Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| II VOUCHER 1oI -C-s-tS III 1dNOT VI
Phoebe Couzins for salary from April
l to April Is as secretary of the board
of lady managers of the Worlds
fair exposition was received at the
treasury department on the 21st. II
was approved by Bertha H. NJ. Palmer
as president of the board OF lady mana
gers. This voucher will be paid and
will close Miss Couzins. connection with
the Worlds fair.
| THE treasury department has pre-
pared a statement which shows that
the customs receipts at the port of New
York for the first nineteen days of Sep
TENDER, 1891, have fallen off nearly So,
600, 900 as compared with the CORE
spending days of September, 1890. The
total receipts at New York for the pc
Rod of September, 1891, named aggre-
gated 1851, 1857.
| PREPARATIONS for the great ecumen-
ical conference of Methodism, which is
to open in Washington, October I, are
approaching completion. and all indica-
tions point to the greatest gathering of
religious brain-force ever seen in this or
any other country.
| ALLERTON went another mile in 2:0914
at Independence, Ia, on the 21st, thus
putting an end to all disputes as to the
stallion championship. The quarters
were rated at :324, 1:041a, 1874, 2:0914.
On the 21st Ex-Congressman w. G..
| Whitthorne of the Seventh Tennessee
district died at his home in Columbia,
Tenn, aged &c years. Mr.. Whitthorne
had been in bad health for several
years.
| FRED KAMMERER, a wife murderer,
| overcome with remorse and goaded on
by the certainty that he would be
hanged, took his own life in the county
| Jail at Cleveland, O., on the 21st.
| The crisis in the Italian cabinet is in
creasing in consequence of difference
of opinion in the ministry, on levylng
fresh taxes made necessary by the in
creased cost of the army and navy.
Miss ELIZA BUTLER, the youngest
daughter of United States Senator NJ.
C. Butler, of South Carolina, died of
nervous prostration at the Highlands,
in North Carolina, on the 21st, after a
| very short illness.
| WILLIAM ). HIGGINS, who caused the
death of Aunt Title Hunter, an aged
| negress, by setting her clothes on fire
! with a lighted match in Milwaukee
SALOON, sScpttIl was, Oh JLc S-1,
| held for murder.
THE banking fraternity of London
| has been startled by the announcement,
made public on the 21st, that the Lon
don e Westminster bank had been
robbed of a large parcel of bills re-
mitted from country banks, aggregat-
| ing over million dollars. No clew to
| the thieves.
THE trial of the Hopkins-Searles
| will case was begun at Salem, Mass,
| on the 22d. All of the contestants were
present personally or represented by
| distinguished counsel.
THE correspondent of the London
| Standard at st. Petersburg says that
| the Russian government has accepted
| 1914 as the price for the new loan of
| 20, 900, 600 rubles
A FALSE report that Carl Schurz had
been bequeathed $1,000, 600 on the
death of his mother, was promptly de-
| MED by Mr.. Schurz His mother died
| fifteen years ago.
THE ST. Paul (Minn.) schools have
been closed on account of the excessive
| heat.
THREE men committed suicide in the
Cleveland(O.) Jail within a week recent
ly.
THE bank of England shipped $780,
900 in gold to the United States on the
22d
Mr. NJ. NJ. EsTEE. of San Francisco,
who was the chairman of the Chicago
convention which nominated Gen. Har-
rison for the presidency, and subse-
quently one of the delegates on the
part of the United States to the Pan
American congress; who is a lawyer of
prominence, and in some respects the
foremost republican on the Pacific
coast. is to be given place in the cabi-
net.
AT the close of business, on the esd,
the treasury department had redeemed
SIG, 622, $50 four and-a-half per cent.
bonds, and continued 1870, $50 at 2
per cent.
THREE boys, ranging in age from II
to Is years, were killed at the Chicago
stock yards, on the Esd. while stealing
| a ride on a Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne &
/ Chicago train. They boarded car
loaded with lumber at Valparaiso, Ind,
and while it was being switched the
| lumber slid upon them where they
| were concealed between the piles and
crushed them to death.
A wELL-KNOwN Boston playwright
has presented to Capt. A. c. Arson of
| the Chicago national league baseball
club. plan to write play founded on
| baseball, and has suggested that An
| son play the role of hero. The latter
| seemed to fall in with the idea.
| Gov. CAMPBELL of Ohio states that
he has paid the Indebtedness for which
he was sued by p. w. Huntington,
banker, and in proof of this exhibits a
receipt. The governor claims that it
was a scheme to get snap judgment on
| him.
A DEATH from supposed cholera oc
Cured in London on the esd.
A COLD wave with hail has damaged
fruit in the vicinity of Paris.
The bank of England shipped $780,
600 in gold to the United States on the
Esd.
REV. DR.. S. BURCHARD was reported,
on the Esd, as being dangerously i'll at
his clearinghouse in Saratoga, n. Y,
and but slight hopes were entertained
of his recovery. His ailment is peri
tonitis in an aggravated form. DIR.
| Burchard will be remembered for his
utterance during the Blaine Cleveland
campaign, which is popularity supposed
to have lost to Mr. Blaine the prize of
the presidency.
Mrs. ZERELDA WALLACE, mother OF
Gen. Lew Wallace, who has attained a
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