Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-06-01

ArtOn, the Panama lobbyist, was sen.
fenced in default to twenty years penal
servitude for frauds in connection with
the Dynamite society, and to five years,
civil degradation and the payment of
400, 600 francs fine for his unlawful and
dishonest practices in his relations to
the Panama Canal Co.
LAWRENCE DEvINNEY, IS years of
age, an oiler employed at the Oil Well
Supply Co.'s rolling mill. at Pittsburgh,
Pa, was literally torn limb from limb
and instantly killed, on the oath, his
clothing becoming entanglod in a
swiftly-revolving shaft He leaves q
large family.
THE Winter Wheat Millers' league
convened in Toledo, O., on the oath, in
its first annual meeting, with much
business of consequence to the milling
trade pending before it.
CzERNowIrz, town of Austria, capi-
tai of the duchy of Bukowipa, was Wis
tied, on the 24th, by disastrous floods.
Five persons are known to have been
drowned.
THE great kissing case which has oc-
cupied the attention of the Montgom-
cry ind circuit court came to close
on the oath, at Charlottesville. John
Doherty, young society man, was
charged with stealing kiss from Miss
Lovey Surface, his aunt's maid. The
case was one of uproarious fun from
start to finish, and seventy-five wit
nesses were examined. The jury found
Doherty guilty and fined him 500 and
costs. Doherty paid and at once left
for the west.
FREDERICK SEITZ, poor man, par
tally blind, wanted to give his share
to the mass of relics which are to be
cast in the Columbian liberty bell, at
Allentown, Pa, and turned over half
penny of s1s09. He did not know its
full value. The coin is quoted by
numismatist at $50. and it was accord
ingly returned to Seitz. He feels like
millionaire.
Two CHILDREN of Frank Manager, of
st. Claire, Blue Earth county, Mimi,
met terrible death on the gath. The
servant was filing the gasoline tank
while the stove was burning, when an
explosion occurred. The children were
burned to death.
A COMPANY has been formed in New
York to engage in the business of rails
ing sunLen vessels by a novel method.
Large rubber bags will be placed in the
hold of a vessel by divers, connected by
hose with air-pumps on floats on the
surface, and air will be pumped into
them until they have sufficient buoy
ancy to float the vessel.
FIVE HUNDRED feet of stable sheds in
Garfield park, Chicago, together with
h 1S nd cd h
horses, were burned at a. m. on the
18th. The park is being used by a band
of Arabs in giving performances similar
to those of the wild west show.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
DunkirlS, O., on the Fort Wayne road
on the 25th. Seventeen cars were
piled in every direction and traffic was
blocked. 1t is reported that several
trainmen were killed.
The Superior glass works at Allie
gheny, Pa. were wrecked and after
ward burned, on the a5th, by an explo-
sion caused by an overheated heater.
Several persons had narrow escapes,
but no one was killed.
The president has committed to i'm
for life the death sentence
of Edward Pickens, a full-blooded
Choctaw Indian, who was convicted of
in the district of Kansas.
THE wife of Tony Mullane, the base
ballist, has entered suit for divorce and
alimony, charging him with personal
abuse of the most despicable character
and with failure to support.
THE Infanta Eulalie left Washing
ton, on the 25th, on special train for
New York.
PROF. MOSES G. FARMER, of Boston,
,ne of the pioneers in the modern APP
elication of electricity to industrial
uses. died in Chicago, on the 25th. Of
aged IS years
ANNA WAGNER, a German servant
girl employed in the family of William
Koesters, of Indianapolis, Ind, five
of which have died under sus-
oicious circumstances during the past
three months, was arrested, on the
18th, on suspicion of having poisoned
hem. Circumstances point strongly to
The girls guilt.