Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-05-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

MI W y AMI NV i LOs
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THERE is probably not much to choose
between the dowager duchess of Suther.
land and the people who are trying
to get wealth. Neither side is fight
ing her for hard-earned or Justly &C
privilege of immunity from incarcera.
ton once possessed by peeresses has
not been honored in her case indicates
the growth Of a healthy state of opinion
1t may lead few English people te
look into the sources Of the Sutherland
wealth.
THE smallest immigrant for age that
ever passed the immigration officials
was on Ellis island on the Gath. He
was Fritz Christen, % years old, a ma
tive of Switzerland, q cigar-maker,
with 800, going to Stony Creek, o. He
is feet inches high, with a head az
large as a medium-sized man.
In the New York court of oyer and
resentenced John L. Osmond, who was
convicted of killing his wife's para
mour, John C. Burchell, to be killed by
electricity during the week beginning
June -. Judge Ingram also sentenced
Mathew Johnson, the colored man who
was convicted of having killed Engi
neer Emil Kukelhorn on December {
last, to death by electricity during the
week beginning June 12.
JOSEPH ROUSE, a student at the uni.
versiy of the Northwest, and Carrie
Rouse, his sweetheart, were lodged in
Jail at Sioux City, IA, on the Gath, on q
charge of larceny. Carrie worked az
nurse-girl for family living in fash.
ionable clearinghouse and admits
stealing great many articles, which
she gave to Joseph. Property of con-
siderable value was found in Joseph's
possession.
DIR. c.. L. HUssEY, of Pittsburgh,
probably the wealthiest citizen of west
ern Pennsylvania, died on the 25th. He
was the pioneer in the copper business OF
the United States, having large inter.
ests in the Lake Superior regions, and
was the principal stakeholder in the
Chronicle-Telegraph Publishing Co.
MAYOR PINGREE of Detroit, Mich,
has unearthed big job in connection
with the proposed purchase by the city
of an electric lighting plant. 1t is said
that twenty-one councilmen have been
bribed by the company now doing the
lighting to defeat the proposed new
system.
RICHARD VERBYKE and Isaac Monroe,
stillmen at the Solar refinery in Lima,
O., were horribly burned, on the 25th,
by a still blowing off, The vapor took
fire, enveloping and fatally burning
the two stillmen. Monroe's eyes were
burned out.
THE bronze monument of Christopher
Columbus, erected by the Worlds Co
lumbar Exposition Co. on the lake
front at the foot of Congress street, Chi
cago, was unveiled, on the 25th, with
appropriate ceremonies.
MOST REV. HUGH CONWAY, D. D..
Roman Catholic bishop of Killalla, Ire
land, died on the 25th. He was conse'
Grated February Is, 1872.
ONE of the most violent tornadoes
that ever visited this country devas-
tated a strip eight miles long and
half mile wide, near Moore, Okla. on
the 25th. Thirty-three lives are known
to have been lost, and large number
of persons were injured. All the prop
erty in the track of the storm was de-
stroyed.
THE new comptroller of the currency,
James S. Ecl<els, of Illinois, on the Goth,
qualified and entered upon the dis
charge of the duties of his Office. His
bond of $500, 900 had been approved by
Secretary Carlisle some days previous.
Mr.. PowDERLY charges that Judge
Kicks, of Toledo, O., rides free on a
pass over the Lake Shore road, and says
that this is sufficient for his impeach-
ment and removal from the bench.
THE supreme court of Indiana, on the
26th, passed upon the appealed Iron
Hall case, and the decision handed
down affirms the action of Judge Tay-
lor in appointing receiver.
JOSEPH MARKHAM, member of the
Minnesota legislature, indicted for brib-
cry, was arraigned in the criminal
court at Minneapolis, on the Goth, and
pleaded not guilty. The case was set
1Or Trial on JuLe IL.
The Ottawa (Ont.) banks handling
United States silver certificates have
decided to accept them hereafter only
at discount of per cent.
A PROMINENT farmer living on Cali
fornia Creek, in Jones county, Tex, re-
ports the finding of a monster mastodon
on his farm while digging a well. The
find was encountered about Is feet be-
low the surface. A single tooth of the
monster measured 10 inches long and 5
by 10 inches over the crown surface.
On the 26th the president told Repre-
sentative Kilgore, of Texas, that there
would be an extra session of congress
next September. He also said that it
would be called to meet between the 1st
and the 18th of that month";
ALL the streets near the United
States legation house in Valparaiso are
being closely watched by Gillian police
and detectives. The authorities believe
that Blundlott Holly and others are
still being sheltered W United States
Minister Egan.
The German emperor had a narrow
escape, on the Goth, from serious acct
dent. He was being driven in a car.
rage to the railway station at Frascati,
about IS miles from Rome. The car
rage was overturned at a curve in the
road and the horses fell. The groom,
who was sitting behind, was thrown OFF
and the carriage was damaged. The
emperor was not injured.
THE Tomosachie bandits, who were
besieged near Van Vicente, Chihuahua,