Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

AT Horse creek, mining town ~
miles west of birmingham, Ala, DR. r.
j. Matthews, the leading physician of
the town. shot and killed his wife in
her bedroom, on the Sd, in the presence
of their five children. Liquor was the
cause of the murder.
BERNARD HE'S. a writer on BOhe-
milan newspaper in New York, left for
Pocahontas, w. Va, on the 4th, to in
vestigate the truth of the charges of
awful cruelty claimed to have been
practiced on number of hungarian
miners near that place. He took pair
of revolvers and a letter from the gen
eral authorities as vouchers for his per-
sonal safety in his perilous trip.
THE Fifty-first congress expired by
limitation. on the 4th. after an eXcit-
ing and most important short session.
In the senate Nice-Rresident Morton re-
ceived an unanimous and hearty vote
of thanks for his courteous and inn
partial rulings. Speaker Reed also
received a vote of thanks, adopted by
strict party vote.
SHORTLY after noon, on the 4th, the
boiler in the McCombs iron works, at
Albany, n. Y, exploded. Several per-
sons were injured.
THE supreme court of the United
States met on the I'd, after recess of
month, all the Justices being present.
S. NJ. ALLEN. who presided over the
first republican convention, in 1855, has
called meeting of the veteran repub-
licans of Massachusetts in fremont
temple, Boston, for April Is, to consider
state and national issues.
Df ha Il
tinguished Michigan lawyers, dropped
dead in the county court at Detroit, on
the 4th, Just after he had finished an
argument. He had been collector of
customs under President johnson, was
chairman of the general council of the
American bar association and professor
of law in the university of Michigan.
WITNESSES for the state in the Hen
messy trial in New Orleans have been
approached and threatened with the
vengeance of the malta. Sentiment is
so strong against the order, however,
that the witnesses presist in telling all
they know.
JACOB SCHEELE, the aged German who
is in Jail in Bridgeport, Conn, under
sentence to be hanged June Is for the
murder of Constable Drucker, of New
Canaan, is m al>ing 4 desperate effort to
cheat the gallows. For eleven days pre-
ceding the 4th he had refused to touch
a particle of food, and unless he can be
persuaded or forced to eat he can not
| live much longer.
JUDGE MARITIME in the New York
court of general sessions imposed a
fine of $3.50 on Jay Gould, on the 4th,
for not answering to summons to
serve as petit juror, it being his sec
ond offense.
In the case of the Minneapolis (Minn.)
census conspirators, Stevens was sem
| fenced, on the 4th, to pay fine of S2,-
900, and Baudet 81, 900. The other cen
sus employees indicted were discharged.
POLICEMAN SAMUEL A. SPOONER, of
| Boston, expects in the course of a year
| to come into possession of property on
Gray's Inn road, London, England,
valued at from s., 500, 900 to SO, 900, 600.
| Spooner recently returned from Lon
don, where he received assurance that
he would obtain the property, to which
his heirship has been proven.
! JUDGE KLINE at Toledo, Ia, sem
fenced Elmer Warren, on the 4th, to
life Imprisonment at Anamosa for the
murder OF conductor " Neal. Oh the tnl-
cago & Northwestern railroad.
OFFICERS at Fort Wayne, Ind, ar
rested Charles McNally and Thomas
fancy. on the 4th. and were searching
for Tom Brannan, all youths of about
Is, who belong to gang of panel-cut-
ting thieves, who burglarized half a
dozen business places in many
nights.
THE trichinosis cases near Ida Grove.
Ia, the result of eating bologna sau-
sage, are becoming more serious. One
more death has occurred, and four new
cases are reported. There We're, on the
Ash, seventeen persons whose recovery
was doubtful and four had died.
LEONARD JEROME, of New York, is
dead. His wife and daughters were
| present at his bedside when death oc-
Cured. He was conscious to the last.
He died at Brighton, England, on the
4th, having been taken there from Lon
don during his illness.
RY an oversight the bill pas sed dur
ing the closing hours of the last con-
gress authorizing the erection of new
mint building at Philadelphia, to cost
s., 000, 900, carried no appropriation for
the purpose, and operations will have
to be delayed until the next congress,
if it shall so decide, makes the neces-
sary appropriation.