Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-25
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A PORTION of the false work located
at the south wing of the Inflated
Louisville and Jacksonville bridge at
Louisville, KY, between piers and 4,
fell with crash, on the 18th, injuring
three men, one of them probably IA
tally.
THE schedule for Gen. Harrison's
trip to Fort Wayne, arranged for the
18th and 10Th, was shattered by the
death at Minneapolis of Mrs. Bette l..
Harrison, widow of Col. A. /. Harri-
son. eldest brother of the ex-president
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA OF SPAIN
has instructed the government to pros
ecute the proprietors and managers of
several Catholic papers for asserting
that she had caused the king to be en-
rolled as Free Mason.
HERR RoTHGARDT, a leather mer-
chant of Hamburg, and his four chill
dren were drowned, on the 10th, by
the capsiZing of a small boat in which
they were sailing on the River Elbe.
ALL foreigners remaining in Pekin,
on the 18th, received peremptory orders
to leave.
A DISPATCH to the Pail Mall Gazette
from Lourenco Marques, on the 18th,
stated that many of the inhabitants of
the Delagoa Bay territory were taking
passage on vessels for Port Natal.
AT Latta, O., on the 18th, as the ex-
press messenger on the east-bound
Nickel-Plate train was throwing off
packages, a strange man picked up a
package of fur garments and started
to run. The messenger fred, hitting
the robber in the side. He dropped his
package and escaped after half-mile
chase, being picked up by confederates
with a buggy.
A MAGNIFICENT military display was
witnessed in Berlin, on the 18th, in
connection with the formal dedica alton
of the 132 flags destined for the recent
ly-organized fourth battalion of each
regiment of infantry. The ceremony
of mailing these flags to their stats
was performed by Emperor William in
person.
EX-SPEAKRR THOMAS B. REED, of
Maine, addressed the students of the
Michigan university at Ann Arbor on
the night of the 18th. His subject was
1.-The Relation of Leaders to Progress -
University hall, which is capable of
seating $500, was packed by gather
ing which greeted the distinguished
congressman with great enthusiasm.
A MAN believed to be one of the Guam
tico (Va.) train robbers was captured at
Cum berland. Md, on the 18th. Two
others We're caught at Cherry Run, w.
Va. The man captured at Cumberland
gave his name as c. j. Searcy, of Fort
Dodge, kas., but he is supposed to be
Charley Leary, an all-round crook.
AFTER relieving f. n. Hill of his po-
sition as agent at The Dalles, Ore, on
the nth, the officials of the Pacific EX-
press Co. placed Ed Kurbe in charge of
the Office and caused Hill, Messenger
Tibbetts and Waterman Gibson to be
arrested. They are accused of COM
plicity in the robbery on the night of
the 18th, when $4,000 was stolen.
ADvICEs received from Port Au
Prince, Hayti, say that President Hip
polyte and his minister of war had
fight in the palace re-
Gently. The minister of war was badly
whipped in the encounter with his
dusky chief, and, at last accounts, was
confined to his bed with his injuries.
WILLIAM BARNES, a clerk in the
United States treasurer's Office for
thirty-five years, died on the 18th. Mr..
Barnes had handled in his lifetime
probably more money than any other
man in the world. The greatest amount
by him in any one day is stated
at $50. OOO, 200.
On the 18th the federal grand jury at
Chicago reported a true bill against ex-
Gov. John L. Beveridge, president; F.
d. Arnold, vice-president, and Samuel
NJ. Biddison, secretary of the State
Mutual Life Insurance Co. The indict-
ment charges the defendants with using
the mails to further the business of a
lottery. 1t is alleged that the concern
is in it's essence lottery.
A SPECIAL from Tampa. Fla, says
that, early on the morning of the 18th,
a strike was declared in the cigar fac
tory of Gonzales & Moera at Ybor
City, and all hands went out. The
men, armed with clubs, etc, proceeded
to other factories. Up to 12 o'clock
over 200 cigarmakers were out.
Mrs. GEORGE EDDY and Mrs. Painter
were run over and killed at the railroad
crossing one mile east of Byron, Ill, by
a passenger train, on the 18th. Mrs.
Eddy was "Beckmanite," her hus band
being superintendent of the Schwein-
furth Heaven" at Rockford, Ill.
VERY REV. JAMES A. MCFAUL. rector
of ST. Mary's cathedral, in Trenton, n.
j., was consecrated as bishop of Tren-
ton, on the 18th, the church in which
he had for years labored SO faithfully
being the scene of the ceremonies.
AN explosion of fire damp occurred
in Shaner mine No. 2, at Shaner, Pa,
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, Oh
the 18th, and four Italian miners were
of them would die.
CHARLES CLIFFORD, a miner, of
Greensburg, Pa, was instantly killed,
on the 18th, by the discharge of re-
volver which had fallen from his pock-
ct. The bullet passed through his
heart. Clifford leaves a widow and
several children.
A JURY in the United States circuit
court in New York city, on the 18th,
awarded Miss Harriet Monroe judg-
ment against the World for S., 900 dam
ages. The suit was brought to recover
$4,000 for the publication in the
World of the Columbian ode, written
by Miss Monroe. The ode had been
copyrighted.
1T was announced in St. Petersburg,
on the 18th, that the condition of the
car had perceptibly changed for the
worse. 1t was added that his symp-
toms of general debility and weakness
of he cd
and it was also announced that the
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