Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| fC"OCl was ~. OOuy pieces ol SdIuC III
So. 679, 256. Of this. denominations were
as follows: Gold, los, $50 pieces, valued
at 81, 742, 800; silver, ASS, 756 pieces,
600 pieces, value 500, 700.
| AT the meeting of the citizens exec
utive committee having in charge the
| preparations for the encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic in
| Washington in 1892 the reports submit
ted showed that ample arrangements
will be made for the comfort of the
old soldiers who attend. The guaran-
tee fund is being rapidly subscribed.
SOME one set fire to the Grand hotel
at Leadville, Col, on the 1st, and the
structure, with all its contents, was
| totally destroyed. A man named Mat
| thews is missing, and was probably
burned to death, as he was sick in bed
| when the flames broke out. The loss
is $4,000.
EDWARD M. FIELD, not satisfied with
| absorbing and squandering every dol
| lar he could get hold of in the line of
business, swept his fathers Cyrus w.
| Field) strong box clean of it's valuable
| contents. At last accounts the elder
Field was not expected to survive many
| hours.
THE McCarthyites have decided to
| take decisive steps to secure the Paris
| fund. Mr.. Mccarthy and Timothy
Healy have begun action against Mr..
| Monroe, the banker, who holds the
funds, to decide the ownership thereof
| and compel the restoration of the
| money to it's rightful owners
| a RI wealthy natrGlanm
dealer of Pittsburgh. Pa. aged about
| 80, was thrown from his horse, on the
| 1st. and instantly killed.
EDWARD PINTER, the American crook
who swindled people by pretending to
| turn metal into gold, was rearrested
| in London, on the I'd, on a charge of
selling bonds stolen from the Barings
| in 1888. He will be held for extradi-
| ton.
JNo. c. Emo, cx-president of the
| Fifth national bank of New York, who
| has been fugitive from justice in
Canada for seven years, has arranged
| his affairs and will be able to return to
New York in a short time.
GEORGE J. REFS, his wife and three
children, aged 90. IL and s. lost their
| lives by the burning of their home in
| Detroit, Mich, at o'clock on the morn
ing of the I'd.
THE treasurer of Allen county, O.,
| has filed suit against United States Sem
| ator-elect Calvin S. Brice for S57,S50
delinquent taxes and penalties.
THE budget committee of the German
reichstag have voted 900,0 marks for
| a German exhibit at the Worlds fair at
| Chicago.
FIVE persons were killed by an ex-
plosion in dynamite factory at Ha-
| verstraw. n. Y, on the I'd.
On the evening of the I'd, two boys
of West Superior, Wis, named August
| Shanson and Armour Glover, dug n
| cave in pile of sawdust. The crust
| caved in on them and crushed them
both to death.
THE midnight south-bound express
| train on the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia railroad was held up and
robbed by two masked men, three
miles east of Rome. Ga, on the night
! of the Cd. 1t is believed the robbers
| got less than $1,000. Officers with
bloodhounds were put on the trail of
the robbers, supposed to be railroad
men, as they were in possession of
lanterns and keys belonging to the
company.
THE October statement of the Next
can Central Railroad Co. shows earn
| ings of ST93, S44; increase, S219, 46l; net
earnings, S345, 97S; increase, $50. "A.
| Since January 1, gross, 6.O46, S47; in
| crease, SS4, 229. Net, So, 14S, 345; in
| crease, S307, 145.
| JOHN D. EAGLE, an indianapolis
| Qnd.) mail carrier. attempted to get on
| an electric car, on the Sd, but missed
his footing and fell to the track. The
trailer. packed full of people, passed
| over him, causing instant death.
THE car has appointed a new metro
| politan of the Greek church, and has
decreed vigorous action against the
| Stundists, who, he says, "are injuring
more and more the faith of our ia
| TIERS"
The condition of Dom Pedro had so
much improved, on the Sd, that his
ply sicians believed him to be out of
danger.
| HARDY BowMAsTER, of Duquesne.
Pa, was shot dead, on the night of the
ed, while trying to break into the resi-
dence of James Taylor.
| WILLIS HARRYHAY, eighteenth earl
of Errol died on the Sd. He was born
in 1928, and succeeded to the earldom
in 1916 He sat in the house of lords as
| Lord Kilmarnock.
| PLAINFIELD, n. J., was visited on the
night of the Sd by one of the most dis
| astrous CONGREGATIONS in its history,
| and the total loss will foot up between
$3.50, 900 and 5000. 900. The Boiee estate
loss is fully 500. 1000, covered one-half
by insurance.
THE county commissioners of Stat
ford county, Kas-, who have been in
vestigating the books of County Treas.
urer Landis, place his shortage at S15,-
12O.75, and will bring criminal action
against him, and civil action against
his bondsmen. Lands claims that the
shortage is due to burglary of the
county treasurer's Office, alleged to
have occurred recently, but which was
kept secret at the time.
INTENSE excitement prevails at Ma
hanoy, City, Pa. owing to the finding
| of the dead and half-clothed body of
| Mrs. Agnes Lawrence on the mountain
near that city, on the Sd. The ground
in the locality showed evidences of foul
play. The limbs were cut and bruised,
and her clothing was covered with
| frozen blood that flowed from her
wounds.
Hon. WILEY P. HARRIS, one of the
most distinguished citizens of Missis-
| sippi. died, on the night of the Sd. aged
40. He was a member of congress in