Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-07
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


berland Presbyterian church at Ma
comb, ILL.,, died suddenly at his home,
o N the night of the 25th, of heart fail
ure. DIR. Brown was for twenty-four
years editor of the Cumberland Presby-
teriaQ, and a1terward became editor
of the Observer, published at St. Louis.
A few months ago he accepted a call to
the Macomb charge. He was about 60
years old, and leaves widow.
Gov. MCGBAw of Washington has
offered a reward of $500 for the arrest
of Samuel Fl. Hart, president of the
state bank at Buckley, who disap-
peared about the 10Th. leaving a short
age of 0,O90. It is claimed that Hart
is not his right name, and that he has
wrecked FIVE other banks during his
career. He formerly lived in Skowhe-
gan. Me.
GEN. SCHoFIELD, while in Washing
ton on army business recently, talked
enthusiastically of the new defense
Notifications at Sandy Hook which are
determine their adaptability for gen
eral use along the coasts of the United
States @
PRENDERGAsT, the murderer of Mayor
Carter Harrison of Chicago, was locked
up at Kinsley, Kas., for six weeks last
February, as dangerous lunatic.
THE closing down of the iron mines
in the upper peninsula of Michigan has
thrown thousands of men out of en-
Observation-Disclosures range all the way
from ~, 900 to Is, OO0-and caused great
restitution. Gov. Rich invited the
mayors of all the principal cities in
Michigan and leading men from the
upper peninsula to meet in Detroit and
take some action toward relieving the
distress.
A LARGE mass meeting was held at
the opera house in Terre Haute. Ind,
on the night of the Goth, for the purpose
of raising funds to relieve the great
distress prevailing among the unem-
ployed. Senator Voorhees, and ex-Sec-
rotary of the Navy Thompson addressed
the meeting. Senator Voorhees, prophe-
sled that within ninety days the great
er part of the present industrial de-
preston would be over.
WILLIAM w. MARMoN was found dead
in his bed at his home in Bloomington,
ILL.,, on the morning of the Goth. It is
belieyed he died from apoplexy early
in the night. He was 81 years old, and
had been engaged in the wholesale
drug business at bloomington for more
than forty years
THE tariff bill of 1898, prepared by
the democratic majority of the ways
and means committee, was submitted
to the minority, on the 27th, for their
information and consideration. The
repu blicans, under the rules, have ten
days in which to prepare their report,
at which time the majority report will
te finished, and the bill will then be
presented to the house.
A HEAVY shock of earthquake was
felt, on the 27th, at Montreal and many
other places in Canada.
HERBERT SKILES, colored, of Louis
vile, KY, is i'll of varioloid, which he
and his physician say he contracted in
a laundry where Pullman Car Co. lin
men was washed.
THE United States supreme court, in
an opinion read by Chief Justice
peal of james Lennon from the judg-
ment of the circuit court of the United
States for the northern district of Ohio.
This is the case growing out of the IA
nous strike last spring on the Toledo
& Ann Arbor railroad, in which Len
non, Lake Shore engineer, was fined
$50 for contempt of court in refusing
to haul his train because it contained
some Ann Arbor cars.
INDICTMENTS charging perjury, fraud
ulent insolvency and misdeameanor in
receiving deposits after the institution
was known to be insolvent, were found,
on the 27th, against the officers and di-
rectors of the Madison Square New
York; bank. Joseph F. Blaut, the
president, was indicted on two counts
for perjury.
The trial of Ed Marlkley, the bogus
foot-racer, at Fairfield, Ia, resulted in
a verdict of guilty, and he was SEN
fenced to- the Fort Madison peniten-
tiary for three years. This case was
account of the, prominence of parties
with it.
THE American bark Helen w. Ohm
reached San Francisco, on the s6th,
from Apia, Samoa, bringing news that
the schooner Fleur-de-Lis foundered
during the gale off Butaritari The
crew escaped in small boats
IT was learned, on the 2sth. that Mrs.
Balfour and her daughter had sailed
from London for Buenos Ayres to join
her husband, Jabez Spencer Balfour, late
of parliament, who is a fugi
tive from English justice. He became
mixed up in the fraudulent transac-
tions of several building societies, and
when the crash came fled to the Ar
gentine republic, where he is living in
style about 25 miles from Buenos
Ayres.
IT is rumored that starving miners at
Mich. are eating dogs. Gov.
Peck of Wisconsin, on the 2Sth, ordered
an investigation and gave instructions
that relief be forwarded from Hurley,
if the report should be found to be
true, until relief arrived from the
authorities.
BARON MANDERODE, chief of the Ber-
lin political police. was. on the 2sth,
charged to investigate the attempt to
Chancellor Won Caprivi by
an Internal machine sent from Orleans,
France.
THE president has appointed Col. E.
D. Otis, Twentieth infantry, to be a
in the army, to sue
coed Gen. Carlin, recently retired.
CAPT MARSHALL PERRY WILD, known
to almost every actor of note in Amer
lea, died at Portland. Me-, on the 2Stl,
very suddenly, aged 63 years. He was
the intimate friend and advertising
agent of Artemus Ward. He was also
the manager for Charles Dickens when
he made his tour of this country read
ing from his own work.