Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-02-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

LAKE ERIE is frozen from the Amer
lean to the Canadian shore for the first
time in six years. Lake st. Clair is
also frozen solid from shore to shore.
and the ice is so thick that race-courses
have been laid upon it and races are
held daily. Vessel-owners are pleased
with the situation, as it is likely to
make the opening of navigation late,
which will insure better rates of
freight.
E. w. HUTCHINSON, a wealthy Ne
braSka farmer, who, last April, muir
dered an adventures who, he claimed,
had tried to defraud him of his prop
erty, and who was afterward sent to
the insane asylum. was discharged, on
the 1st, as cured, after two months in
generation,
THE proprietor and the editor of the
Beaver pa Star were sentenced, on
the LIST, to six months imprisonment
and fine of 5000 each for charging
Senator Quay with completely in the
Bardsley embezzlement
A MESSAGE was received in Pitts
burgh, Pa, from New Orleans, on the
LIST, saying that Frederick c. Fitzsim-
mons, the murderer of Detective Gilke-
son, who escaped from Jail in Pitts
the Crescent city.
ALICE MITCHELL and Lille johnson
were jointly arraigned in the criminal
court at Memphis, Tenn, on the LIST,
charged with the murder of Freda
Ward. They pleaded not guilty.
ONE of the greatest com pliments ever
paid to mans commercial integrity
has been accorded to S. V. White by his
New York creditors, representing obi
cations of $1,000. 600. These have given
Mr.. White full legal release on his
simple word that he will pay out with
interest when he gets on his feet again.
On the 1st queer religious conven-
ton began at Findlay, O., to continue
for nine days. The delegates are from
all over the country, and represent
faith-cure adherents, sanctifcationists,
Christian scientists and others holding
to equally peculiar doctrines. About
800 delegates are present, and the pro-
ceedings are of highly entertaining
character.
81. Fl. YARD, who was arrested
charged with aiding and abetting Gid
con W. Marsh and Charles w. Law
renee in the misapplication of the funds
of the keystone National bank. of
Philadelphia was given a hearing be-
fore United States Commissioner Bell,
on the I'd. Special Agent Barrett, OF
the United States treasury department,
testified that Yard had received over
S49s, 600 of the banks funds. AT the
conclusion of the testimony Yard was
held for court and his bail Increased
from $4,000 to $4,000.
JAMES MCCULLOUGH, the last surviv-
ing son of the distinguished tragedian,
John Mccullough, died at the old home
stead in Philadelphia on the 1st. Nc
Cullough's daughter, Letitia, is now
the only surviving descendant of the
great actor, and will inherit an estate
valued at $50, 200.
AT Cote st. Louis. an outlaying sub
urb of Montreal, Can, several frozen
dynamite cartridges, which had been
placed on stove to thaw out. eX-
ploded, completely wrecl1ing the house.
4. Dupre, the owner, was terribly in
jured, and his two little daughters
were fatally burned. A third daugh-
ter's skull was fractured and she will
probably die. Mrs Dupre escaped unin-
jured, but on seeing the injuries of her
husband and children became insane
and is now raving maniac.
\ BOAT belonging to H. NJ. S. Belle
Isle, the coast guards vessel at Kings
town. foundered in Dublin bay. on the
2d. and four of her crew We're drowned
ANsoN C. OWEN. a pioneer of Iowa
died at his home in Mason City on the
I'd. a little over two years ago his
name became worldwide on account o.
his challenge to run any man in the
world of his age, so years. forty-yarc
| foot race. He was prominently linden
! tilted in the development of the north
| ern part of the state and no man en-
| loved a more extensive acquaintance.
AN aluminium factory is to be estab
| lished at Anderson. Ind. to employ
/ 1, 500 persons, and it is said the process
to be employed will produce the meta
at cost of twenty-five cents pound
| CARLYLE HARRIS, the New York med
ical student, was, on the I'd, found guilty
of murder in the first degree in having
caused the death of his girl wife (Helen
Potts. BIZ administering poison to her