Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

as supreme treasurer OF the Catholic
Knights of America about year ago,
was arrested. on the 10th, in Philadel.
phia, and taken back to Chattanooga
| without delay.
DR. SAMUEL LEWIS BARR, of South
Dakota, died suddenly in Washington
| on the 10th Deceased was about SO
years of age, a mason of high degree
and prominent member of the G. A. r.
THE steamers of the French line to
New York will resume sailing to and
from Havre on the 22d. Their port OF
| departure and arrival during the chol-
| era epidemic has been Cherbourg.
THE Knights of Columbus of Connec-
| ticut celebrated the quadrennial ami.
versary of the discovery of Anne RIGA at
| New Haven on the 18th.
XAVIER MARINER, French traveller
and literatus, died in Paris on the 10th.
He was born in Pantarlier, June "A,
1909.
Mrs. HARRISON continues to grow
weaker as disease exhausts her vitality.
JAY-EYE-SEE, driven by Mayor Case
| at Racine, on the 18th, in an attempt
| to beat 2:1o. made the mile in 2:O9. the
| fastest ever trotted or paced on a Wis
| consin track.
FROM the peculiar manner in which
McEwan mutilated the body of the un-
known woman whom he murdered at
West Lodge, near Glasgow, on the nth.
| the belief is entertained that he is none
| other than Jack the Ripper" whose
| mysterious and horrible murders in
Whitechapel. London, have so long baf-
| fed the police.
Louis kOssUTH, the Hungarian pa
triot, who has been living in Italy for
| some years, is reported to be in an
alarming state of debility. He is 80
years of age.
DANIEL O'BRIEN, of Tilden, Wis. 60
years old and partly demented, shot
and killed his wife, on the 18th, and
then tried to burn the house, but was
an alarm, when, taking his gun, the
uxorcide escaped to the woods.
NJ. J. OBRIEN, defaulting supreme
treasurer of the Catholic Knights of
America. appeared in the circuit court
at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the 18th,
and was permitted to give bond for
$50, 0O0.
SIX miners of Port Royal, Pa, died,
after most excruciating agony, as re-
suit OF drinking beer from keg in
which. upon examinati on, a dead cop
perhead snake was found.
UNITED STATES CONSUL RYDER at
Copenhagen charged with embezzle-
ment and theft, was released on bail of
s.. 900 on the 10th.
The crews of the ten British sealing
vessels which were seized by Russian
cruisers and taken to Vladivostok COM
plain of barbarous treatment to which
they say they were subjected by their
captOrs-
The Mississippi Valley Medical asso-
citation met in Cincinnati, on the 18th,
with 500 delegates in attendance.
JEROME TOWNSHIP, Madison county.
O., is one big hospital. Every school in
the township is closed, and it is esti-
mated that within a radius of four
miles there are 800 cases of diphtheria-
Scarcely family has escaped. All the
surrounding country has quarantined
against the township, and patrols
guard all the roads. Not a particle of
business is being done, and all farm
work is suspended.
BLACKSMITH ALLARD, of Lewis, Can,
who discovered the secret of temper
ing copper, has tempered a piece of
aluminium. The test was made at the
request of a New York firm. Able Ia
F'lamme, the renowned scientist, eX-
amined the tempered metal, and gave
Allard a certificate to the effect that
the aluminium was tempered as hard as
steel could be.
NOAH COOPER was arrested in Lin
coin county. Tenn on the 18th. He is
believed to be a member of the gang of
moonshiners which ambushed the rev.
enue officers near Flintville recently.
This is the third arrest that has been
made, and it is thought the ambushing
party consisted of only four men, one
being killed in the fight.
TEE trial of the men who participated
in the Saratoff cholera riots was con-
cluded in Astrakhan on the 18th.
Four of the prisoners were sentenced
to death and most of the others will be
sent TO Siberia.
BURGESS MCLUCKIE, one of the in
dicted Homesteaders, is in 1oungs-
town, O.. and will fight extradition in
all the courts of that state.
THE vatican has deciSed to elevate
Archbishop Vaughn and Monsignor
Stoner to the cardinalate.
A GRAND banquet was given at the
Schonbrunn palace, near Vienna, on
the 18th, in honor of the German en-
peror.
THE Italian colony in Valparaiso cele-
brated Columbus day by banquet. A
facsimile of the caravel Santa Maria
was saluted by the ships in the bay.
In all the ceremonies the United States
flag was pre-eminent-
AN unknown man stallxed through
car of Lake Erie special train return
ing from the Peru Und.) democratic
barbecue, on the 18th, and swinging n
revolver shot at random, prOba bly,
fatally wounding James Kelly. a wood
enameler, of Kokomo, Ind.
THE young Jesuit astronomer, Prof.
Fargis. of Georgetown Cd. c. univer-
sity. who some time ago invented the
photo-chronograph for measuring star
transits, has made a novel and, it is
claimed. very valuable application Of
his discovery. BY it he has also been
able to determine latitude and longi-
tude.
PRESIDENT CARNOr of France has be-
slowed the cross of the Legion of Honor
on Mr.. Henry Harris, an American. who
is at present n resident of Paris. This
distinction was conferred upon Mr.
Harris in recognition of his high lite
rary qualities, he being the author of
numerous learned and interesting
works on the life, times and discoveries