Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
GABRIEL RENvILLE, Chief of the Sisse-
ton and Wahopoton Indians, had an in
terview with Acting Indian Commissioner
Belt, on the oath, and urged a settlement
of back annuities due the tribe since 1862,
amounting TO about $3.50, 900. He also
urged that the Government purchase
their surplus lands, 100000 acres. Mr..
Belt favOrs a commission to ascertain
their value.
A GANG of colored men and one Of Hun
garians engaged in serious riot at
Jones' Point, n. Y, on the 23d, the result
of which was the shooting of four Hun
garians by a colored man.
THE residence of John Ockershausen,
the sugar reiner of Stamford, Conn, was
burned on the night of the 23i; loss,
So,
ENoCH TOWNSEND, of Saco, Me-, on the
23d, accomplished the feat of riding from
Boston to Portland, Me-, on bicycle in a
single day. He started seven miles west
of Boston at a. M, and arrived in Port
land at p. m in good condition. The
distance traversed was about 112 miles.
LORD CHARLES BEREsFoRD, Conserva-
tive member for Marylebone, will resign
his seat in the British Parliament to ac-
cept command Of an iron-clad.
Mrs. WHEELING, who poisoned her
husband and two children, was executed
at Philadelphia, on the 18th, at 1907 a.
m. After hanging thirty-four minutes
the attending physician pronounced life
extinct and the body was cut down.
THE annual ciass-day exercises of the
Senior class of Yale College occurred, on
the oath, and were attended by two thou
sand people. After thehistories were
read, the class ivy tree was planted on
one of the walls of the new recitation
building, during which an ode was sung.
The ivy planted was q slip taken from q
vine which covers a famous castle in
France.
CHARLES DE BAUM, the defaulting
cashier of the National Park Bank of New
York City, was sentenced, on the oath, to
five years and seven months imprison-
ment.
NEWS was received from Arlee. the
principal town on the Flathead Reserva-
ton in Montana, ON the 18th, that Sheriff
Heybarn of Missoula County and the
posse who went to the reserve to arrest
three Indian murderers, were having a
fight with Indians, who refused to give up
the men wanted. Two Indians were re-
ported to have been killed already.
FRED BUNDY, young man of Wausau,
Wis, was shot in the neck, ON the 18th,
by George Throm. Bundy had been
drinking, and tried to get into Throm's
house.
THE first heat was made in the steel de-
partment of the Cambria (Pa.) Iron
Works, on the 25th, and the superintend-
ent posted notices of regular pay days.
The Princess Augusta, sister of the
Queen of Denmark, was reported dying
on the oath.
WHILE loading oil at Ventura, CAL, on
the 18th, the steamship W. L. Harrison,
owned by the Mission Transfer Company
of Santa Paula, caught fire aud was
burned to the waters edge. The loss will
reach about $4,000.
MICHAEL RIzzILLo (Red Nose Mike) was
hanged at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 18th,
for the murder of Barney Mcclure, pay
master for Contractor McFadden, of Phil
adelphia, and Hugh Flanagan, his body
guard, on the Wilkesbarre mountain,
three miles from Miners Mills, on Fri
day, October -, 1888.
THOMAS HARDCASTLE, of Lancaster,
Pa, employed by Contractors Flynn and
Mcknight at Johnstown, drank quanti-
ty of embs Inning fluid by mistake on the
oath. He may possibly recover.
TwENTY-FoUR of the ready made Chi
cago houses arrived at Johnstown over
tuc DdlllLuOIc o. OIliO railway Ou TIE Solus
THE Swiss cantonal authorities have
begun the construction of unique con-
trivance to connect the summit of Mount
Pilatus with the highest point of the
KlimsenhOrn. This will consist of cables
swinging in mid-air between these two
lofty eminences at many points hun
dreds of feet from the ground below. An
omnibus large enough to carry eight per-
sons will be propelled over pulleys along
these cables by steam engine to be
placed on the top of Mount Pilatus near
the Bellevue Hotel.
GOVERNOR FORAKER of Ohio was re-
by the Republicans on the
Goth. This makes Mr.. Foraker's fourth
and third term if reelected.
EX-MINIsTER MCLANE says Edison's
thing else in connection with the Paris
exhibition.
PRESIDENT WIN. HENRY WOODS of the
Alabama Mining Company, died sudden
ly at his office, No. Nassau street, New
York City, on the Goth.
GEORGE LoRISG Brown, noted paint
err of Maiden, Mass, died suddenly, on
the night of the 26th, of apoplexy. He
was seventy five years old.
THE commencement exercises of the
University OF South Carolina took place
at Columbia on the Goth. The address
was delivered by Hon. Edward Atkinson,
Of Massachusetts,, who received the hon
orary degree of Doctor Of Laws.
THE statement of the Philadelphia &
Railroad Company for the
month of May shows that the net earn
ings were $659, $40 a decrease of $216. ISL
as compared with May, 1883. Since jan
uary 1, 1889. the net earnings have been
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pared with a corresponding period last
year.
THERE was no argument in the Stewart
will case, on the 26th, neither the Surro-
gate nor the counsel appearing in court.
1t is probable that the case will not come
ON until after the heated term.
GEORGE AND FREDDIE SINsKY, aged re-
spectively twelve and twenty years, were
drowned in the Des Moines river at Des
Moines, Ia, on the Goth. Freddie lost
his life while seeking to save his brother.
Georges body was recovered.
Hon. WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, OF New
Jersey, ex-member of Congress, and
member of the Samoan Berlin Commits.
sion, was appointed Minister to Berlin
on the Goth.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON, ex-senator
of Pennsylvania and a member of Presi-
dent Lincoln's Cabinet died at his home
in Lancaster, Pa, on the Goth. Just be-
fore his death he appeared to recognize
several of his friends.
WHILE discharging part of her cargo at
Las Gonaives, Hayti, the American
steamship Ozama, Of the Clyde Steam
ship Line, was seized by the Hayden
war-ship Belize and taken to Port.au-
Prince. The United States man of-war
Ossippee, however, happened into that
port and Immediately secured her re-
lease.