Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-01-07
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| late superintendent of the New Orleans
police. David C. Hennessy, who was as
sassinated by members of the malta
has been accepted. 1t is plain shaft
of Hallowell granite, &c feet high, sur
mounted by fringed drapery. upon
which hangs the dead chiefs belt an6
baton.
| THERE is a rumor in London thai
Lord Randolph Churchill will be ap
pointed ambassador to St Petersburg
| Two foreigners, one a Spaniard anc
the other a native of Chilli. supposed to
be spies in the employ of the Chiliar
| government, have been arrested in Sar
Francisco.
| SECRETARY FOSTER attended the cab
met meeting on the goth for the first
| time in six weeks.
BY the falling of a derrick which
was being used to hoist heavy timbers
| into position on the electricity building
at the Worlds fair grounds, on the
Goth, two carpenters, Andrew johnson
and John Allmore, were crushed tc
| death.
| RI. Hon. WILLIAM EwART GLAD
| STONE, the Grand Old Man" of En-
| gland.wa 50 years old on the Goth, and
Notwithstanding the absence of the fam.
| lily, the bells of Hawarden rang out
| their merry peals in recognition of the
| fact.
Mr.. JOSEPH H. R. Cox, member Oh
| parliament for East Claire, who has Wis.
tied Australia in order to raise funds
| for the relief of the evicted tenants in
Ireland, announces that he has re-
ceived promises of subscriptions
amounting Sla5.O0 for the purpose
named.
WHILE oiling machinery in the La.
clede electric works in ST. Louis, on the
Goth, the clothing of Ely Harrison was
caught by revolving shaft, and the
unfortunate man was thrown to the
ceiling, a distance of thirty feet, and his
brains dashed out
MATILDA ECKBERG, 5-year-old child,
died at Springfield, O., on the goth,
from alcoholic poison. The child stole
half pint of whisky and drank it, and
the parents allowed her to go to sleep
without making any effort to arouse
her. She never woke.
WILLIAM T. kIMBALL, who, as agent
of the Big Four railroad and American
Express Co. at North Vernon, Ind, en-
bezzled $500. pleaded guilty at Vernon,
throwing himself on the mercy of the
court, with his aged mother and sister
clinging to him. He was sentenced to
one year in the state prison.
The Western Commercial Travellers
association held their annual banquet
at the Lindell hotel in st. Louis, on the
night of the 29th, about 800 knights of
the grip and guests being present
GEORGE NJ. NICELEY, fireman ofsthe
Chicago limited, was instantly killed at
Lilly, Pa, Oh the Goth. He was leaning
struck by the mail crane. His neck was
broken and his skull crushed.
THE police of Leavenworth, Kas,
captured a gang of counterfeiters on
the outskirts of the city on the evening
of the Goth. They found with them a
number of coins, molds and metals,
which they operated,
AT Anamosa, Ia, Joseph Sherman
20 years old, was found dead in his cell
lar, on the Goth, with a long cash in his
head. 1t is not known whether it was
accident or murder.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOHN BRUNNELL, of
Wild Rice, n. d., were found dead in
bed on the morning of the goth, having
been asphyXiated by escaping coal-gas
from the stove.
THE Sheboygan Falls (Wis.) branch
bank of the German bank of Sheboy-
gan was entered by burglars on the
night of the 10Th. They entered the
building through the back window,
blew open the vault doors with dyna-
mite and commenced work on the safe.
1t is supposed they were alarmed while
at work and fed as the attempt to open
the safe was abandoned when the con-
tents were almost within their grasp.
AT $50 a. m. on the 3Oth. four boxes
of dynamite bombs, used in blasting at
Schoonermaker's stone quarry in
Wauwatosa, Wis, exploded, blowing
Albert Butlitz and William Walker to
atoms and scattering their remains
over the country for great distance.
John Ralatslly was fatally injured.
The conclusion demolished hundreds
of windows in Wauwatosa and num-
Der in Milwaukee.
TIE directors of the New York Cen
trail & Hudson River Railway Co. met,
on the 3Oth, and declared a quarterly
dividend of 4 per cent, and an extra
dividend of 4 per cent. on the surplus.
payable January Is. The transfer
books were closed at o'clock on the
31St.
THE Baltimore (Nd.) Evening News
has been purchased by a company
headed by Thomas X. Worthington and
L. Riggs. 1t will be Cleveland or
gan.
EX-LIEUT.-Go l.. Fl. ARMSTRONG of
Minnesota died in St. Paul, on the 29th,
aged 62 years
PUBLIC Indignation has been aroused
by the death of young Clarence Lay,
the 12-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lay, of Burlington, la. The parents of
the boy are believers in the Christian
science delusion, and during the
months illness of their son. n fine
loo king lad, would permit no physician
to go near him, despite the advice of
friends.
ADv!CEs from the Cheyenne and Arap-
ahoe reservation, on the 30th, stated
that the Messiah craze had broken out