Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-05

/ OSCAR PETERsvS, Ja~es Dcggctt ana
Daniel Connoys, miners, We're suffo
Gated to death in the jefferson mine at
Victor, Col, on the a7uh. by foul air.
Peterson was first overcome and the
other two went to his rescue.
Mr.. WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER,
poet and journalist, died at Louisville,
KY, on the 27th, aged Sc. The first of
his poems to attract attention was
''The Wreck of the Hornet" He was
recognized as a capable journalist OF
broad views.
AN alarm of fire was rung in from
the Charlestown (Mass.) prison on the
27th, for a small blaze in the prison. 1t
caused an outbreak among the prison
ers. in which one man was fatally shot
AID another seriously hurt.
jDR. J. K. HEsTAND committed suicide
at Ardmore, /. T.. on the 27th, by talk
ing cyanide of potassium. He lived but
a few minutes after swallowing the
fatal drug. He was graduate of the
Wherry bichloride of gold cure for the
whisky habit, of which institute he
| was manager.
ISAAC GOODMAN, the leader and the
third of the notorious Goodman gang
to appear for trial at Anderson. Ind.
was, on the eth, denied a new hearing
and was sentenced to four years in the
Michigan City prison. He is so year.
old. and is worth $4,000.
THE trial of John S. Beach, president
of the Prairie City bank of Terre
Haute, Ind, which closed during the
panic last summer, resulted, on the
9th, in acquittal. the jury being in
or cd IN hvSn in x,orIic< nf
guilty. Beach was indicted for embez
element.
The jury in the case of Andrew
Sauer, cashier of the defunct Defiance
(O.l savings bank. charged with en-
bezzling $4,000 of the banks funds, re-
turned a verdict of acquittal on the
9th.
Ex-EMPREss EUGENE requested NJ.
Decrais, French Ambassador to Grea:
Britain, to forward to Nine. Garnet
message expressing her sympathy.
IT was reported from Rome. on the
27th, that thirty-eight anarchists haG
been arrested. The Italian police, act
ing with the French police. are track
ing an international anarchist plot.
A DISPATCH from Berlin states that
Emperor William ordered Count VoE
Munster, the German ambassador tc
France, to represent him at the funeral
of NJ. Carnot. His majesty sent a splen
did wreath to be laid upon the coffin.
q LATER accounts from the storm il
South Dakota and Minnesota. on tn;
27th, give the names of ten persons
killed outright and more than q score
severely injured by falling buildings
and otherwise.
., MIR. MATTHEW'S. a partner in the firm
of Gore, Matthews & Co., millers OF
Lima, Peru, which recently went int
bankruptcy, threw himself from thu
steamer Serena, between Cerro Aqua
and Celia. and was drowned.
II is said that a suicide club exists ir
the asst end of indianapolis, Ind, tho
members OF which, all young men. enc
their lives by the use of prussic acid.
DIR. AND Mrs. EDWARD PERSON ar
rived in Frecmansburg, Pa. on the
2Sth, on visit to the doctors sister,
Mrs. Joseph Keaner. They rode all the
way from West Point, Ne5., !, COO miles,
in a two-horse buggy, starting on the
journey on April %. and travelling at
| the rate of 45 miles day. The longest
days drive was G2 miles on the prairies
in Illinois. "
TIE Interstate Sheriffs' convention
at Sioux City. Ia, on the 2Sth, elected
William Remer, of Deadwood, ). d.,
president; &. w. Tose.-. Madison, Neb.;
q. T. HaZen, Council Bluffs, Ia, f. Il.
Armstrong, Sun Dance, Wyo.; G. u. w.
Dow, Worthington, Mimi; James Nor
gan, Chamberlain, 5. d., vicc-presi
dents.
The moderate republican and con-
servative newspapers of France accord
President Casimir-Perier favorable
reception, and say that they are con-
WINGED that the majority of the French
nation and the real working people
| will do likewise.
The steamer British Prince is the
first steamer to arrive at the port of
New York direct from Manchester
through the ship canal. The vessel is
of 1,022 tons register and experienced
no difficulty whatever in passing
fhrorrh the canal IN I,iyerpool