Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-30
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

which is favored by the condition of
the weather.
WILLIAM MUsCoE, alias William Jor-
dan, who murdered Policeman George
L. Seal in Charlottesville, Va, was
hanged in that city on the 21st. He
made full confession of the crime in
his cell few minutes before his execu-
ton.
COMMANDER G. C. REITER has been
ordered to the command of the United
States steamship Thetis, relieving Com
mander c. FL. Stockton, who is granted
two months leave. Commander Reiter
was in command of the United States
steamship Ranger at the time the kill
ing of Gen. Barrundia occurred.
IN Wayne county, n. c., on the 21st,
Charles Jordan, aged 16 years, Drained
his brother Dawson, aged %, with a
Ratchet during a quarrel. Dawson
died within an hour. After praying
with his distracted mother and making
his peace with his dying brother,
| Charles fled.
AT Colorado Springs, Col, on the 18th.
an operation was performed upon Mrs.
Myra Higbee, who was born blind
which enabled her to see perfectly.
THE Third battalion of Greuadier
guards, stationed at Chelsea barracks,
London, are in a state of insubordina-
ton, an offense for which the Second
battalion were, about a year ago. sent
to Bermuda.
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy named Ferdinand
Meyers committed suicide at his home
in Philadelphia. on the 21st, by shoot
ing himself through the heart, because
his mother would not buy him a new
suit of clothes.
THE dead body of Miss Maggie Nor
rissey, an adopted daughter, was found
on the lawn of the residence of Mr.. R.
Prece, abOut four miles from Baltimore
Md, on the 21st. A bullet wound in
her breast had caused her death, but
whether it was a case of murder or sui
eide has not been determined.
ABOUT 200 of the $50 street car en-
ployes of Detroit. Mich. went on strike
on the 21st, because of the discharge of
several conductors and drivers who
were organizing a strike to come off
later. Several of the lines were COM
pletely tied up.
THE meeting of the National academy
of sciences began at noon, on the 21St,
in the hall of the National museum, in
Washington. Prof. o. c. Marsh, of
Yale university, the president of the
academy, presided.
FRANK V. EMERSON, with his wife
and child, was driving from Lebanon.
n. H., to his home at East Lebanon,
on the 22d, when his horse appeared to
have fit and plunged over a bank into
the Mascoma river. Mr.. Emerson sue
ceeded in getting out and saving the
child. but Mrs. Emerson was drowned.
The channel of Swift river having
been changed at Byron, Me-, gold has
| been discovered in the old bed. Miners
are fiocking there in great numbers.
A GARDENER named Damn, living in
| the village of Albrechtshain, Saxony,
| murdered his wife and four children
| with a Ratchet, on the 22d, and then
| hanged himself. He is supposed to
have been insane over financial trou-
| bles.
| FREEMAN REYNOLDS, a waiter in the
| Ryan hotel, at st. Paul, Mimi, while
| washing an outside window on the
| third floor, on the 22d, fell to the stone
| pavement. He was seriously injured,
! and may die.
Mrs. MARY SULLIVAN, aged 65, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, slashed her sleeping
| husband with a carving knife, at $3.50
o'clock on the morning of the 22d, in
| fiicting several severe wounds. After
| she had been disarmed she went up
stairs and cut her own throat with a
razor. She will die.
A COURT-MARTIAL has been ordered by
| the secretary of the navy to meet in
| New York to try Lieut.-Com. George A.
| Bicllnell, charged with negligence in
| allowing the United States steamer
Galena and the tug Nina to be stranded
/ on the coast of Massachusetts, near
Martha's Vineyard.
| THE London Standard says it is au-
| thOrized to deny that Portugal is con-
Guiding a treaty with the Beers or con-
niving at the proposed founding of a
republic in Mashonaland or Manicaland.
| For the third time within six months
the post office at Greenville, Del, was
robbed, on the 22d, and the thief
caught in the act. Two men are now
serving terms for robbing the same
| office.
Gov. MERRIAM of Minnesota issued
a requisition on the governor of New
| York, on the 22d, for the return of Carl
| Benson, now under arrest at Buffalo,
charged with embezzling 81, 500 from
| the Scandal (Minn.) bank in June last
| A STATEMENT prepared at the treas
ury department shows that the receipts
from customs revenue at the port of
| New York for the first twenty days in
April, 1891, were 81, I'll ,O30, as against
IS, $40, CO., for the corresponding period
of last year, making the falling off
nearly 50 per cent. The receipts from
customs at New York are about two
thirds of the total receipts from GUS
toms of the United States.
In the British house of commons, on
the Esd. Chancellor of the EXchequer
Goschen submitted the budget. He said
it showed an excess of Ell, $50, 600 in the
surplus over that which he had sug-
gested in 1890 would be shown. There
was no certainty. however, that the
ratio of increase would be maintained
in coming years. The Irish relief meas
ure had already increased the expendi
lures e2OO, 600.
THE insurgents of Chilli have had an
other engagement with the government
forces, in which the latter were de
feated. The battle was fought a,
Iquique, April Q, but no particulars
are given. The insurgent war vessels
are concentrating about Valparaiso
and bombardment of that city is
threatened.
THE outdoor May-day demonstra
tions of the workmen of Brussels have
been authorized by the burgomaster