Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-23
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Seminary of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

as quite seriously Ill from the grip In
Chicago.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN of Philadelphia
has issued an order that in future Cath
olics will not be permitted to bury their
dead on Sundays.
A STRONG flow of natural gas has
been struck at Pleasanton, Cal, by
some workmen who We're boring well
in Odd Fellows cemetery. The gas was
struck at depth of 100 feet.
THE wine-makers of the west side of
Santa Clara valley, Cal, have formed
an association to secure better prices
for their products.
JUDGE GARRET S. VAN WAGGoNER,
of st. Louis, succumbed to an attack
of the grip on the 18th. He was a
native of Patterson, n. j., but settled
in st. Louis, in 1858. He will be re-
membered as the presiding judge in the
famous Maxwell murder trial, and his
ability as jurist is best evidenced
from the fact that none of his rulings
in the case We're set aside by the higher
courts
BRIBERY is the charge upon which five
of Colorado's best-known citizens have
been indicted by the grand jury of
Arapahoe county They are: Otto
Mears, president of the Rio Grande
Southern Railway Co.; Jerry Frank,
Fred Walsen, ex-senator A. NJ. Steven
son and Edwin Mitchell.
A FARMER named Holcomb, living
near Lacenter, Wash, placed some giant
powder in a stove, which exploded,
demolishing the house and setting fire
to the ruins. Two daughters of Hol-
comb, aged II and 16 respectively, We're
instantly killed, and Holcomb and his
wife were seriously, if not fatally, in
jured.
MIS-. EMMA LEETE, of Guilford, Conn.,,
aged 35 years, was killed, on the 14th,
by vicious horse. She was holding
the animal by the bride, when he sud
denly reared and came down on Mrs.
Leete with his fore feet, breaking her
back in two places.
DIR. GEO. A. BRAN was arrested at Elk
ton, Md, on the 18th, upon the charge
of being the burglar who murdered
Mrs. Granville Richards and seriously
wounded her husband. DIR. Bran is "a
years old and has wealthy and respect
able relatives.
Mrs. SIDNEY HENDRICKS, of Chicago,
has fallen heir to 3, 900. 900, her share of
the S6,0O0,OOO estate left by Isaac Phil
lips. of EaStOn. Mass. who died in 1884,
after having amassed a fortune in the
slave trade. One hitch the heirs encoun-
tered was proof of the birth of Phillips
They at last learned that the certificate
had been buried with the family Bible
in the coffin with Phillips niece, June 4,
1866. The grave was opened few days
ago and the record found.
THE twenty-siXth anniversary of the
death of Abraham Lincoln april ~
was commemorated by the veteran re-
publicans of Boston by a reunion in
fremont temple. The day was also the
thirty-seventh anniversary of the forma-
ton of the republican party.
THE efforts to re-establi the pro-
vincial bank at Buenos Ayres, with
1000, 600 capital, have not succeeded.
This, together with the dissensions in
the Union Civic, makes the political and
financial outlook of the Argentine re-
public gloomy.
SIR CHARLES Upper arrived in Liv-
erpool, on the 18th, from New York.
He declined to be interviewed on the
result Oh his mission 10 y mcrlcd, say
ing Secretary Blaine's views must be
reserved for presentation in the high
est quarters.
THE United States coast defense YES
sci Monterey, just nearing completion
at the Union iron works, San Francisco,
will be launched, on the 2Sth, in the
presence of President Harrison.
The widow of the late United States
Minister Swift was expected to leave
Japan for home on the steamer sailing
from Yokohama on the 18th.
THE Manipuris are fortifying their
position at Thobol. The delay in for
warding British troops Is regarded in
Calcutta as a serious error.
MARY FRANCES HALFoRD, wife of E.
W. Halford, private secretary to Presi-
dent Harrison, died on the 18th, in
Washington.
GRACE HAWTHORNE, the American
actress, has been adjudged a bankrupt
in London.
PROF. KoCH's lymph has been intro
duced in Shanghai.
DURING March French imports in
creased ~, 924, 900 francs and exports in
creased IA. 497 ZOO francs, as compared
with March 1890.
FIVE persons lost their lives during
the burning of a house opposite the
Knightsbridge Uondon) barracks on
the 18th.
CHOLERA is raging in Siam, there be-
ing an average of forty deaths daily.
WIN. MARsDEN, of Chatfield, Mimi,
dug up some wild parsnips, on the 18th.
which he mistook for artichokes. His
mother and her two sisters, Beatrice
and Eta Johnson, ate them. An hour
afterward Mrs. Marsden died in con-
vulsions, and the life of Eta Johnson is
despaired of.
THE wife of ex-Congressman Chan
dler, of Massachusetts,, died at st. Au-
gustine, Fla, on the 18th.
THE London Times sympathizes with
the American determination not to al
low vile social diseases like the malta
to take root, but reminds us that we
displayed little Indignation when socie-
ties similar to the malta We're en-
ployed by the Irish-American eXtrem-
lists.
III. r. JACOBS, the owner of fifteen
American theaterS, states that an En-
glish syndicate has been formed to buy
him out. He asks $500, 900, and they Oh
fer half that amount. Mr.. Jacobs is
trying to obtain an interest in the Bar
mum IL Bailey show.
THE total abolition of'export duties
in Japan is being agitated.
TEN fishing, smaclls We're lost in a re-
cent gale off the coast of Japan and
sixty lives lost.
FUNERAL. services over the remains of