Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE big tannery at the town of
Sand Bank, n. Y, was burned to the
ground on the night of the 18th. The
loss is 100000. 1t was owned by Lane
Bros, of Boston, and employed 100
men.
SHORTLY after p. m. Of the 18th DIR.
Arthur Duestrow, son of the late mill
lionaire Granite Mountain capitalist
Louis Duestrow, residing in ST. Louis,
shot his wife and infant son at their
palatial home, mortally wounding the
former and killing the latter The
tragedy is said to have been the result
of quarrel over Duestrow's dissolute
habits, in which another woman and
whisky figured.
THE Transmississippi congress at
San Francisco was called to order, on
the 18th, az 10 a. M, by Gov. Neon
nell of Idaho. Among the notable
delegates present were Governors Rich
ards of Montana, Stone of Missouri,
Markham of California, Laughlin of
Washington, and ex-Gov. Murphy, of
Arizona.
POLICEMAN Poisson, of Paris. who
was shot, on the 18th, while attempt
ing to arrest the bomb thrower Breton,
has been made member of the Legion
of Honor.
THIRTEEN timbermen were impris-
oned by an extensive cavern at the
Gaylord mine of the Kingston Coal Co.
at Plymouth, Pa, on the 18th. There
was small hope of any of the i'm
periled men being rescued alive.
HANS Won BULow, the distinguished
German pianist, died in Cairo, Egypt.
on the 18th.
A BILL prohibiting telegraph COM
panies from transmitting race-tracll
news has been passed by the New Jer-
sey house.
THE reichstag has adopted a proposal
made by Herren Rickert and Groeber
to introduce in Germany the Austria
liam method of polling. A very large
majority of the members voted in IA
vor of the proposal
The French courts which had de-
clared their incompetency to try the
suit of the Princess Colonna, daughter
of Mrs John w. Maclay, against her
husband, Prince Colonna, for legal
separation and the custody of her chill
dren, made an order, on the 18th,
giving the children, Professionally, into
the custody of their father. The or
der will not be obeyed. as the princess
had some days previously landed with
her children at New York.
The twenty-sixth annual conven-
ton of the National American Woman
Suffrage association met in Washing
ton, on the 18th, with a large attend
ance of delegates, representing all
parts of the country.
A ROUTE for the proposed cable from
Labuan to Hong-Kong, China. has
been surveyed. In all the soundings
| taken the greatest depth was shown
to be $500 fathoms. and the tempera-
ture at this depth was registered at 80
degrees.
A SENSATION was created at Harrods-
burg. KY, on the 18th. by the arrest of
William Graves and John Commlngo
for whitecapping. They are charged
with being members of the band that
recently called Josh Mitchell to his
door, near Nevada, and Shot him to
death, and who have also whipped and
terrorized many other residents in the
west end. The two young men are
members of leading families.
GEORGE N. JERAULD died at Prince
ton, Ind, on the 18th, aged SO years.
He had been engaged in the general
mercantile business for fifty years on
the same lot, and was the pioneer mer-
chant of the city and probably of the
state. The value of his estate is sis0,
600.
On the 18th carload of corn re-
ceived at Terre Haute, Ind, from Chi
cago, was found to contain in one cor
ner large heap of mail that had been
rifled from some mail pouch and opened.
The mail was turned over by the police
to the postal authorities
MAY BROOKLYN, one of the leading
ladies of the Palmer stock company.
playing at the Baldwin theater. San
Francisco, committed suicide ION the
night of the 18th, by taking poison.
She played the part Of Mira Page in
Alabama"