Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-18
Born Ices of Charles Bennett. the

BOTH legs OF Charles Bennett, the
noted baseball catcher, who was man
gled by Santa Fe train at Wellsville.
Kas-, on the 10th, have been ampu-
tated, one near the ankle and the other
above the knee. He r4ay recover.
UNITED STATES MARS HAL HAsTELL
on the 18th, arrested j. A. Mack, alias
Jos. f. Morgan, at Cleveland, O., who,
about six months ago. embezzled be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 from the
American national bank of Kansas City.
1t is said that Mack had made good the
amount embezzled, but was afterward
arrested on u charge of violating the
United States banking law and jumped
his bond.
The Penokee and Gogebic consoii-
dated mines, owned by the Colbys,
RocLefellers ana others, and capital
lied for $4,000, 900, passed into the
hands of receivers on the 18th. The
group of mines includes the Colby, Til
den, Palms and Comet in Michigan, and
the Superior in Wisconsin on the Goge-
bic range.
THE populist state central commit
the idea of nominating Il candidate for
over the law in the case it was discov-
cred that the Australian ballot law
prohibits the printing of anything on
the ticket but the names of candidates
and the title of the ticket.
A SENSATIONAL arrest was made at
Terre Uaute, Ind, on the 18th. when
Harry Hamill, superintendent of the
city workhouse, and Charles King,
saloonl1epper, were arrested on
charge of robbing j. T. Tribble. mer-
chant of Turner, Clay county, of $500
while drunk.
= rAKnY dispatch has been received
at the Hawaiian legation in Washing
ton which arrived by the Warrimoo at
Vancouver. 1t advised the charge
d'affaires. Mr. Hastings, that all is
quiet at Honolulu and that Mr. Thurs
ton was en- route back to this country
on the City of Picking.
SENSATIONAL charges have been pre-
ferred against Mrs. Louisa Lightfoot,
matron of the county infrmary at
Findlay, o., by the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty. She is charged
with having scalded John Fletcher, an
inmate, with boiling water, and after
ward applying a mustard plaster to his
bald head.
IN the district court at Salina, Kas.,
on the 18th, the case of Adams VS.. The
City of Salina was concluded and the
jury returned verdict allowing two
dollars damages to Adams (coloredO for
the loss of his son. who was hanged by
a mob last April. Adams sued for
$1,000.
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ThaclIeray. the distinguished English
author. died on the 18th. of apoplexy
at Abel Lodge, Leigh. Essex, private
asylum. where she had been living for
the past forty years.
Mrs. CAROLINE TALBOT, the Qua
lleress who has preached all over the
United States and England during the
last twenty-five years, died, on the
18th, at Mount Pleasant, O.
WITH fitting yet simple ceremony
Hon. Frank ID. jackson was inaugu-
rated governor of Iowa at Des Moines,
on the 18th, succeeding Hon. Horace
Boies.
DISPATCHES received from Rio ia
metro. on the 18th, state that five men
were killed:by the bursting of cannon
on the insurgent war ship ,Almirante
Tamandare.
THE molders of Gallipolis, O., have
gone out on a strike. caused by a re-
duction of 10 per cent. in their wages
The trouble promises to be of long du-
ration.
a DISPATCH dated Pernambuco says
that the crew of the dynamite cruiser
Nictheroy refuse to further serve on
her unless their wages are paid in adj
vance.
The United States cruiser San Fran
cisco. the flagship of Rear-AGmiral
Benham, arrived at Rio Janeiro on the
18th.
ROBERT f. PRESTON, nominated to be
director to the mint, was confirmed on
the 18th.
THE Jesuit college at Antwerp was
burned on the 18th; loss. 100000.
THE income tax and the other inter-
nal revenue features of the tariff bill
will be reported as Il separate meas