Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE death of Hon. Edward F. Noyes
at Cincinnati removes a prominent fig
ure from the public life of Ohio, and
one, too, which has been seen on
larger fields of action. He was a gal
liant soldier during the rebellion, and
came out of that struggle MANNED for
life. Elected Governor of Ohio in 1871.
he was defeated for reelection two
years later by Bill Allen, who led
the Democratic forlorn hope in Ohio
that year. He served acceptably under
the Hayes administration as United
States Minister to France. Governor
Noyes was man of strong character
and decided abilities and of an in
tegrity above all suspicion. His death
is a loss to his party and State.
EIGHTY miners were suffocated by an
explosion at Borysla, Galicia, on the
1st.
RICHARD II. FRETLIG, while bathing
with bis wife at Point Lookout, L. l.,
on the 3lst was carried out to sea by
the undertow and drowned
PRoF. CARL LUMHoLTz, the Norwc-
gian explorer. who was made famous
among geographers by his expeditions
in Australia, is about to explore Lower
New Mexico and Arizona under the di-
rection of the American Geographical
Society of New York.
JAMES o. SEABRING, well-known
politician and able lawyer of Ham
mondsport. n. Y, who was the Demo-
cratic candidate for district attorney of
Steuben County last fall, has been ar
rested on a charge of perjury in connec-
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examina ton and is held for the grand
jury.
TURKISH soldiers have expelled the
Franciscan Fathers from Jerusalem de-
spite the protests of the French Consul.
CHARLES AMDEN was nominated for
Governor, on the ID, by the Democrats
of New HAMPSHIRE.
LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR., wellknown
lawyer of Philadelphia and the only
son of the retired millionaire Robert NJ.
Lewis, was struck and instantly killed
by train on the ID.
j. j. HILL, president of the Great
Northern Railway Company, has given
$500. 600 for the erection of a great
Catholic college at Groveland. the beau
tiful st. Paul (Minn.) suburb on the
curve of the Mississippi river, opposite
Fort Smelling.
TREASURY officials say that while it is
true that the statement of the public
debt showed for August net decrease,
less cash in the treasury, of only $685.
013, it is also true that the bonded debt
was reduced $40, SIT, 200 during the same
period by the purchase of bonds
THE following State ticket was nomi-
mated by the Kansas Republicans on
the Sd: Chief Justice, Albert H. Hor-
ton, Shawnee County: Governor, Lyman
U. Humphrey, Montgomery County;
Lieutenant-Governo A. j. Felt, Nema-
ha County: Secretary Of State, William
Higgins, Shawnee County; Attorney
General, L. B. kellogg, Lyon County;
State superintendent, George w.
Winans, Geary County; Auditor, c. NJ.
Hovey, Thomas County.
On the Sd Secretary Window and the
director of the mint had consultation
in regard to the new Silver law, one re-
suit of which was a decision that the
department will purchase 4,500, 600
ounces each month, reckoning from Au-
gust IS, the date when the law took
effect.
THE much-dreaded grippe which
caused such mortality in this country
last winter, appears to have made
fresh start, and another visit during the
fall and winter is not impro 5able. The
disease is reported to have broken out
in Easton, Pa, and over 200 people IN
that CITY are suffering from it.