Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-23
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

on the 14th, was taken violently Ill.
| He was taken to the dispensary, but
owing to his critical condition he was
removed to the City Hospital where he
| died in a short time.
THE widow OF Washington Olivet, OF
Poughkeepsie, n. V, who was MUIR
| dered by Arthur Pendergast, who was
| sentenced, on the 18th, TO life-imprison-
ment in Sing Sing, has commenced an
action for So, 900 against Hamilton
| PRAY. at whose saloon her husband OBJ.
| tanned the liquor under the influence
| of which he was when shot. The suit
| is brought under the Civil Damage law.
! COLONEL CHARLES ]. MURPHY, of New
| York. has been appointed special agen:
of the Department of Agriculture in
| Europe, to examine and report in re.
| gard to the use among Europeans of
corn and corn products, and to present
to Europeans the availability of that
cereal for human food purposes.
A NUMBER of sympathisers of Birch.
all, the murderer awaiting execution
at Woodstock, Ont, for the murder oil
young Benwell. who believe he was not
altogether fairly dealt with, have pre-
pared and are circulating petition to
in his behalf.
THE special session of the Ohio Leg.
islature, called by Governor Campbell &c
consider the affairs of the Cincinnati
| Board of Public Improvements, met in
| Columbus on the 18th.
| THE Treasury Department has decided
| that books imported for the use of col
leges, schools, etc, are admitted to this
country under the new tariff law sub
! stantially as they were admitted under
the old tariff law, and subject to the
same restrictions.
SENIOR RAMON BENGOECHEA, of Qua
| temala. son-in law of General Barrun-
| dia, who was murdered on the United
States ship Acapulco, arrived in Wash
ing ton, on the 18th, to prefer claim
against the United States for surren
dering the General to his slayers.
! CONGRESSMAN JOHN L. WILSON. who
returned to Spokane Falls, Wash, from
| Washington, ID. c., recently, reports the
loss of his pocket-bool1 containing S1O.-
600 in securities, $3.50 in green backs and
gold and other valuable papers.
| KING CHRISTIAN of Denmark gave a
dinner at the palace in Copenhagen, on
|
| States cruiser Baltimore. The United
States Minister and Mrs. Carr were also
| present.
| THE Navy Department, on the 18th,
ordered Lieutenant Commander Hitch
cock and Walton Green before the ex-
aiming board for promotion. The pro-
motions are occasioned by the death of
| Commander Huntington.
| JACK MCAULIFFE, the champion
| lightweight pugilist of America, was
arrested in Brooklyn, on the 18th, on
suspicion of having caused the death OF
his wife, Katie Hart, the well-known
soubrette: but on the report of the cor
| oner that death had resulted from valvu-
lar disease of the heart, McAuliffe was
| discharged The fact of his marriage
to deceased was only made public after
| her death.
FLORA MALLoY, the siX-year-old
daughter of John Malloy, of Hazel.
tine. Ia, who had been missing from
her fathers house for several days, was
found, on the 18th, in a swamp near the
city sunk to her neck in the slime and
| life nearly eX tinct. She died after being
| carried home.
| JOHN SPRINGER, who taught school
| sixteen miles south of Hastings, Neb.,
| failed to appear at the school-house on
| the 18th, and search being instituted,
| his dinner-pail was found by the road
side, the dirt was torn up as if there
| had been scuffie. and in muddy spot
near by were found foot prints and a
revolver stamped into the mud. He is
thought to have been murdered and his
body secreted.
CHARLES II. THoRNE, alias Dorsey,
and George Ii. Shinn, who made a dar.
ing escape from the State prison at San
| Quentin, Cal, recently. were captured
| in Chicago on the 18th. Thorne was
serving a life sentence for murder and
stage robbery, and Shinn was in dur
ance for holding up an entire railway
train. They will be conveyed back tC
San Quentin prison.
| Lucy HALE, of Lansing, Mich, has
been granted pension as the daughter
of Nathaniel Wallace, a private in the
Fourteenth New York Volunteers dur
ing the revolutionary war. She will re-
ceive $40 per month from September %
| 1890.
| THE Leland Hotel at Syracuse, n. Y.
was destroyed by fire early on the morn
ing of the 10th. At least twenty-five OF
| the guests are said to have lost their
| lives either by burning or in their eff
forts to escape from the burning build
ing by leaping from windows. and q
| large number were seriously burned OF
otherwise injured, among them Cora
| Tanner, the actress.
| SHORTLY before midnight, on the 18th
| David C. Hennessey, chief of police oil
| New Orleans, was shot down by three
| unknown men. Pistols were used BY
Hennessey's assailants, and he received
| four shots, one in the stomach, which,
it is believed, will prove fatal.
| UNITED STATES CONSUL CARROLL, al
| Palermo, Sicily, will probably be trans
ferred to some place beyond Italy. he
having ceased to be a persona grata to
| the Italian Government and municipal
ity of Palermo on the strength of his
communications to the State Depart,
ment in regard to brigandage.
| In the Vermont Legislative Assem-
DIV. on the 18th, Justin S. Morrill, was
formally elected United States Senator
| for six years, from March next
| Dr. MCGoNIGAI. of New York City.
charged with malpractice in the case OF
Annie Goodwin, was sentenced, on the
18th. to fourteen years in State prison.
THE Observatore Romano( Vatican or
| gam publishes the political programme
! of the Catholic party. tits based upon re-
storation of the Pope's temporal power,
| but accents to a geat extent the princi-