Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-12-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

have conquered Dehomey, and at last
accounts We're in Abomey, the capital,
! King BehanZin having fled.
BARON DE REINACH, Paris million
aire, and connected with the Panama ca
hal. died mysteriously, on the 21st, and
suicide is limited at, owing to fear of
exposure at the forthcoming inquiry
into the canal company's affairs by the
| government.
| WHILE celebrating at a democratic
ratification meeting near Grantsburg.
Ind. on the night of the 21st. Henry
Vogleson's hand was nearly torn off by
the bursting of an anvil which was be-
ing used to fire salute.
| GEORGE HOWARD. a crossroads store
keeper west of Columbus, Ind, who
has four living wives, eloped. on the
Pertlebaugh, going to ST. Louis and
leaving large string of creditors.
AFTER ninety-six hours hard work a
large force of men, on the 21st, succeed
ed in Harvesting down the big gas well
on the Spilker farm, north of Muncie.
Ind. The daily outflow is estimated at
II, 200, 600 feet of gas, and pipe double
the ordinary size was required.
| AT Lotus. Ind, recently, arsenic was
put in the we'll on the Crawley farm,
and failing to kill the family, poison
was next put in the -four barrel. Mr..
Crawley and a son have died.
A BOLD attempt was made, on the
night of the 2lst, to rob and murder
James Coombs, a wealthy lumber
dealer of Carbon. Ind. who was on his
way from Carbon to Bridgeton to pay
off the men in his employ and had sew
eral thousand dollars on his person. He
was attacked by two masked men and
shot and dangerously wounded. The
report of the pistol frightened his
horse which ran away, carrying him be-
| yond the reach of the robbers.
| THE Morning Patriot building at
Harrisburg. Pa, was entirely burned
out on the 22d. The loss is estimated
at $4,000 TO 100000; partly insured.
| The morning edition had just been
run off when the confiagration took
place. Several persons were severely
burned.
| The Union Pacific overland express
ran into Il broken switch at Aida, near
Grand Island. Neb., on the 22d, and
collided with Il freight train standing
on a sidetrack. killing two engineers.
a conductor and fireman, and in ur-
| ing a fireman and mail clerk.
| HIRAM DANAHAUR, aged 45 years:
Mrs. Danahaur, aged rs, and their
daughter, 10 years old, We're cremated
| in their burning home in Pittsburgh,
Pa early on the morning OF the ed.
| MATTHEW L. TRUMPBoUR, who was
| the assistant treasurer of the wrecked
Ulster County savings institution. at
Kingston, y. Y. was sentenced. on
the 22d, to five years imprisonment at
Dannemora. for perjury.
| SIX lumbermen arrived in Ottawa,
Ont, from the numbering regions, re-
port that black diphtheria is making
serious havoc among the men en-
| ployed in cutting timber in the NADIA
waska camp. The people are without
medical aid. The Ontario government
has sent up n number of doctors, in the
hope of checking the disease.
Gov. VAN HOEGA GARDEN of the National
bank of Belgium will give a reception
in Brussels. on December Z, in honor of
the delegates to the international none
tary congress Leading financiers have
been invited, and the affair will be very
brilliant.
THE Hotel Zinzodorf at Winston. n.
c., recently built blythe West End Land
| Co., at a cost of s14O, 900, was totally
destroyed by fire on the oath. The con-
tents were mainly saved. The hotel
| was one of the best in the south.
IT was authoritatively stated on the
esd that Sir John j. Caldwell Abbott,
| premier of the Dominion of Canada, had
resigned from that office.
1 aro ISn Homestead fpa \ StrIlx-
ers, who are indicted for the crimes of
murder, treason. aggravated riot and
conspiracy. to be tried ut the present
| and December terms of court
THE discovery has been made that
the wheat crop of Minnesota and the
Dakotas is many millions of bushels
above all estimates.
SAMUEL LANCASTER. a brakeman,
| while intoxicated walked into a saloon
at Knoxville. Tenn. On the oath. and
made a wager that he could drink
three beer glasses full of whisky. The
| bet being taken he fulfilled its condi-
| tions and sank to the floor and died.
| AT the office of the Dominion execu-
tive commissioners of the Chicago
| Worlds fair in Ottawa a letter was re-
Gently received from Rev. DIR. VIM. Nc
Culloch, treasurer of Nova Scotia. stat
| ing that he had in his possession the
quadrant used by Christopher Column
bus when he discovered America. 1t
will be exhibited at the fair.
THE family of Baron de Reinach, the
late Paris suicide. fearing that his es-
tate, if not specially iquidated, may
| figure in court as an asset of the PAN
anna Canal Co, have applied for the
immediate appointment of liqui-
d ator.
THREE Yale students doing the streets
of New York Thanksgiving evening
came to where fire was in progress.
at $40 Fifth avenue. Learning that
there was supposed to be some young
ladies in the upper story. they made a
dash up the stairs sounding the college
cheers, and in five minutes were back
on the sidewalk. each bearing a fright
ened and blushiRg damsel.
| SYLVESTER CRITCHLow, who was tried
at Pittsburgh. Pa, for the killing OF
Thos- j. Common. one of the Pinkerton
force, in the Homestead riot in July
last. was. on the a3d, declared not guilty
by the jury. CritchlOw has yet to an
swer a charge of aggravated riot
THIEVES made successful sneak in
Jonasens jewelry store in Omaha. Neb.
on the 24th, and while a confederate
kept the only attendant in the store
engaged in conversation at the rear. got
away with about $4,000 worth OF