Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-11
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

POtSdorf, editor of the KladderadatSch,
have been condemned to four months
imprisonment in fortress for fighting
q duel.
JUDGE JENKINS famous strike in
junction was overruled, on the 1st, by
the United States circuit court of APP
peals and the cause was remanded
with directions to strike out from the
restraining order of the court the
clause which aroused the country
when the order was issued and which
resulted in the Boatner investigating
committee of congress.
THE friends of Mrs. 7. Dewitt Tai
mage were surprised, on the list, to
learn that she had been at her home in
Brooklyn for more than fortnight,
having returned from Europe on the
steamship New York on September IA.
Mrs. Talmage returned home sooner
than originally intended because of
sickness.
Gov. MCKINLEY of Ohio spoke in
Suburban hall, st. Louis, on the night
of the list, to as many thousands of
eager listeners as the great structure
would hold, and hundreds who
thronged the open windows. while
thousands more who could neither see
nor hear the speaker, organized an over
flow meeting outdoors. The governors
reception amounted to an ovation.
Mrs. BELvA \. LOCKWOOD, the wo-
mans rights presidential candidate in
1892, who, by a recent decision of the
Virginia court of appeals, is privileged
to practice law in that state, arrived in
ID - Al 10 i 1
legal matters and qualify as an at
torney before the courts OF the city.
On the 1st n. A. Crawford. of Fair
vile, n. F., was found in bed with his
head cut off. The murder was commit
ted by young Englishman named
Brinton. who is insane. Brinton split
Crawford's head with an ak while the
latter was sleeping
5. Il. LYON. postmaster at Nanatta.
O.. was assaulted and robbed, on the
night of the 1st, by two masked men,
at a lonely point on the road from
Newark to Nanatta.
SIXTY-EIGUT persons who We're con-
victed at Lucra, Italy, of belonging to
the Maliavita, a criminal association,
have been sentenced to terms of i'm
prisonment varying from five to ten
years.
AN imperial edict has been issued in
China appointing Gen. Sung, formerly
in command at Port Arthur. generals
simo of the valorous Pei-Yang army
corps, now in Manchuria, and COM
mander-in-chief of the Manchu levies,
except those of the Kirin division,
which are commanded by a Tartar gen
eral.
THE Farmers national congress,
composed of delegates from forty
Parkersburg, w. Va, on thh end. to
week. About 200 delegates were pres
ent at the opening session and many
others arrivedduring the first day.
THE Japanese are moving north from
Ping Yang. They reported, on the I'd,
that they had not sighted the enemy.
but had found large quantity of
arms and ammunition which had been
abandoned by the Chinese, many of
whom had been killed by the Coreans.
THE wreck of the Russian ironclad
Rousalsa, which was lost in the Baltic
sea last year. has been located south of
the Isle of Wastertokan, Finland, in
twenty fathoms of water. Twelve Off
GERS and 166 men went down with her.
But little hope is entertained of rails
ing the vessel.
THOMAS RILEY and John Wilson,
members of an organized gang of men
who have for months been systematic
cally robbing the Lake Shore freight
cars in the vicinity of South Bend,
Ind, were arrested on the Sd. Fifty
suits of clothing and other stolen
goods were found in their possession.
A HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
men have been gathered at Pekin for
the defense of the city, but of this
numb only :, coo are effectively armed.
4 JAPANESE fleet of seventeen ships
is now blocking the gulf of Pechili.
AsTHE Southern'Pacific narrow gauge
train was crossing the Oakland Gal. }
estuary, on the night of the I'd, car
jumped the track and went into the
water, taking with it about sixteen
people. Two persons were killed and
several injured.
THE patrol has been withdrawn from
the streets of Rio Janeiro except the
usual number in time of peace. which
is now completely restored.
Gov. MCKINLEY arrived at Emporia.
Kas.. shortly before noon On the Sd,
having addressed six meetings during
the morning.
THE Paris Figaro says the Hovas
alone oppose the control of the island
of Madagascar by the French.
FRENCH troops are massing in Ton
quin-
THE twenty-siXth annual meeting OF
the Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee convened at Council Bluffs, L..
on the Sd.
THE Japanese minister of finance has
officially made known that the wa,
will not be allowed to interrupt the in.
terror improvements of Japan, conse
quently railway construction is to pro
| coed with the same vigor as in peace
| full times. The minister has arranged
that the treasury -s>all keep separate
accounts of the war expenses and those
| for internal improvements, in order
that the former may not overshado:,
| the latter.
THE team of VIM. King. a farmer liz
ing five miles north of Lebanon, Ind.
became frightened, on the Sd, and rar
away. His wife jumped from the car
riage and received injuries from which
she died in about an hour. The team
ran into a fence, throwing Mr.. King
out and infiicting internal iDjurie:
| from which he will die.
Mrs. HERMAN OELRICHs, of New
York. who was Miss Theresa Fair il
the days of her residence in San Fran
I CISCO has celehrafed her twentY-fiftf