Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-02-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

delivered sermon in Unitarian
church In New York, on the 18th, on
The Gospel of Wealth"
IT is reported that marble has been
found in large quantities and of the
finest quality near Bonaparte, Ia. Mis-
souri, parties have secured the privilege
of developing the quarries.
GEORGE E CABANIs, a pioneer settler
and prominent man in southwestern
Wisconsin. died at Georgetown, north
of Galena- Ill, on the Sth. He was a
captain in the Black Hawk war in 1882,
and forty years later represented his
district in the Wisconsin legislature.
In his boyhood, which was spent in
Sangamon county, Ill. he was a COM
panion of Abraham Lincoln.
On the 9th the New York court of
appeals decided that Jeremiah Cotto,
the Italian now awaiting death at Sing
Sing by eleetrocution, must die as or
dered by the lower court He was
found guilty of numbering Luigi Fran
catoza on July "a, 1891.
The British Indian troop ship Eu-
pirates, bound to Bombay, came in
collision with the German steamer
Gutenfels in the Suez canal. The latter
steamer had several plates bent and
broken and her bulwarks, rails and
decks damaged.
THE president, on the 9th, sent to the
senate the nomination of w. NJ. Grin
nell, of New York, to be third assist
ant secretary of State, vice j. i.
Moore. resigned
Hon. JOHN JAY KNOX, ex-United
States comptroller, who had been ill
with pneumonia at his residence in New
York city. died on the 9th.
HAwLEY CHAPMAN, the actor, was
pronounced insane by a Brooklyn Jury,
on the sth, and committed to the White
stone Insane asylum.
Mr.. REID, United States minister to
France, who was recently i'll with in
fuenza, has had a relapse and is again
confined to his room.
JOHN HUGHES, the pioneer ship
builder of New Orleans, died in that
city on the sth, 81 years of age. He
built the confederate ram Manassas.
THE trial of the case of William F.
Jordan and X. j. McLaurin, editors
and proprietors of the Harrisburg (Pa.)
Call, charged by Gov. Pattison with
publishing a libel upon him during his
campaign for governor, was begun at
Philadelphia on the 10th.
THE city Jail at Moorhead, Mimi,
was burned, on the 10th, and j. Caring.
confined for drunkenness, was burned
to death.
SIR JAMES CARD, K. C. b.. F. r. s.,
the noted English agriculturist, died on
the 10th.
A BARREL floating in the river miles
below Nashville. Tenn, was broken
open and found to contain the remains
of man.
The empress of Germany is suffering
from influenza.
PREsIDENT-ELECT JOHN MCCALL has
notified the directors of the New York
Life Insurance Co. that he will accept
the office provided he be given full and
absolute control The matter is being
considered.
THE annual encampment of the Mas
sachusetts department, G. A. R., began
at fremont Temple, Boston, on the
10TH
ESsIE AND GEORGIANA CRISwELL,
aged respectively IA and 16 years,
daughters of William Criswell,
wealthy citizen of Wheeling, w. Va,
were run down and killed by train
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, on
the 10th. Essie stumbled and fell be-
fore the on-rushing locomotive. and her
sister, returning to her assistance,
also STUN oled and was struck by the
cowcatcher and killed Essie was cut
in two by the wheels.
THE verdict of the jury in the case of
James c. Wyman, mayor of Allie
gheny, Pa, charged with extortion,
was handed in on the 18th. The mayor
was found guilty on two counts.
A COAL famine is threatened in Lon
don, owing to strike among the coal
porters.
THE duke and duchess of Teck with
Princess May arrived at Osborne house,
on the 18th, on visit to the queen