Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-11
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| WIN. JOHN LANE, Member of Parlia-
| ment for Cork, Ireland, was arrested, on
| the 1st, on the charge of melting the peo-
| pie to adopt the plan of campaign. He
was conveyed to Tipperary for trial.
| By the explosion of boiler, on the
| 1st, at the works of the Asphalt Paving
| Company o. Wilkesbarre. Pa, the en-
in the air and killed.
THE State commissary department
at Johnstown, Pa, was, on the ID, turned
over to the citizens.
| THE ship carpenters of East Boston on
| what is termed f'new work" struck, on
| the 1st, for niue hours work and ten
| hours pay.
| FRANK NORRIS, of Cleveland, O., SEN
fenced to hang July 10 at the penitentia ry,
| has been granted a com mutation of sem
| tence to Imprisonment for life.
| FIFTEEN THOUSAND workmen struck at
Brunn, Austria, on the 1st including all
! the bakers in the city.
| j. C. CLANCY. of Indiana, was, ON the
I'd, appointed assistant attorney in the
| Department of Justice, in the place of E.
j. May, resigned.
On the 1st, in New York City, detect
ives arrested Reynolds Timson, Of Mil
| waukee, Wis, for the alleged larceny Of
| $500, 600 worth of watches there. Timson
was turned over to Detective Kelly, Of
| Milwaukee.
MRS. CHARLES FISCHER, wife Of a mer-
| chant tailor of Brazil, Ind, while kim
| ding the kitchen fire, on the 1st was hor.
ribly burned by the fire igniting the coal
oil in the con, causing an explosion.
Prompt relief was summoned, and she
may recover.
SECRETARY BLAINE and Walker Blaine
how Por. III t6a
former will remain until September
President Harrison contemplates paying
the Secretary a visit some time in July.
NAVAL CADET HERBERT l.. DRAPER, of
Ellsworth, Kas., who was recently admit
ted to permanent duty as an Ensign, has
been made Second Lieutenant and as
signed to duty in the Marine Corps.
ACTIVE operations commenced at the
Norfolk Navy Yard at the beginning of
the new fiscal year. and several hundred
mechanics and labOrers were put to work.
The working force is to be increased to
1900 men.
W. j. LEECHMAN, aged seventy years,
died at his home in Centerpoint Ind, on
the 1st.. from the effect of a snake bite.
His body became much swollen, involving
the lungs. For many years he was a
practicing physician.
FIVE weeks ago DR.. Knowles, Indiana
State Veterinary Surgeon, killed two
horses belonging to a man named Eads,
at Carlisle. Eads himself was suffering
with CHAMBERS, and word has been re-
ceived that he had died from the disease.
DANIEL AJAUvEIN, twenty-three years
old, who is police officer in New York
City, attempted to end his life while on his
way to his post of duty by shooting him
self in the right side. He was removed
to the hospital a prisoner. He is believed
to be out of his mind, and will probably
die.
THE official vote of the recent election
in Pennsylvania as received and COM
puted is as follows: For the prohibition
amendment, 296,117; against, 4Si. 6i4: ma
jority against, 1SS.027. For the suffrage
amendment abolishing the poll-tax quail.
ification, 1S3, 81; against. 400, 1913; majority
against. 236, 952
CARDINAL GIBBONS has received a beau
tiful present from Pope Leo KILL 1t is
a large golden and richly jeweled osten-
sorium, and was sent to the Cardinal as
souvenir of the Pope's jubilee.
A PASSENGER train on the Norfolk &
Western railroad went through washed
out culvert, near Roanoke, Va, at LOS
a. M, on the I'd. The entire train, con-
sisting of locomotive, baggage, express,
smoker, passenger and two Pullman
cars, was piled up in heap of wreckage
which Immediately caught fire from a
gasoline lamp and burned, together with
a large number of dead and wounded
passengers and train hands pinioned in
the debris.
THE German officers in the service of
China are about to resign.
AT his own request, Colonel John G.
Parke. of the Engineer Corps, superin-
tendent of the West Point Military Acad-
envy, was, on the I'd, placed on the retired
list of the army. Colonel Parke had
served forty years as an army officer.
THE members of the Cherokee Indian
Commission left Washington for their
homes on the I'd. They will go to the
Cherokee country about the 18th.
THE Norwegian ministry resigned on
the I'd.
Mr.. THOMAS j. MORGAN, of Rhode
Island, the new Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, arrived in Washington, on the
I'd, to take charge of the Indian Office.
A DESTRUCTIVE water-spout broke over
Altoona, Pa, and vicinity, on the night of
the I'd, and several persons were pros
trated by lightning during the storm.
ELI MIX, the coroner who has been in
vestigating the fatality which occurred on
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad a few miles north of New Hav-
en-, Conn, on the Goth, handed his report
to State's-Attorney Doolittle on the I'd.
He finds that the accident was caused by
the criminal carelessnesS Of Thomas
Shields, section boss.
THE Chautauqua IN. W Assembly
opened its sixteenth annual session on
the I'd.
THE tenth annual meeting of the
League of American Wheelmen was be-
gun at Hagerstown, Nd. on the I'd.
THOMAS MCBRIDE and Alex. Hart were
instantly killed and several other per-
sons were injured by the bursting of an
immense steam bleaching vat in the
Lyons Ua.) paper mill on the I'd.
Four business blocks at HALEY, Idaho,
were destroyed by fire, on the I'd. causing
a loss of 100000.
THE belief existed in Paris on the I'd
that a Cabinet crisis would result from
the charge made by NJ. de Cassagnac in
the Chamber of Deputies that NJ. Theve-
not Minister of Justice, was the accom-
plice of NJ. Meyer in the Credit Mobilier
fr auds, for connection with which NJ.
Meyer has been sent to prison. Some ex-
citem was accustomed.
THE British Cabinet has decided to ap-
point a committee on royal grants, to
deal with the whole subject of grants to
members Of the royal family from the
imperial treasury. The powers of the
committee in fixing amounts in cases
where they recommend appropriations
of public money will be limited.
THE veterans of the Second Connecticut
Light Artillery, Battery B, dedicated
their monument at Gettysburg Oh the Sd.
Ii Is or granite, ten feet high.