Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-08-02

RoBEaT BARNETT and w. l.. Penny, DR.,
charged with swind.inc Won. Mertz, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, out OF So 0)0 in a bunko
game. were acquitted on the 9th.
The Democrats OF the Seventh Virginia
district fenominated Charles T. O'Ferrall
for Congress on the Goth. The conven-
ton Endorsed the administration OF Pres
ident Cleveland and also the action of
Congress on the Mills bill.
GOVERNOR TIL.. OF New York, OF the
9th. committed the sentenc. OF Chira
Cignarale TO imprisonment for life.
THE suit in New York of the Webster
Loom Company VS.. E. s. Higgins s. Co.,
Tor infringement of a patent process of
carpet weaving, which had been pending
fourteen years, was decided, on the 9th,
IN favor of the plaintiff, but only six
cents damages were awarded instead OF
$50, 0O0, COO.
A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD son of Mr.. o. l..
, PrudeB, assistant secretary to the Presi-
dent, was killed, on the 9th, on farm
near Arlington, Va. The lad was riding
on farm wagon, when sudden jolt
I threw him off. The wheels passed over
him and so crushed him that he died in a
short time.
The President and party passed the day
fishing off Fire Island, on the 9th, and
returned at night with good catch.
The New York & Chicago Limited Ex-
press, east-bound, was wrecked at Can
ton, O., on the 9th. The locomotive
jumped the track on a switch crossing,
and was upset A combination car fol-
lowing was dashed upon the disabled en-
CINE aud demolished. Engineer Pat Nor
gan was fatally injured, and several pas
sengers were slightly bruised. Travel was
delayed four hours.
THE Empress William was delivered Of
q son, at Potsdam, on the 9th.
DURING the week preceding July 9, nine
ty deaths from cholera occurred at Hong
Kong, China.
THE Wisconsin Press Association ar
rived at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, on the
Goth, over the $500" line in a special
train. There were $50 editors and friends.
They were received by committee of
citizens, given an excursion down the st.
Marys river, and a reception at the City
Hall.
DEPUTY SHERIFF L. S. ELMER, of Wah-
peton, OAK, was taken from Jail by
mob of angry citizens, on the night of the
Goth, and hanged for the unprovoked
murder of Miss Mollie Korbel.
EUGENE ZENzINS, a young married man
of ST. Paul, Mimi, attended a prayer
meeting in Indianapolis with his wife,
on the night of the Goth, where, after TAX
ing part in the exercises for awhile, he
retired to a. classroom and took dose Of
carbolic acid, dying in great agony few
minutes later. He was out of employ
ment and Respondent.
EvICTIONS from the estate of Captain
Vandeleur, in County Clare, Ireland,
were again suspended on the 9th, and it
was thought that negotiations would be
entered into looking to q settlement of
the remaining cases without resorting to
ejectment
JAMES GUEST, wholesale wine mer-
chant of Montreal, Can, made an assign
ment on the Goth. Liabilities, 5000, 900;
assets not stated. The loss of $4,000 by
fires during the past seven months was
the cause of the assignment.
THE Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
had the legality of their marriage estab-
lished in England on the 9th. They
went before the Registrar of the Vestry
Hall, Mount Saint, Grosvenor Square
London, and had their marriage d uly re-
corded.
JOHN MADILL, merchant OF st. Mary's,
Ont, was presented at Toronto, Ont, on
the 26th, with solid silver tea service,
'for honorable and unusual conduct" in
paying his creditors a balance of ten
cents on the dollar, and to which they
were not legally entitled. At the time of
his failure his estate paid ninety cents on
the dollar.
A THOUSAND miners employed in the
coal mines at St Etienne, France, struck
ON the 9th, and it was expected that the
strike would spread.
THE House committee on manufactures
began an investi gation of the Whisky
Trust on the 9th.
GENERAL BOULANGER rode out in car
rage, on the 9th, for the first time since
his duel with NJ. Floquet He was fol-
lowed by sixteen carriages filled with
newspaper reporters and admirers, who
shouted ga has Floquet," ga has Ferry"
and "Viva Boulanger."
SENATOR PALMER introduced bill, on
he 9th, proposing to substitute silver
bullion for one half Of the $780, 900
gold held by the Treasury for the redemp-
ion of United States notes.
THE House committee on military af-
'airs refused, on the 9th, to concur in
he Senate heavy-ordnance provision
ssr Hawley's amendment-of the Army
bill, which passed the
Senate on the 26th.
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