Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

oh tIlG lSGu. he was re-
Gently bitten by spider. and an oper-
atien made necessary on that account
weakened him and was in some sense
the cause of his death.
The death of Mrs. Belle Edwards of
consumption in Goshen, Ind, on the
10th, completes q list of fatalities
which have resulted in six funerals
from the same house within the past
eighteen months, her father. mother,
husband, child, cousin and self having
died within that time.
Miss ANNA III. HoPPsaAN n, who has since
April been a seamstress in Chicago, has
left that city for her home in Burling-
ton, Ia, to take possession of a neat
little fortune of $4,000 which was
willed to her by her grandfather, Ignatz
Hoppman, who died recently in Prussia.
DR. TALMAGE's tabernacle in Brook
lyn was entered through a window by
some unknown person, who succeeded
in stealing only the sections overcoat,
overlooking some silverware which was
in the church.
Mrs. EVA 6. WHITE, a charming
widow of Detroit, Mich, has sued A. E.
Cramton, wealthy bachelor of Vassar,
promise of marriage.
THE Dublin Freeman's Journal says
that a strong feeling in favor of a de-
termined effort in the direction of re-
cancellation exists throughout Ireland
The journal adds that if the measure
OF home rule granted by the liberals is
inadequate, it will again become neces-
'sary to coerce them into submission,
and this could only be done by a united
party.
A DANGEROUS counterfeit has been
discovered in the st. Louis sub-treasury.
1t is a bogus 50 silver certificate, and
treasury officials as well as bank cash
iers pronounce it one of the most skill
fnl 'counterfeits ever known in this
country.
The Alabama state fair opened at
birmingham on the Goth. Gov. Jones
made the opening speech. Large
crowds were in attendance. The ex-
hibit is very creditable.
DoN ALCIDEs MoNTERo, the Uruguay
an minister of finance, who recently
rendered his resignation, has reconsid.
cred his determination and will remain
in the cabinet.
ONE of the mills of the Columb
Powder Manufacturing Co., located
about miles from Farmingdale, n. J.,
blew up with terrific force on the Goth.
G. L. Van Note and Geo. Wooley, who
We're in the mill at the time, We're in
stantly killed.
JOHN REDMOND has resigned as mem
Der of parliament for Wexford, Ireland,
and will contest the seat for Cork made
vacant bv Mr. parnel1'S death
GEN. Reyes, governor of the state of
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has ordered
likeness of George Washington to be
removed from the front of a beer sa-
loon owned by Americans in Monterey,
as he believed that Washington was too
great and good to have his portrait used
as sign for beer saloon. The pro-
prietors of the saloon claim damages,
and say that Secretary Blaine has been
appealed to.
PROF. ISAAC c. RUSSELL, who was
sent by the United States government
and the National Geographical society
to explore the region about Mount ST.
Elias. arrived at Vancouver, b. c., on
the Goth, and left at once for the east
via Seattle, Wash. One of the party
Thomas White. was drowned.
THE Burlington passenger train, No.
S. which left Chicago at o'clock on the
evening of the goth, went into the ditch
at Monmouth. Ia. The engineer and
five passengers are said to have been
killed The train either ran through
a switch or jumped the track
JOHN RUSH, a young white man, was
taken from the Jail at Columbia, La,
by mob, on the night of the 18th, and
lynched for having murdered Hagar
Sterling, an old colored woman, who
resisted his forcible entry of her home
while drunk.
On the goth the new revenue cutter
which was built in Baltimore
at cost of $3.50, 900, arrived at Calves
ton, Tex, and was received with a ma
tional salute of twenty-one guns by the
Galveston light artillery. 1t will be
placed in service at once and take the
place of the revenue cutter Dix, the lat
ter going to Mobile.
Gov. STEELE of Oklahoma, admitted
to reporter. on the 21st. that his resig
nation had been rendered to the pres
ident, but declared in emphatic terms
that he had not been te ndered the Office
of pension commissioner.
BEATRICE COLLINS, aged % years, the
New York beauty who was
sentence of two years for
passing counterfeit money, and John
Bush, alias John Miller, aged IS years,
a wellknown burglar, escaped from Jail
at Reading, Pa, on the Goth, presuma-
bly, with the aid of some one connected
with the jail
THE sehooners Percy and City Point,
which sailed from Gloucester, Mass,
on cod-fshing voyages, August 25, have
not been heard from since, and it is
thought they have been lost with all on
board. The Percy carried crew of
twelve, and the City Point one of four
teen men.
THE walls CT Wo Chang, China, have
been covered with posters announcing
that all missionaries will shortly be put
out of the way. The placards are the
work of the secret society known as
the Kolahut.
THE tenth annual convention of the
American Street Railway association
was opened at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
21st
ABOUT fifty Albanians attacked a
party of Montenegrins near Slionitza
on the 21st, and killed six of their num-
Der.
THE st. Petersburg Bourse Gazette
says the report of the prohibition of
the export of wheat from Russia is I'M
founded, but that oats and potatoes
may be prohibited from expectation
soon.
The Fifty-second congress has not
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