Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-01-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE Botch Spinning Co.. new cor
Poration with a capital stock of be-
tween $500, 900 and 100000, will erect a
new cotton hosiery yarn mill in New
Bedford, Mass. in the spring.
Miss MARY BIRD. aged %. an actress
playing at the Cincinnati Grand opera
house. was fatally burned. on the
night of the 4th, by the explosion of n
bottle of face lotion which she held in
her hand uncorked.
THE remains Of the late Gen. N. C..
Meigs, were inferred, with military
honors, in Arlington cemetery, near
| Washington city, on the 5th.
THE United States steamer Baltimore
arrived at San Francisco, on the 5th,
from Chilli.
| THE condition of Speaker Crisp, was
on the 9th, considered quite alarming,
premonitory symptoms of pneumonia
making their appearance. His physi-
clans were confident. however, that he
would pull through, but expressed the
OPT Mon that it would be a month be-
fore he would be able to resume his
| duties.
| c. J. BELL, of Buff alo. n. Y, is ac-
cused of embezzling Sc, 600 of the
county funds recently while deputy
county treasurer. His deficit has been
made good by friends who viii try to
| avoid prosecution.
| THERE is no longer any doubt that
TIE British steamship Cavalier has been
lost with all hands. The bodies of the
second officer and steward of the vessel
have been washed ashore along the
| Cornish coast.
| A DISPATCH from Adelaide. South
Australia, of the sth, said that the min
istry had resigned. The governor had
requested the ex-premier, Hon. T.
| Playford, M. P, to form q new cabi-
net
THE joint republican caucus of the
| Ohio legislature met on the night of the
| 9th and renominated Hon. John Sher-
man for United States senator by
vote of SIS to 80 for John B. Foraker.
A DISPATCH from Rio Grande City,
of date the 9th, says that Capt Thomas
Cara, the deputy marshal who escaped
| during the Retinal fight, has come in
| to surrender himself. The revolution
lists are reported to be badly scattered.
| BENJAMIN S. WRIGHT, q noted horse
man, died at the home of Horace +.
| Willis, in Medford, Mass, on the 9th,
from complication of diseases. He
was Familiarity known as "Uncle Ben
| Wright" by horsemen throughout the
country.
The secretary of the treasury, on the
9th, received a dispatch from Capt.
Gabrielson of the revenue cutter Gala
tin stating that his vessel struck on
Boohoo ledge, off Eagle Head, during
binding snow-storm, and would prob
| ably be a total loss. j. Jacobson, the
carpenter, was killed by a falling
smol1e-stack after the Gallatin struck.
The officers and crew all escaped and
were safely landed at Eagle Head
THE members of the ST. Louis COM
mission firm CT T. Ellsworth Turner &
Co. have disappeared, together with
about S1O,O 900 for which they have failed
to account to consignors-
AN engine and a freight accommoda-
tion train on the New York, Ontario
& Western railroad, collided at Smyrna,
| n. Y, on the 9th. Engineers Sheehan
and Young, and Albert Cady, fire.
men, were killed. The boilers of both
engines exploded when the collision oe-
Cured.
| Mrs. j. w. MARTIN, nee Cross, has
| Just been discovered in Glenn eoun-
| ty, Cal, by a detective who has been
| hunting for her for several months.
Mrs. Martin is the only daughter and
| heir to the fortune of fully a million
| dollars LETT by eX-Congressman Cross,
| of Vermont, who died in July last.
Mrs. Martin eloped from Washington
with her husband ten years ago.
A WAR ON Sunday newspapers has
been inaugurated 10y the Law and Order
society of Pittsburgh, Pa, which has
ral1ed up an eighteenth century statute
to sustain it's action.
HENRY IRVING, while performing in
| the Lyceum theater, London, on the
night of the 9th, received n telegram
announcing the attempted suicide of
his son Lawrence at Belfast, ireland,
where he was playing with the Benson
company. Mr.. Irving finished the per-
Torrance without revealing the con-
tents of the telegram.
On the 9th advices from Womack Hill.
Ala, stated that Neal Sims, a brother
of Bob, two other men and Laura and
Beatrice Sims, while en- route to Leak,
Miss, the rendezvous of the gang, were
met by n posse searching for Neal Sims,
and the party offering resistance, all,
including the women, were hanged to
an oak tree.
Mrs. MARSHALL o. ROBERTS, one of
! New York city's society leaders, was
married, on the 9TH, to Col. Ralph vi
Wan, of her Britannia majesty's horse
guards.
IT is announced that the French min
istry of commerce will send two COM
missioners to the United States in order
to study the petroleum question.