Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-04

PRESIDENT F. w. KENNEDY and Cash
Ter III. n. Kennedy. of the Spring Garden
bank of Philadelphia, We're arrested, on
the 2Sth, charged with false entries in
the bank record and the embezZlemeEt
of 100000.
OK May james McClanagan,
wealthy Montreal Can saloon-keeper,
took a large sum of money from his safe
and left his store with two men, said TO
be American horse-buyers. On the 2Sth
his body was found in the Lachine canal,
Invested of all valuables and with big
wound on the back Of the head
THE schooner Thomas Hume is be-
ieved to have gone down in Lake Mich
igan with all on board, involving total
loss of seven lives. 1t is thought the
catastrophe occurred within twenty
miles of Chicago. The Hurie was com
manded by Capt. Harry Allrightson, of
Chicago, and carried a GREY of six men.
HENRY MORSE, an inmate of the
Michigan Soldiers home at Grand Rap
ids, entered room at the home occu-
pied by Henry Harrington, on the night
of the 2Sth, and tabled the latter half
a dozen times in the side with a butcher
knife, inficting wounds which will
prove fatal.
DURING slight rain shower at Erie,
Col, on the 2Sth, Paul Hanson, fore
was instantly killed by lightning. He
was blowing a ditch on the farm. Both
horses hitched to the pillow were
knocked senseless. A lad, aged IS,
named Clarence Peacock, who was
r - ~,
dered unconscious, though not injured.
A SPECIAL Worlds fair commission
was selected at the convention in Yank-
ton. S. D., on the 2sth. The governor
will be asked to call special session of
the Legislature to appropriate $50, 600.
In case of refusal on the part of the leg
islature to make the appropriation the
commission will raise fund by popu-
lar subscription.
THE boiler in the saw-mill of r.
Kramer, at Frankfort, Ind, exploded
on the 2sth. Frank Hull. the engineer,
was instantly killed. his body being
mutilatcd beyond recognition. Ed
Kuntz died in a few hours, and Glenn
Swearinger was fatally, and Others Sc
riously, i'm ured.
NEARLY all the persons who accom-
panied tae president on his recent tour
through the south and west were enter
tanned ut dinner at the executive man.
sion, on the evening of the 2Sth, by the
president and Mrs. Harrison The din
ner was given in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
George w. Boyd. of Philadelphia, in
recognition of Mr.. Boyd7s wonderfully
successful management of the trip
ACTING under instructions from At
torney-General Miller. the United
States district attorney for the district
of California will bring bill in equity
to cancel the Rancho Corte Madero Del
Preside grant. in Marin county, Cal.
The tract includes Kershaw island,
Point Tiburon and other property. in
all about 5000 acres, valued at more
than 81. 0o0, 900.
DIR. NJ +. CooMBs, professor of physi-
ology in the Kentucky school of medi
cine, announces that he has discovered
what appears to be a cnrc for lupus.
1t is three parts of methyl viola in 1000
parts of water In the cases he has
treated he has had astonishing cures.
GILLIAN advices are that the insur-
gents, contrary to their promises.
threaten to BON bard Valparaiso. The
strengthened. 1t is thought, however,
THAT foreign powers will interfere to
prevent a bombardment.
The bill prohibiting the capture of
seals in Bchring sea by British sub
jects was introduced in parliament by
the government on the Goth. Mr.. Smith,
the government leader, said he was not
vet prepared to set limit to the pro-
hibitive period.
TIE earl of NClancarty died, on the
Goth, at the age of 81. Viscount Dunlo,
who was born in 1865, succeeds him in
the earldom.
THE vatican denies the report of pro-
posed mediation in the New Orleans
difficulty.
NUMEROUS deaths from lightning are
reported from various parts ofGermany.
j. & S. G. Fowler, New York sugar
importers, with large interests in Cuba,
have assigned to I'll. III. Pike without
preferences. The failure was a great
surprise to the trade