Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-22
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

On the 18th President Harrison tele-
graphed to Chairman Hackett of the
New York Republican state executive
committee that he greatly regretted to
confirm the report that Mrs Harrison's
! condition was such as to make it i'm
possible to take the contemplated trip
through the state.
SIXTY DELEGATES representing unions
of street-car employees in twenty-five
cities met in Indianapolis, Ind, on the
18th. to form an international union.
The French forces in Dahomey add
vancing into the interior of the coun-
try are meeting with little opposition.
THE trial opened in Vienna, on the
18th, of twenty-five customs officials
and merchants of the duchy of Buko-
vina, charged with accepting and Civ
ing brides. Among them are said to be
the imperial financial director at Chen
owitz, the capital of Bukovina, the
finance inspector and the director of
customs.
IT was rumored, on the 18th, that a
band of oppositionists in the Choctaw
nation had murdered twelve progress
sives near McCaulley's in the row be-
tween the two political parties The
nationalist were concentrating and
arming themselves. Gov. Jones had
sent a military force to the scene of the
trouble, and on the arrival of the
troops more bloodshed was looked for.
Mrs. GEORGE MIRACLE, wife of a
prominent Allen county Qnd.) farmer,
imagines that she has been buried alive
Her maniacal meanings are distressing
and her attempts to iberate herself
from the coffin are painful to behold.
Nothing that her troubled family can
say or do can convince her otherwise
than that she is buried under ground.
AN organiZa ton is declared to exist
for the purpose of bringing the Central
American states into the United States,
first as territories and then as separate
states. 1t is claimed that ex-Secretary
Blaine is interested in the scheme.
Among other prominent men spoken of
in connection with the plan is Secre-
tary of War Elkins.
AFTER pitiful experience in quar-
antine the passengers of the steamship
Normannia were landed from the
steamer Cepheus on Fire island, on the
18th, and provided with comfortab bic
accommodations at the Surf hotel. In
the presence of an armed force the
brutal mob on shore who had refused
them landing suddenly disappeared.
THE Seaside hotel at Rockaway, n
j., was burned to the ground early on
the morning of the 18th. Loss, esti-
mated at $4,000.
SHORTLY before midnight Of the 18th
Mr. Ed OMeagher Condor, inspector Of
buildings for the United States treasury
department, called at the Associa ted
Press in Cincinnati in perfectly sound
health and full of vigor. He desired to
contradict a dispatch sent out from
Washington announcing his death.
THE gross earnings of the Wabash
railroad for the year ended June 80,
1892, were s14, 3s9, 331. IS; operating ex-
penses, $40. S32. a26. 95: net earnings, 3d.
$50, 500. IS; miscellaneous receipts. $780,
453.4s. Total, SO, 747.257.66. After pay
ment of interest on bonds and mort
cages there remains a surplus of s91,-
1857.
ARTHUR MCKEE RANKIN was, on the
18th, denied a divorce from his wife,
whom he sued at San Francisco on the
ground of desertion.
1T is reported that Jay Could will be
elected president of the Wabash Rail-
road Co. at the meeting of directors
soon to be held in New York.
GEORGE FORREST, a nephew of the
celebrated confederate general of that
name, attempted to kill Col. J. L. Fay
Tor in Memphis, Tenn. on the 18Th,
and instead fatally wounded a clerk il
the store of Roat. Taylor e Co., whom
he mistook for Taylor.
FOUR miners were killed by an ex-
plosion of gas in the Nottingham mine
at Plymouth. Pa, on the 18th.
DEPUTY SHERIFF. WITTY, of Vasalia:
Constable Hill, of Sanger, and several
others came upon Sontag and Evans,
the train robbers, at Sampson fiat, Cal.
on the 18th. and attempted to arrest
them, but they escaped after fight in
which Marshal McGinnis. Richard Oh
zen and man named Wilson were
killed, and Deputy Sheriff Witty was
again wounded.
IN duel at The Hague. on the night
of the 18th. between Baron Won Cart
ner GriebnOw. attache of the German
legation. and the Marquis De VallaGero.
secretary of the Spanish legation. the
latter received a bullet in the leg. which
mended his wounded honor and took all
the fight out of him.
A REPORT comes from Brussels that
the monetary conference will be held
in that city in accordance with the
wish of the ma jority of the powers.
PRINCE Hermann of Scharburg- Lippe
was thrown from his horse while rid
ing near Linz, Austria. on the 18th.
and sustained fracture of the skull.
His condition is critical.
THE steamship companies are paying
a heavy penalty for their carelessness
in accepting Storage passengers. as
may be seen from the fact that the
Hamburg-American steamer Colun bia
sailed on the 18th, for Southampton
without a passenger, either cabin or
steerage, or a single ounce of freight.
Other vessels have Jared but little bet
ter.
REV. DIR. TALNAGE and Mr.. Louis
Klopsch, who visited Russia to dis
tribute the cargo Of the Christian
Herald relief steamship Leo in the
provinces, sailed from Liverpool
for New York, on the 14th, on the
steamer City of Paris.
A CABLEGRAM was received at the de-
partment of state. on the 14th. from San
Jose. Costa Rica, stating that Presi-
dent Rodriguez had declared himself die
tator: that several political arrests had
been made and that excitement ran
high.
A LETTER was received at the New
York Times office on the night of the