Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-20

mouse, near Edmund, OKLA. on the 18th.
Slipping between two planks, the girl
struck on her chin, and was literally
hanged to death.
GEORGE SMITH, who was injured by
the Australian pugilist Winters in a
bout at Holborn hall, London, on the
18th, died on the 18th. His death re-
suited in several arrests.
THE reported robbery, on the night
of the 10th, of the Farmers and Ner-
chants bank at Hennessy, Okla, by
members of the Cook gang, proves to
have been without foundation.
THE secretary of the navy, on the
18th, made the last payment but one
on account of the Gillian indemnity
claims, being that of Joseph Quigley, a
fireman on the Baltimore, who was re-
leased from confinement at Mare island,
Cal, for being absent without leave,
and discharged with check for 81, 900.
ROBERT WEBSTER, an aged farmer
living near South Haven, Mich, on the
18th, set fire to his barn, shot and fear
fully wounded Eugene Keasy, a neigh.
Dor. and then attempted to commit sui.
eide.
THE annual convention of the Ma.
tional Civil-Service Reform league con.
vened at the rooms of the Chicago
Commerce club in the Auditorium
building on the 18th.
AN Englishman giving the name of
NJ. Horst, who is wanted for swindling
banks in various parts of this country,
was arrested in Philadelphia on the
10th.
NJ. AuGUsTE BURDEAU, president of
the French chamber of deputies, died
in Paris on the 18th.
FRAU LOUISE RoTHscHILD, widow of
the banker Carl Rothschild, of Berlin,
died on the 18th.
EARL DAVIS. Ed Singer, Fleming
ia ckson, John Bunnell, John Brown:
Buck Taylor, James Parke, Mrs. Van
Rhooden, Willie Wolf, aged S; Gorden
Wolfe and Sherman Chase, all of whom
were bitten by rabid dog at Mount
Vernon, o., were, on the 18th, sent to
the Lagario Pasteur institute at Chi
cago, the city council of Mount Yer
non appropriating $1,000 to defray the
expenses.
A DISPATCH from Tien-Tsin, ON the
18th, said the report of the capture of
Kin-Chow by the Japanese lacked con-
frmation. Japanese cruisers contin-
ued to reconnoiter along the coast.
JEAN MACE, the French litterateur,
died in Paris on the 18th. He was born
April %, 1915.
LIGHT shocks of earthquake were
felt at Cape Town, South, Africa, on the
18th.
THE st. Petersburg :Bourse Gazette
Of the 18th said the new Russian loan
had been subscribed forty times in ex-
cess of the sum required.
THE steamer Elliott, which arrived
at Savannah, Ga, on the 14th, from
brought no information of
the situation in the Mosquito reserva-
ton, except that everything was quiet
when the vessel left. The Mosquitoes
had another chief in place of Clarence,
but he was regarded as tool in the
hands of the Nicaraguans.
EUGENE Weir, night clerk in the ST.
drug store in San Francisco,
was found dead at the foot of the base
nent stair, early on the morning of
The 14th, with twenty-eight stab
in his body. The deed was
committed by burglars, who only got a
small amount of money for their pains.
THE plant of the Meyer United
States Standard Scale Co. in New York
vas burned on the 14th. A large
amount of stock and much valuable
md special machinery was burned.
The loss is estimated at $4,000; par
tally insured.
FATHER DENZA, director of the vati-
an observatory at Rome, died, on the
4th, from apoplexy, with which he waz
stricken as he was leaving the presence
# thepope after an audience with his
holiness, on the 18th.
JOSEPH Won RoBBY, supposed to be a
fugitive from Germany, was arrested
n Brooklyn, on the 14th, and a large
lumber of valuable diamonds were re-
overed.
ADJT.-GEN. PORTER, of the New York
tate national guard, was stricken with
popleSy, on the 18th, and his physi-
lans pronounced his case hopeless.