Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-05-11
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
A JUDGMENT Of custer was rendered
by the supreme court of Kansas, on the
%, against w. NJ. Mitchell and George
4. Anthony, railroad commissioners
who refused to surrender their offices,
when removed by the executive coun-
cn, on the ground that they were
elected for three years.
BARON RICHARD PoEcKE, president of
the extensively circulated tourists
journal in Vienna called the Fremden-
blatt, tortured by the fear that he was
losing his eyesight, committed suicide,
on the I'd, by jumping from the fourth
story window of building. The
baron was so years of age, and was
well known.
JOHN HENDERSON, one of the most ex-
tensively-known young business men
OF Atlanta, Ga, committed suicide at
his home on the I'd. The news of the
awful tragedy created a sensation
throughout the city. Henderson hanged
himself with handkerchief to a door
knob. The only cause for his suicide
was dependency
A PETITION was filed for a writ of
habeas corpus, on the I'd, before Judge
Tuthill, in Chicago. by Mary Jane
Flussie praying for the release of John
-4uskie, 90 years of age, from the
Alexian Brothers hospital, where, the
petition alleges, he is held against his
will and for the furthering of the
schemes of one Father Clancy. Prop
erty valued at 5000, 900 Is said to be in
volved.
COMPLICATIONS are likely to arise be-
tween the governments of Russia and
the United States, owing to the refusal
of the Russian consul-general in New
York city to attach his signature to a
passport which Secretary Gresham had
issued to an American woman who de-
sired to visit Russia, because of her
Jewish origin.
THE Cincinnati police, on the I'd, ar
rested the Austrian forger, j. B. Adum,
who escaped from the custody of the
United States marshal in Chicago, April
90. He obtained $50, 900 from his grand
fathers bank in Austria by forgery.
Extradition papers have been issued.
VICE-PREsIDENT STEVENSON and his
family left Chicago for their home in
Bloomington. on the Sd, on account of
the severe illness of Mrs. Stevenson,
who was taken sick on the LIST, and was
not able to attend the dedication of
the Woman's building at the exposi-
ton, in which she was to have taken a
prominent part.
ISAAC PUsEY GRAY. the United States
minister to Mexico, arrived in the City
of Mexico on the I'd. A banquet in his
honor was given by the principal resi-
dents in the evening, eX-Minister Ryan
presiding.
PRESIDENT MASTER of the Column
bian works, on the I'd, submitted to the
navy department bills for extra work
| done on the cruiser Detroit which was
not included in the contract require
mentS.
THOUSANDS of immigrants are on the
ocean bound for America, and the rea-
son for the exceptionally large influx
| of future citizens is that the new immi-
grafton law went into effect on the Sd.
Storage passengers on all steamships
leaving all foreign ports on and after
May will be subjected to a new sys-
tenn of questions at Ellis island and will
come under the control of the new
board of inspectors.
| JOHN w. FoRNEY, JR., youngest son
of the late Col. John w. Forney founder
of the Philadelphia Press, died at his
home, on the I'd, after protracted i'll.
ness, in his fortv-seventh year.
| ROBBERS held up a Missouri, Kansas
& Texas passenger train. on the I'd, in
the Indian territory, but got only what
they could secure from passengers, the
express messenger foiling them by his
Remarkable pluck in refusing to accede
to their demands.
On the Sd 500 prominent London
brokers, headed by leaders bearing un-
ion jack flags and wearing union jacks
of paper in their hats in token of theil
devotion to the cause of the union and
their opposition to Irish home rule,
marched in procession from the stock
exchange to a union meeting in Guild
hall.
By the explosion of fifty sticks OF
dynamite in a blacksmith shop neal
Eel River station. south of Brazil, Ind.
on the Sd, three men were killed, the
remains of two of them being gathered
up in a basket.
THE total gold in the country, as esti
mated by the United States treasure,
in his official circulation statement, ag
gregates s613, ZOO, 900, of which s51s, 200,
600 is in circulation.
THE steamer Australia arrived at Sal
Francisco from Honolulu, on the Sd
bringing advices to April %. Paul Neu
man, who was among the passengers
says he came over m erely on privat
business.
FRANCIS, JOSEPH, emperor and king
paid 1ong-contemplated visit to Bud
Pesth, the Hungarian capital, on tn
Sd, and was royalty received.
THE roof of the large shed of tn
Northwestern Coal Co. at Milwaukee
fell without a moments warning, O.
the Sd, and seriously injured seve
men.
GEORGE TAYLOR, alias Haiti, VIII
i, had been on trial in Berrien Springs
Mich, for the murder of Miss Mar
Comely at Niles, last December, wa
found guilty, on the 4th, and sentence
to life imprisonment.
The condition of ]. c. McMulle1
vice-president of the Chicago & Alto
!, railroad, who was stricken with para
ysis on the goth u1t., was reported o
the 9Th, as being very much improved
On the 4th Messrs. b. L. Smythe
, Co., bankers and brokers, 81 Exchang
: place. New York, announced their IL
ability to meet their pecuniary oblig'
) tions. and suspended payment Sewers
other failures followed, the result of
general shrinkage in value OF stocks.
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