Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
1T was reported, on the 18th, that the
French forces in Dahoney had me,
with unexpected resistance near Cana
The steamer Bol>hara was wrecked
on Sand island. one of the Pescadores
group in the China sea, on the 10th.
There were 200 persons on board at the
time and 100 of them were drowned.
ENTCLEvELAND's Buzzard's
Bay residence, known as Gray Gables
is for sale. and it is stated that Mr.
Cleveland will again make his summer
home at Marion.
THE executors of John Roach the
famous ship-builder, will receive from
his assignees. George W. Quintard and
George E. Weed. about s., OOO, 900, the
surplus of his assigned estate.
On the 18th DIR. Gee Woo Chan, OF
Omaha, Neb-, was married in Chicago to
Miss Belle De Witt, also of Omaha. DR.
Chan is said to be one of the wealthies1
Chinese in this country. The bride is
young and pretty, and comes of highly.
respected family.
| THROUGH the intercession of Con.
gresham W. H. Bradley the secretary
of the navy has consented to send the
White squadron, which participated in
the Columbian celebration In New York
harbor, to Charleston, 5. c., to take
part in the gala week festivities, which
occur October 81 to November 5.
| MAY CoLvIN. n girl Is years old, from
| Webb City, No. was arrested. on the
18th, for stealing horse and buggy in
| Fort Scott, kas-. a week previous The
horse was found in her possession, but
the buggy had been disposed of. She
| had been travelling over southern
| Kansas for a week with the stolen
| property.
| THE comptroller of the currency. on
| the 18th, authorized the Chemical Ma
| tional bank. of Chicago, to conduct a
branch OF it's banking business on the
Worlds fair grounds
JUDGE CUTE, at Albany. y. V. SAYS
he will not hand down decision in the
Peck case during the present term of
| the court. He will have his decision
ready at the opening of the next term
of the court. the day before the cleo
! ton.
| THE steamship City of Paris of the
| Inman line arrived in New York, on
| the 10Th, having again broken the
| west-bound record from Queenstown
| to Sandy Hook, by making the run in
| days, Il hours and "a seconds. Her
days runs We're as follows: AS. sos.
SOB. 530-beating the record-and 2SS
| The average speed was 20. 80, the best
| on record.
GEN. o. O. HOWARD. United States
army, commanding the department of
Pho IN, hic 70 no
secretary of war; makes some impor-
tant recon lamentations touching the Ma
tional guard of the United States. He
says the military under its new name
of National guard has reached degree
of excellence never before attained.
AUGUSTUS T. KERR. an accountant.
who was arrested in Liverpool on a
charge of forgery and embezzlement
preferred by his late employers. the
Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Co., of
Kansas City, was taken to London. on
the 10Th. to be arraigned in the Bow
street eXtradition court
FOUR Mexican outlaws. formerly
members of Garza's band, who have
been committing depredations in Texas
border counties, have been captured
and will be tried at San Antonio.
IN late encounters reported from the
island of Crete four Christians and four
teen Turkish soldiers were killed and
twenty of the soldiers were wounded.
A LARGE sewer in course OF constrUc-
ton in the Steinwaerder portion of
Hamburg, caved in. on the 10Th, bury
ing fourteen workmen.
ALL of the main business places in
the village of Beeton. Ont. were de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 18th.
THE total value of property in Illinois
listed for taxation by the assessors and
board of equalization is 1910. 800.
THE Iron Age reports most encour-
aging outlook in the iron trade.
The Protestant Episcopal convention
at Baltimore made a separate diocese of
western Tennessee.
ACTOR JOHN T. SHERIDAN has returned
from professional tour Of the globe
that lasted ten years.
THE death of Miss Mary Atkinson.
aged %. is agitating the people of New
Castle Pa 1t is believed that she died
while in trance.
On the 18th two distinct earthquake
shocks We're felt in Morgan county,
Ind.
OiSlhAiIcS VI NotcfS CioScu III 81.
Louis on the night of the 10th. About
81 900 names are on the list
SECRETARY HESTER of the New Or
leans cotton exchange says that the
south wants no change in the form of
cotton contracts.
W. NJ. FLINT died at st. Joseph, Mo-,
on the 10Th. of alcoholism. He was for
merly a wealthy banker at Gallatin,
Mo-. and afterwards lived in Gordon
Plains, Kas.
Mrs. Lucy WHALEN, a neice of JO-
seph Smith. the Mormon prophet. died
at Burlington. Ia. on the 10th. aged 50.
She was firm believer in her uncle's
inspiration.
CHARLES BAKER. a farmer residing in
johnson county. Ind, sold and deliv-
cred 1000 bushels of wheat for 81 .60O
For twenty years he had not tasted
liquor, but his appetite returned, he
drank to excess, was waylaid and
robbed OF all his money
On the evening of the 10th, while
serving a cannon at a republican rally
at Emporia, Kas-, premature dis
charge occurred, seriously Gripping
Julius Kowalski and Lane s. Adair. the
formers arms being torn nearly to frar-
ments and the latter losing part of one
hand.
THE four children of Josh Matthews
and wife. living near Claremont. S. c.,
were burned to a crisp on the 10Th
The father and mother had been IN at