Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

As A specimen of tickle damsel com
mend us to Miss Lott, of Mississippi,
who successfully eIoped with three
men, deserving the first two while they
were hunting for a parson and going
off with a third. The returns are not
in to show whether she married the last
one or not.
be advertised and the world informed
that they may be secured at the uni.
form price of one dollar each. It should
be easy to dispose of the whole lot at
this figure, though to do so before the
fair may not be easy. The fair once
opened there will, of course, be a
great demand for the coins, not merely
as souvenirs but because sho wing OF
them will be a requisite of all collec'
tons.
Dr. THOMAS NELL CREAM, the Cana
dian poisoner, was hanged in Newgate
Jail, London, on the 18th.
FREDERICK EVANS. alias Helm bold
the pretended prince of Teck, was SEN
fenced, on the 18th, to one years inn
prisonment at hard labor. He is said
to be of respectable American parent.
age, and was formerly convicted OF
fraudulent practices in Liverpool.
NOTICES were posted in the Carnegie
mills at Beaver Falls, Pa, on the 18th,
stating that applications for work
would be received until the 18th, and
that the old men would be preferred.
THE entire plant of the St Paul pillow
works, located at Gladstone, Mimi.
was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Loss, s11O, 600; nearly covered by insur-
ance.
WHAT promises to be a successful
orange trade with England was inaug.
urated, on the 18th, by the departure
of an Atlantic liner from Jacksonville,
the seasons crop.
GEN. RoscCRANs. register of the
treasury. who had been confined to his
hotel in Washington for two weeks SUI
fering from nervous prostration not
responding as rapidly as usual to medi-
cal treatment, causing his friends to
fear that he would be stricken with
paralysis, slight symptoms of which
appeared, was reported, on the 18th, as
being much better, the dangerous
symptoms having disappeared.
THE Russian government has decided
to raise the duty on raw cotton to 14O
c"pelks per pood for imports by sea and
155 for imports by land.
KAISER WILHELM will open the Ger
man reichstag in person to show that
he regards the military bill as his per-
Sonal measure.
The Tri-State Medical association of
Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee,
opened its annual session at Memphis,
Tenn, on the 10th. In lieu of an adj
dress the president, DIR. Webb, read a
paper entitled: "A Plea for Women
THE 18th was observed as a national
holiday throughout the Hawaiian king
dom, it being the birthday anniversary
of the late King Kalakaua.
GEORGE BURTON, a grocer OF East
Liverpool, o., who had been on a spree
for a week, returned home, on the
morning of the 18th. and accused his
wife of being drunk and threatened to
kill her if she did not tell where she
got the drink. Mrs. Burton protested
on her knees that she had not tasted
drink, but the inhuman husband pulled
out a revolver and shot her twice in
the region of the heart, inflicting NOR
tai wounds.
T. J. WENDELL and Henry Buck, ex-
pressmen. were driving on the road a
mile east of Wheeling, Va, on the 18th,
when their horses became frightened
and threw the wagon over a cliff
twenty feet high. Both horses were
killed and Wendell and Buck were
frightfullv crushed. Their injuries
are probably fatal.
AN explosion OF gas occurred, on the
nth, on the collier Pretoria, bound
from Glasgow to Bordeaux. The YES
sci soon after foundered, and the cap
tain and five of the crew were drowned.
On the 18th the president appointed
Louis McComas, of Maryland, to be as
sociate justice of the supreme court OF
the District of Columbia, vice Mont
gomery, resigned
IT is announced in Washington with
the utmost positiveness that President
elect Cleveland has decided to appoint
Gen. Isaac S. Catlin, of Brooklyn, n. y,
commissioner of pensions
S. v. WHITE, the well-known New
off his Chicago Indebtedness in full.
His western creditors consented some
time ago to accept fifty cents on the
dollar in settlement, but Mr.. White is
now sending the remaining fifty cents,
with interest.
Mr.. AND Mrs. IRA WARD, of New
Haven. Conn. on the 18th rounded out
their three-quarters of a century OF
welded bliss. They greeted many
friends and relations, who gathered to
help celebrate the diamond wedding OF
the happy old couple.
The society of the Army of the Ten
nessee, at its session in St Louis, on
the 18th, elected Gen. G. NJ. Dodge
president and selected Chicago as the
place of meeting next year. The mem
bers and invited guests partook of an
enjoyable banquet at the Lindell hotel
by way Of a wind-up of their reunion.
Mrs. WILLIAM WooD, the wife of a
prominent farmer, died at Martinsville,
Ind, on the 18th. She was married
when IA years old, and though only 81
when she died she had been a grand
mother for two years.
A BIG discovery of gold has been
made at the Caribou mines, about
thirty miles from Truro, Nova Scotia.
1t surpasses anything yet discovered in
the province. and is expected to turn
out the biggest and richest gold mine
ever opened in Canada, as the lead
gradually increases in richness and
thickness. and shows every indication
of continuing to great depth