Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-05-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

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A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
CARLYLE W. HARRIS, convicted %
causing the death by poison of his girl
wife, Mary Helen Potts, died in the
electrical chair at Sing Sing On. "
prison on the sth. Seventeen hundred
and sixty volts of electricity were sent
into his body and death was instan-
taneous. On the brink of the grave he
declared his innocence of the crime.
JOHN w. HuLMAN, the hero and chief
consPirator of the famous 'tHillman in
surance swindle" of Kansas, has been
found on the Pacific coast, and has con-
fessed. For fifteen years his relatives
have been trying in the courts to prove
him dead in order to collect about &4O,-
600 insurance on his life. Several of
the persons implicated may have to an
swer charge of perjury.
II. b. WARNER, the well-known pat
emit medicine man of Rochester, N. Y,
made a general assignment in New
York city, on the sth, without prefer
ences- His liabilities are roughly esti-
mated at 81 ZOO, 600, but the assets are
not yet known.
THE British Imperial institute was
opened with brilliant ceremonies by
her majesty Queen Victoria on the 10th.
The sun shone brightly, it being what
the British call Queens weather"
This, 1t is said, will be the queens last
public appearance.
G. r. RUDDY, Indian trader among
the Winnebagos,l left Black River Falls,
on the sth, with four Indians for New
York city, where he went to give
an exhibition in the Indian department
of the New York Press club fair, under
the direction of Miss Ellen Sickles,
government Indian agent. He is to re-
turn later to take charge of an extern
sive Indian exhibit at the Worlds fair.
THE Iowa supreme court has decided
the acknowledgements case of the
Iowa Electric Medical college, holding
that the state board of medical exam
liners has the right to fix standards for
medical colleges.
The Gera, from Bremen. arrived at
New York, on the sth, with one case
of smallpox among her LAO steerage
lection. All passengers in the Storage
were vaccinated.
COMMISSIONERS BLoqNr has been ap-
pointed envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary to Hawaii.
QUEEN VICTORIA held a drawing
room at Buckingham palace ON the
9Th. Among the ladies received by her
majesty were a number of Americans
resident or visiting in London.
LORD WILLIAM PAULEr died in Lon
don on the 9Th. He was born July z,
1904. Lord Paulet was field marshal
in the British army and distinguished
himself in the Crimean war.
THE village of North Galveston, Ind,
was almost totally destroyed by fire
early on the morning of the 9th. The
residence of j. j. jackson, among 9TH
ers, was consumed, and the entire fam
lily. consisting of himself, wife, two
sons and a daughter, persisted in the
flames. Several other persons were
badly burned, and many made their
escape clad only in their night clothes.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's order shut
ting the White House door to Office
seekers is not without precedent, de-
spite assertions to the contrary.
Nearly eight years ago, on October 81,
Mr.. Cleveland issued similar state
ment, in which he not only said that he
would decline to see those seeking pub
lie positions, but their advocates as
well.
DURING the performance at theater
in Lemberg, the capital of Austrian
Galicia, on the night of the 9th, Herr
Delczuk, one of the actors, drew a re-
volver in full sight of the audience,
placed the weapon to his head and blew
his brains out. 1t was subsequently
learned that Herr Delczuk's act was
prompted by jealousy.
THE deposits of the exhibitors and all
foreign commissions involved in the
failure of the Chemical national bank
of Chicago will be guaranteed by the
Worlds fair directors and the citizens
of Chicago.
THE president has appointed j. Hamp-
ton Hoge, of Virginia, to be United
States consul at Annoy, China, vice Ed
ward Bedloe. of Philadelphia.
The newspapers of Rome assert that
Won Bulow, the Prussian minister to
the vatican, visited Cardinal Rampolla,
the papal secretary of state, and ex-
pressed surprise, in behalf of the
Prussian government, that his holiness
had departed from the customary linn
its of prudence in his recent political
remarks to the Catholic pilgrims from
Germany.
FIRE in the town of Spring Lake,
Mich, on the 18th, destroyed over fifty
houses, including one belonging to
Warren Gee, valued at $4,000. Two
the schoolhouse and the town
hall were also burned.
MATTHEW O'BR1EN was burned to
death and William Whalen was SO badly
burned that he will probably die, by
fire which destroyed the boarding house
of Mrs. Graham in New Rochelle, N.
Y, on the 18th.
A BOAT containing q party of six
young men engaged in spearing fish in
the lake of Lexington, Mich, on the
night of the 9th, capsized, and two Of
the party were drowned
GEN. EDWARD ID. TOWNSEND, for a
number of years adjutant-general of
the army. died at his residence in
Washington on the 18th.
A soUrH-BouND freight train on the
Ohio River railroad went of the track
at Walkers, w. Va, early on the morn
ing Of the 18th, falling thirty-five feet.
Five oil cars, the caboose and two cars
of general merchandise were burned,
Two men were killed, and another was
fatally injured.