Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-06
BY ELI d. AXE.

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BY ELI d. AXE.
S. NJ. CLEMENT, president of the Ma
rine bank, of Buffalo, n. Y, who was
stricken with paralysis recently, died
on the Goth
A BUILDING to cost ssO,oO0 is to be
erected at the Worlds fair in Chicago
of the country.
DIR. TABITo CHAMBERS. of New York,
was elected president of the Presby-
terrain council at it's closing session in
Toronto, Ont, on the GOTH
THE estate of the late George William
Curtis. according to the will fled in the
probate court at Greenfield. Mass, on
the Goth, amounts to about $40, 600.
DIPHTHERIA is raging at a fearful
rate at Butternut, Wis. The schools
have been closed, and every precaution
is being taken to prevent the further
spread of the scourge.
Col. W. P. CANADAY, ex-sergeant-at-
arms of the United States senate. COM
mitted suicide in Washington, on the
27th, by blowing out his brains in his
room, 712 Tenth street. n. W.
Mrs. D1Az. wife of the president of
Mexico, has made another religious pill
grimage to the shrine of Our Lady of
Guadeloupe to invoke aid against the
threatened invasion of cholera.
WILHELM LIEBKNEcHT, the socialist
democrat, who has been conspicuous in
the labor congress in Marseilles, was,
on the Goth. conducted to the Swiss
frontier and expelled from France.
THE supreme court of Wisconsin, has
rendered decision practically declar-
ing the apportionment made by the
extra session of the state legislature
invalid. Justice Winslow dissents.
TURKEY is negotiating with an En-
glish. German and Dutch syndicate for
600, 900 viii be spent in demonstrating
Tile lilC DOSpoi
Ex-JUpGE THEODORE W. BARNETT. of
Indiana, died suddenly of apoplexy, on
the 2sth. in his room at the Sinclair
house, New York city. He was ~ years
old, and well known all over the coun-
try.
UR1AH F. WAsHBURNE. president of
the Peoples bank at Haverstraw. n.
Y. dropped dead, on the 2Sth. at the
West Haverstraw station on the West
Shore railroad, while waiting for
train.
Mrs. PARNELL, formerly Mrs. O'Shea,
and widow of the late Charles Stewart
Parnell, was reported, on the 2Sth, to
be seriously ill at Worthing.a town ten
miles west of Brighton. on the English
channel.
HENRY s. PREFER. of Buffalo. n. Y.
on the Goth secured a verdict of $780,
900 against the Buffalo Street Railway
Co. Both his feet were amputated last
spring, the result of his being run over
by trolley car.
JUDGE LAMBERT TREE. of Chicago, has
been decided upon as chairman of the
finance committee of the western dem
ocratic headquarters, and will begin at
once to collect the money needed to
carry on the campaign
w. w WISDLE, of Millbrry, Mass,
broke Zimmerman's two mile worlds
bicycle record at Hampden park.
Springfield. Mass. on the 3Oth. He
made the distance in 4:2s 3-5. thinner
mans record is Art %
INDICTMENTS against thirteen Chicago
ticket brokers charged with violating
the law prohibiting brokerage in tick
cts were quashed in Judge Tuthill's
court, on the 2sth, on the ground that
the law is unconstitutional.
DR.. FREDERICK w. MOORE. instructor
in sociology in the Wharton school of
finance and economy. university of
Pennsylvania. on the 30th accepted
call to the chair of political economy
in the Vanderbilt university at Nash
vile. Tenn.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended on the 3Oth, number
for the United States, 1T, and for
Canada 81: or 4 total of 2Os, as COM
pared with $50 for the corresponding
week of last year.
THE garrison at Fort Myer. on Ar
lington Heights. Virginia, opposite the
city of Washington. is in a deplorable
condition owing to a deficient water
supply. Fort Myer has for several
years suffered from an inadequate sup
ply of water, both as to quantity and
quality.
SHERIFF ]. p. Mp, of Cowley coun-
fy. Kas., was killed on the Usage reser-
walton on the Goth, while attempting to
arrest the men who robbed the bank
at Dexter, Kas., recently. 1t is under
stood that the men were run down
among the Indians and the Osages de-
Tended them.
THE grand jury of Chicago. on the
Goth. filed a true bill against Michael
c. Mcdonald for bribery. charging him
with having offered Justice Charles w.
Woodman $500 for blasting his legal de-
cssion in the Garfield park attache cases
gave bond in the sum of $1,000.
AFTER nine months hard work Gen.
Edgerton. head of the postal inspectors
of the Philadelphia district, and his