Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-23

BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
THE public debt increased during |
October IS, 141, 059.O1.
; SCHEIG and Floyd, the fugitive loot
ers of the Bank of Minneapolis, Mimi,
were arrested on board the steamer
Saale when she reached Southampton,
England, on the 18th.
JOHN w. DoANE, of Chicago, aud
Frederick r. Coudert, of New York,
have been appointed additional receiv-
ers of the Union Pacific railroad TO pro-
tect the interests of the government
L. z. LETTER, of Chicago, on the 14th,
notified the directors of the Columbian
museum that he will contribute $100.-
600 to the fund, provided the museum
is built and retained in jackson park.
UNABLE to appease the appetite of
hungry applicants for Office. it is said
that VIM. d. Bynum. member OF con-
gress from the indianapolis Una-s dis
trict, will retire at the end of his pres
ent term.
The crew of seventeen of the ship
Columbia, abandoned, dismantled and
leaking, on October 4, were eight days
without food or water before landing
at st. Martin island, West Indies One
of their number was lost.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL Lone, of
San Francisco, received a telegram
from Attorney-General Olney, on the
18th, instructing him to release the
fourteen Chinese whom he held Tor
violation of the Geary act
The family of Gottenreid Wolf, of
Cleveland, O., was found actually
starving, on the 18th, having eaten
nothing for four days The members
of the family, five of whom are chia-
dren, were in a terrible condition.
GEORGE A. RoETH, the man who
caused excitement at Delmonico's, on
the 18th. by firing fusilade of pistol
shots into and about the dining room,
was arrigned. on the 18th, and COM
mitted to the commissioners of chari-
ties for examination as to his sanity.
ACCORDING to the Chicago Tribune
of the 18th. Columbian guards are be-
ing enrolled at Jackson park to go to
Honduras, ostensibly to guard the prop
erty of the exposition which it is ex-
pected will be held in that country
next year. but in reality to assist the
reyOlutioniStS-
In replevin suit ut Eufaula, /. T..
on the 10th. between half-breeds over
a number of cattle. the defendant al
legged that he had traded his wife for
the cattle. The court held that it was
against public policy to allow a man to
trade his wife for cattle, and awarded
the plaintiff the animals.
CHICAGO, between the hours of and
6 a. m, is practically under martial
law, with the police force as garri-
son. Every person found on the
streets, outside the few whose business
is carried on all night, will be halted
by officers in plain clothes and re-
quired to give an account of himself.
IT is said that Helen Gould is en-
gagged to marry Actor Harry Wood
ruff, known in the profession as 1.-THE
Boy Ingenu." He is to abandon the
stage and spend two years at Yale
studying law at George Gould's ex-
pense before coming into possession of
his $40, GOO. 900 bride. The Gould fami-
1y deny the story.
AFTER the filing of a bill of special
findings, agreed on by both sides in
the Iron Hall case. Judge Winters, of
indianapolis, Ind, on the 10th, began
study of the case preparatory to Civ
ing his decision. Opinions differ widely
as to the outcome. The court intima-
ted that needy members of the or
der should not suffer by any delay on
his part.
In an unofficial trial trip, under
forced draught, on the 14th, over the
measured course between Cape Ann
Harbor and Cape Porpoise, which is
trifie less than forty-four knots long.
the United States cruiser Columbia
made the unprecedented speed of 22.s7
knots an hour, an excess of 1.S7 knots
over the contract requirement of twen-
ty-one knots an hour.
c. c. SHIELDS, 12-year-old Chicago
boy, confessed in court, on the 14th, to
having removed the burning fuse
thrown from the rear of the wrecked
suburban tram as a sign to the train
following, thus causing the wreck on
the Rock Island road at Eggleston. on
the sth, that resulted in twelve deaths
md iuinries tn thirty others
BUILDING INSPECTOR TooLEN made an
examination of the Chicago board of
trade building, on the 10th, and after
ward made a report in which he says:
''The tower has some cracks in its
walls. but they are not new ones. for
saw them four years ago. Each col
umn in the tower supports over 500
tons, and, of course, the walls have
sunken some. but / am pretty sure
there is no danger to any part of the
structure"
THE coroner's jury investigating the
collision on the Rock Island road at
Eggleston. Chicago, on the Sth, by
which twelve persons were killed and
thirty injured, returned a verdict, ON
the 18th, recommending that the con-
ductor. fiagman and collector of the
suburban train be held for mar
slaughter and censuring the Rock Is
land Railroad Co. for running trains SO
close together.