Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26

IN the Golden Gate park at San
Francisco, on the 10th, Sequoia chap
ter, California lodge of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, planted
liberty tree" in historic soil that
the women had been gathering for six
months past.
A GOOD many of the Coxeyites who
were carousing in the town of Han
cock, Md, when the start was made
on the 10th, were left, and had to walk
the tow-path in the wake of their more
sober comrades.
SENATOR SToCKBRIDGE, of Michigan,
was reported. on the 10th, to be Sc
riously ill in Chicago.
GEORGE NJ. HOFFMAN, a wealthy
butcher of New York. aged 50 years.
shetland killed himself on the 10th.
caused the act
ton, Senior Mendonca, on the 10th re-
ceived cablegram officially announc-
ing the end of the rebellion.
DURING the absence of his wife, on
the 10th, Lloyd Rodabaugh, a prosper
Gus farmer of Calhoun county, w. Va,
hanged his two children, aged 5 and 5,
years, and then took his own life.
THE naval stability board has sub
mitted to Secretary Herbert a report
of thorough tests of the three great
battleships, Indiana, Massachusetts
and Oregon, to determine the question
of their stability. The result of these
tests was entirely satisfactory, and is
held to show that these ships are su-
perior to any warships afioat of CORE.
spending size.
REV. GEORGE BURROWS, ID. D., wide
ly known as a Greek and Hebrew
scholar, died at his home in San Fran.
cisco on the 10th. He was the author
of a well-known commentary on the
Song of Solomon, a portion of Scrip
lures he is said to have read in the
original Hebrew 700 times DIR. Bur-
rows had read the Greek Testament
445 times.
were lynched, on the 10th, by the set
tiers living near Watonga. Okla, for
horse stealing. Both men belonged to
a gang that were systematically steal
ing horses from the settlers and driv-
ing them into the Panhandle of Texas.
THE Wabash Railway Co. has settled
all its losses caused by the accident at
Kingsbury, Ind, last September, by
which twelve persons were killed and a
large number injured. The company's
loss was $3.50, 900. of which $3.50, ZOO went
to satisfy claims for the deaths and in
juries.
A DISPATCH from Perry, Okla, on the
10Th, announced that a desperate battle
had been fought between a posse under
Chief of Police Tighlman of Perry and
the Dalton gang near ingalls,, Okla, in
which Bill Dalton and others of the
gang and two of the posse-eight in
all-were killed. Confirmation of the
report was anxiously awaited at Perry
THE Indiana state asylum for the
deaf and dumb at indianapolis caught
fire on the night of the 18th. Seven
hundred deaf mutes are inmates, and
the fire caused much CONSERVATION
for awhile. No lives were lost, how
ever, and the damage will not exceed
81. 900.
PRIMROSE DAY, the anniversary of
the death of Lord Beaconsfield (Ben-
jamin Disraeli, who died April 10. 1881,
was more generally observed than
usual in London. The Beaconsfeld
statue was lavishly decorated with
primroses.
Ex-Gov. j. T. JARVIS, of North Caro-
lima. has been appointed by Gov. Carr,
and has accepted, the United States
senatorship to succeed the late Sena-
tor Vance.
A PROCESSION of over 1000 working.
men formed in Omaha, Neb., on the
Goth, and started to Council Bluffs to
demand of the railroads that they al
low train to be chartered to take
Kelly's industrial army eastward. At
Counlil Bluffs the proce ssion was
swelled by the addition Of thousands,
but the company refused the demand
and sent men to tear up the track to
prevent the possibility of captured
train moving out.
WHILE Bell telephone linemen were
repairing wire in Philadelphia, on
the 10th, it became entangled with
live electric light wire. Two of the
worlxmen were killed and two seriously
injured.