Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-26

CAPT. HUGH L. ROGERS died at For.
Smith, Ark, on the night of the 18th.
aged 50 years. Fifty years ago he was
a prominent turfman and owned hals
interest in Peytonia, which ran Sec
ond in the Peyton stakes at Nashville
in 1874. He was captain of the steamer
Osprey that carried the Mormons away
from Nauvoo, Ill.
A BALTIMORE & Ono engine collided
with Big Four freight train at Cum
minsville, o., on the 10th. Seven cars
were smashed and one loaded with
$500 worth of fireworks caught fire and
exploded, driving away the fremen
who attempted to extinguish it. No
one was injured.
On the 18th Charles H. Wells, the
millionaire lumberman and capitalist,
while out with a hunting party of
friends on Bow String lake, Mimi, was
drowned by the upsetting of his canoe.
A STORY was published in Denver,
Col, on the 10Th, on the authority of
Charles N.~Chandler, of Thompson Gen.
ter, Conn.,, that when the casket sup
posed to contain the remains of DIR. T.
Thatcher Graves, charged with the
murder of Mrs Barnaby, was opened
prior to interment, it contained nothing
but log of wood.
EARLY on the morning of the 10Th a
battle between officers and burglars at
Lincoln, Neb., resulted in the killing
of thief named Charles Ryan, alias
Daley. Ryan and two companions ran
sacked jewelry store and were met
at the entrance of an alley by the Off
GERS, and the battle began. The other
two were captured.
REV. WILLIAM PETIT, the wife MUIR
derer, was granted a new trial, on the
10Th, by the Indiana supreme court.
He was sentenced to the penitentiary
for life, and died there just before he
heard of the courts decision.
THOMAS w. DEWITT, Ohio superin-
tendent of the Wells-Fargo Express
vestigating the shortage of Orchard,
the absconding clerk, completed his
work on the 10th. and reported that
little over $1,000 had been taken.
TwENrY-sIx persons were killed
many of them being pinioned in the
wreck and cremated-and large num-
Der of others were more or less injured
by head-end collision at Battle
Creek, Mich, early on the morning OF
the Goth, on the Chicago & Grand
Trunk railroad, between a west-bound
Pacific express and an east-bound
Worlds fair special. Disobedience OF
orders by train officials caused the ac
cident.
PATRICK KANALEY died at st. 10
seph's hospital, Syracuse, N. Y, on
the 10Th, being choked with sponge,
which an attendant let slip down his
tation of his legs.
THE Farmers Loan and Trust Co. of
New York has begun a foreclosure
suit at Milwaukee against the North
ern Pacific on second general and con-
solidated mortgages.
ANOTHER riot between Hindoos and
Mahommedans occurred at Calcutta,
on the Goth, the trouble growing out OF
an attack by Hindoos upon Mahom-
medan mosque.
The majority of the Costa Rica cab
met favor refusing the extradition of
the embezzler Weeks until treaty is
with the United States.
The senate, on the 10Th, by a vote of
SO to %, confirmed the appointment OF
J. j. Van Allen to be ambassador tc
Italy.
PAID admissions to the Worlds fair
on the 10th were 256. s44.
SIR ANDREW CLARK, a celebrated
was stricken with paralysis,
on the 10th, at his residence, 16 Caven-
dish square, London. He was talking
with patient, when he suddenly fell
THE remains OF ex-Congressman John
X. Luttrell, United States commits
sioner of fisheries for Alaska, who died
at Sitka. October 4, arrived at Port
WASH, on the 10Th, in
charge of his wife and son, en- route
east, via San Francisco.
PROF. SMITH, of Cincinnati, says he
will appeal his case to the general as
sembly of the Presbyterian church, not
for any personal advantage. for he is
as to what the church may
do with him, but to make the way
easier for the next hereto placed on
trial.