Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-19
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| pie by the accidental discharge of the
| pistol and died in eight minutes.
! AT joint meeting of the Potomac,
| Columbia and Analaston boat clubs of
| Washington, on the 10th, an invitation
| tional association of amateur oarsmen
to hold its regatta on the Potomac river
! at Washington in August next.
THE steamer Buckeye, which was re-
ported to have been wrecked with her
crew and twenty passengers on board
during gale on Puget sound, arrived
safely at her wharf in Edmunds, Wash,
on the night of the 9th.
| DR.. EDWARD SCHAEFER, of Cincin-
natl, was, on the 10th, fatally crushed
under the wheels of d cable car which
he had just left.
| THE bill to apportion the state of
| Maine for members of congress was
passed in the lower house on the 10th.
! ALBERT DAVIS, of MassillOn, o.. while
! in a spasm, was soused in tub of cold
water and died in a few minutes.
THE municipal election in Oakland,
Cal, on the 9th, resulted in a complete
victory for the republicans.
| FIVE fishing smacks were wrecked off
| Hastings, England, on the 10th, with a
| loss of three lives.
NJ. SEETs, d lion tanner, was fatally
| torn by one of his beasts, at the Paris
| hippodrome. on the 9th.
THE family of George Potter con-
sisting of wife and five children. were
| their residence. in Boston, on the night
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dead. The others were expected to re-
| cover.
IN the trial of Banll-wrecl1er Sim
mons before the New York surrogate.
all the testimony was finished on the
10th The court denied the motion to
quash several counts in the indict-
ment, and Simmons counsel began
summing up.
Gov. HILL of New York examined
the briefs in the case of Frank Fish. the
Ontario county murderer, on the 10th,
and then committed the sentence to i'm
prisonment for life.
EX-GoV. HERBERT LADD was, on the
10th. nominated as the republican can
didate for governor of Rhode Island.
Mrs. PATRICK HAssETT, aged 81, was
found dead in her room at Davenport,
Ia, on the 10th, under peculiar circum-
stances. She arose in the morning feel
ing better than usual, converSed with
her family, and then retired to her
room, locked the door and bnelt at her
| bedside in the attitude of prayer. She
was discovered in that position dead.
AMONG the passengers who arrived in
New York, on the 10th, was a bearded
Turk, Ohan Solyman Gaidjilhan Sheik,
who, with his four wives, had come
from the little town of Mons, in Galicia,
Asia Minor, en- route to the Sandwich
islands. The man was fine specimen
of his race, and was elegantly dress ed
in the garb of his country.
On the evening of the 10th Secretary
Blaine received a cable dispatch from
Toxic. Japan, announcing the death of
United States Minister John C. Swift at
Z p. IN. of that date.
AT the executive mansion in Wash
| ington, on the 10th, it was rumored that
the resignation of Charles Emory Smith,
United States minister to Russia, had
been received.
Mrs. NORTON, the fashionable Chi
cago dressmaker, has proved her claim
that she is the mother of young Harry
Ferguson. the bell-bOy who lately fell
heir to a considerable sum of money.
Letters have been received by the de-
tective department of Chicago from
Canandaigua, n. Y, which verify the
wOman'S claims.
Gov. BUCHANAN of Tennessee, on
learning of the election of Gen. Pal
mer to the United States senate, on the
18th, ordered out the Washington bat
terry of Nashville to fire a salute in
honor of the event. One hundred and
one guns were fired for Palmer and the
democratic members, and one each for
Cockrell and Moore.
HENRY MCCRYsTIE, the keeper of a
| saloon and sporting resort at Ashta-
bula, O., was found lying in gutter
| near there, on the morning of the 18th,
| with bullet hole through his body and
his throat cut from ear to ear.
OVER 500 men employed by the Pitts
| burgh & Lake Erie Railroad Co. in its
| general offices and on the main line
| and Pemicky road have been Temporal
rily suspended. The cause of these
| dismissals is said by the officials to be
the coke strike, which has reduced the
| roads enormous traffic to small local
haulage.
Mr.. AND Mrs. LECoURT, of Boston,
| the victims of the severe poisoning for
which their daughter Pearl is now in
| custody, were, on the 18th, taken to
the Massachusetts general hospital,
and both are pronounced in danger
Gus condition.
| A CONFERENCE of the republican lead
ers of Rhode Island, on the 18th. which
was attended by Senator Aldrich, re-
suited in determining that he will DE a
candidate for reelection to the United
| States senate in 1892
THE master masons' association of
Philadelphia adopted resolutions, on
the 18th, against granting the increase
of pay asked for by the journeymen
masons. The masons declare they will
strike in April.
| THE Massachusetts Mutual Life In
| surance Co. foreclosed it's mortgage
on the Winona paper mills of Holyoke.
Mass, on the 18th, having previously
made a demand for the payment of a
$50, 600 note.
THE convention of the Iowa state
temperance alliance met in Des MONIES
on the 18th.
| IT is believed in Washington that
| Col. Watterson. of the Louisville (Ny. }
| Courier-J ournal, is covertly booming
| Col. VIM. +. Morrison for the presi-
dency.
| THE Burlington removals still go on,
and it is thought that before a halt is
called at least 5000 employees on the
eight lines compo sing the system will
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