Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-05-25
NEWS And NOTES.

MEMS and NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
0EoR1E 81. ABBOTT. alias Frank Z.
Army, the murderer of Christie War.
den, July IL, 1891, was hanged in the
jail yard ut Concord, N. H., ON the 10Th
MsHERMEN found Q badly decomposed
body in the Hudson river In the vicini-
ty of Sing Sing, n. Y, ON the 10th,
which proved, ON examination. to be
that of Pallister. one of the two con-
demned murderers who escaped from
the prison 1t Sing Sing, q few weeks
ago. Both are now accounted for,
Roehle's body having been found sew
eral days before.
FoRMAL charges have been fled
against ex-Commissioner Of Patents
Simonds and Foster q Freeman, the
Warrington attorneys for the Bell
Telephone Co., alleging improper in
spection of the secret files in the cele-
brated Drawbaugh telephone cases,
and the unlawful taking Of copies
thereof for the private use of Simonds
and of the Bell Telephone Co.
The Rio Grande river was reported,
on the nth, to be out of its banks and
doing much damage both in Mexico
and Texas Thousands of acres Of bot
tom land were inundated, and the losses
OF cattle and horses were very heavy.
The Matamoras branch of the Mexican
National railroad was washed away in
many places Several lives had been
lost.
Lou TRENsK, who murdered Henry
Faedler, on the 9th, was hanged ut
Brownstown. Ind, at o'clock on the
morning OF the 10th, by . mob from
Seymour, the lynching party being
composed OF the same men who hanged
Turiey, 1t Bedford, on the 18th.
LATER particulars from the great FIRE
in KAN La, China, state that over 1000
lives were lost While the lire was rag
ing band Of weI-dressed Chinese, un-
known to the natives, rushed in and
seized the best-looking young women
and girls to the number OF thirty or
forty, and carried them away.
THE government OF Queensland has
proclainaeo MONDAY 1or one month IN
the COLO neios, In order 70 enable mine
owners ana others embarrassed as 70
their business Dy the recent natures to
make new arrangements as 20 their
nnancial anairs.
SECRETARY nEhBERf mas issued an
ofoer orecting Lieut-Com. heeoer, at
present. IN command OF tne Santee at
the navai academy 10 report 1or outy
as executive omcer on the Cnarleston'
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neaus. Vs. on .ne i'tn' ana 1ounoereo.
oesen Ien anu .wo women' VINO were
On ooalu' "ere "neo.
NohwneiA Ms attended the WORLDS
ialr py the thousands on the l1tn. ihey
went 70 celebrate the dedicatlon OF the
Norwegian Duiloing at the 1ar ana 70
commemorate C the separa1a OF the
norwegian Aingoom from tnat OF Len
marx.
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AinR Alfonso a.
a THHkE-AAsTED SCHOONER was seen
70 go down In Lake Er1e ABOUT Two
mhes west OF oonneaut' ", on the
night OF the 18th.
AusTRALIANs who nave exnlolts at
the Worlds fair are beginning to feel
the serious effects OF the recent bank
failures In that country Chicago
banks, they claim, Will not honor their
letters OF credit on account OF the un-
sound condition OF the Australian insti-
buttons.
PATRICK MORGAN, OF Betnlehem. Pa,
was arrested in Philadelphia, on the
18th, for stealing bull dog and the
game cocks belonging to DIR. Elwood
Worcester, chaplain OF the Lehigh uni
versity. DIR. Worcester has the finest
fighting pups and game chickens in
Bethlehem.
The schooner Pelican foundered on
the piers at Ashtabula, O., on the night
of the 18th. Three of her crew OF seven
men were drowned, and one of the res
cued was badly injured.
A DECISION has been rendered by the
United States general appraisers in the
case of the Buffalo Natural Gas Fuel
Co against the collector of customs at
Buffalo, N. Y, by which imported nat
ural gas is pronounced to be crude min
eral, exempt from duty under the pro-
visions of the statutes.
R. ii. DUTToN sergeant of Co. e, Sew
enteenth infantry, killed himself at
Fort Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyo., on
5<fe 17xh He waited fiji ALI others had