Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-11-05
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Poet" is a helpless paralytic, it is said.
He has wasted to a mere shadow. and
his body is bent with age and disease.
The doctors say he may live for long
time, but is likely to be taken away at
any time, as the paralysis from which
he suffers is slowly approaching the
| heart
THE United States court of claims
met in Washington, on the Goth, for the
| october term, after an adjournment
| taken on June s. Chief Justice Rich
ardson and Justices Mott and Weldon
were on the bench. Justice Davis had
not yet arrived from Europe.
WILLIAM L. MUNsoN. travelling pas
senger agent of the Kentucky Central
branch of the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, is short in his accounts to the
Fulton Building association of Cincin-
| natl about $4,000. The exposure was
| made by his own father, George Mum
son, general passenger agent of the
road. When he discovered his sons
| misdoings Mr.. Munson and another son,
| to save the family name, decided to ex-
pose w. L.
THE United States grand jury at
| Pittsburgh, Pa, returned a true bill.
| on the 27th, against w. H. Dill, the
| alleged defaulting president of the
ClearfeA Pa.) national bank
RALPH CUNNINGHAM, son of a prom
inent Fostoria CO., business man, tried
to kill himself, on the Goth, by crawling
in the red-hot furnace of the spoke fac
| tory of which his father is part owner
The engineer pulled him out, but not
| until his body and head had been al
most roasted. He will die. Poor health
was the cause of the act.
The sultan is fastening preparations
for the effective fortifcation of the
Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
MIR. FREDERICK SMITH, son of the
late first lord of the treasury, was
elected from the Strand, on the 9th,
to his fathers seat in the British par
Lament, by a vote of 1852 to 1,946 for
Gutteridge, the liberal candidate
THOMAS DERoFLINGER, defaulting
treasurer of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) sch Dol
board, was arrested in Omaha, Neb.,
on the 9th. as he was stepping from a
Rock Island train. He at first gave his
name as Henry w. Jones, but after
wards acknowledged his identity. His
shortage is SIS. 900.
NE ShItCo obdtCS jury dU
Boston has indicted the officers of the
Louisiana Lottery Co. for illegal use of
the mails.
Col. HEWITT, the last surviving off
Ger who took part in the battle of
Waterloo, died in London on the 27th
THE twenty-ffth annual convention
of the American Institute of Architec-
ture met in Boston on the 2Sth "A
paper on Architecture and the United
States Government" by J. FL. Windrim,
ex-supervising architect of the treasury
department, was read. This was fol
lowed by:a paper by Frederick Bau-
mann, of Chicago, read by the secre-
tary, on THE Sanitary Protection of
Residences"
EIGHT workmen were suffocated by
gas in the, cellar of new building at
Macl1eysch, near Ostran, Moravia, ,on.
the 2Sth.
IT was reported in.Rome, on the 2Sth,
that the pope would soon take decisive.
action on the question of leaving Rome
and the alternative, question of making
Il modus vivendi with Italy. Indica-
tions pointed to the latter course, the
pope's dislike for Italy having received
a strong counter-irritant in the action
taken by France against Monsigneur
Gonthe-Soulard, the bishop of AK.
ALMOST the last official work of Lord
Mayor Saverysof London was laying,
on the 2sth, the corner stone of a
French Protestant church. AS the lord
mayor is descended from a Huguenot,
the act was spoken of as especially be-
fitting him.
HIoGO, on the island of Hondo, has /,
been almost entirely destroyed by
earthquake. At;Oskalka, a city of $780,
900 inhabitants, 300 persons are known
to have been killed and thousands of
buildings destroyed.
The new United States cruiser De-
troit, 2. 900 tons displacement, was sue
cessfully launched, in the presence of
an immense crowd, at Baltimore, Md,
on the 2Sth.
MAYOR HORN. of 'Lorgan, Prussian
has been sentenced to six
months imprisonment for embezzle-
ment.
The car has directed that a full
statement be submitted to him of all
the arrears of taxation due by the fam
ine-stricken provinces. It is believed
that the car intends to remit all the
arrears due by such provinces, and also
grant them diminution of taxation
for several years.
PATRICK the McCarthyite
candida tie, has been elected to the seat
in the house of commons for North
Kilkenny made vacant by the recent
death of Sir John Pope Hennessy. Mr..
McDermott, who accepted the nomina
ton after it had been declined by Mr.
.Davitt, was elected without -oppOSi-
tion.
MosT of the business portion OF the
town of Franklin. the county seat of
Williamson county, Tenn, was de-
,stroyed by fire on the Goth Loss, $780,
zoe; insurance. unknown.
4 DISPATCH received in Paris. on the
goth, announced the total wreck of the
steamer Isthanus of Panama near
Colon. Passengers, officers and crew
weEe all saved.
THE senate of Cambridge England
university has, By vote of 525 to ts5, /
rejected the proposition to dispense
with the study of Greek
A STATUE of Gen. VIM. Carter Wick ]
ham, a general is the confederate |
army, Was unveiled ia Richmond, Va, |
on the goth.
A sTRoNs feeling IL favor of indie |
pendenee is growing in abe province of
Quebec, and it is said that at least two |
There was a time when such sentiments ]
as are being openly expressed at pres |
ent would have been met with the cry |