Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The first American congress of lib
eral religious societies convened in Chi
cago, on the 22d, to continue four DAYS.
NJ. BOURGEOIS was asked, on the Esd,
by President Carnot of France to form
a cabinet.
THE Chilean government has or
dered all customs duties paid in gold.
Il. F. HUGHES, r. f. Weed and Charles
O'Brien, leaders among the common
wealers who stole Union Pacific train
at Montpelier, Idaho, and run it to Coke
vile, Wyo., where they We're captured,
were sentenced by Judge Riner, of the
United States court, at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
on the 23d, to five months imprisonment
in the Laramie county Jail. Twelve
others were sentenced to four months
imprisonment.
AT p. IN. on the Esd the First ma
tional bank of Longview, Tex, was
robbed by four men, resulting in the
death of one robber, named Geo. Ben
nett, and one citizen, Geo. Bucking-
ham, and the mortal wounding of J. w.
Mcqueen and City Marshal Matt Neil
roy and the serious wounding of T. c..
Summers and C. S. Leonard.
Gov. WERTs of New Jersey has signed
the bill which recognizes the state med
zeal examiners and prevents any person
or number of persons from practising
the so-called system of faithcurism,
and laying on of hands.
c. III. j. TAYLOR, the colored Kansas
man whose confirmation to be recorder
of deeds for the District of Columbia
has been hanging fire in the senate,
was confirmed in executive session, on
the Esd, the vote standing 81 to Is.
THE yawl of the missing schooner
Lem Ellsworth, supposed to have
foundered in the center of Lake Michi-
gan during the recent terrible storm,
was recovered, on the oath, near
Waukegan, Ill.
AN incendiary fire, supposed to have
been in revenge for sending Mansfield
valley rioters to Jail, completely de-
stroyed the Schutt Coal Co.'S store, at
Pa, on the odd.
THE condition of Emma Juch, who
had been seriously but not dangerously
ill at Ann Arbor, Mich, was so much
improved that she was enabled to leave
for her home on the 25th. All her en-
gagements for the present trip had
been cancelled.
UNITED STATES CONSUL GENERAL
at st. Petersburg has made
an exhaustive report to the state de-
partment upon the new Siberian rail-
road connecting the Pacific with Euro
pean Russia. He says the principal
sections will be completed within two
years.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's right eye was sue
cessfully operated on for cataract in
London on the cath.
On the oath there were nine murder
ers in the Polk county Jail at Des
Moines, Ia.
THE banquet rendered to Admiral Err
ben, Capt. Mahcn and the officers of the
United States cruiser Chicago, by Off
GERS of the English navy and army and
citizens of Great Britain,
was held on the night of the Gath in
st. James hall, London. Two British
naval officers escorted each officer of
the Chicago 10 his allotted seat. !, The
officers were in uniform. The other
guests were in evening dress.
Ex-Gov. JOHN L. BEvERIDGE of 1lli-
nois, in discussing the divorce suit be-
gun by Kuehne Beveridge-Coghlan, his
against Charles Cogh-
Ian, the actor, says in plain terms that
the Beveridgc family will take means to
punish Coghlan for his course toward
the girl.
Mrs. LEASE, the Kansas populist, is a
very sick woman at Olathe, Kas. DIR.
Roby, of Topeka, and several physicians
from Kansas City have held consulta-
ton ana her son Charles is with her.
She has sciatic rheumatism in her left
hip and leg and inflammatory rheuma-
tism in her right hand.
The main factory of the Estep Glass
Co., at Marion, Ind, was burned to the
ground on the cath. A gas pipe that
fed the fires in the hot-oven burst.
causing terrible explosion, and soon
covered the entire building with flames.
Loss, $4,000; fully covered by insur-
ance.
BLANCHE MACKEY climbed out of the
window of her parents residence in
Dubuque, Ia, on the night of the Gath,
and eloped with True Spence. an cleo
trio hneman. The father and mother
s.ave chase, but she outlan them and
climbed into waiting buggy, in which
was Spence, and they drove to Fair
play, where they were married.