Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

BARON DE CoURCEL, French ambassa-
dor to Great Britain, went to Windsor,
on the sth, and presented his letters of
recall to the queen.
AUDITOR FRANK BoRsT and ex-Treas-
Butler, Ind, on the sth, to embezzle-
ment of county funds, and were sem
fenced to five years each by Judge
Adair. This makes three of the De-
Kalb county officials who have pleaded
guilty to ENLIGHTENMENT of portion of
the $50, 900 which had been stolen during
the past few years
JOHN D. HART, previously convicted
of aiding in the fitting out of a filibus-
tering expedition on the steamer Lau-
rada, was sentenced, on the sth, by
Judge Butler, in Philadelphia, to two
years imprisonment and to pay fine
of $500 and costs of prosecution. He
was released on 1000 bonds pending
an appeal.
Ex-SECRETARY CARLISLE has made no
definite plans for the future. He will
remain in Washington for some time
yet.
THE foreign ambassadors, ministers,
secretaries and attaches were received
at the department of state by Secretary
Sherman at II a. IN. of the 10th, and the
president received them at the execu-
tive mansion at noon of the same day.
THE old employees of the Globe Ship
building Co., of Cleveland, o., who had
been on strike for two weeks, began
to assemble at the yard gate, on the
9th, and stood patiently waiting for the
whistle to blow. All expected to go to
work, but only as many as the work
warranted were taken in. In all about
400 out of the $50 strikers were en-
ployed.
Mrs. RICARDO RUIZ, widow of the man
alleged to have been murdered recently
in the dungeon of the Guanabacoa jail,
in Cuba, arrived at New York, on the
Sth, from Havana. Mrs Ruiz will go
to Washington to lay before the de-
partment of state her claims, as the
wife of a murdered American citizen,
against the government of Spain.
A DISPATCH from Colon, on the Sth,
said report had reached that place
from Panama that ex-Vice-President
Ezeta died in the latter city on that
date.
HoN. THOMAS F. BAYARD, United
States ambassador, and Mrs. Bayard
are arranging to make tour of Italy,
and will probably start from London
for Florence on March 20.
The special Pullman train conveying
the members of the French opera COM
pany from New Orleans to San Fran
cisco, was wrecked, at midnight of the
sth, at Casa Grande, Ariz. All of the
passengers on the train were badly
shaken up and frightened, and tramp
stealing a ride between the baggage
cars was killed.
EDWARD ]. RUSSELL, alias Meredith,
charged with blackmailing ex-Corpora-
ton Counsel Almet f. jerks, of Brook
lyn, out of 81 500, by representing him
self as the agent of press association,
and demanding that sum for the sup
preston of a story, was, on the 9th,
sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing
prison.
On the 9th Senator Allison, chairman
of the republican caucus, appointed the
following steering committee: E5ena-
tors Allison, Hale, Aldrich, Cullom,
Davis, Sewau and Carter. By the &C
ton of the caucus Mr.. Allison was
made chairman of the committee.
AT the annual meeting of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Co., held in St
Louis on the eth, the old board of di-
rectors was reelected. The arrange
ments for the extension of the Iron
Mountain bonds was affirmed.
IT is authoritatively stated that the
works of the Maryland Steel Co. at
Sro~~o,ry,S Doirf Nd will S%ort III, all
its departments in few weeks, thus
giving employment to over 2,oee men.
SECRETARY SHERMAN, on the 10th, re-
ceived a cablegram from Consul Nc
Carr at CienfuegoS, Cuba, stating that
Antonio Suarez del Villar had been
liberated
On the 10th Mayor Campbell, of Bowl
ing Green, O., imposed a fine of five
dollars and costs upon himself for be-
ing drunk and disorderly. His hon
or" was carried to the police station in
a beastly state of intoxication and oc-
cupied a cell with the common drunk
ards. Citizens are indignant and he
will probably be removed from office.
GEN. RUSSELL HASTINGS, of Bermu-
da, w. l., said to have been ranking
officer of President McKinley's regi-
ment during the war, was knocked
down and run over by a wagon near
the treasury building in Washington
city on the 10th, fracturing his right
leg near the knee.
Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR JOSEPH
DoLPH died at Portland, Ore, on the
10th.
THE north-bound Illinois Central St.
Louis express collided with a freight
train at East Cairo, Ky, on the 10th, at
1:2o a. M, killing Fireman Walter
Rogers, colored, and injuring Tele-
graph Operator Goodwin Boaz, who was
in the station, which was knocked over
into the backwater by the passenger
engine, which left the track.
THE flagship Philadelphia, with Adj
miral Beardslee on board, has left Aca-
pulco, Mexico, for San Jose de Guate-
mals, to be present at the opening of
the international exposition as repre-
sentative of the United States.
Mrs. CORA STUART WHEELER, a we'll
known literary woman, died in Boston
on the 10th.
WIN. H. HEAToS. ex-commisSioner OF
King county, Wash, was arrested in
Seattle, on the 9th, on 2 charge of en-
bezzlement of county funds It is
claimed that his populations amount to
about S2O.0OO
In tenement house fire in Brooklyn,
on the eth, Mrs. Gladys Duncan threw
her eight-months-old boy from the
fourth-story window, and then jumped
to the pavement. The babe was killed
and the mother fatally injured.