Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE body of the missing Prof Ban
croft was found. on the Esd, in Dyer's
pond, Cranston, r. l. The remarkable
disappearance of the professor occurred
on Monday, December s, 1890.
Tom TRACY, who stole Dick Cramer'S
team at Albion, Ia, last fall, was ar
rested at Wymore, Neb., and on being
delivered to Sheriff Forest, who went
after him, on the 23d, swallowed a large
dose of pulverized glass in an attempt
to commit suicide. The effort was I'M
successful.
PRESIDENT BARILLAs of Guatemala,
who has S2O.OOO,O 600 deposited in the
Bank of England, has raised So 500, 900
on his crops and estates, and is pre-
pared for fight in case of a popular
outbreak against his rule.
ABOUT o'clock on the night of the
Esd a man broke in window of VIM.
Schmalz's pawn shop in San Francisco
and seized a tray containing forty-fve
diamonds valued at about $500.
Emptying the diamonds into a sack he
jumped on horse, which was held by
two confederates, and disappeared.
JAMES DoUGHERTY, the insane lover
of Mary Anderson, was, on the oath,
sentenced to state prison for life for
the murder of DIR. Lloyd, physician at
the Flatbush (N. " insane asylum.
A TRACK half mile wide, in Gates
County, n. c., was devastated by a
tornado, on the 21st. Two children are
known to have been killed, and many
other casualties are reported.
THE brazilian assembly, on the cath,
amid great enthusiasm, adopted the
constitution of the new republic.
JAMES HALL, the inventor of the tur-
bine wheel, was killed by an Erie train
at Railway, n. j., on the Gath.
ALL railroad tracks near Sissons,
Cal, are blocked with snow, which in
some places is eight feet deep.
FIRE destroyed the post office, town
hall and four business houses at Beaver
Crossing, Neb. on the gath. All mail
and post-office records were burned;
loss about $50
KING HUMBERT of Italy has knighted
Inspector Byrnes of New York City in
recognition of his services in the de-
lection of many Italian fugitives from
justice.
On the 25th Meredith Stanley. the
bridge jumper, leaped from the New
port (Ky.) bridge into the surging Ohio,
a distance of sixty-ive feet. 1t was his
intention to leap in a similar manner
from all the four bridges spanning the
Ohio river at Cincinnati, but he was
promptly arrested. Later in the day
he was released.
, On the 25th Dennis McCluskey, of
Gloucester, n. j., was sentenced to five
years in the state prison and to pay $500
fine for repeated attempts to wreck pas
senger trains on the Camden, Gloucester
& Mt. Ephraim road.
THE governor of Nossi-Be, an island
and French colony off the northwest
cost of Madagascar. as the result of a
recent revolt on the part of the natives.
caused the execution of over 100 rebels,
and murdered their wives and children.
SIR CHARLES dixie has been asked to
stand for the British parliament as the
liberal candidate of the Forest of Dean
division of Worcestershire. and has as
scented, provided assurance is given that
a majority of the liberal electors will
support the nomination.
1T is said that Mrs. Jameson claims to
throwing an entirely new light on the
quarrel between her husband and STAN
ley.
On the 25th the mixing and wash
house of the Etna Powder Co.'S mill at
Miller, Ind, exploded. The explosion
was heard at Chesterton, eleven miles
away. No one was killed.