Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.
AN experiment was recently tried in
stocking the rivers of Germany with
shad transported from America. 1t
was dismal failure, however, as most
of the fish died before reaching their
destination, and the rest were reduced
to mere shadows.
THE directors of the Minnesota Iron
Co. have declared a dividend of l "a per
cent, payable April Is.
AT Johannesburg, South Africa, on
the 14th, man named Feldthren en-
tered the office of Mr.. Wolfe Joel, trus
tee of the Barnato estate, and demand
ed 500. Being refused he snatched
a revolver from desk and fired. The
bullet entered Joel's forehead and he
fell to the ground and expired. The
murderer attempted to commit suicide,
but failed.
BY order of the quartermaster-gen
eral, Col. Charles Williams, United
States army, in charge of the Jeffer-
sonville Qnd.) depot of army supplies,
has advertised for bids for the manu-
facture of 500 sets of harness and 25
ambulances, with the understanding
that the contracts when let be filed
without delay.
Ten murders in two days IS the re-
cent record in South Carolina, all re-
ported from the eastern half of the
state. Two of the victims were women.
THE Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times says: According to informa-
ton obtained from good sources, the
Austrian emperor is making great eff
forts to induce the European powers to
present to the United States the dan
ger to Europe of their carrying any fur
ther their interference in Cuban af-
fairs.
On the 18th eX-Treasurer John Z.
Reidy, of the st. Louis Police Relief
association, in order to protect half a
dozen men who had ''helped eat the
pie" pleaded guilty to two indictments
for embeZzlement, and was sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary.
CAPT. DAVIS H. GLE, the first Chica-
go man to enlist in the W ar of the re-
bellion, died on the 14th. Mr.. Gle was
born at Corinth, Me-, July IS, 1886, and
at an early age removed to Chicago.
On April 13, 1861, he enlisted as pri-
vate in Bankers Chicago dragons, the
noted Board of Trade battery.
w. o. LAYAKE, a prominent attOr-
ney, was shot dead in his office in the
business center of Dubuque, Ia, on the
18th. Four shots were fired, all taking
effect. Although the streets were
crowded at the time, the murderer es-
capped recognition.
THE senate committee on naval af-
fairs, having under consideration the
resolution instructing it to make an
investigation of the Maine disaster, de-
cided, on the 18th, by vote of six to
five, to postpone action for the present.
The Victor mill, at Cohoes, n. Y,
the largest wooden mill in the United
States, was burned on the 18th.
IT is confidently asserted that, after
three weeks work, the divers at Ha-
vana have discovered that the powder
and she'll carried by the Maine have
been accounted for in full and found
intact. The shells were taken out of
the hull and opened. All the armor-
piercing shells have been found empty.
THE wife of Senator Thurston, of Ne
brasl1a, died, on the lat h, on board the
yacht Anita, at Sagua la Grande (Cuba)
harbor. This information was sent by
Consul Barker to Consul-General Lee
at Havana.
THE impression is gaining ground at
Madrid that the United States is re-
luctant to declare war, and that, while
it will continue its policy of inficting
all sorts of Sights upon Spain, taking
advantage of its difficulties, it will
stop short of an actual decla ration of
war.
SIR HENRY BEssEMER, the celebrated
inventor of the Bessemer steel-making
process, died, in London, on the even
ing of the 18th, aged IS years. He was
knighted in recognition of the value OF
his invention.
THE French minister for the colonies,
NJ. Lebon, has refused the petition OF
Mime. Dreyfus, wife of former Capt.
Dreyfus, to share the latter's imprisOn-
ment on DEVILS island.
A SPECIAL dispatch from kiel says
Japan has purchased a torpedo cor
vette, which was being built there by
the Krupps for Brazil.
THE German troops have been re-
called from Crete.
THE United States lighthouse tender
Manproye arrived at Key West. Fla,
on the 10th, from Havana, having on
board the members of the United States
court of inquiry, appointed to inquire
into the loss of the battleship Maine.
A DISPATCH from Berlin, on the 10th,
said: "Senor Sandoval, the Spanish
agent, is negotiating for the purchase
of a number of old and slow steamers
of the North German Lloyd Steamship
Co.
Hon. BLANCHE X. BRUCE, register OF
the treasury, died in Washington, on
! the 18th.