Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


On the 25th Gov. Mckinley addressed
an assemblage in the St Louis exposi-
ton music hall that filled every possible
inch of seating and standing room. and
which overhowed into the vestibules
and out into the street Thousands
were compelled to go home disappoint-
ed in their expectation of hearing di-
rectly from the father of the tariff bill
ARTICLES of incorporation have been
filed by the Swansea Steel and Tin
Plate Co.; capital. 500 200. The incor-
porators are: Walter r. Howard, L. L.
Shirley and Jesse F. Roberts The
principal stockholders are Welsh capt.
talists. The plant will be located at
st. Paul Park, a suburb of St. Paul.
Mimi. The mills will not employ less
than 800 men. Work on the buildings
will be begun early in January and the
mills will be in operation by June 1.
JUDGE BLoDGETT, of the United
States district court for the northern
district of Illinois, on the 25th con-
firmed the statement published that he
had rendered his resignation to the
president on the 18th, to take effect the
first Monday in December. The judge
has occupied seat on the district
bench twenty-five years
GEN. JAMES W. FUTILE, hero of Fol-
Donelson, died at Casa Grande, Ariz-
of paralysis, on the oath.
GEN. Booth has appealed to the
members of the Salvation Army for
SEC, 900 to enable him to continue his
Darkest England work. He says
that unless this sum is received before
Christmas he will be placed in a posi-
ton of extreme difficulty, and the
further development of his scheme will
be impossible.
THERE were seven fresh cases of
cholera and one death in Hamburg on
the 25th.
ALL the Philadelphia & Reading Coal
and Iron Co.'S collieries have been shut
down indefinitely and work has been
begun at overhauling the Mahanoy
Plane machinery. It will be several
weeks before all the mines are in oper-
alton again.
BoRTIs GODDARD and John Glasimer,
printers, were asphyxiated by odoriess
fuel gas which escaped from a jet in
their room at 401 Forty-siXth street,
Chicago, on the night of the 25th.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, form
erly Miss Jerome, of New York, who
had been seriously i'll for several days,
not yet out of danger.
WARREN 4. WATROUss well known
in Washington commercial circles as a
real estate and note broker, was ar
rested, on the Goth. on a warrant charg-
ing him with forgery.
IT is reported that owing to the dis
turbances and unsettled state of the
country, the French government in
tends increasing the military forces in
TonGuin.
AT the Rockdale Touring mills in
Dubuque, Ia, on the Goth, Miller Nc
AleeSe entered the engine-room to in
quire why the steam had run down and
found Engineer Chewning's body lying
on the floor, with both legs off. the
right arm torn out and thrown to one
corner Cf the room, the left arm
smashed, the head broken. the ribs
crushed into the liver and lungs, one
foot found twenty feet away and frag-
about the ceiling. He had been caught
in the betting.
THE new return postal cards were
placed On sale at the various post offices
throughout the country on the 26th.
Bill DALTON, brother of the ex-
terminated outlaws, was in Coffeyville,
Kas., on the Goth, and said he was 60
ing to bring suit against the city of
Coffeyville for SO, 900 damages because
the pockets of the dead bandits were
rified after they We're shot down. He
claims they had 5000 of their own
money, and that he knows who got it.
1t is believed that Attorney Luther Per-
kins, OF Coffeyville, has put this idea
into Bill Dalton's head, and that he
will take the case on a contingent fee.
THE malicious blowing up of the
lower workings of the Stoddard mine,
one Of the finest of the fabulously rich
claims on the famous gold and silver
De Lamar lode in Owyhee county.
Idaho, has created a decided sensation
in southern Idaho.
On the Goth the church circles of Boise,
Idaho. were stirred to the center when
it was announced that Fred A. Wilkie,
prohibition nominee for county treas
urer, and leader of all local religious
movements, was to be arrested for en-
beZzlement of about g, 900 of the funds
of the Boise Baptist church.
SIX new cases and four deaths from
cholera were reported by the authori-
ties of Vienna on the Goth.
AT a cost of over 81 500. 900. and with
scarcely eight years service to her
credit, the United States steamer Mo
hican stands a good chance of being
condemned, put out of commission and
assigned to permanent mornings in
Rotten row" at the Mare Island navy
hidden rock during her recent cruise in
Behring sea-
FUNERAL exercises over the remains
of Mrs. Harrison, previous to their re-
moval to Indianapolis for interment,
were held in the east room of the
White House at 10 o'clock on the morn
ing of the 27th. They were brief and
simple, in accordance with the wishes
of the deceased and the president that
there be no attempt at display.
JAMES EPPs was arrested near Flint
vile, Tenn, on the 27th, by United
States Deputy Marshal Quinn, charged
with assisting in the recent assassina-
ton of Deputy Collectors Cardwen and
Mathes, and the mortal wounding of
Deputy Collector Spurrier. This is the
fourth man arrested on the charge.
INVESTIGATION of the typhoid fever
plague prevailing at Ishpeming, Mich,
showed. on the 27th, 1872 cases. Deaths
average three per day in city of less
than $4,000 population. Poisonous gas
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