Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-17

| ing Co., of Nashville, Tenn, with a
capital stock of 500, 900, did not open
on the morning of the 10th, but posted
! a notice on its doors stating that be-
| cause of inability to realize on collat-
eral the directors had concluded to sus-
pend.
THE Ohio Democratic state conven-
ton. in session at Cincinnati, on the
10th, nominated Lawrence 7. Neal, of
Chillicothe, for governor; William A.
Taylor, of Columbus, for lieutenant
governor, and a full state ticket. The
resolutions indorse President Cleveland
and reaffirm the silver and tariff planks
of the national platform of 1892.
THE Bank of England advanced it's
rate of discount, on the 10th, from to
per cent.
THE steamship Orizaba, which ar
rived at New York from Havana on
the 9th, brought $4,000 in Spanish
gold.
Hon. BENTON III. MCMILLIN. of Ten
nessee, was very much surprised
man, on the 10th, when Speaker Crisp
announced the new committee on rules
of the house of representatives. The
composition of the committee is the
same as it was in the last congress,
with one exception. Mr.. McMillin was
one of its members in that congress,
but he is eliminated from it this time.
His place is taken by Representative
Cultivate, of Ohio.
DIR. ROBERT BUCHANAN, convicted of
murder in having poisoned his wife,
Anna b. Buchanan, on April %, 1892,
will have to expiate his crime by death
in the electrical chair. Recorder
Smythe, of New York city, on the 10th,
denied the murderer's motion for new
trial. Buchanan's lawyers tried to up
set the verdict on the ground that Juror
Paradise was incompetent to arrive at
a verdict by reason of illness at the
time it was rendered.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. on the 10th,
pardoned Gen. Peter J. Claassen, for
merly president of the Sixth national
bank of New York. who was sentenced
March IS, 1891, to six years in the Erie
county penitentiary for wrecking that
institution. Gen. Claassen's partners,
Messrs. Pell and Simmons, were sent
to prison for similar term, but they
have. both been pardoned by Gov.
Flower. --
THE bad blood which was stirred up
couple of years ago by the action of
the Baptist council in Ottumwa, Ia.
passing derogatory resolutions against
Rev. Mr.. Crawford. then pastor of the
Finley Baptist church, eliminated, on
the 10th, in a big sensation. Rev. Mr..
Crawford asked damages in the dis
trict court to the amount of $50 for
SANDER.
NDS
brated their golden wedding anniver-
sary at the Delaware county Und.i
poorhouse on the 9th. They are each
over 90 years old, and Supt. Watson had
for them a special spread.
They have been inmates of the in
Urinary for nearly forty years.
UNITED STATES authorities left To-
peka, Kas., on the 10th, for Detroit,
Mich, with Edward Pickens. to place
him in the penitentiary there, where
he will serve life sentence for muir
der. In 1889, Pickens, after having
some words with man. followed him
several miles and blew the top of his
head off with shotgun.
A SMALL cyclone occurred at o'clock
on the afternoon of theS10th at Belpre,
Kas. Two houses were blown to pieces.
but SO far as learned no persons were
killed.
AIPENA, Mich, had a narrow escape
from destruction by forest fires on the
10th. The fire department was kept
on continuous duty, and men were
sent into the woods to fight the fire
back.
NJ. ]. SoNTAG, stepfather of John
Sontag. the dead outlaw. has declared
his intention to prosecute the slayers
of his son.
On the 18th COMMUNICATIVE Chief
Weissert, of the Grand Army of the
left San Francisco for the
east.
FIRE destroyed the Opaline fiber
works and four wooden buildings on
Quay street, Port Huron, Mich. on the
18th. The fiber works manufactured
collars and cuffs and had just
laid in IS. 900 worth of celluloid. Total
loss. SIS, 900: no insurance.