Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-23
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL .AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL sANO GENERAL.
On the 18th Maj.-Gen. Stabel re-
ceived medal recently awarded by
congress for conspicuous gallantry dur
ing the war of the rebellion.
THE 13-year-old SON of John Burgaff,
living two miles from Running Water,
5. D., took up a gun, on the 14th, for
the purpose of soaring two younger
brothers, and in the attempt to shoot
over their heads he blew the head off
one and dangerously wounded the 9TH
er. who will hardly survive.
GRAND army men at Hartford, Conn,
are indignant over the action of the
post at Wethersfield in burying with
grand army honors the body of Fran
els Gerharift, a convict, serving a SEN
tence of eight years for burglary.
HERR ERNEST Won PIONEER, the new
Austrian finance minister, says that
upon assuming office he found the
finances of the country in a favora BILE
condition.
NINE. MINcK, a noted socialist, was
sentenced at Lille, France, on the 18th,
to a weeks imprisonment for insulting
the police.
The net treasury balance, on the
18th, was sos. SIC. ITO, of which SS4, 49,
ISL was gold and s14, 422 ,O19 currency.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has decided that
the next maneuvers of the German
army shall be held in Silesia.
BARON KONIGSwAERTER, a million
aire of Vienna, died, on the 14th, of
apoplexy.
THE San Francisco Examiner dem
and Chronicle (rep.), in leading edito-
rails on the Hawaiian situation, call
for President'Cleveland' impeachment.
THE steamer Cauisteo, thought to
have been lost on Lake Michigan, ar
rived at her dock in Chicago on the
18th. While passing through the
straits she collided with another YES
sci.
ALLIANCE, O., came near being the
scene of a lynching OH the night of the
18th. A mob of angry citizens gath
cred. bent on summarily disposing of
Curt Davidson, who brutally murdered
Miss Birdie Baugh, near there, and
then attempted suicide. So demon
strative did the mob become that the
militia We're called out and the guard
at the Jail was doubled.
IT is authoritatively stated that I'M
less immediate and extensive repairs
are made to the Chicago board of trade
building, that structure may collapse.
THE coroner's jury rendered YER
Battle Creek, Mich, on the 18th, hold
ing Conductor Scott and Engineer
Wooley of train No. for murder in
the second degree.
THE safe in V. Rochon's saloon at
Iron Mountain, Mich, was cracked, on
the night of the l4th, and robbed of
$3.50.
JOHN w. HoGG, chief clerk of the
navy department, dropped dead at his
home in Rockville, Md, on the 18th.
AN entire family by the name of
from Pike county. Mo-, who
had settled near the Glass mountains,
80 miles east of Enid, Okla, persisted in
tine storm that ragged on the night of
the 14th. They We're living under
wagon, with no other means of protec-
of coyotes and gray wolves led to the
discovery of the unfortunate family.
THE Page flour mills of Fergus Falls,
Mimi, with a capacity of 600 barrels a
day, the 12O, 600 bushel elevator, 40, OcO
bushels of wheat, the coopershop, ware
house and large amount of stock
were burned on the 18th. The loss ON
the mill and elevator is $4,000, on
wheat and stock s25, ZOO. The insurance
on the mill is SIS. 200, on the stock s22.-
600.
AMELIA DARBY, who pleaded guilty
at Ottumwa, Ia, to murder in the sec
ond degree for killing Thomas Lloyd,
was sentenced, on the 18th, to fifteen
years in the penitentiary. She con-
fessed that she went to Keb, lured
Lloyd into the woods and killed him.
A. DRAKE, treasurer of the Indi-
ana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad Co., was
assaulted in his office in the Rookerv
Chicago, on the 18th, and
robbed of $40, 900, which he had packed
in a valise preparatory to going out
upon the road to pay employees.
On the 18th report was current in
Guthrie. Okla. that the Dalton gang
was preparing to make raid on the
Sac and Fox agency and Hoffman &
Conklin's store on its next payment
day. Deputy marshals were dispatched
to the place.
THE overland stage was robbed, on
the morning of the 18th, miles north
of Ukiah, Okla, by a lone highwayman.
The amount of treasure aboard it is i'm
possible to ascertain. The passengers
were unmolested.
GEN. JAMES MCDONALD, who for
nearly half a century was a conspicu-
GUS figure in public life as an editor,
secretary of the commonwealth and
adjutant-general, died at Richmond,
Va, on the 18th. He was born near
Lynchburg in 1924 Gen. Mcdonald
was brother of Hon. Alex. Mcdonald,
minister to Persia. Z
Mrs. ANNIE JOHNSON (colored), who
claims to be 103 years old, was fatally
burned at her home in Pittsburgh.
Pa, on the night of the 18th. Her
clothing ignited while she was stand
ing in front Of CRATE fire. Nettie
recently burned to death by
a lamp explosion, was her granddaugh-
ter.
DI14fHERIA, scarlet fever and small.
pox are epidemic in the vicinity of
Atchison, Kas., and part of the schools
have closed. There had been thirty
deaths from the diseases up to the 10th,
and the doctors were apparently help
less.
A CROWD of 200 to 500 seafaring men
blocked the sidewalk in front of 81
South street, New York, on the 10th,
where the work of engaging crews for
the Brazilian war ships Ell Cid (now
Mctheroy) and Britannia was in active
progress