Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

D., 1aSCeu Sixty udVS. Inc emu OF neT
long abstinence from food came on the
10Th with the end of her life. She was
40 years old, and a member of one OF
the oldest and most respected families
of that section of New Jersey.
L. p. RYAN and wife. aged 81 and rs
respectively, were found dead, on the
morning of the 10Th, at their home, a
mile and a half from Winchester, o.
1t was apparent they had been MUIR
dered by robbers, though they had
little to tempt burglars.
MARSHALL FIELD, the Chicago mill
lionaire, created a sensation in the
Waldorf hotel, on the evening of the
10th, by kicking a professional beggar,
who had just threatened violence to a
gentleman who declined to give up,
into the street.
DAVID c. SMITH, of Pomeroy, popu-
list candidate for the Ohio legislature
last fall. assigned, on the 10Th, with
heavy liabilities. He was the owner
of a large Touring mill and much real
estate.
The urgency deficiency bill was
passed by the house of representatives
on the 10th.
IRWIN MoYNER, young farm hand
near Mulberry, Ind, was found dead
in the woods on the night of the
18th. He had been on a debauch, lost
his way and froze to death. Five hun
dred dollars in cash was found in his
pockets. Moyner was unmarried and
employed by David Bolyard, wealthy
farmer.
THE body of John Grayson, a peddler,
was found, on the morning of the 10th,
near Perkins, Okla. There were six
bullet holes in the body, and on the
breast of the dead man was pinned the
placard death to Informants." The
tragedy is shrouded in mystery.
THOMAS b. BARNETT. the reckless and
desperate street robber, who was shot
in Kansas City, Mo-, on the morning of
the 18th, by Jacob Barnes while in the
act of robbing Isaac Thompson, a ne
gro, died at the city hospital on the
10Th.
WARD BRIGGS. a young man whose
home is in Pratt, Kas., attempted to
commit suicide at Wichita, Kas., on the
10th. by cutting his throat with a COM
mon pocket-knife. His parents are
quite wealthy, his father being the
senior member of the firm of Briggs
Bros, who own a large dry goods
store as there is in western Kansas.
Young Briggs is victim of drink.
THREE Ironwood (Mich.) policemen
are under arrest charged with stealing
flour and sugar from public relief
stores Six hundred pounds of flour
and 100 pounds of sugar were stolen,
nd no fr.oo cd fn
Four young people skating on Choco.
late lake. miles from Halifax, N. s.,
on the 10Th, broke through the ice and
were drowned. Three were named
Doyle, two boys and a girl. The
fourth was a boy named Neill from the
industrial school. Mrs Doyle nearly
lost her life in attempting to rescue
her children.
FIRE. on the night of the 18th. in the
Hall & Hayward Co.'S candy and
cracker factory at Louisville, KY. de-
stroyed property to the amount of $50,
900. The fire is supposed to have orig
| mated in the hot air shaft. The fac
| tory was the largest of its kind in the
south.
| Miss MARTHA HUMBERT, an 1S-year
old girl of Lafayette, Ind, ward OF
Barney Spltzna9ie, a prosperous bust
ness man, together with her sister, AID
die, of Monticello, Ind, has fallen he'll
to an estate valued at S150.000 by the
death<of an uncle. William Harrington
n South Dakota farmer. A portion OF
1.-THE legacy, q handsome amount of cash
has been received.
| AFTER brief but successful specula
tive career in Wall street Louis Raphae
Morgenthau, who is said to have been
the son of wealthy London wine mer
chant, wound Iup n debauch shortly
after midnightNon the 10th, by send
ing a bullet through his brain in .hs
bedroom of his apar tments in New
! York city.
JAMES NJ. DoYLEA late cashier of the
mint at New Orleans, was indicted, on
| the goth, by the federal grand jury, fol
the embeZzlement pf $4,000.
| SAMUEL SINCLAIR, publisher of the
New York Tribune from 1858 to 1872
| died at his home in New York city
on the Goth.
| THE socialist, Moore, who wounded
NJ. Lockrey with ta revolver on Angus
| 12, was sentenced. on the 21st, at the
Se;pe Nassizes, I'M Paris. to six years
TNrvitude. b be followed will
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