Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TIE Tucker bill for the repeal of the
federal election laws was reported to
the house on the 18th.
MOREAU S. CRosAY, ex-state senator
and ex-lieutenant governor of Michi-
gan, died at Grand Rapids, Mich, on
the 12th, aged 81.
TRAIN robbers stopped the Atlantic
express train on the Lake Shore road
at Kessler. Ind, about midnight of the
18th. shot the engineer, James Knapp,
wounding him severely; broke into the
express car, blew open the United
contents, consisting of four packages,
valued at nearly $4,000. The passen-
gers were not molested.
WIN. ABRAHAM, member of parlia-
ment for the Hohdda Valley division of
Glamorganshire, Wales, who, by the
way, is the SON of working collier
and copper smelter, estimates thatt the
loss to the xvorkmen of South Wales in
consequence of the recent strike is the
sum of 81, SOC, 900 per week.
WIN. 3. GREGG. of Duluth, Mimi,
who after obtaining insurance to the
amount of $14, 900 on his life in various
companies, was believed to have been
drowned, was arrested. in Philadelphia,
on the 18th. together with an accom-
plice named John T. Clark, also of
Duluth, charged with fraud.
For the first time in many years the
number of people leaving the port of
New York for points in Europe exceeds
that of those arriving from abroad.
Since the first week in August the
steamship companies carrying Italian
emigrants have been overrun with ap-
plications for passage to their native
land.
THE Kansas Editorial association
left Topeka, on the 18th, for ten days
visit at the Worlds fair. There were
about 200 editors in the party with
their wives and families, making in all
about 500 persons. They were accom-
panied blythe Second regiment band of
Hutchinson.
GEN. FRANCIS DE MoRIELE, of the
French general staff, who was injured
by falling from his horse at Haute-
rieve, on the 10th, died from the effects
of his injuries on the 18th.
THERE has been a row among the
of Dublin over the proposed
visit to Chicago of Lord Mayor Hon.
James Shanlxs. The councillors voted
against allowing the town clerk. mace
bearer, sword bearer, etc., to accom-
pany the lord mayor. The latter visit,
therefore, will be private.
DEACON" STEPHEN V. WHITE is keep
ing up his reputation for honesty and
fair dealing. 1.-The Deacon" sent out
checks, on the 18th, to his creditors to
the amount of 25 per cent of his in
making a total of SO per
cent which he has settled since his sus-
pension three months ago. His
course has elected
many kindly expressions in Wall street.
HARRY MINER, the founder of that
branch of industry known as the
green goods" game, or, in palmer
words, the confidence game, died at
Bensonhurst, Long Island, on the 18th,
penniless. At the time of his death he
was police officer at a salary of $50 a
month.
THE Erie special Worlds fair excur-
sion train which left New York. on the
18th, in two sections of eleven cars
each, passed Salamanca, on the 18th.
in five sections of ten cars each with
/ ,S4S passengers
G. w. COLEMAN, a Columbian guard
at the Worlds fair, was run over by
switch engine, on the 18th, and both
of his legs were cut off. He died in a
few minutes.
The famous Gate City Guard, of At
lanta, Ga, was, on the 18th, disbanded
by the state authorities. This wipes
from the state roster one of the oldest
in the state and one whose
career in the war was notable. For
some time there has been great dis
among military men over
the military laws of the state, and
when the guard enlistment ran out the
officers found it impossible to re-enlist
men.
THE tariff hearing was continued be-
fore the ways and means committee of
the house, on the 18th, representatives
Of the glass industry having the floor.
The detectives searching for the
Lake Shore train robbers reported, on
the 18th, that the bandits left absolute
" NO clew behind them.
RxxxRr MALox. the well-known So
cialist author OF Paris, died on the
18th. aged Sc years