Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ATTORNEY OLNEY charac-
terizes as sensational and untrue the
statement telegraphed from Washing
ton, on the 18th, to the New York
World, to the effect that he had de-
cided to institute suits against the
Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific rail-
roa DIS jointly to recover S151 100000
Two FINE veins of coal. one eight feet
in thickness and the other ten, We're
discovered near Kentland, Ind, on the
18th. The seam was struck while drill
ing an artesian well at a depth of forty
feet and sixty feet. 1t is of fine quail
ity. and preparations are being made to
sink a number of shafts, and the price
of land has gone mp to $50 an acre.
JOHN w. EAsBY, United States navy,
retired, died in Washington, on the
18th, aged rs years. He was an in
spector of government gunboats during
the late war, and subsequently became
a naval constructor. During President
Garfeld's administration he was APP
pointed chief of the bureau of construc-
ton and repairs.
A CARRIER pigeon arrived at An
napolis, Md, at p. IN. of the 18th,
having left the United States practice
ship Monongahela, Capt. johnson COM
manding, with naval cadets aboard, at
$50 a. m. The ship was 90 miles from
Cape Henry and 40 from land, and 200
miles from Annapolis. The bird beats
all records of the academy loft.
THE Deckertown express, due at
Paterson, n. j., at s:21 a. m, on the
18th, crashed into a trolley car at the
Riverside crossing at SIG o'clock of
that morning, wrecking the car and in
juring eight persons, two of whom are
expected to die.
REV. DIR. JOHN PAXTON, of New York
city, on the 18th paid a fine of $40 for
neglecting to record the certificate of
marriage of Congressman w. c. p.
Breckenridge and Mrs. Wing.
THE republican state convention of
Michigan will be held at Grand Rapids
July 81.
EFFORTS to float the steamer Plym-
outh, aground off spindle Rock, II. l..
had vet been successful up to the Goth.
THE steamship Lain, which sailed
from New York for Europe on the
10th, carried $4,000, 900 gold.
On the 2Oth C. P. Leland, 1.-The King
of Figures" auditor of the Lake Shore
road, died at Cleveland, o. He was IS
years old, and had been auditor of the
Lake Shore since the consolidation with
the Michigan Southern in 1869.
On the Goth the steamer Meath Alb
hey, of Swansea, Wales, was wrecked
off Nash Point. The captain and three
sailors were drowned.
Four leading members of the Usage
Indians have been arrested for con-
spring with syndicate of white men
to rob the tribe of millions of feet of
fine timber from their reservation.
Two-thirds of million feet of Walnut
en- route to market has been seized.
JUDGE INGRAHAM, in the New York
court of oyer and terminer, on the Goth.
sentenced Erastus Wiman, convicted of
forgery in the second degree and recon-
mended to mercy by the jury, to five
years and six months in the state peni-
Tertiary at Sing Sing.
Hon. BISHOP PERKINS, ex-senator
from Kansas. died in Washington, on
the Goth, from the effects of cholera
morbus contracted during recent
visit to the Indian territory. Mr.. Per-
kins was in his fifty-third year.
THE Peary relief expedition, under
TIE VI ". dhC-
of Philadelphia, left New York, on the
Goth, on the steamer Portia, of the Red
Cross line, for st. Johns, n. F., where
they expected to arrive about June %.
They will embark on the steam whaler
Falcon for North Greenland the first
week in July.
The lexington hotel, in the suburbs
of Washington city, was totally de-
stroyed by fire, which broke out about
midnight of the 10th. The hotel con-
tanned about sixty guests, including
several congressman and their families,
all of whom escaped without panic.
Many of them, however, lost their cloth.
ing and effects.
IT is said that steps are being taken
looking to the amalgamation of the
Railway union, the Knights
of Labor and the Farmers Alliance into
a great political alliance. This. if per-
fected, would bring into line 1.50o, 900
men with an object in view.
Emil. C. KNAPP, assistant teller of
the Chicopee national bank of Spring
field. Mass. was arrested, on the 21st,
charged with the embezzlement of S49,-
900 from that bank.
A MAN and little child were killed,
many persons injured and fourteen
houses demolished by a tornado at
Bangor, S. D., on the goth.