Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-05
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
STEINwAY's piano factory, in Ham.
burg, Germany, was burned on the 25th.
THE trustees of the Protestant Epis-
copal Cathedral of st. John the Divine,
on the 25th, agreed to allow the site OF
the proposed cathedral to be used by the
New York Worlds Fair committee as
a portion of the fair grounds.
| AT Amherst, n. H, the unidentified
skeleton of a man has been found. The
top of the skull was blown off and a
loaded gun lay near. Suicide or muir.
der? is the question in Amherst.
j. l.. POWELL, late county Judge oil
Butler County, Ala, and at one time
candidate for Observation-Disclosures OF
| Alabama, was placed on trial in Green.
vile, Ala, on the 25th, before Judge j
| z. Hubbard, of the Circuit Court, for EN-.
bezzling $4,000 of county funds collected
by him in the way of fines and otherwise
! during his term of office.
| Mr.. WALKER, the eminent English
civil engineer and contractor, famous as
an engineer of the Severn tunnel, the
Manchester canal and other similar un.
dertakings, is dead.
SECRETARY TRACY has made arrange
| ments by which the navy will be fur.
nished with the Brown prismatic pow.
| der for large guns and the new smoke
| less powder for smaller ones.
| TWELVE HUNDRED Clyde (Scotland)
engineers went out on strike on the 25th.
Eighteen firms, under pressure of con-
tracts, were obliged to concede the
| strikers demands.
GEORGE III. WILLIAMS, colored, aged
| thirty years, was found guilty of MUIR
der in the first degree at Wilmington,
Del. He was charged with killing Wal
| ter E. Wright, a white boy about eight
| cen years of age.
THE Plummerville and Morri1lton
| (Ark.) ballot-box theft trials were con-
| cluded in the United States Court at
Little Rock, on the 25th when in the
case of Walter p. Wells, o. 7. Bentley
and others the jury returned a verdict of
not guilty.
THE Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany's new $1,000. 600 steamship, the
China, recently reported aground near
Yokohama, was fioated off and pro-
ceeded, without having sustained any
apparent damage,
THE $50 miners who were entombed
in a flooded mine at Recklinghausen, in
Westphalia, were all rescued.
IsADoEE SULTZBACH, Philadelphia
clothing dealer, has made an assign
ment, for the benefit of creditors, to
Simon Blackjack, of the firm of A.
Bacharach & Co. The liabilities are es-
timated at 1925, 900; assets nominal.
A PLOT to depose King Alexander of
Servia and to put Prince Peter Kan
georgvitch in his place has been dis
covered at Belgrade. Many Russian
diplomates are said to be implicated in
the plot.
PHILIP LA CoSTE, life prisoner, was
terribly stabbed in the neck by John F.
Mccarthy, highwayman, at the Rhode
Island State prison on the 25th. Both
were employed in the shoe-shop, and
Mccarthy stepped up behind La Coste,
put a shoe-knife in the back of his VIC
TINS neck, and drew it around one side
of the neck. La Coste, who will die,
was sentenced for murder.
HENRY T. SCHALL, the young man
employed in the cashiers department of
the Northwestern Railway Company at
Chicago, who left that city last January,
after taking, as alleged, $1,000 of the
company's funds, returned on the 25th.
An Indictment was returned and Schall
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
NOTICE of appeal from the decision of
the New York City Supreme Court sus-
tanning the order of Justice Barrett dis
solving the North River Sugar Refining
Company was filed on the Goth.
To Of no
City Council, on the Goth, reported to
the aldermen an ordinance which will
allow the playing of organs in the city
streets between the hours of 0 a. m. and
Up. m. The number is, however, limit
ed to three hundred organs.
THE election for Mayor of Providence,
r. l., on the Goth, resulted in no choice.
AMOS, Jacob, Charles and James
Long, brothers, and all leading citizens
and churchmen of Pine Grove, Pa, were,
on the Goth, arrested for burglary. The
residence of Jacob Long was searched,
and a complete burglars outfit captured.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for
the holding of an exhibition at Kin gs-
ton. Jamaica, to be conducted under
government auspices.
AN east-bourd Pennsylvania freight
was wrecked at Falmouth, Pa, on the
night of the 25th, by broken axle.
Fifteen loaded cars were derailed, and
eight of them fell into the canal. A
number of cattle in the cars were drown
ed.
AMONG the passengers of the City of
Paris, which sailed from New York, on
the Goth, were Hon. Edward Stanley,
son of the Governor-General of Canada:
Lady Stanley, who is the daughter of
the Duke of Manchester, Vice-Admiral
of the Royal navy; Sir Michael c. Sey-
mour; Mrs. B. Lowdon Snowden, of
Philadelphia. wife of the United States
Minister to Greece, and Hon. ID. j. Par
tello. United States Minister to Dussel-
dorf.
THE roller-process fiour-mi1l, saw-mill
and undergrad of j. A. Taylor, at Safe
Harbor. Pa. were burned on the Goth;
loss, $4,000.
IT was announced. on the Goth, that
the sale of the Fort Worth road to the
Union Pacific had been effected, but
that the officials were not yet ready to
give out detailed statement.
King CARLOS of Portugal has had the
Necessidades Palace prepared for the
reception of his great uncle, Dom Pedro,
although he is not certain that the eX-
lied Emperor will reside there.
SECRETARY BLAINE is engaged in ne
gotiating an international copyright
treaty with France.
THE City of Boston was visited by