Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-18


| "Marblehead" and launched at South
| Boston on the 11th.
Mrs. ELIZA ROBERTS, from Battle
| Creek. Mich. one of those who sus-
| tanned injuries in the Santa Fe wreck
near Denver. Col, on the 9th, died at
St Joseph's hospital in that city on the
| 18th. The husband accompanied the
remains home.
TIE Danish minister at Washington
has notified the state department that
he has been informed by his govern
ment of the confession of Consul Ryder
| The department has notified Minister
Carr at his home in Illinois to proceed
| to Denmark.
THE commissioner of internal revenue
| decided that the various bichloride OF
gold institutes in this country must
take out government retail liquor IL
| censes, involving an annual tax of S25,
and they have all submitted to the rul-
| ing, including the leading one at
| Dwight Ill.
HUGH RIDDLE, chairman of the eX-
ecutive committee of the Chicago, Rock
| Island & Pacific Railway Co., and ex-
| president of the corporation, died at
his residence in Chicago. on the night
of the 10th, of heart disease. He was
exactly 30 years of age. having been
born August II, 1922, at Bedford, n. Y.
EDWARD Parker DEACON has been
offered a pardon from prison if he will
leave France and not prosecute his
wife for divorce. and has declined the
offer
Miss LIZZIE BORDEN was arrested at
Fall River. Mass, on the evening of the
18th, on the charge of having MUIR
dered her father and mother, who were
found some days previous horribly
butchered with an AK or hatchet, hav-
| ing previously been poisoned.
BOsTON was selected as the next
meeting place for the triennial Knights
Templar conclave, to be held in 1888.
AT its business meeting in Helena,
Mont, on the 18th, the national en-
| campment Sons of Veterans elected
the following officers to serve the en-
suing year: Commander-in-chief, Mar
vim I. Hill, Michigan; senior vice-com-
mander. George ". Politt, New Jersey:
junior vice-commander, John w. Mil
Ter. Montana.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended on the 18th, number
for the United States, 100, and for
Canada 30; or total of 1S9. as COM
pared with 1s4 for the previous week,
and 227 for the corresponding week of
last year.
IN Vienna, on the 18th, Johann
Singer. clerk who had been out of
work for some time, killed the woman
with whom he had been living, their
three children and himself, by starting
charcoal fire in the room where they
slept.
THE figures on South Dakota's pros
pective yield. given out by competent
men, are simply astounding, ranging
from $4,000, 900 to $50, 00G, 900 bushels of
wheat, besides immense quantities of
other grains.
HERR WOLFF. the defaulting Berlin
banker, was sentenced, on the 18th. to
ten years imprisonment at hard la Dor.
Dittmar, also defaulting banker, re-
ceived the same sentence.
THE Horton company of Chicago has
offered the Worlds fair directors ST.
500, 900 for the s2,5OO,O0O worth of
souvenir half dollars to be donated by
the government.
EARL PRICE and Arthur Kurtz, of
North Lansing, Mich. were smothered in
an unused ice chest with self-locking
lid which they entered in play on the
18th.
THE Knights Templar festivities at
Denver, Col, closed with a grand ban
quet to the eminent grand encanpment
by the Denver knights.
THE project for a Berlin interna-
tional exhibition has been finally aban-
doned. The kaiser refused to sanction
it.
A FALLING wall near Ogdensburgh, n.
j.. on the 18th, crushed twelve work
men who We're around the building,
fatally injuring two of them, Patrick
Mcconnell and an Italian. Some of the
others are seriously hurt.
THE Federation of Labor officials at
Homestead, Pa, decided, on the 18th,
not to impose a boycott on Carnegie
materials for the present.