Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-06-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The most disastrous fire in the his
tory of Bedding, Mich, started at 1880
q m. on the Esd. Twenty-three build
lngs were destroyed, both sides of Main
street for distance of one square be-
ing swept clean. Edward Young and
Allen Armstrong were overcome by
their efforts in saving property and
died; loss, $50, 900.
ONE HUNDRED publishers, represent
ing the greatest newspapers of the
country and 500, O00, 900, opened the
Worlds fair meeting in Chicago of the
American Newspaper Publishers asso-
citation on the Esd. For two or three
hours they discussed the questions OF
cooperative insurance, of q standard
measure for types and other matters.
AN elaborate reception was given at
the Worlds fair by Commissioner Wei
muth, on the Esd, in the German gov
eminent building in commemoration
of the completion of the building. The
opening of the German government
building is only the forerunner of a
number of festivities connected with
| WIG OR(AAS Va oCA many . SAA4OACS Al oil
of the departments.
IT has developed through the local
agencies of the New York insurance
companies interested that John w.
Hillman, the principal in the famous
Hi1lman insurance swind1e of 1879, has
been located in the Sierra Madre noun
tains' in Mexico. He is constantly
watched by detectives, who will pro-
duce him whenever the time arrives to
do so.
REPORTS from forty-four of the sixty
three internal revenue districts show
that 5, 451 Chinese have registered. The
largest registration from a single dis
trict was in Colorado, where 1900 reg
istered.
THEoN TRowBRIDGE, "a years old, and
Mrs Able Carpenter, II years old, were
married at the residence of Mr.. Trow-
bridge, in Danville, Ia, on the Esd.
A LARGE portion of the town of Car
bondale, Col, was destroyed by fire
early on the morning of the 23d.
Twenty buildings were burned; loss,
$50. 600
Mr.. BERNARD GOoDE, of Detroit,
Mich, has been appointed superintend
ent of the dead-letter office, vice d. P.
Leibhardt, resigned.
THE French duke of Montmartecdied
in Paris on the Esd. He wore the
decoration of the Legion of Honor.
THE navy department., on the Esd,
completed arrangements for conveying
the Columbus caravels, the Santa Maria,
Pinta and Nina, from New York to Chi
cago. They will be lowed from New
York to the mouth of the St. Lawrence,
and from there to Chicago. The service
will cost about IS, 900.
A SYNDICATE was formed in New
York, on the Esd, to handle the $6,O00,-
600 worth of bonds which representa-
tives of the Cherokee Indians are en-
deavoring to place. The deal, it is an
nounced, will probably be consummat
ed when the details will be announced.
On the morning of the Esd decree of
divorce was granted James E. Layton
at Goshen, Ind. Within an hour he had
paid all costs in the suit to get the mat
ter closed up and had taken out a
license to marry Maggie Young. They
were married in the afternoon.
WILLIAM SULLIVAN, who, on the Esd,
pleaded guilty at Corunna, Mich, of
the murder of Mrs. Leech, was lynched
at night by a mob of 500 men. Just
before being taken from his cell
Sullivan attempted to commit suicide
by cutting his throat.
Two MAD dogs made their appear
ance in the neighborhood of Forty
eight and West Lake streets, Chicago,
on the Esd, and before they were killed
succeeded in biting over twenty per-
sons.
EDWARD CAss and Calvin Mathis were
arrested at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
esd, charged with stealing s12 900 from
the Palace Clothing Co. during the four
years of their employment.
ARTHUR w. CULVER, young unmar-
ried man of Seattle, WASH, fell from
the third story of the courthouse, in
course of erection at La Porte, Ind, on
the Esd, and died within few hours.
GAME CONSTABLE NICOLAS ScHIEss-
Ter died in horrible agony at his home,
in Sunnyside, Long Island City, L. l.,
on the Esd, after eating soup, which is
supposed to have been poisoned by
standing in a brass kettle.
The Catholic chapel on Mount CAL
vary, about mile west of st. Cloud,
the Esd, and burned to the ground.
Some time ago it was broken open and
the mass book stolen. 1t Is supposed
to be the work of some person who had
grudge against the church. i
THE Rock Island railroad officials say
they possess jewel in the person of c.
B. Jewell, the train dispatcher at Good
land, Kas. Mr.. Jewell in some way be-
came possessed of the secret of Mel
bourne, the rainmaker, and has been
experimenting with considerable sue
cess in the northwestern portion of the
state.
BY close vote, on the Esd, the ma
tional commissioners voted in favor of
opening the Worlds fair on Sunday.
The matter thus reverted to the local
directors, and unless the unforeseen
happens the gates will be open in fu-
ture on Sunday.
In compliance with a request from
the secretary of the interior the secre-
tary of war has prepared a list of army
officers who may be detailed as Indian
agents The purpose of the interior
department is to place army officers at
all agencies at which there are Indians