Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

\ SHEEIFF'> Jury in New York City,
over which General Sickles presided,
on the Goth, found a verdict of $4,000
against Francis X. Harte, son of Bret
IIarte, the writer, in suit by James
Smith for damages for the alienation
OF the affections of his wife, Eleve Il.
Smith.
On the Goth Bishop O'Connor died at
Omaha, NeD. He had been i'll for over
year.
Hon. JOHN G.. CARLISLE appeared in
the Senate on the both. the oath was
administered to him, and he then took
his seat as United States Senator to fill
the unexpired term of the late Senator
Beck, of kentucky.
TIE three Connecticut directors of the
New York & New England railroad have
been cited to show cause why they
should not be jailed for contempt for
refusing to take up the tracks on
Church street, Hartford, as ordered by
the Superior and Supreme Courts of the
State.
Mr. FLOWER. of New York, on the
9th, introduced in the House of Repre-
Sentatives Joint resolu ton making an
appropriation of $3.50, 900 in aid of the
erection of National monument or
memorial to General Grant at Riverside
Park in New York City.
THE little steam pleasure yacht
Yeada was run down near Port Morris,
on the Goth, by the steamship Aurania
while entering the upper bay on her
way 10 her North River dock at New
York City. Two of the six occupants of
the yacht were drowned.
IL London. recently, note tied to
stone was found in the courtyard of
Marlborough House addressed to its oc
cupant, the Pincc of Wales. The note
contained these words: Give US bread
if you would reign" and was signed
thousands of starving Englishmen."
This communica ton was promptly sup
pressed, and the police profess ignorance
of its reception.
JOHN \. CoCKEEILI., editor, Julius 5.
Chambers, managing editor, and James
+. Graham. city editor of the New York
World, who were indicted by the grand
jury for criminally libeling eN-Judge
Hilton, pleaded not guilty, on the 26th,
to the indictments, with leave to with
draw their plea in ten days
On the 27th a seventeen-year-old
Mexican girl, Victoria Marisco, com.
mitted suicide at San Francisco through
fear that She would be forced to leave
her guardian and return to her father.
\ CONFERENCE to consider the sub
iect of a common German photography
has been called by Kaiser William to
meet in Berlin. 1t is expected that
Austria and Switzerland will particip pate
in its deliberations.
Ben MEYERS, catcher of 4 colored
base ball club, while playing at Mont
gomery, Ala. on the Goth, was struck in
the mouth by ball thrown by the
pitcher and instantly killed.
SIXTY-EIGIIr election officers of Hud-
son County, n. j., have been indicted
for conspiracy.
on the 9Sth Thomas V. Gallagher. the
cashier in the Philadelphia post-office,
who was caught stealing letters. was
given a hearing before United States
Commissioner Bell, and was held in
s., 600 bail for trial.
TIE New York, Lake Erie & West
ern Railroad Company's statement for
April. as compared with the same
month last year. shows an increase IN
net earnings of S124, 601.94.
FORTH WORMS pride and glory, the
Spring Palace. is a heap of blackened
ruins. it having been swept out OF eX-
istence by fire, which broke out on the
second floor on the night of the Soth,
just as the evening concert was over
and preparations were being made to
begin the annual Spring Palace ball.
A. least one life was lost and many
were seriously injured during the panic
that ensued
REPORTS from Western and North
western Kansas state that the drought
in those regions has been broken by
heavy fall of rain. Winter wheat and
oats were in precarious condition on
account of the continued dry weather,
but it is believed now that the rain has
| benefited them to such I degree as to in
sure fair yield.
Mrs. o. J. STONE, her daughter, aged
eight years; her son. aged four, and
Mrs. Poe WINNER, while out driving.
were instantly killed by Chicago, St
Louis n Pittsburgh lightning express
train on the 50th. The accident &C.
CURED where the railroad crosses the
Ionesboro pike. just east of Marion. Ind.