Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13

For the first tins in ten years there
are open saloons in Topeka, Kas.. and
as a result something of rebellion
has been started against the present
state administration.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 5th, showed:
Available cash balance, $3.50, 755, S99;
gold reserve. S14S, All, 412.
JOHN P. KUNZE, The Little German"
of Cronin trial fame, was convicted in
Judge Payne's court in Chicago, on the
5th, of operating a confidence game.
The jury fixed his punishment at i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary. He
will be given an indeterminate SEN
tence.
WHILE moving pile of rubbish on
George Ha1gburn's farm, near Cando,
n. D., on the 9Th, the dead body of
VIM. Bryan was discovered. The top
of his head was crushed, indicating
murder. Mr.. Bryan claimed to be
second cousin of VIM. J. Bryan, and
was undoubtedly murdered for his
money.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Athens as
serts that the losses of the Greeks in
the fighting at Velestino and Pharsa-
los, on the 5th, were certainly 1000
killed and wounded, while the Turks
lost fully 5000 killed and wounded.
On the 9th the liquidating trustees of
the Standard Oil trusts declared a
quarterly dividend of Sc cents and an
extra dividend of per cent. payable
June Is.
ELEVEN men were drowned, on the
9th, through an inflow of water into
the Kelloe colliery, at Durham, En-
gland.
THE Turks occupied Pharsalos on
the 9th.
CHRISTOPHER NICKELs, a laborer, Ev-
ing in West Indianapolis, Ind, on the
9TH, made murderous assault on his
wife. from whom he had been separa-
ted, then fed to the banks of Eagle
creek, took dose of Rough on Rats,
and lived only long enough to tell the
police who found him there what he
had done.
G. S. JOHNSON. of Alaska, will be the
next governor of that district. He was
sent from Nebraska to Alaska during
Harrison's administration to fill the
position of United States attorney for
Alaska and is very popular.
The conference committee of the
senate and house reached decision. on
the 18th, on the Indian appropriation
bill on the basis of provision for the
leasing of the gilsOnite lands instead of
the purchase of them.
CHARLES BUTTON, a capitalist, for
merly of the wholesale drug firm of
Greene & Button, Milwaukee, dropped
dead while entering his carriage on
the 18th.
RUFUS P. VAssAR, grandson of the
founder of Vassar college. was arrested
in San Francisco on the 18th, charged
with embezzlement.
BOTH houses of the Iowa legislature
have passed a resolution making the
wild rose the official flower of that
state.
Gov. BLACK of New York gave a
hearing to the anti-scalper bill on the
18th. 1t is understood he will sign the
measure.
THINGS have come to such a pass in
Athens that the members of the royal
family can not leave the palace with
out being subjected to insult in the
streets. Even the queen and princesses,
when they visit the hospitals, are not
exempt.
Mrs. MARY Z. WILCOX, who was born
in the White House during Jackson's
administration, has resigned her clerk
ship in the treasury department. She
is the widow of Representative Wilcox,
of Mississippi, and is over so years OF
age.
A TREE was planted near the tomb of
Gen. Grant IN Riverside Park, New York
city, on the eth. by Yang Yu. envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary of the emperor of China, by order
of Lii Hung Chang.
Mrs. KATHARINE CRoNIN, of New
Ross, Ind, celebrated her golden we'd
ding, on the 18th, by filing suit for di-
vorce from her wealthy husband, Cor
nelius Cronin, whom she married in
England so years ago.
ROBERT H. MARTIN. formerly treas
urer of the Columbia university of
Washington city, has been arrested on
charges of embezzling funds of the in
Stitution.