Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-05

AFTER EiaIy delays the trial OF the
noted Glendale train robber. Marion
c. Hedgepeth, occurred at st. Charles,
Mo-, on the 2sth. It resulted in quick
conviction, and Hedgepeth was sem
fenced to twenty-five years imprison-
lnenu.
GRAND MASTER SARGENT, of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, of
Terre Haute, Ind, received a dispatch
from Cincinnati, on the 2sth, saying that
the men on the Big Four accepted the
proposition for reduced wages and that
the threatened strike was off.
THE Italian government has decided
to refuse to grant eXequaturs to all
Italian bishops nominated in the last
papal consistory because the pope re-
fused to recognize the right of King
Hum bert to nominate the patriarch OF
Venice.
BY the bursting through of the wa
tiers. of the Michigamee river into the
Mansfield mine, six miles from Crystal
City. Mich, on the night of the 2sth,
twenty-eight men. who were at work
directly under the bed of the river,
were drowned. Eighteen others who
were working in a lower lever, had a
narrow escape from the same fate. 1t
will be impossible to recover the
bodies of the dead except by diverting
the course of the river and then pump
ing out the mine.
IN the Ford's theater disaster case,
before Justice McComas, in Washing
ton. ID. c., on the Goth, the defendants,
Messrs. Ainsworth, Covert, Sasse and
Dant, withdrew their formal plea of
not guilty to the second indictment
and filed demurrer to it, substan-
tally the same as the one previously
entered to the first indictment.
The outlook for q peaceful settle
ment of the dispute between France
and Siam is said to be more hopeful.
THE paid admissions to the Worlds
fair, on the 30th. were Isl, 1857.
MOST important capture was made,
on the Goth. by Sheriff Fuller, near
Cullman. Ala, of Thos. Robinson, of
Livingston, Tex. Robinson is charged
with poisoning his wife, stepdaughter
and niece. He was tried, convicted
and sentenced to the Texas peniten-
tiary for term of years. Several
months ago he escaped.
REV. HERMANN TICKLE has been
pastor of the German Congregational
church of Dubuque, Ia. for twenty
five years. In commemoration of the
event his congregation, on the Goth,
prese nted him with a costly silver
service, and his wife with a purse of
money.
Two SURVEYORS, John Allen and son,
on the goth. ordered a cowboy settler
off his claim, near Alva, Okla, which
they said belonged to a Bohemian who
accompanied them. The cowboy shot
and killed both the Aliens, and was ar
rested. The bohemian took possession
of the claim. AT night mob lynched
him.
A NOVEL marriage ceremony was
performed at Niagara Falls on the
Goth. Walter $. Stewart, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, and Miss Minnie Weller, of
Allegheny, Pa, We're united in we'd
lock by Justice of the Peace Russell at
the entrance to the cave of the winds.
On the night of the Goth II fo:se Of
deputy marshals, twenty-five strong,
left Alva, Okla, to attack the gang of
Bill Dalton, which was said to be en-
camped near there. The marshals when
they left there expected to engage the
gang before morning.
A BUSINESS associate of Van Allen,
Cleve lands nominee for ambassador to
Italy, is credited with the assertion
that Van Allen has written to President
Cleveland declining the mission to
Rome.
Mrs. FRANK BRUCE. wife of the safe
blower who was sent up for nine years
at Terre Haute, Ind, has confessed
that Bruce, Red O'Brien and Henry did
the safe blowing job there, and that
O'Brien got away with the tools. The
police are now convinced that they
made mistake in releasing O'Brien.
IT is reported that the French have
given the island of Kohsamit, in the
gulf of Siam, which they took posses
sion of in June last, to Russia, in order
that the latter country may use it as
coaling station.
Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR MAcHEN
died in the asylum at Hopkinsville,
Ky, on the night of the goth.