Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-04
GRAVE robbers have been operating

In the cemeteries near Union Hill, n.
Y. On the night of the 18th two vaults
were found to have been opened in
Grove Church cemetery and the bodies
removed. The authorities are investi-
eating.
On the o7th Judge McAdam. of the
superior court of New York, confirmed
the report of Referee Edward Jacobs
granting a divorce in favor of kuehne
Beveridge Coghlan in her suit against
Actor Charles f. Coghlan. 1t is the
usual form of decree. permitting the
plaintiff to marry again, but interdlct-
ing Mr.. Coghlan from remarrying.
MANDAMUs proceedings were begun
in indianapolis, Ind, on the eth, to
compel the school board to permit the
colored child of Benjamin Thornton to
attend the public school in Thornton's
district The officials had expelled the
child and were attempting to force her
to attend a colored school some dis
tance away.
THREE notorious desperadoes and
post-office robbers. members of the Far
rell gang. broke Jail at Parl>ersburg,
Va. on the 27th, and made their es-
cape.
THE president, on the eth, issued
proclamation granting pardons to all
Mormons convicted of polygamy.
On the 9th two Italian war ships
were ordered to Morocco on account Of
the disturbed condition of affairs there.
y BURSTING pipe at gas well at
Clarion, Pa, on the 27th, killed J.
Wcitze and seriously injured 6. Ban
ners and J. III. Cook.
REPORTS from various points in the
middle and coast regions reg arding the
West India cyclone indicate considera-
bic damage to corn and cotton, very
serious damage to the rice crop, but nc
loss of life. At Georgetown. S. c., and
vicinity the damage to the rice crop is
very great, and it is difficult yet to esti-
mate the loss, though many put it at 30
per cent.
A STATEMENT prepared at the inter
nal revenue bureau shows that during
the first two months of the present
fiscal year the receipts from internal
revenue amounted to $50, 10, SIS, an in
crease over the receipts of 1898 of $780,
$50. 514. The total receipts for August
last were SIS. ,G92 in excess of Au
gust. 1898.
SUIT for $1,000 damages was begun
in Sandusky (OD common pleas court,
on the 27th, by Houston Smith, of To-
ledo, against the members of the family
of the late ex-President Il. b. Hayes.
The plaintiff alleges that his wife re-
ceived permanent injuries in a runaway
caused by large dog owned, boarded
and harbored by the Hayes family at
Spiegel Grove.
ALLEN c. WILDE. of the firm of
James III. Wilde & Co, well-known
merchants of Chicago. has been adopt
ed by the widow of the late Prof. Gar
rison. of that city. Mrs. Garrison. be-
fore her marriage, was Lady Mary
Berry, of England, and heiress to ex-
tensive estates there. Mr.. Wilde is 80
years old. and a prominent society and
club man.
CHECKS to the number of IS, s32, ag-
gregating 1886, 05920, quarterly in
terest on the United States registered
4-per-cent. consols of 1907, were mailed
to bondholders from the treasury de-
partment on the 2sth.
THE British miners federation has
decided to support the Scotch miners
in their determination not to accept
the proposals made by the operators
and to continue the strike.
KINGS hotel. at Eliza bethport, n.
j., was burned at an early hour on the
morning of the 2sth; loss, $50. 0G0.
The guests escaped in their night
clothing.
THE Japanese have succeeded in en-
tering the Chinese province of Man
churia and, on the 2sth. were reported
advancing upon the capital, Moukden.
THE Chinese warship kwang-Chia is
reported to have been lost while run.
ming from the fight off the mouth of the
Yalu river.
ALTHOUGH the Canadian 500 canal
will be completed within a month and
vessels will pass through it this fall, it
has been decided to defer the formal
opening until next spring.
FOUR men, two miners and two Ia
borers. were killed under a fall of rock
in the Northwestern colliery of Simp-
son Il Watkins, at Simpson, near Car
bondale. Pa, on the 21th.