Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-03

REV. JOaS -. CRAZY. president % t..e
Catholic Young Mems National Unio:l,
| late president oe the Manhattan College
| Alumni SocietT, all oae OF the most
learned theolosians and eloquent orators,
among the Junior priests of the arch do
cese OF New York, died, on the aG:h, of
typhoid fever at the age of thirty-one
| years. He was brother Of ex-senator
| Thomas F. Grady.
FoEET HoRNER, aged twenty, became
| crazed with drink at Charleston. ". Va,
on the 18th, and obtaining q club, ran
! through the streets knocking down and
| severely lnluring several people. The
last man he struck, Edward Aimes, drew
a knife and killed his assailant Aimes
was arrested, but afterwards was dis
| charged.
| THE Charleston IS. c. Cotton Exchange
| has appointed special committee to in
| vestlgate charges made in the Legislature
and elsewhere that combinations exist in
| that city whereby underwriters and others
| are Systematically defrauded. The COM
mittee began its investigation on the 9th.
MRS. CLEVELAND enacted the role of
| Santa Claus among the White House
| servants, each of whom was literally re-
I membered by their young mistress. To
/ some she gave useful articles, and 70
others sums of money. The President
also remembered the men servants with
| money gifts.
Ex-JuDGE ROBERT A. JOHNSON suicided
| at his home in Avondale, o., on the 26th,
i by shooting himself through the head
with revolver. He was one of the most
prominent Democratic politicians in
| Southern Ohio. Depression on account of
the death of his wife is supposed to have
been the cause.
AN explosion, on the 25th, in the To-
| ronto (Ont) Ammonia Works instantly
killed David Sexton and seriously injured
several other wOrkmen- The entire bnild-
ing was wrecked and the ground shaken
for blocks around.
Two young ladies named Smith were
drowned at Hillsville, Pa, on the 9th.
They, in company with another girl and
two young men, were crossing the Allie
gheny river in a skiff, when it sank with
them. The rest of the party were rescued
in an exhausted condition.
Hon. H. B. SMITH died in E1mira N. Y,
on the Goth, at the age of sixty-two years.
He was an eX-Congressmana and eX-Justice
of the Supreme Court.
THE Comptroller of the Currency, on the
Goth, declared a second dividend of ten
per cent. in favor of the creditors of the
State National Bank of Raleigh, n. c.,
making in all thirty per cent. on claims
failed in March last.
THE overland east-bound Central Paci-
fic train was stopped by robbers near
Clippers Gap, in the SierraS, recently,
and about $4,000 stolen.
Iowa was visited by a heavy snow
storm on the 10Th, in some localities as
Stunning the proportions of a blizzard.
A TELEGRAM from Batabano, Cuba,
gives particulars of the murder of Senior
Carlo Sanches Gonzales, an old resident
of the town. He was arbitrarily arrested,
and then shot in cold blood by sergeant
of the Civil Guard.
GEORGE ANDERSON, of Valparaiso, Ind,
got drunk Christmas, and attempted to
murder the family of John Van Vert
with razor. He was OverpOwered by Mr..
and Mrs Van Vert, aided by their hired
man, and later arrested.
THE Missouri river was still open at
Chamberlain, Oak, on the 9th, aud the
weather continued moderate.
Sioux FALLS, Oak, had its first snow
storm of the season on the 26th.
The Machine brothers, of Havana,
Cuba, who, while under sentence OF death
for kidnapping. escaped from Jail a month
ago, murdered a detective who was after
them, on the 9th, and again made their
escape.
The Richmond (Va.,) Wig announced
its suspension on the 9th.
THE sporting goods house of c. A.
Gardner, of Hastings, Neb., failed or
the Goth, with large liabilities; assets
unknown.
GUsTI VAsKo, the murderer OF Skokam,
of Perth Amboy, N. j., was, on the 18th,
sentenced to State prison for ten years.
THE British bark William n. Chapman,
from Hamburg. December II, for New
York, was sunk off North Foreland, En-
gland, on the 18th. by collision with the
British steamer Bedlormie.
A SPECIAL from Saqua La Grande,
Cuba, on the 9TH, announced the murder
of soldier and sergeant of the Civil
Guard by the bandits near Jicotea.
Miss ANNIE c. GARRETT. daughter of
the late James and Ann Garrett, of Ches-
ter County, Pa, died at Milan, Italy, OF
the 9th.
EDWARD W. Rowland. formerly of New
Mass, was murdered, on the 18th,
in Mexico, where he has for a year
had charge of two electric stations. He
leaves u widow in Lynn.