Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09

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BY ELI d. AXE.
IRoNTON. MISSOURI
The Bigelow carpet mills of Boston,
employing 1,l00 hands, shut down, on
the Sd, for an indefinite period because
of lack of orders.
The second trial of ex-Detective Dam
lei Ccoghlan for alleged completely in
the murder of DIR. Cronin, on May :,
1889, was begun il Chicago on the 3d.
ON the night of the 3lst the Liberty
Bell left Chicago on its return to Phil
adelphia, never more, it is said, to be
removed from the City of Brotherly
Love.
PRINCE ANTONIO of Orleans, husband
of the Infanta Eulalie, and lieutenant
colonel in the hussar regiment ''Prin-
cess" will join the Spanish troops at
Melillo.
The senate amendment to the silver
purchase-repeal bill was passed by the
house, on the 1st, and one hour and
thirty-five minutes later was signed by
the president and became law.
DURING the closing ceremonies in the
Woman's building at the Worlds fair,
on the 31st. it was announced that Pot
ter Palmer had given 5000, 600 to erect
a woman's memorial building on the
lake front in Chicago.
TWENTY-FIVE miners cottages, be
longing to the Monongahela Coal Co,
at Monongah, w. Va, were destroyed
by fire, on the I'd, entailing loss of
about $4,000. Most of the occupants
lost all they possessed.
Hon. MORRIS MCDONALD. ex-mayor
of New Albany, and one of the most
prominent men in southern Indiana,
was stricken with heart disease, on
the LIST, and died a few minutes later.
He was Sc years of age.
ALL that was mortal of Carter II. Har-
rison, late mayor of Chicago, was laid to
rest, with imposing ceremonies and at
tended by the largest funeral pageant
ever witnessed in the west, in Grace
land cemetery on the 1st.
PRINCE ALFRED GRAFT,
whom Emperor Francis Joseph desired
to succeed Coun. Taafe as Austrian
prime minister. has announced that,
owing to important family considera-
tons, he is unable to accept the Office.
PATRICK EUGENE JOSEPH PRENDER-
CAST, the murderer of Mayor Harrison
of Chicago, was arraigned in court on
the I'd and pleaded not guilty. The as
sassin was so nervous when led to the
bar of justic that he almost collapsed.
IT took nearly five hours for the pro-
cession of Cincinnati school children to
pass the car upon which rested the Lib
erty Bell. in that city, on the I'd, and
when they were gone the car and bell
were hidden from view under a noun
tain of flowers.
A CRANK entered the Office of Edwin
Gould, in New York. on the 3Oth, and
demanded, instantly, $1,000. Mr..
Gould stepped into another room, tele-
phoned for assistance and then enter
tanned his visitor until officers arrived
and took him into custody.
REPRESENTATIVE AMOS CUMMINGS, of
New York, was taken suddenly ill
while in the bathroom in the base
ment of the capitol on the night of the
S1st. He had three congestive chills
and was removed to his hotel. No seri-
Gus apprehensions were telt.
FRED L. MATTHIAS, superintendent
of construction of the new build
ing of the Postal Telegraph Co. at
broadway and Murray streets, New
York, was shot in the abdomen, on the
s0tn, and probably fatally wounded, by
a crank laborer named Francis Brad
ley.
THE Midway plaisance fakirs from
the far east, of various tribes and
tongues, will carry home about 81 ,0O0,-
600 as their harvest for the six months
of the Worlds fair. AT least $40, 600 in
money, lead quarters and
notes were passed upon
them.
PRENDERGAsr the murderer of Mayor
Harrison in Chicago, is having a rough
time in Jail. The other prisoners have
taken to using every opportunity to
jeer at the wretch, and shrieking inn
at him, so that exercise out
side his cell has been made practically
an impossibility.
THE reorganized national German
American bank. of st. Paul, Mimi,
which closed its doors during the finan-
cial stringency, August 4, reopened on
the 31st- Since its failure the bank
had made collections aggregating $780,
600. nearly 600. 600 more than required
by the comptroller.
SENATOR SHERMAN was accorded an