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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
OKLAHOMA.

General Iand-Ofice Clerks Who Have
Been in Oklahoma Speak Favorably of
the Country. But 1t Has Its Drawbacks,
One of the Chief of Which Is Scarcely
of Water-GambIers Plenty AS Set.
tiers, and Running Wide Open.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-The clerks sent
to Oklahoma from the General Land
Office to assist in recording the entries
have returned to Washington. They all
speak favorably of the country, but COM
plain of the lack of water, the penetrat-
ing sand and the general lack of order.
Mr.. Pike, who was at Kingfsher, said
when he left eight hundred entries had
been made at that Office, out of a possible
five thousand. The office was up in its
work, and the force there was sufficient
to keep up with current business. Wells
were being sunk and bored, and good wa
ter was being obtained. About
seventy-five houses had been erect
ed. Gambling was in full blast.
and the gamblers were charged one hum
dred dollars per month for the privilege
of running their establishments. They
were run openly, and there seemed to be
no end of them. Some few OF the settlers
around Kingfsher had begun to break
land, but the most of them were return
ing to their old homes to settle up their
affairs, with the intention of returning to
Oklahoma in the fall. There would be,
he said, many contests sent to Washington
for settlement, but in some instances the
settlers were compromising their differ
ences. There were, SO far as he knew, no
charges of fraud against Government
officials at Kingfsher.
Mr.. Henry Wahly was at Guthrie.
When he left Friday one thousand entries
had been received out of possible five
thousand, making possible total Of ten
thousand entries for the entire Territory.
The work was all up and could be easily
handled by the force now there. Like
Mr.. Pike he reports a great scarcity of
water. AT first it could with diff
Guilty be had at ten cents glass. The
water in the Cottonwood river was brack-
ish and hardly fit to drink. There were
but few fish in the stream and they were
not fit to eat Some few houses had been
erected, and gradually the place was as
Stunning the aspect of a town. The gam
blers were as numerous as the settlers.
They paid ten dollars per day for the
privilege of running their places.
Both Mr.. Pike and Mr.. Wahly say there
were no vegetables to be had in Oklaho-
ma, but plenty of meat. The order keep
ing whisky out of the Territory was, in
their opinion, good one, for if it had
been plentiful, in the absence of good
water, great disorder must have pre-
vailed. Mr.. Wahly says he heard fire.
quent charges of fraud against Govern
ment officials at Guthrie, but had no per-
scnal knowledge of them, and in view of
the fact that Secretary Noble was now in
vestigating them, he, as a mere clerk,
would rather not make public his impress
sions and suspicious.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

BOYD n. MILLER, who was at one time
an engineer On the New York, Lake Erie
& Western railway, obtained a verdict
for $50, 900, damages against the company
at Mansfield, O., on the 18th, for injuries
received in wreck.
MR.ROBERT T. LINCOLN, the United States
Minister to the Court of st. James, has
taken a house in Cadogan Square, London,
for the season.
Mrs. HARRIsoN's mail contains every
day appeals from office seekers to use
her influence with her husband in favor
of the writer's.
JOHN BoGARD, of Van Sue, O., took dose
of arsenic, on the 18th, with suicidal in
tent, dying shortly afterward. He was to
have been married in two weeks to Miss
Lola Beck. and killed himself because
she received calls from another gentle
man.
On the 18th Mrs. Vice. President Nor
ton and her daughter, Miss Edith, were
among the passengers on board the
French steamer La Normandie, which
sailed for Havre.
LORD SALISBURY has conveyed his
thanks to the American Government for
it's congratulations on the escape Of the
Calliope from the fate of the German and
American vessels in the hurricane at
Samoa.
THE twenty-first anniversary of the
birth of the Czarewitch, Nikolai Alexan-
drovitch, Grand Duke of Russia and
heir-apparent to the throne, was cele-
brated on the 10Th. He is betrothed to
Princess Alice Victoria of Hesse, daugh-
ter of the late Grand Duchess Alice
Maud Maria, who is a grand daughter of
Queen Victoria. The marriage will take
place next autumn.
THE Bulgarian Government has decided
that it will no longer pay the Roumeliap
tribute to the Porte, and has so notified
the authorities at Constantinople. The
Ottoman Government will appeal to the
Powers to take cognizance of this delib-
crate violation of the Treaty of Berlin.
THE English syndicate has offered
$40. OOO. 900 for the Blatz brewery, in Mil
waukee, Wis, and is trying to get OPP
tons on other breweries IN that city.
DURING the week ended on the 18th the
Treasury Department disbursed $780,
900 on account of pensions, thereby ex-
hausting the appropriation for the cur
rent fiscal year, amounting to So, 100, 900.
A DISASTROUS wind and hail-storm
swept over a part OF Seneca County, O.,
on the 18th, doing thousands of dollars
damage to buildings and fences. Freight
cars were blown from the track at New
Regal, and crops were badly cut by the
hail.
INA speech in the Reichstag, on the
18th, ON the Aged Workmen's Insurance
bill. Prince Bismarck used the following
significant language: 1--WE wish to dis
pose of the bill before the next election,
for nobody knows whether we may have
as much leisure next year as We have
nOwD
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

A Worthless vagabond Kills an Amfablo
and Industrious Wife While at Her
Duties as q school Teacher in WASH
lngton--He Saves Further Trouble BY
Killing Himself.
WASHINGTON, May 1S.-Mrs. Sarah e.
Allen, school teacher in the Jefferson
school building in South Washington.
was shot and killed by her husband
Oswald C. Allen, about three O'Clock yes
terday afternoon. Allen then turned his
pistol and killed himself. There had
been some difficulty between the pair,
and they have not lived togetherfor some
time. The tragedy occurred in the school
building. Allen hired cab on Pennsyl-
vania avenue and told the driver to take
him to the Jefferson building. Upon ar.
irving there he alighted ana toIo
the driver to wait until he wanted
him. Then he walked up the stone
steps and passed through the hall
into the cloak room adjoining the room
where his wife was engaged as teacher;
He showed himself to her and beckoned
her to the door. She came toward him.
As ane reached the threshold of the cloak
ro3iA lie drew pistol and shot her In tne'
left temple. Then, turning the pistol, ne
shot himself through the right temple.
Be /. fell to the floor of the cloak-room.
Tie children in the school-room, who had
witnessed the frightful scene, rushed
from the room in panic and spread the
alarm. Lieutenant Vernon and two po-
l1cemen soon arrived on the scene. me
woman was found to be still alive. She
was removed to the school-room, and
nrs. Bowman, Cook, Thompson ana
Leach who were called, made an examl-
nation and dressed the wound, which,
however, was pronounced fatal.
The stairway was thronged with the
frightened teachers and children. while
outside an immense throng blocked the
sidewalk. In the confusion, some one
had turned in an alarm of fire, and the
gathering crowd was augmented when
the engines arrived. The remains OF
Allen were taken away to the morgue.
but Mrs. Allen was left on a couch tenn
porarily prepared in one corner OF the
school-room. A short time before she
had been cheerily talking to the pupils.
She died at quarter after six O'Clock.
Mrs. Allen was about forty-two years
old, and had been teacher for many
years. She was in charge of third
grade school, composed of little girls.
She was the daughter of r. w. Johnson,
an old and well-known citizen of Wash
ington. Her parents reside in this city.
Allen never had any trade, but his
father, Oswell S. Allen, is a well-known
printer in this city. His family came
from Charlottesville, Va, about fourteen
years ago. Miss Johnson was warned
against Allen before she married him
thirteen years ago.. He ill-treated her
during their early married life, and she
was obliged to leave him. For some time
she has been living with her parents.
Allen has figured in the police courts
great deal OF late. He was a worthless
vagabond.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
miscellaneous ITEMS.

The Wheelers of Pettis County will
establish store and elevator at La
monte.
The Moran Liquor bill was defeated in
the House of Representatives.
Theodore Wuslauck, one of the best
known business men Of st. Louis, died
rather suddenly at the Alexian Brothers
Hospital few days ago. Mr.. Wuslauck
had been in business in St. Louis as
safe manufacturer since 1856.
The famous Sugden will case. which
has been in the courts of Pettis County
for several years past, has been disposed
of in the Circuit Court, Judge Field pre-
siding. the jury bringing in verdict in
favor of Mary Sugden Rudy, breaking the
will.
George Wiseman, sixty-fve years old,
who was sent to the penite ntiary from
Mississippi County in 1889 for bigamy,
has been pardoned. Since he was in
prison it has been learned that his first
wife had died, and therefore he was no
bigamist when he was tried. He did not
know that his wife was dead when he was
married the second time. To avoid long
sentence he pleaded guilty, aud an inves-
tigation by his friends developed the facts
above.
Rev. James Runcie, D. D., pastor of
Christ Episcopal Church of ST. Joseph,
died of a complication of chronic diseases
few days since. DIR. Runcie had been
rector of Christ Church since 1871, COM
ing from Madison, Ind. He was sixty
five years old. He was one of the most
prominent Episcopal clergymen in the
West.
Jos. Senne, q German, forty-two years
of age, living in ST. Louis, fell through the
elevator shaft at Hoffman Bros' store, a
few days ago, ami sustained injuries that
are likely to prove fatal. He was en-
ployed at the store as porter.
The annual French fete in celebration
of the fall of the Bastile will be held in
st. Louis July IA.
The Southern Historical and Benevo-
lent Association of st. Louis has under
taken to build a home for ex-Confederate
soldiers in Missouri. The State Associa-
ton of ex-Confederates discussed the
matter at several me settings, but never took
definate action, and so the local associa-
ton has begun to move.
The chief of police of Kansas City has
declared that, SO far as lays in his power,
he will carry out the instructions to keep
saloons closed from midnight Saturday
until four O'Clock Monday morning.
Joseph Lechrone, the nine-year-old son
of a fortune-teller at S. Joseph, fell into
the Missouri river, a few nights since.
and was drowned. He was reaching for
0 floating orange and lost his balance.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
ALMOST WIPED OUT.

St. Stauveur, n Suburb of Quebec, Almost
Annii,iiated by Fire-Two Artillery OFF,
GERS Killed by Falling Butldings-Hun.
dreds of Homeless People.
QUEBEC, Can, May 1G.-Early this
morning fire was discovered in a vacant
building on st. Waller street, st. Stauveur,
owned by Mrs. Mccain and, quickly
spreading, soon assumed large dimen-
sions. The alarm caused great excite
ment and the entire population of the
suburbs was soon on the spot. The fire
brigade of st. Stauveur was wholly I'M
able to cope with the flames and the pop
ulation turned out and worked hard, but
lacked organization, and the water sup
ply was inadequate. The city firemen
were called for and responded, but the
want of water limited their usefulness.
The fire spread to st. Peter and Chenet
streets and babe fair to entirely destroy
the village. ''B" battery of artillery was
summoned to aid the flremen and volun-
teers in fighting the flames, and by seven
O'Clock the fire was under control, having
almost burned itslf out. While the mill
tary were preparing to blow up some
houses to check the fire from spreading
premature explosion took place in one of
the houses, killing Major Short and Ser
geant Wallack. of "B" battery, both men
being buried in the ruins. Sergeant
Wallack's body was found near the door,
dreadfully mangled; but the body o
Major Short had not been recovered a
nine O'Clock. The fire covered q large
area and destroyed over one hundred
houses, involving loss of not less than
800, 600.
LATER-1O:30 a. m.-The fire in st.
Stauveur, which had been checked on the
city side, has started again in the other
direction, and is now burning furiously
toward the northwest, and will probably
stop only when there is nothing else to
feed it. There is strong easterly wind
blowing, and a light rain has been fall
ing for the last three hours.
Observation-Disclosures Shorts body has
been recovered minus a leg and an arm,
which were found some distance from the
trunk. The fire is not yet over. Hun
dreds of houseless people are camped out
in the fields with what effects they could
save. 1t was only last night that the st.
Sauveur municipality refused the offer Of
the city corporation to supply them with
water. The exact number of houses
burned and the loss is difficult to get at
this hour.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
~
Marshall Jones Removed.

WASHINGTON, May 1S.-Richard [.
Walker, of Kansas, who was yesterday
appointed United States marshal for the
district of Kansas, succeeds Marshal
Jones, against whom charges of miscon-
duct in office, during the time of the.
opening Of Oklahoma to settlement, had
been made. The President and the At
torney-General decided not to allow
Jones to resign, and the order for his re-
moval was made yesterday.
Attorney General Miller said to a
United Press reporter yesterday after.
noon that action in Marshal Needles, case
had been suspended until more informa.
ton concerning the charges against him
could be procured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
Chief Justice Fuller.

NORFOLK, Va, May 17.-Chief-Justica
Fuller of the United States Supreme
Court arrived in the city yesterday morn
ing, and was met by committee of mem.
bers from the Norfolk bar, and escorted
to the Atlantic Hotel. Later in the day
he embarked on the steam yacht Viva,
owned by Colonel Franklin Weld, and
was taken to the navy-yard, the United
States revenue steamer Franklin firing
salute of fifteen guns. At the yard he was
handsomely entertained by Commodor
George Brown, and last night attended an
elaborate banquet at the Atlantic Hotel
as the guest of the Norfolk and Ports
mouth Bar Association. He will continue
his trip South to-day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
A Misery Main Hermit Found Dead In
His Hut.

SAco, Me-, May 1S.-Joshua Clark, aged
eighty-two, an eccentric character, who
has lived as a hermit in miserable hut
in the township Of Dayton for twenty five
years, was found dead on Wednesday in
his shanty which he occupied in common
with flock of sheep. The body of a
dead lamb served as pillow for his
head. Under his bed were the carcasses
OF two sheep. Upon a dish was some raw
salt pork, which is supposed to have con-
stituted his last meal. Clark was an
educated man, formerly a schoolmaster.
and was worth some property, though il
extent is not yet known.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
On the Grail of the Robbers.

Tucson, Ariz.. May 17.-Advices from
Fort Thomas say that Cyclone Bill, who
was arrested at Clifton yesterday, is I'M
doubtedly one of the gang that robbed
Paymaster Wham. He answers the de-
scription of the lame man. He can not
explain his whereabouts during several
hours previous to and after the robbery.
Four others of the gang are known and
will probably be arrested to day. A wom-
an passed Major Wham on horseback
half an hour before the attack, going to.
ward Thomas, and when the fight was
over she was seen near by. She saw the.
robbers, recognized six of them, all of
whom are well known in the vicinity Of
Thomas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
ANOTHER NATURAL WONDER.
A -Turpentine- Bearing Well
Discovered in Georgia.

DASCoNeTeu III "eoTsias
SAVANNAH, Ga, May 1S.-A special to
the Times from Donaldson, Ga, says,
Laurens County is intensely excited over
the discovery of spirits of turpentine.
Gas has been observed coming from the,
we'll ever since it was dug two years ago.
More than month ago the water became
so impregnated with turpentine that it
could not be used for drinking purposes.
A few days ago bucket of colored tur-
pentine was hauled out. An investigation
was made, and fourteen barrels were.
drawn off. In few hours the spirits
had risen to the same height. A barrel
of it reached Savannah yesterday morn
ing and experts pronounced it the pure.
article. 1t is not believed that the we'll
has been "salted," and the mystery is so
far inexplicable. The find is the talk Of
the day at the Board Of Trade here, and
little dealing in turpentine will be done
until further results are obtained from
the well
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
1t Makes the Sugar Trust Jobbers Vince
Considerably.

NEW YORK, May 16.-A special to the
Times from San Francisco says: 1t is as
serted that the New York Sugar Trust
has made overtures to the California
Trust Sugar Refinery within the past
few days to raise its prices. but wi thout
the desired effect. Yesterdays pric ss,
based on granulated sugar, are quoted by
the trust at 81 cents. Last FRIDAY the
California Refinery (anti- trust) quoted
its prices as TX cents, and has maintained
that rate ever since. The half -cent diff
ference in the prices of the two con-
Germs causes jobbers In trust's sugar to
vince considerably.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
BRAVERY RECOGNIZED.

Secretary Tracy,in General Order. Extols
the Repeated Acts of Heroism Per.
formed bv Seaman william FoOye, OF
the Trenton.
WASHINGTON. MAY 14.-Secre tary Tracy
has issued general order calling the at
tention of the officers and men of the
navy to the repeated acts Of heroism per-
formed by William Fooye, a seaman of
the wrecked Trenton. On February %
and on March % last, Fooye jumped over
board and rescued shipmates from
drowning, and again on the latter
date, when the ships propeller
was fouled by rope, he went
overheard under the counter during a
heavy swell and removed the obstruction,
which had temporarily disabled the en-
gines at a time when the vessels position
in the harbor was unsafe. In the order
Secretary Tracy says such bravery and de-
votion to duty merit the highest praise.
He ordered that the order be read en- all
vessels in the United States commission.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

COLUMBUS. Ind, May II. - Henry
O'Brien, treasurer of the Columbus
branch of the Catholic Knights of Amer
lea, is missing, together with all the cash
of the order, some five hundred dollars.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

THE Connecticut House, on the 18th, by
a vote of 80 to a, defeated the amend
ment to strike the word male" out of the
State Constitution.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

FRENCH papers unanimously compli-
ment Miss Sybil Sanderson, the Ameri-
can prima donna, upon her success in
Massenet's new opera.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

THE British House of Commons, on the
18th, rejected, by 2si to 81, motion to
disestablish the Welsh church. Mr.
Gladstone was not D resent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

THE United States steamship Dispatch,
with the President and party on board,
returned to Washington from a trip to
Fort Monroe on the 18th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

FRANCIS BARTON, the wealthy French
man who disappeared from his hotel in
New York City, and for whom the police
were looking, was found safe and well in
Philadelphia on the 18th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

THE Municipal Council of Berlin voted
$50, 600 marks for the expenses of enter
tanning King Humbert during his visit to
that CITY,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

THE largest oil well in Ohio was struck
at North Baltimore on the 18th. 1t filled
a 1, S00-barrel tank in an hour. Land in
the town is held at enormous prices.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

AN enormous landslide occurred in
the region of the Spiessbach, Switzer-
land, on the 14th, destroying several viii
lagos. large tracts of woods, etc., and
killing a large number of cattle
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
NEWS AND NOTES.
q Summary of Important Events.

QUEEN MARY of Bavaria, mother of
King Otto, died, on the 10th, from dropsy
and cancer of the liver.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

DISPATCHES from various portions of
North Dakota state that snow fell in con-
siderable quantities, on the 18th, the fall
varying from two to ten inches, doing
great deal of good to growing grain.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

THE striking stone masons of Pitts
burgh, Pa, returned to work, on the 10th,
at the old wages, pending arbitration.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

AMONG the passengers on the steamship
City of Paris, which sailed from New
York for Liverpool, on the 18th, were
Robert T. Lincoln, the new United States
Minister to the Court of St. James, his
wife, two daughters and son.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MILLER has au-
thorized the United States marshal of
Arizona to offer a reward of 500 each for
the arrest and conviction of the pan ties
who attacked and robbed Paymaster
Wham near Fort Grant on the 18th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

J THE conductors employed by the tram
way companies of Vienna, whose drivers
recently enforced their demands by
general strike, are threatening to take
similar action unless their pay is in
creased and their hours shortened.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

Two THOUSAND men employed at the
National Tube Works at McKeesport,
Pa, struck, on the 18th, for a ten per
cent. advance in wages. About six thou
sand more of the company's employees
threaten to ioiu the strikers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

CHIEF ENGINEER L. HARRIS, who was on
the Naval Examining Board to test the
cruiser Charleston, but who became III
on the voyage from San Francisco to
Santa Barbara, and was incapacitated for
duty, died on the night of the 10Th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

HUNDREDS of the striking miners at Es-
sen, Germany, have, at their own request,
been sworn in as special police in order
to keep their fellow workmen from riot
ing and thus spelling their hopes of the
mine owners concession
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

SHANGHAI advices are that the claims
for damages growing out of the Chez Foo
riots have been settled. The English
and American flags have been again
hoisted and the Chinese troops have sa-
luted them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

JUDGE MATTHEWS, who succeeds Judge
Durham as First Comptroller of the
Treasury, and Mr.. Huston, who succeeds
Mr.. Hyatt as Treasurer of the United
States, entered upon the discharge of
their respective duties on the 18th.