Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-01-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Atty.-Gen. A. A. GODDARD of Kansas
has prepared a decision, holding that
the special session of the legislature
called by Gov. Leedy was illegal, and
all laws passed by il void.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations agreed, on the 18th, to favor
able report upon the nomination of
Hon. Joseph III. Choate to be ambas-
sador to Great Britain.
Both branches of the Maine legisla-
ture met, on the 18th, in joint conven-
ton, and the reelection of Eugene Hale
as United States senator was formal
ly announced.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Bucharest, Roumania, says that
a pack of wolves, emboldened by
hunger, recently attacked a monastery
at Lopevean, in the Moldavian noun
tains, and killed friar.
The act to prohibit aliens from own
ing placer mines in British Columbia
has finally passed the provincial legis-
lature, and received the formal assent
of the lieutenant governor. The act
goes into effect at once.
The casualties of the recent war
with Spain, as officially reported to the
house committee on invalid pensions,
were: Officers killed, &c; enlisted men
killed, 257; officers wounded, 113; en-
listed men wounded, 1,467. Deaths
from disease, May 1 to December 81:
officers, III; enlisted men, 1854.
1t has been definitely decided at the
navy department to abandon the in
stallation of torpedoes in any form
on the new battleships and cruisers
of the United States. navy. It has
been concluded that rorpedoes in any
form, on board vessels of war, are an
element of weakness.
Complaints have been made to the
of justice, at Washington,
of the formation of trust by certain
leading Photographic firms, by which
they have secured control of the stock
of paper manufactured in Germany
and France which is necessary in the
printing and developing of pictures.
All hope for the safety of the yacht
Paul Jones has been abandoned.
Wreckage found in the gulf indicate
only too plainly the fate of the little
craft. and with it all of those on
board.
The grand jury at Canton, o., on the
18th, returned a true bill against Mrs.
Annie F. George for numbering Geo.
D. Saxton last October. The indict-
ment is for murder in the first degree,
the penalty for which is death by cleo
trocution.
Fire which, on December &c, broke
out in the Diamondville mine at Dia-
despite all efforts to control it, and it
is feared that the mine will have to be
abandoned.
The failures for the week ended on
the Goth. as reported by r. G. Dun &
Co. were 249 in the United States,
against 374 last year, and 80 in Canada,
against So last year.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury on the Goth showed:
Available cash balance, 1922, 3s3, OO3;
gold reserve, $3.50, 1885, 53.
Job a. Cooper, ex-governor of Col
orado, died suddenly, on the Goth, at
Denver, of heart failure. He had been
ailing for several days, but felt no
apprehension, and no physician was
called until few hours before his
death. Mr.. Cooper was governor from
1889 to 1891, being elected as repub-
lican.
A jeweled sword was presented to
Admiral Schley by his brother MEM
~ ut
negie Music hall, New York city, in
the presence of 1000 persons. After
receiving the sword with a graceful
speech, Admiral Schley buckled it to
his side and shook hands with about
5000 men, women and children.
A complaint has been filed in the
court of Justice Williamson at Car
lyle, ILL.,, charging Hugo Naegele, a
farmer, living south of Trenton, with
forgery. The complainant, Anton
Griesbaum, alleges the defendant
forged his name to a note, which was
disposed of to q bank in Trenton.
Some of the arrangements for the
marriage of William X. Vanderbilt,
Jr., and Miss Virginia Fair have been
completed. The wedding will be eele-
brated during June at the Newport
cottage of Miss Fairs sister. Mrs. Her.
mann Oelrichs.
The fate of the missing yacht Paul
Jones. which left New Orleans on Jam
uary 3, for Pensacola, has at last been
solved. The wreck was found ON
Breton island, IS miles from Pass a
rOutre, with evidence that the craft
had been destroyed by an explosion OF
her gasoline tanks