Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-07-06
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


OF Armenians had been made in Vanti,
Embellishments, and that a conspicu-
Gus Turkish officer had shortly after
been murdered, presumably because he
was supposed to have caused the ar
rests in question.
The village of Lexington. so miles
south of Guthrie, Okla, was destroyed
by fire, on the 27th, and three people
perfshed in the flames 1t is thought
that the fire was started out of revenge
by negroes who had been driven from
the town.
GEN. NICHOLSON, governor of Gibral-
tar, died, on the 27th, of malarial fe-
yer.
CHOLERA has broken out on the island
of Cephalonia, in the Mediterranean.
THE general parliamentary election
in France will be held on August 20.
JosINE and Monopenni, the Chippewa
Indian murderers of Old Bonash and
his young squaw near Ashland, Wis
last fall, were. on the 27th, sentenced
by Judge Bunnin, of the United States
court. to be hanged August 90, 1898.
JOHN SEAMAN. a prominent merchant
of Woodstock, O., and township treas
urer, disappeared, on the 27th, with
81 600 of funds, which he is alleged to
have misappropriated. Seamen is said
to be heavily in debt to eastern firms
In dispatch dated June 26 Rear-Ad-
mira1 Markham reports that Admiral
Tryon's telescope and the dispatch box
and cap were recovered. but that his
body had not been found. Markham
had transferred his flag to the war
ship Trafalgar.
AARON SHUCK and wife, together with
his five children and a neighbor named
Allen Wisely, were dangerously poi
soned in Findlay, O., on the 27th, by
eating tainted ice cream.
AFTER losing 900 in the varied
course of the Reading road and heavily
in West Virginia construction COM
pany, of which he was president,
Charles P. Howe, Al years old, commit
ted suicide at his home in Philadelphia,
on the 27th. He swallowed two ounces
of ether, and then, after mailing the
doors of the room, turned on two gas
burners, placed his mouth over them
and was asphyXiated.
SIX Chinese were arraigned in Phila-
delphia, on the 27th. charged with be-
ing in this country in violation of the
exclusion act of 1892. The deportation
of Lee Kew, whose case has been under
advisement for four weeks, was or
dered, and the statement was made by
the United States commissioner that
the government had set aside funds for
the deportation of the six prisoners.
THE German military bill is now al
most sure to become a law. 1t was
officially announced, on the 21th, that
the necessary number of seats had been
secured by the government. Returns
from 391 out of 397 constituencies show
204 for the bill and 1877 against it.
A MEETING of the Amnesty associa-
ton, which labored so long for the
freeing of Fielder, Schwab and Neebe,
will be held in Chicago as soon as the
members can be called together. Ar
engagements will be made with the
Pioneer Aid association, which took
care of the families of the men, to raise
a fund to be used in establishing the
three pardoned men in business.
CHOLERA advices from Mecca show
that there were 999 deaths from the
disease in that city on the Goth. This
is the largest number yet reported
during the present epidemic.
II. H. WYLIE, the cyclist, who rode
against the record from New York to
Chicago, finished his long ride on the
27th. His time for the trip was 10 days,
hours and 80 minutes. The record
before, made few days ago by Tom
Roe, was IL days, hours. A great
crowd of cyclists, armed with tin horns
and strong and lusty voices, was at
the finishing place to meet him.
AT Boston, on the 27th, Gen. Nelson
A. Miles was elected president of the
Society of the Army of the Potomac.
Horatio King, of Brooklyn, was chosen
secretary, Col. Samuel Truesdale treas
urer and Gen. George S. Sharp CORE
spending secretary.
WHILE Mrs. Inholsen, her two chill
dren and another child were attempt
ing to cross the Willard avenue cross
ing, Chicago, in a buggy, on the 27th,
a milk train on the Chicago, Bur1ing-
ton & Quincy road struck the buggy
and completely demolished it, killed
two children, badly injured their moth
er and fatally wounded the remaining
child.
RECTOR AHLwARDT, the notorious Jew
batter of the German reichstag, who
was reelected in two constituencies,
has again been convicted of ibeling
Prussian officials and sentenced to three
months imprisonment He is now serv-
ing out the sentence imposed on him
for libeling Herr tvon Lowe, the Jew
gunmaker. and German officials.
The Sycamore hotel at Lake George,
n. Y, was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the a7th. The flames were
first discovered at about 1890 o'clock,
and within three hours the building
was almost total ruin. Estimated loss,
$500. 600. No one was injured.
The passenger steamer Gothic, built
for the White Star Steamship Co., was
successfully launched at Belfast, Ire
land. on the 2Sth. She will saili the
Atlantic service of the company in the
autumn. but will ultimately be placed
IN the New Zealand traffic.
/ WALTER DARLING, aged 81, and Miss
Abb Wesley, aged 16. were drowned in
the Black river, near Watertown, n.
V, on the 2sth, by the capsizing of a
boat in which they were sailing.
THE jury in the case of Miss Julia
Force, on trial at Atlanta, Ga, for the
murder of her two sisters in February
last, returned verdict, on the 27th, OF
not guilty, by reason of insanity. Miss
Force will be taken to the state asylum
for the insane at Milledgeville.
THREE men attempted to hold up a
train on the San Antonio & Arkansas
Pass road, near Breckenridge, Tex, on
the 2sth, and in the fight which oc-
Cured Fireman F. w. Martin was in
stantly killed. One of the robbers was