Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
NEWS AND NOTES,
a Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


snow of the season reported in that
state.
ARTHUR D. MAYO, a promising young
musician, well known in New York,
Cincinnati, Springfield, Washington
and Boston, has been missing since the
7th. Young Mayo has been in failing
health and under greEt mental depres-
sion for some time past.
ENGINEER MEANEY Of the New York
& New England train which was wreck
ed at HawleyTille. Conn. September "a,
has surrendered himself. Three lives
were lost by the accident, and the cor
oner issued warrants for manslaughter
against Meaney and Conductor Conrad.
Both men fed. Meaney gave bail i'm
81, geo.
ALFRED RUSSELL and Thomas Law
ton are under arrest at Colorado
Springs Col, charged with the muir
der of Motoneer John Heming, on the
night of the 7th, and both have made
partial confessions of the deed. They
wanted money 10 go to a circus and
took this means of obtaining 1T.
The constitutIonality of the New
York deterioration law is again before
the supreme court of the United States
on motion to dismiss, affirm or ad-
vance the cases of Charles McElvaine
and Nicolo Trezzo, condemned murder
ers, who are awaiting death by electro
cution-
SAMUEL W MENNELEY, "A traveller
for Rochester On. Y shoe house, was
found dead at a Omaha (Neb.) hotel on
the morning OF the 18th. 1t is supposed
he turned ca the gas by mistake for
electricity and forgot to shut it off after
turning on the electric light.
The daughterssof the late Gen. Bou-
LANCER have retained counsel and will
contest four clauses of their fathers
will.
DIR. Il. CHRISTIANSEN, of 'Leaven-
worth, has, has invented an electric
lamp for miners. Itwas tried, on the
18th, in the Home,mine, in the presence
of Superinte ndent Strauss and a few
experienced miners. The lamp was
held for some tiInein two feet of gas to
prove that it would actually do away
with all danger. of. explosion from damp
EXPORTS of ibreadstuffs during Sep
TENDER past aggregated in'values $751;
422, O12, against S7,J99,34S in Septem-
Der, 1890. For the nine months of this
year. ending Septem Der 80, breadstuffs
exports We're valued at S145. O25. 129,
against S110. 'd93,31 for the nine months
ending Septe1n Der 80, 1890.
SEVERAL dispatches have been re-
ceived at the navy department recently
from Admiral Brown at Valparaiso,
Chill. All indicate that matters are
gradually quieting down, and that the
iunta is strengthening it's hold upon it's
followers
THE Laurel Hill Presbyterian church
at Uniontoyvn, Pa, celebrated, on the
18th, the one hundredth anniversary of
the establishing of iPresbyterianism
west of the Allegheny mountains.
About 400 ministers and members of
the church We've present and the exer-
cises were very interesting.
COTTON exports from the United
States during September last aggre-
gated 227, 1876 bales, valued at $40. S57, 345,
against 40, 100 bales valued at S21, O94,-
$40 in September, 1890.
THE Presbyterian,synod of Minnesota
adopted resolutions protesting against
the opening of the Worlds fair on Sun
day.
FIRE, on the 18th, destroyed the Mer-
chants oil works, in West Cleveland,
o., entailing loss of $40, 600, on which
there was an insurance, of Sf2, 500. The
Acme grease works were also damaged
to the extent of $4,000; insurance, S1O,-
900.
THE Pennsylvania senate met on the
the 18th and listened to a message from
Da4 ~, 70 l,o
financial methods of the state as dis
closed in the Bardsley investigation.
THE burning of dried vegetation on
the surface of Lake YeOman, Indiana,
on the 18th, made the body of water APP
pear a veritable sea of fire.
HENRY SANDFoRD, OF Connecticut,
was elected president of the Adams
Express Co., to succeed John Hoey,
ousted for malfeasance-
The Boston Record says that the
Searles will case has undoubtedly been
Timothy Hopkins
wanted Sl2, 600, 900 but will get between
S., 900, 900 and $4,000. 600.
"A LIGHT earthquake shock was felt at
San Francisco and surrounding towns
about 4:30 on the morning of the 18th.
No damage is reported.
REV. ID. PHILLIPS BROOKS was con-
firmed as bishop of the diocese of Mas
on the 14th.
Col. CHARLES G. MCCAULEY, who was
recently placed on the retired list
while holding the office of colonel COM
mandant of the United States marine
corps, died at Rosemont, Pa, on the
18th. Col. McCauley entered the SER
T
tanned the highest rank in the corps in
1876. He had an excellent war record
The most terrific storm within recent
visited England on the l4th.
The damage in many parts of the eoun-
try was great. Many old trees in Lon
don parks were blown down, and in
the cities it was dangerous to walk on
of the overturning of chimneys
and the falling of signs and blinds.
a DISTRESSING report was given cur
reneS, on the 18th, that the Anchor
line steamer City of Rome had been
lost off ST. Shotts, Newfoundland
Diligent inquiry on the part of the
agents developed tha& a sailor claiming
TO be the only survivor of the crew of a
cattle ship Of that name, had
arrived at Trepassy. q. F., and still
further inGu iry tended 40 stamp the en-
tire story as a fake on the part of the
sailor
The Russian government has closed
the university of Kieff, after having
placed 500 of the students of the insti-
tuition under arrest,
THE Sabbatarian society of Pitts
burgh, Pa, have declared war upon
Sunday newspapers, and have an