Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-01-05
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mr.. JOHN /. WOODS, wealthy retired
lumber dealer at Cleveland, O., gave
$125. 900, on the Goth, to the medical
college of Western Reserve university
as Christmas present The univer-
sity has received during the past two
years gifts amounting to $400, 900.
A STONE business block in Fort Col
Inns, Col. was burned on the night of
26th, causing loss of s4s. 200. with 81, 900
insurance. Chase & Bells livery stable,
containing two horses valued at g. 900,
was also burned.
THE Orphans home at Crawfords-
vile. Ind, was destroyed by, fire on the
night of the 26th. Loss, $2S. 600, with
only Is, 500 insurance. There were
many narrow escapes, some of the chill
dren being taken from the building in
their night clothes. while others were
only rescued at great peril
JOHN ID. RoCKEFELLER gave as q
Christmas present to the Chicago uni
versity one thousand 81, 900 bonds as an
addition to its endowment fund. This
makes s., 600. 900 given by Mr.. Rookie
Teller to that institution.
MAMIE JoHNEs. of Cincinnati, re-
ceived q Christmas gift she will remem-
Der all her life. Eight weeks previous
she suddenly lost her voice and had
been speechless since. Christmas day
her voice came back.
The Roman Catholic cathedral at
Mullingar, Ireland, was broken into by
robbers, on the evening of the Goth. and
the Christmas offertory, amounting to
over el0o, was carried away by the
thieves The discovery was made when
the clergyman went to count the money
and found it was missing.
FOUR cases of smallpox were re-
ceived at the Riverside hospital, New
York. on the 27th.
JOHN DUss, a former trustee. has
been elected by the board of elders
Economy, Pa, to succeed the late
Father Heinrich.
ACCORDING to advices received from
no longer any doubt that Baron de
Reinach was deliberately murdered by
some persons connected with the Pan
anna canal scandal to whom the baron
living was a menace.
IT is improbable that Lizzie Borden
will be arraigned for the murder of her
father and step-mother at Taunton,
Mass, until the attorney-general. who
is ill, is able to attend court.
THE dreibund nations, Germany, Italy
and Austria, regard the situation in
France as menacing the peace of Eu-
rope. and are exchanging frequent
notes on the subject They have de-
cided to hold themselves in readiness to
act promptly if the necessity arises
WHILE Charles Griffith was watering
his herse at public tank in Ottumwa.
Ia, on the 27th, he was kicked in the
head and fatally injured. His wife
was injured in a street-car wreck a
short time ago and was awarded heavy
damages
The official statement of CALIFORNIA;
vote at the last election was given out
on the 27th. 1t shows that one Harri-
son and eight Cleveland electors were
chosen. The vote was in favor of the
direct election of a United States SEN
ator by the people by over 10000 ma
jority.
THE Berlin Tageblatt published q
dispatch from Nice, ON the 27th, saying
that Count Peter Romanof became in
volved in a quarrel with Brooklyn IN.
" man at the Casino gambling tables.
on the night of the 2eth, and that the
two fought duel with pistols on the
shore that morning, the count being
killed.
SIX persons are known to have been
killed outright and many others were
injured by an explosion of dynamite in
the yards of the New York & Long Is
land Tunnel Co., in Long Island City,
on the 2Sth. The disaster was caused
by careless attempt to thaw frozen
dynamite.
LoRrNG PICKERING, one OF the pro-
prietors of the Morning Call asd Even
ing Bulletin of San Francisco, died in
that city, on the 2Sth, aged 81 years.
INTEREST in the new gold discoveries
in southern Utah is at fever heat in
the mining communities of the west,
and is growing every day.
AT o'clock on the morning of the
2Sth fire was discovered in the Milwau-
kee Street Railway Co. IS shops. which
destroyed the entire plant, entailing a
loss of 100000. Like the other terrible
fires with which Milwaukee has been
visited recently, this one was appar-
emily of incendiary origin.
THE body of R. j. Cults. postmaster
of Ardmore, l. T., who mysteriously
disappeared about a week previous,
was found frozen in the ice in one of
the culverts of the Santa Fe railroad,
near the depot, on the morning of the
27th. A shortage in accounts, together
with hard drink since the election and
domestic troubles, are supposed to have
driven him to suicide by morphine.
ORANGE JUDD, the widely known edi-
tor of the Orange Judd Farmer, of Chi
cago, and a pioneer western journalist,
died on the 27th. Death resulted from
hemorrhagic complication known as
Nerlthoff's disease. He was 20 years of
age.
Gov. RUSSELL of Massachusetts,, on
the 2sth, signed the pardon of James
Dunlap, the Northampton bank robber,
who has served twelve years of a twen-
ty years sentence for that famous
crime.
JOHN MOORE, of Cascade, Ia, was in
stantly killed by falling on a sidewalk,
on the 2sth. and fracturing his skull.
MURDERER WILLIAM McEwAN, who
coaxed to his home, in Glasgow, Scot
land, one night last October an unfor-
tunate woman, and murdered and hor-
ribly mutilated her, was found guilty.
on the 2Sth, and sentenced to death.
ORDERS have been given to German
army officers of Berlin not to supply
sentries with ball cartridges after the
end of the present year. The step is