Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-29


Treasury Department. on the 21st, to
| the commander of the Bear at Seat
| tie. Wash, to proceed to Alaskan waters
on her usual annual voyage of protec-
| ton to the seal fisheries.
Mrs. FLORENCE R., wife of ex-Judge
| Murat Masterson, of Prescott, Ariz.,
fell dead in the Grand Union Hotel in
New York City on the 21st. She had
! just vainly sought a reconciliation with
her husband.
THE British Government has de-
manded full explanation General Sir
| Frederick Middleton's connection with
the footing of Ualf-breed Bremmer's
| furs during the late Northwest rebellion.
\ HAND-CAE on the East Tennessee,
| Virginia Il Georgia railroad was run
down eight miles west of JellicO, Tenn,
on the 20tn, by a freight train. Two
men were killed and two who were
fatally injured have since died.
THE largest freight house of the New
York Central railroad, located at Alba
ny, was burned on the night of the ed.
Nothing was saved. The building was
a frame structure 1O0x30O feet, and was
filled with general merchandise. Loss,
S115, 900: insurance, $40, 900.
TIE New Jersey Senate, on the ed,
unseated Senator Mcdonald, Democrat,
of Hudson County, whose seat was con-
tested by W. 5. Stuhr, Fusion candi-
date. This was the result of long and
exciting investigation into the election
in Hudson County.
On the 23d Aldermen brady, Macy,
Sheldon, Morris, Eagan, Weitz, Ham
~ az III
were indicted by the grand jury for
malfeasance in office. brady was also
indicted for obtaining money by false
pretenScS.
CLARENCE f. .JEwETr, president of the
G.. +. Jewett Publishing Company, OF
Boston, has disappeared after an al
legged crooked issue of SO, 600 worth OF
stock of the company.
Mr.. AND Mrs. WALTER DAMRosCH
were passengers by the steamship Co
lumbia, which sailed from New York,
on the 22d. for Hamburg. Mrs Dam
rosch. nee Blaine. is said to have looked
extremely happy.
TIE two hundred and fiftieth ami
versary of the incorporation of Brain
tree. Mass, was CO ebrated in that city
on the 22d. The Face was handsomely
decorated, and professions, dinners and
literary exercises marked the occasion.
Rev. CHAUNCEY REYNOLDS, of Hills
dale, Mich. died, on the 22d, at the ag
of eighty-tive years. He was one OF
the founders of the Michigan Central
College at Spring Arbor, now Hillsdale
College, and had beenz.a trustee CO the
college for thirty years.
ADRIAN BoGAEDUS, superintendent OF
mails at Rochester, n. Y, was sen
fenced to three years in the Albany
penitentiary, on the 22d, for cmbezzling
letters.
FAILURES for the seven days ended on
the 23d numbered: For the United
States, 1870: for Canada, 81; total, 222;
compared with 212 the previous week.
For the corresponding week last year
the figures were POI in the United
States and p in Canada.
PATRICK MALLOY, farmer living
near Seven Mile, O., shot and killed his
son George, aged twenty-five years, on
the 23d, and then blew his own brains
out with a revolver. The shooting was
the result of quarrel over division
of property.
l.. y. MCMAHON, farmer living near
brcen 1SIe, MIMI, SnOU MS WIG anu
then himself on the 23d. His wife had
left him some time ago, and her refusal
to return to him was the cause of the
double tragedy.
WILLIAM FURMAN was struck by
lightning and instantly killed at Wash
ington, Pa, on the 23d. Three COM
panions with him were badly stunned
THE Supreme Court of the United
States adjourned, on the 23d, until the
October term.
ONE Italian was killed and three
severely injured in a collision between
gravel trains on the Consolidated road
at Lyme. Conn, on the 23d.
THE cruiser Charleston was sent from
San Francisco to Honolulu, it is said, :
at the request of the American Minis
ter to Hawaii, and the fact that trouble
is possible on the converting of the
Hawaiian Legislature and the instala
ton of new membe and officers is the
reason for the request.