Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-11-06
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Ireland and contributions to the fund
of the National League, and should Sc
that no money intended for charitabl
purposes goes to illegal objects.
| VERA SASsOULITCII, the famous Mill
| list. whose adventures and hardships i
connection with the Nihilist IIartma1
| attracted worldwide sympathy for he
about ten years ago, is dying at Geneva
| whittier she sought refuge after escap
| ing from the clutches of the Russian
authori ties.
The President, on the 2Sth, granted
pardon to Charles II. Condor, convicted
in Wyoming of robbing the mails, anC
sentenced to life Imprisonment Feb
ruary 20, 1879. The pardon was granted
on account of Condon's youth and hi
feeble health.
THOMAS TAGGART, 4 ~ell-knowI
farmer residing west of Columbus, Ind.
on his death bed, on the 27th, confessed
to having murdered and robbed Thomas
Jamison. an Ohio man. in 1880 The muir
derer died few moments after making
the confession.
THE President, on the 2Sth received
Governor Cooper's telegram announc.
ing the absence of the Uintah and Tn,
compahgre Indians from their reserva-
tions in Colorado, and Immediately re-
ferred it to the Indian Commissioner
for action.
THE tow boat ALEX Swift exploded
her boilers. on the 27th, while steaming
up the Monongahela river, opposite
Glenwood, Pa. The crew, eight in num-
Der, miraculously escaped the shock of
the explosion and swan to shore.
IN view of the large number of class
ification and reappraisment cases pend
ing before the Treasury Department
Secretary Window las appointed an
auxiliary board of appraisers to aid in
of the business
DENNIS B. SULLIVAN, treasurer of the
New York Father Matthew Total Abb
stinence Society, is believed to be
short in his accounts about 81, and
his property has been attached to re-
cover the amount.
THE price of ice in Bangor. Me-, de-
clineu in one month from So. 80 and 81 90
to S1.OO per ton, and many of the big
ice concern, must go under.
THE Board of United States General
at New York City sustained
the protest of Charles G. Lang, of Chi
cago, relative to the rate and amount of
duty fixed by the collector of Chicago
upon imported seal skins
AIMEE DE GAUTHIER, farmer of st.
Laurent, Can, early on the morning of
the Goth, found his wife. whom it was sup
posed had persisted in the burning of
the Tongue Point Insane Asylum last
May, lying by the roadside near his
nome almost famished with hunger.
She said she had been wandering for
weeks seeking her home.
Hon. RoBERT T. LINCOLN, American
Minister to Great Britain, left London,
IN the Goth, en- route for New York. Tie
will return to his post in January
HoN. f.. ID. STANLEY. Lady Alice
stanley, Lord Stradbroke, Sir Lyon
'layfair, Lady Playfair and Viscount
europe by the steamer Majestic, which
allied from New York on the Goth.
RICH placer deposits of gold have
oeen discovered in jackson County, s.
D., formerly part of the Sioux Reser-
'ation, lying contiguous to the Black
Hills.
BENJAMIN MAHAN, of Preston, n. Y,
lew his head completely off with a
hotgun, on the 29tn, while temporarily
insane.
DANIEL LAMONT denies positively
hat ex-Secretary of the Navy William
: Whitney is a candidate for United
states Senator from New York.
PATRICE PITTMAN, the daughter of
he late Dion Boucicault, died quite
uddenly, in London on the Goth.
THOMAS G. VOOLFOLK was hanged at
facon, Ga, on the Goth, for the murder
f his father. step-mether, their six
hildren and his step-mother's sister.
WHILE awaiting the arrival of a train
t the station in Laczhaza, a town a
hort distance south of Pesth, Hungary,
corn dealer named Bleier, his wife,
wo children and a maid servant were
tackled by brigands who robbed and
murdered the entire party.
LIEUTENANT JOHNSON, of the Seventh
stationed at Fl Logan, was,
n the 3Oth, sent to Routt County, Col.
D investigate the threatened Ute In
ian outbreak. He is accompanied by
detachment of troops.
ounty Is. d. treasurer's office, on the
light of the Goth, but were driven
fl by daylight before they had Sc
ured entrance to the main vault They |
id not get much
WILLIAM 7. TANNIHIIL, former
irector of the New York Cotton Ex- |
hange, committed suicide by shooting
imself at his home in Englewood, n.
:, on the30th. Mr.. Tannihill was sixty |
ears old.
TAX COLLECTOR JUHASS, at Erlau, in |
he Theissan district of Hungary, and |
is houSekeeper were murdered by |
urglars whom they surprised and at |
empted to capture.
TIE merchants of Holland and Bel |
ium have given notice that they will |
NV no more of the second grade of |
akers' flour made in this country.
GOVERNOR BRACKET of Massachu-
etts has appointed November - for |
Day.
JOHN A. VANIDo, aged fourteen years, |
not and fatally wounded his younger |
rother William. aged eight, at their |
areats' home, No. 594 Park avenue, |
-ew York City, on the 30th. The boy |
AVS that he did not know the revolver |
as loaded He was locked up at the |
olice station.
A LOADED coal train of thirty-six cars,
trough misplaced switch. was thrown
lrough tho Hotel Brunswick, at Hun
ington, Pa. on the 30th. and landed in
lie yards of the Girard House and Jack
IN House, 200 feet eastward. The |
uests in the hotels we're seized with a
envy of excitement, and rushed pell-
ell into the streets in their night |