greece.
SENATOR ALLEN, of Nebraska, intro
duced in the senate, on the Goth, pro-
posed amendment to the tariff bill for
the abrogation of the Hawaiian reel
procity treaty on July 1, 1898.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, 1929, S95, els;
gold reserve, S154, $40, 273.
MAYOR BERkEY of Guthrie, Okla.
and President Horner of the Guthrie
club, after comforting with the citi-
zens' relief committee, on the 30th. is
sued formal notice to the neighboring
cities and towns, in which they stated
that outside aid would not be required
in the proper caring for flood sufferers.
Permanent relief committees had been
formed, they stated, and the needy and
destitute were being Systematically
cared for.
THE United States consul at Guade-
loupe, West Indies, telegraphed to the
state department at Washington, I'M
der date of April 30, from Point Apitre,
as follows: Severe earthquake; loss
heavy; many injured"
THE president has decided not to
interfere in the ease of Joseph r. Dun
lop, proprietor of the Chicago Dis
patch, who was sentenced to two years
for sending obscene mat
ter through the mails.
ABOUT June Oshkosh, Wis. will have
in operation the first grass Irvine fac
tory in the world. 1t will employ 3OO
hands, and will make Irvine from marsh
grass, something never attempted before
THE British foreign office has mailed
the reply of the marquis of Salisbury
to the request from Washington for a
into the Behring sea fisher
les dispute. 1t is reported that the
British premier's reply is in the mega
tive, on the ground of expense.
DISPATCHES received from Volo, by
way of Athens, on the 3Oth, said that
terrible panic prevailed there, and that
if the place should fall into the hands of
the Turks the situation of the Greek
army would be desperate.