Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-29
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
EDWARD SEARLEs, heir to the Searles-
Hopkins millions, is sued for a g., 600
fee by an agent who kept an undesira-
BILE witness away when the will was
probated; and sensational developments
are promised.
Miss MARTHA d. BEssEY, of New
York city, has been awarded the prize
for the best design of badge to be
worn by the board of lady managers OF
the Worlds fair The choice was mad e
by Sculptor St Gaudens from PAT de-
signs. -
r THE American Association of Obstet.
ricians and Gynecologists met in st.
Louis on the Goth for three days SEES
sion. An elaborate programme had
been arranged and distinguished physi-
clans from all parts of the country par
ticipated in the discussions.
ABOUT 5000 members of the Odd Eel.
lows organizations of the country par
ticipated in the grand parade at Port.
sovereign grand lodge, which began its
sessions ON that day.
The cholera scare in New York has
about petered ou., and it appears that
the cholera has done likewise.
ONE suspicious case" was discovered
by the New York health authorities on
the Goth. The subject was promptly
removed to the reception hospital.
A CARLOAD of dynamite, constituting
part of a fast freight train on the Phil
| adelphia & Reading road, exploded
from the conclusion caused by the
rapid motion of the train on a down
grade a few miles west of New Hart.
ford, Conn, on the Goth. Five cars OF
the train were blown to pieces and
their contents scattered to the winds.
Trees on both sides of the road were
blown down, the track was torn up
and a large hole, twenty feet in diane
ter and ten feet deep, was made in the
roadbed. 49,
CUsTOMHoUsE officers were, on the
Goth, sent to the house of ex-Mayor
Chaplin, of Brooklyn, for the purpose OF
Selling both his own and his wife's
trunks on the technical charge of hav-
ing violated several of the federal
laws Mr.. Chaplin and his wife arrived
some days before, from Europe and
were given permission to land by
Health Officer Jenkins.
LORD HAGIN, who belongs to one of
the first families in the peerage of Ire
land, has been arrested for vagrancy in
Winnipeg, Man., and sent to the COM
mon Jail for two months He was at
one time an inspector in the Royal
Irish constabulary, and still draws a
handsome pension for past services.
Drink caused his fall.
on duty at Homestead, Pa, seventy-one
days, broke camp, on the 10th, and took
the train for home. This leaves but
one regiment (the Sixteenth) now on
duty, and it is the general impression
that it will soon be withdrawn.
HoRATIo B. WATERWAYS will has
been sustained and the poor of Coven-
try, r. l., will be benefited to the
amount of $685. 900.
THE convention of democratic clubs
of Pennsylvania met in Scranton on the
Goth.
RoCKAwAY BEACH, n. j., the famous
seaside summer resort, was visited by
destructive confiagration on the Goth.
ALL the hotels, the Seaside museum
and many other buildings-about 100
in all-were destroyed. Robert Phil
lips, aged 60, was burned to death, and
several other persons were severely in
jured. The loss will reach nearly
81 .OO0. 900.
REV. J. w. ARNEy. Methodist minis
ter in Michigan, who made a reputa-
ton because he raced horses week days
and preached rafting sermons Sun
days. and who was thrown out of the
al, for &c haa oh TO no l.
pit. He, however, will race the season
out, having won six first purses in the
Greenville meet and lowered Guaran-
tees record to 800. He will leave the
track and sul1ey just in time to ask the
conference for a pulpit.
MORRIS S. BARNET, of New York city.
recently met Prince Bismarck at
Kissengen, in Bavaria, and he says that
the Iron chancellor spoke of his inten-
ton to visit this country during the
Worlds fair at Chicago.
The Fall River (Mass) Globe prints
statements to the effect that Lizzie Bor-
den. several weeks before the murders,
consulted a Providence Or. - lawyer
as to the disposition of her fathers
property in the event of his death. The
lawyer will give evidence at the trial.
THE negroes of Larned, Kas., have
organized and sworn to prevent a repe-
tition of the recent lynching of Hugh
Henry, one of their race. Two white
men in particular have been threatened,
and the town is now watched by an
| armed patrol.
MRS. EDWARD j. POTTER, of New
Haven, Conn, was shot and instantly
killed by her husband about IL o'clock
on the night of the Goth. Potter, who
| was alone with his wife at the time,
! says he was cleaning a rifle when the
| weapon was discharged. He was, how
| ever, placed under arrest and will have
| to answer to the charge of man
slaughter.
| THE French anarchists posted the pro-
gramme of their proposed celebration
over the official programmes for the
| fetes in celebration of the one hun
| dredth anniversary of the proclamation
of the First French republic by the ma
| tiOnal convention.
Mrs. J. NJ. ARMAGosr, of David City,
Neb., a middle-aged woman, the wife
of farmer, was arrested, on the 21st,
| charged with poisoning by arsenic her
mother-in-law, two years ago, and her
| former husband, VIM. Y. Roberts, five
| years ago. ~
AN electric motor in Cleveland, O.,
collided with Pennsylvania freight
train at the Cedar-avenue crossing on
| the 21st, and number of persons were
injured, two of them, it was thought,
| fatally.