Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A GREAT sensation was caused in San
| Francisco. on the 18th, by the attempt
| of Jake Rudolph, the henchman and
| ley, to kill Business Manager Joseph
b. Eliot of the Chronicle" Eliot was
| hit in the groin by a bullet. but the
presence of several silver dollars in his
| pocket saved his life.
MICHAEL GAHAN, formerly of Gales
burg, ILL.,, who married Jennie Garry,
| attempted, on the nth, to shoot her
| and her three sons and Charles Bevens,
| of Ogden, with whom she is living at
Tacoma, Wash, because she deserted
him and secured divorce at Los An
geles ten years ago, taking his money
and leaving him penniless.
The secretary of the interior has APP
proved the plan of increasing the force
of field matrons of the Indian service
recently recommended by Commission
err Browning. There are only five ma
irons now on the rolls and the ap-
pointment of twenty additional ones
will probably be asked for.
SENATOR MCPHERSON introduced in
the senate, on the 18th, bill for the re-
lief of Rear-Admiral Stanton and the
officers and enlisted men of the
wrecked Kearsarge. 1t provides re-
Enumeration for their personal losses in
the wreck.
On the 7th c. A. Cham berlin, known
as the ''Plunger," was sentenced to the
penitentiary for two years and was
fined $50 by Judge Phillips in the fed
eral court at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
charge of perjury in the pension case
of Lucey Ray, colored, now in the pen
itentiary.
THERE was not a coke plant in the
Connellsville (Pa.) coke region in full
operation on the Sth. The only works
making an attempt to run were the
Valley, Southwest Nos. 3 and 4, More
wood, Hill Farm and Rainey, and they
were doing very little.
WIN. KENNEDY, on the nth, made
good his pledge to Gov. Matthews of In
diana, who. ten days before, issued
him parole that he might attend the
funeral of brother at Cincinnati.
The convict retuened to the Jefferson
Vile prison and re-entered upon his
life sentence. Kennedy will in all
probability be pardoned soon.
COL JOSEPH MOORE died at his home
in Indianapolis, on the evening of the
18th, from rheumatism of the heart. He
was in charge of the force that built
the pontoon bridges during Sherman's
| march to the sea.
WILLIAM d. LoHMAN, the defaulting
cashier of the Brooklyn On. W excise
department, was sentenced, on the nth,
| to seven years and four months i'm
prisonment in Sing Sing.
Mr. AND MRS. JOHN CHANLER (Amelie
] Rives), of Richmond, Va, are making
preparations to start, about June 1, for
an extended trip through the Holy
Land.
THE Garfield buggy works at Column
bus, O., were burned on the sth. Loss
on building and contents, $4,000;
fully covered by insurance.
THE first grand lodge of the auxili-
airy degree Of honor of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen of Indiana
was instituted in Terre Haute Ind.
on the sth. The degree is composed
of mothers, wives, sisters, and daugh-
tiers of members of the order.
| CAPT. A. j. HUTCHINSON died at Tope-
ka, Kas-, on the 18th, aged go years. He
was born May 5, 1925, in Gallipolis, o.
He was a soldier in the Mexican war
from 1S45 to 1s4s, and lost an arm in
battle. He was afterward engaged
for thirty years as a steamboat captain
on the Mississippi river.
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN J. O'NEILI. OF
Missouri. was arrested in Washington.
early on the morning'of the Sth, for an
assault upon DIR. James 81. Stone. The
congressman put up cash collateral for
his appearance in the police court, Civ
| ing the name of Browne" He failed to
show up in court and his deposit was
declared forfeited.
The jury in the Washington Cd. c.
police court, on the Sth, returned YER
dict of guilty against Coxey. Browne
| and Jones of the Commonweal army
on charges of violation of laws in re-
| spect to trespassing on the capitol
grounds. A motion for a new trial was
| at once entered.
AvAeUE but disquieting telegram was
received from Hsian-Fu, Sjansi, on the
sth, from which it is gathered that two
| French missionaries in that district had
been seized and bambooed and i'm pris-
oned by the Chinese officials.
The official statement of Chinese
registration under the amended Geary
law places the figures at To-, 800.