Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12

A RUSSIAN spy, with maps and COM
promising documents in his possession,
has been arrested at Czernowitz, an Aus
trian town.
SHERBURNE G.. HOPKINS, the newspaper
reporter who some weeks ago sent sham
Internal machine to Chief Justice Waite
at Washington for the purpose of creating
a sensation and sell ing the news, pleaded
guilty in the police court, on the 9th, to
the charge of attempting to obtain money
by false pretenses. and was fined 500.
The Secretary of the Navy has issued
an order for the United States ship Iro-
quois, at San Francisco, to proceed to
Humboldt Bay, California, for the purpose
of blowing up the wreck of the schooner
John Hancock, reported as being dam
gerous obstruction to navigation.
The preparatory steps to what prom
Uses to be long and interes ting contest
over the will of Mrs. Cornelia NJ. Stewart,
widow of A. T. Stewart, of New York,
were taken on the 5th before the Surro-
gate in the presence of notable array OF
lawyers, who have been engaged to take
part in the controversy.
MRS. STACK, an aged lady of Cumber-
land Mills, Me-, was killed by a burglar
on the night of the 9th, after a desperate
struggle.
THE Union depot in Atchison, Kas., was
totally destroyed by fire on the 9th, in
GLIDING the hotel contained in the build
ing.
THE body of Archie McNeill, the editor
of the London Sportsman, has been found
near Boulogne, France. He had been MUIR
dered and robbed.
A VERDICT of 'not guilty" was rendered
at Allentown, Pa, on the 9Th, in the case
against Annie Bruckner, charged with
the murder of her husband on October p
last.
IN the primaries held at New Orleans on
the 9th, the official count shows that sixty
five Nichols delegates were elected and
thirty mine McEnery delegates.
JOHN NEVILLE and companion were
caught in a snow-slide near Glenwood
Springs, Col, on the 9th, and carried
down the mountain side several hundred
feet. Neville was killed. but his COM
panion escaped with slight injuries.
The hands in one small cigar factory
in New York struck on the 9th
on account of reduction of
wages. The reduction is general
and other strikes are expected. 1t is
thought not improbable that three thou
sand hands will be out within a few days.
SMITHS hackers want Sullivan to give
a series of exhibition contests with Smith
Sullivan has refused. Smiths managers
are averse to real fight.
B. S. HELLAN, of Bachelor Grove, Oak,
was frozen to death in the storm of the
Cd. He had gone to Louisiana, two miles
distant, to procure medicine for his sick
wife, and was lost when returning on foot.
FLORA SAMUELs, the mother of large
family and a dealer in groceries and
jewelry, is missing from her home in
Utica, N. Y. She is supposed to be in
Canada, and is wanted for forgery. Mrs.
Samuels has also left debts behind her
to about $1,000.
HARRY HALL, q life convict at the Ne.
braska State peniten tiary, escaped from
that institution on the evening of the 9Th,
and is supposed to have taken the Mis-
souri, Pacific train south. He is described
as a man five feet four and one-half inches
tall, light hair, about thirty years old
and weighs 160 pounds.
A TELEGRAM from the Russian frontier
of the 9th states that eight Nihilists, in
Guiding the Cossack Tschernoff, con-
demned to death for making an attempt
upon the life ve the Gear during his visit
to the Don Cossack country, were hanged
at St. Peters burg.
INFORMATION of the killing of Bernal,
the famous Mexican bandit, has been re-
CciNel 4NOSdlcSS aIiZ. bSTIidl anu q
portion of his followers had a desperate
fight on the 9Th near the town of Cosala,
Sinaloa, with Mexican troops, during
which Bernal was killed and his mother
and three or four followers captured.
WILLIAM WELKEL, of Vincennes, Ind,
shot himself through the body on the
evening of the 9th, and when the doctor
relieved him of the bullet he stated that
he wanted to die; that he had lived long
enough. Welkel is a young man lately
employed by the electric light company,
and was married to a widow recently.
They did not live happily. He will die.
WHILE the west-bound express on the
Lake Shore railroad was running at a
high rate of speed about twenty-five
miles east of Erie, on the 9th, boy who
started to go from the sleeper to the din
ing-car was blown from the platform by
the gale then prevailing. The train was
stopped and the boy was picked up, but
he had been so injured that he died be-
fore Erie was reached. The unfortunate
youth was the son of DR.. B. NJ. Gassoway,
Of Portland, Me-, surgeon of the United
States navy.