Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-23
VS. AND NOTES,
a Summary of Important Evensa
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

aid OF kerosene. Both were held to
answer.
By the explosion of box of dyna-
mite cartridges on the tramp ship r. c.
Booth, lying at the Brooklyn wharf, on
the 18th, two men We're killed, one of
them being blown to atoms, and two
others We're wounded. A large hole
was blown IN the starboard side of the
steamship and she soon filed and went
to the bottom.
POLICEMAN JOHN d, RYERsON, of Jer-
sey City, n. j., became involved in a
row early on the morning of the 18th,
with James Brennan. Lizzie Brennan,
the latter's wife, interfered. brennan
was shot dead ard his wife fatally
taken to the hospital. Ryerson was
arrested.
THE national editorial convention
met in st. Paul, Mimi, on the 18th,
about 500 members of the profession
being in attendance.
THE petition committee of the French
senate recommended, on the 14th, that
the government favorably consider the
appeal of the Panama shareholders
that it cooperate with the Credit Fon-
cier to raise funds to complete the
work.
THOMAS HINCKLEY. of Seattle. was on
a spree at Tacoma, Wash, on the 18th,
and in company with a man named
Douglass entered the Elk saloon and
ordered drinks for the crowd. While
the barkeeper was serving the drinks
Hinckley pulled his revolver and began
shooting. VIM. Brannon, the proprie-
tor, and George Martin, city tax col
lector, We're instantly killed; several
other persons were wounded. Hinck-
ley and Douglass were lodged in jail
PROF. JOHN LLOYD was shot and
killed at Murfreesboro, Tenn, on the
18th, and Tom Morton, his nephew by
marriage, is suspected of the crime.
He has disappeared, and it is known
that there was trouble between the
men.
On the 18th Comptroller Lacey made
call for report on the condition OF
the national banks at the close OF bnsi-
ness on the 9th.
OVER 200 Knights Templar, represent
ing nearly every state in the union,
many of them accompanied by their
wives, sailed from Jersey City, n. j.,
on the 18th, in the City of Berlin. for a
tour of Europe to last from five weeks
to three months. The most important
places in England, Ireland, Scotland,
Wales, France and Belgium will be
visited by the entire party, while a good
many of them will also visit the other
continental cities.
THE Ohio democratic state conven-
ton, at its session in Cleveland. on the
18th, renominated Gov. Campbell ON the
first ballot. Determined and noisy OPP
position was manifested by the Hamil
ton county delegation. Lieut-Gov
Marquis was renominated by acclama
ton. A full state ticket was also placed
in nomination.
On the 18th Emperor William left
England on the imperial yacht Hohen-
zollern for Norway.
DURING a storm at Union City, Pa.
on the 18th, a thunderbolt struck the
residence of &. S. Kelly. Mr.. Kelly an6
his son Willis, aged 20, Were standing
on the veranda. The young man was
killed outright and the father SO badly
shocked that he will die
Mrs. Lucy PRATT, a young widow
one of the trained nurses at the San
Francisco hospital for children and
training school for misses, recently sold
forty-five square inches of her skin for
500. A strip of skin 9X5 inches wide
was cut from her body by surgeons
and grated onto the leg of VIM. A.
Daggett, a railway mail clerk, who had
been frightfully injured in a railroad
accident.
CAL BRICE has gone to Europe to try
and interest English capitalists in the
new enterprise to parallel the Lake
Shore system from Toledo, o., i'll as
near bee line as possible. Mr. Brice
while abroad, will close a contract fol
line of steamships to run from the
seaport reached by his system tC
Central and South American points.
THERE is now every prospect of I
splendid hop crop in England, and the
growers expect good prices in view o
the unfavora bic reports from the hol
crop in the United States.
DURING q terrific thunderstorm a
West Chester Pa. on the 18th, two
Italians, named Valerie and DanartC
'Conoto, working on the loop branch OF
the 'elecUTlc railway. were SbEuCh W
lightning and instantly killed.
Mrs ANN w. WooD, of Des Moines
Ia. was arrested by u United States of
ficer, on the 10th, charged with deposit
ing in the post office postal cards OF
which were written serious reflections
on the character of another. She wa!
placed under $500 bonds by the United
States commissioner.
The steamship Columbia of the Ham
burg-American line arrived at South
ampton, on the 10th, with the foreign
commission of the Columbian EXPOSE
ton on board, consisting of Maj.
Moses =. Handy, of Chicago: A. +. Bull
lock of Massachusetts; eX-CongreSs
man Butterworth, of Ohio; Judge w
Lindsey. of Kentucky, and +. S. Peck
of Chicago
IL an inproTnptu duel in Birming
ham ALA saloon, on the night of the
10th. between Eugene Byers. an ex
United States deputy marshal. ant
Wesley Garner. an eN-policeman, boil
men were shot Garner was fatally anC
Byers seriously wounded.
THE British steamer Conigsby, from
MarseilleS has been wrecked near the
Island of Cheduba. in the Bay of Ben
gal. All on board We're saved.
4 TERRIFIC storm struck West Su
pe.ior. Wis, on the 10th, lasting about
thirty minutes. during which four
sorry hotel was RACED to the grounc
and other buildings badly wrecked, sly
pcrsous killed by falling debris and ;
ellmicr injured
ARo.-T 100 members of the Georgia