Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-28

A GANG of fifteen tramps held up and
robbed deputy sheriff ard two
policemen at Oskaloosa, Ia, on the
21st, of all their valuables. One tramp
was fatally shot and the deputy was
badly bruised. The town and vicinity
being badly overrun with the vaga-
bonds. the militia was called out TO
protect the place.
III. 2. LUCAS. known all over the
trotting-horse world as Pike" died,
on the 10th, at Baltimore, Md, aged
A. Pike contributed many articles
to the sporting jour nails of the country.
On the goth the house committee on
territories authorized a favorable re-
port on the bill providing for the adj
mission of Oklahoma as state.
THREE men were killed in the mine
workings OF Oak Hill colliery at Della
ware, near Minersville, Pa, on the
21st. by d large body of water break
ing into the gangway from an old
mine in Black valley that was aban-
doned sixty years ago and allowed to
fill with water.
THE cruiser New York was success
fully locked at the Brooklyn navy
yard, on the 21st, with all her guns
and nearly 400 tons of coal aboard.
Ex-Gov. ALFRED H. LITTLEFIELD died
at his home in Lincoln, r. l., on the
21st, of a complication of lung dis
eases.
On the 21st President Wilson of the
health board estimated the number of
New Yorls's unemployed at 1900.
On the 21st, in the British house of
commons, Mr.. Gladstone announced
that the duke of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha
(the duke of Edinb urgh) had renowned
his English annuity of e15,000 con-
ferred upon him by the act of 1866, and
that he retains his annuity of 500
conferred upon him on his marriage in
1878.
The Portuguese consul at Liverpool
received information, on the 21st, that
two Shipowners named Bouchimal, for
merly in business in Liverpool and at
Manchester, who are now making their
headquarters at Rio de Janeiro. have
| been sentenced to be shot by President
Peixoto for carrying insurgents upon
| one of their steamships.
ALLAN COUSINS was privately exc
cuted in the county Jail at Knoxville.
| Tenn. on the 21st, for the murder OF
his wife last May. On the gallOws he
confessed everything. and said he was
ready to go to his home in Heaven.
Death resulted from strangulation III
sixteen minutes. He informed those
present that he had killed five people
in Mexico.
SECRETARY HERBERT, on the evening
of the 21st. gave out his decision in the
case of Commodore Stanton. detached
from command of the South Atlantic
squadron for saluting Mello in the
harbor at Rio. The secretary restores
Stanton to duty and assigns him to the
command of the North Atlantic squad
ron.
AT a banquet given in his honor in
New York, on the night of the 21st,
Robert Bonner was presented with a
silver statuette of the trotter Sunol,
attached to Il sull>y and driven by Mar
vim The statuette is 26x16 inches and
made of silver dollars except the base.
from the leading breeders of trotting
horses
JOHN !. VAIL, cashier of the wrecked
Commercial bank of Brooklyn, was ar
rested at his home, on the 21st. on the
charge of perjury contained in an in
dictment presented to Judge Moore, of
the court of sessions, by the Kings
county grand jury.
THE soldiers home at Leavenworth,
Kas.. is so crowded that over 100
veterans have been obliged to sleep on
the floor. Ex-Congressman Morrill,,
the local director, is on the ground and
doing the very best he can for the old
vets There are nearly $500 in. the
home now. I:
Hon. HUGH MCCURDY, of Corunna.
Mich, grand master of the Knights
Templar of the United States. was mar
ried ut Charlotte, Mich, on the 21su, to
Miss Emma Goodrich.
THE jury at Denver, Col, in the case
of Col. +. J. Brennan, charged with be-
ing the leader of the mob which, in
July last, brutally lynched the Italian
Dan Arata, returned a verdict. on the
a1st, of not guilty, after having been
out eighteen hours.