Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-23


THE Portland (Me.) Savings Bank has
begun suit in the Federal Court, at In
dianapolis, against the city of Evansville
for 100000. The suit grew out OF the re.
pudiated bonds of 1885,
| The schooner F. j. King, of Morristown,
N. Y, laden with iron ore from Escanaba
to Chicago, sprung leak and sunk in
| twenty-five fathoms of water about six
miles off Cano island, Lake Superior, on
the morning of the 10th. The crew reached
shore in the yawl. The vessel and cargo
are total loss.
| A WARRANT. for 81, 900 has been issued
to the assignee of John Roach in final
settlement for the Dolphin and for the care
OF the monitor Puritan. This is accepted
in settlement of all claims against the
Government, and the Dolphin becomes in
law what she has long been in fact, the
property of the Government.
CONSUL STEVENS at Victoria, British
Colum bia, in report to the Department
of State, calls attention to the fact that
merchandise in considerable quantity
from San Francisco, destined for Chicago
and New York, is being shipped over the
Canadian Pacific railway.
| CARL Won WELLER, bogus Austrian
| count, has been arrested at Jacksonville,
Fla, charged with larceny.
| A GRANT of 100000 for the purchase OF
Prince Alexander's property has been
| v oted by the Bulgarian Sobranje.
| Ell CoYoTE's band was surprised by
| Mexican cavalry on the 18th, and the Lead
| er and seven others were butchered.
| TWELVE carloads of Apache Indians
| passed through st. Louis on the 18th, on
the way to Florida, under escort of United
States troops.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made at
Bucharest on the 18th to assassinate M.
| Bratiano, Reumanian Prime Minister.
| A FARMER named Upsolp, living six
miles from Chstek, Wis. cut his wife's
throat from ear to ear on the 18th, and
then hung himself with a BEDFORD. Do
nestle infelicity was the cause.
| THERE were six deaths from cholera
during the twenty-four hours ending the
18th in laramie, and sixteen new cases.
In all the other infected districts of Italy
there were thirty seven new cases and ff.
teen deaths.
A BLOOMINGTON, (M.) hack driver
twice attempted suicide in Clinton on the
18th by taking laudanum, and to prevent
any further attempt to take his life he was
placed in Jail. All efforts to learn his
name were unsuccessful.
] REV. JESSE Cook, colored, was hanged
in Butler, Ca, on the 18th for the murder
of his wife last April. The crowd at the
execution was estimated at eight thou
sand. Cook made full confession.
IT has been found that James L. Litton,
the Englshman who was sent to the
| Charles street Jail in Boston few days
ago for attempting to defraud the pro-
prietors of the Revere House, is Stewart
Letablere Litton, the son of the late
! Right Hon. Edward Litton.
| The Porte has renewed the entente cor
did1e with England, and now sanctions
! the formation of an extensive English
| coaling station on the Island of Thaso,
| concerning which there have been reports
| of much i'll -feeling on the part of Turkey.
HENRY ROGERS, keeper of the toll bridge
| at Saratoga Lake, N. Y, was accidentally
| shot and killed on the 18th by his nephew,
| Allison B. Petit, of New York. The lad
| had shotgun and was loading it when
| it was discharged in some way and the
load entered Rogers stomach. He died
almost instantly.
THE lace manufacturers of Nottingham
England, have combined in proposition
| to reduce the wages of their lace makers
| fifty per cent. The employees, it is be-
| lieved, will resist the reduction, and
| lockout is considered imminent.
MRS. MARIE GODFREY, wife of Rufus
Godfrey, a wealthy farmer of Gfrard
township, Pa, left her husbands side on
the night of the 10Th, and on the 18th was
found at the bottom of the Nickel Plate
| bridge, near by. The unfortunate woman
had thrown herself over the precipice,
distance of $50 feet and was dashed to
death.
PETER B. LEE, tramp PRIMER known.
all over the U MON, died suddenly of heart
disease at Lincoln, Neb., on the 18th.
"Pete" began the business in 1910, and
has been tramping for the last thirty four
years.
THE business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended the 18th numbered for the United
States 152, and for Canada 33, or a total OF
1S5, as compared with a total Of 17S the
preceding week, and 100 the week previous.