Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A RATHER astonishing disclosure was
made in court at Reading, Pa, on the
18th, when j. Rossmiller presented the
petition Of Percival Boyer, asking to
have decree declaring him lunatic
set aside, on the ground that he had
not been aware of the proceedings. He
alleged that he was entirely sane, and
had not known of the decree until he
was refused payment of his pension on
that account.
IN the Superior Court at Napa, Cal,
on the 7th, James Birk and Joseph
Mooney were arraigned, charged with
highway robbery for holding up the
Hardin Springs stage, on June Goth.
They pleaded guilty and were sentenced
to ten years imprisonment in the San
Quentin penitentiarY.
DAVID STAUFFER, living near Ha-
gerstown, Pa, lighted cigarette, while
crossing field of new-mown hay, on
the eth, and dropping the still burning
match set fire to the dry hay. The fire
spread rapidly, and Stauffer fought it
until he became unconscious. He was
terribly burned, as was his mother and
neighbors who ran to his assistance.
About ten acres of hay was destroyed.
STEAMERS will commence plying be-
tween German ports and Delagoa Bay
on the 23d.
THE Supreme Lodge Knights of
Pythias met in Milwaukee, Wis, on
the Sth.
BARON WISsMANS has not resigned,
as reported, as German Commissioner
to East Africa.
Two men were killed and nine seri-
ously injured By an explosion in IEs-
peranza silver mine, in Pachusa, State
of Hidalgo, Mexico, on the night of the
9th.
BRIGADIEH GENERAL BENJAMIN III.
GEIERsoN was placed on the retired
list of the army on the Sth.
DIR. JOHN MoNTEE, of Days Gap, Ala,
killed his four children, on the 9th, and
then committed suicide. 1t is thought
he was insane on the subject of religion.
A GENTLEMAN who lives at Waverly,
o., the former home of Miss Leconey,
who was murdered at the house of her
uncle in New Jersey about year ago.
says that since Chalkley Leconey's ac
quittal important evidence has been dis
covered tending not only to establish
his innocence, but pointing strongly in
the direction of another.
DURING the race for the Drexel stakes
at Washington Park, Chicago, on the
sth, Jockey Abbas, who was riding No
retta, was killed, his mount falling and
rolling over upon him, breaking his
neck. The horse was not seriously
hurt.
THREE HUNDRED riotous strikers at
tempted. on the 9th, to put stop to all
labor in West Superior. Wis, and had
@e1l-nigh succeeded when they were
dispersed by officers ana firemen with
drawn revolvers. Their idea was to Sc
cure 50 day for all common labor.
A NUMBER of petitions from half
dozen or m ore States were presented in
the Senate, on the Sth, praying for the
acknowledgment of Almighty God and
the Christian religion in the Constitu-
ton of the United States.
A COLLISION between a freight and
passenger train on the Louisville Il
Nashville railroad, forty miles south of
birmingham, Ala, on the 9th, caused
by disregard of orders, resulted in the
death of five persons and the fatal
wounding of another.
AN issue of bank notes to the amount
of 500, 900, 600 for the relief of the finan-
cial crisis has been authorized by the
President of the Argentine Republic.
THE nomination of General Batchel-
der, U. S. A., to be Quartermaster-G Gen
eral. was. on the 9th, confirmed by the
Senate.
Mrs ELIZABETH WHITE, of Newbury,
Mass, died, on the 9th, Sged one humid
red and one years and seven months.
THE present cotton crop OF South
Carolina promises to be the best on rec
ord.
ARTHUR BoosINGER, aged twenty,
while getting hay in out of the rain
near Springfield, o., on the 9th, was
struck and instantly killed by light
ming. His clothing, with the exception
of part of his shirt, was torn from his
body.
THE laundry building of the Hotel
Kaaterskill. Catskill mountains, was
destroyed by fire on the 10th. Fireman
b. Smith was burned to crisp while
attempting to rescue the employees, all
OF whom escaped serious injury.