Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

stoned the HerreShOfS, the famous
Rhode Island boat builders, to con-
struct an $4,000 centerboard yacht
which shall be capable of beating
George Gould's Vigilant- This is the
only stipulation in the contract.
FREDERICK WILHELM Lopez, cashier
of the Frankfort state bank at Frank
fort-on-the-Main, who absconded on
March and arrived in New York on
March 21, under the alias of Carl
Smith, was arrested on Staten Island,
on the 1st, by United States Deputy
Marshal Frederick Bernhard, on the
charge of forgery and embezzlement,
and held for extradition-
EDWARD LA MONTAGUE, JR., banker.
was arrested in New Y ork, on the 1st,
on charge of grand larceny, and was
arraigned in the Tombs police court,
where he was admitted to bail. 1t is
said that the larceny involves SIS, 600,
and that the complainant is Florence
Davids or Laurence G. Davis.
JULIAN o. DAVIDSON, the well-known
artist, died at his home in Nyack, N.
Y, on the LIST, of heart disease and
dropsy. Mr.. Davidson's marine pic
lures ranked among the best in the
country. In later years Mr.. Davidson
also acquired some renown as an au-
thor.
The April movement of cotton into
sight has only been exceeded four times
within the last fourteen years. Com
pared with last year, it shows an excess
of Al, 900 bales, but falls short of April.
1892, by $4,000. The total brought into
sight for the month was 24o, $50 bales,
against 2O2. 437 in April, 1898. and 271,-
$40 in April, 1892.
The murder of City Marshal Whit
ney of Missouri Valley, Ia, on the
night of April "a, by "Reddy" Wilson,
a notorious burglar and thug, has been
avenged. At an early hour on the
morning Of the LIST Wilson was taken
from Jail by mob and hanged from
the railing of the city hall portico.
Ex-SrATE SENATOR NORMAN BoRD-
MAN, of Lyon, Ia, died on the night of
the s0th on his eighty-first birthday
anniversary. He held the position of
states attorney of Vermont from 1850
to 1859. One of his sons is the present
Iowa state dairy commissioner. He
had lived in Iowa since 1855.
THE fourth annual convention of the
Association of Military Surgeons, rep
resenting surgeons of the regular army,
navy and national guard, began in
Washington on the LIST. The delegates
were welcomed to the city by Commits
| sioner Ross, and President Cleveland
made the convention a speech.
B. F. SCHRIvER, wanted at BROOKLYN,
Ia. for alleged fraudulent transactions
involving $4,000, was arrested in Kan
sas City, Mo-, on the LIST. The authori-
ties had been looking for Schriver for
several weeks
In funeral procession at Leaven-
worth, Kas.. on the LIST. a team became
frightened at an approaching electric
car. and in the excitement three car
riages were backed onto the track and
were wrecked by the car. Many mar
row escapes were experienced, and
Mrs. Rafferty, and Mrs Phillips Baker
sustained what were supposed to be
fatal injuries.
By an explosion of benzine in the
cellar of New York dyeing house, on
the I'd, two persons were roasted to
death and three others were terribly
burned. The fve-story building was
almost instantly enveloped in flames,
and it was feared that three or four
other persons persisted.
| GEN. MoRRIsoN's army, Sol strong,
was ferried away from St Louis to the
Illinois shore, on the afternoon of the
I'd, literally without purse or scrip.
their entire commissary outfit consist
ing of $50 loaves of bread and . couple
of caddies of chewing tobacco There
was not q half-dozen blankets in the
outfit. The men had been harangued
into temporary enthusiasm. and took
up the march in apparent good spirits.
| HARRISON PRICE, aged SO years, n
second cabin passenger. committed
suicide by shooting on board the
steamer Saale soon after the vessel left
Southampton for New York, where he
arrived on the 1st- Price was a native
OF the United States, but had resided
in England for the last ten years.
| BIZ the new treaty between Japan
and Hawaii japanese subjects in Ha-
| wall are guaranteed the same treat
ment Is that accorded to Hawaiian cit
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