Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-08
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


THE Lexow committee in New York
will call Superintendent Byrnes to tes-
tify, and it is expected that the inside
history of the police department will
he told at length. The superintendent
is not the man to be made a scapegoat
OF by the commissioners, and if his
friends may be credited he will tell
some very interesting things when he
takes the stand.
AARON LEWIS, proprietor of the White
House hotel, at Leadville. Col, was
shot and fatally wounded by his wife
on the Goth. The trouble arose over
jealousy on the husbands part, and
during quarrel he badly choked her.
Freeing herself she grabbed revolver
and fired four shots, one of which
passed through her husbands body.
DEPUTY SHERIFF arrived at Topeka,
Kas., on the night of the Goth, from
lola, armed with a warrant for the ar
rest of United States Senator John
Martin on a charge of libel. The COM
plant was sworn out by Nelson F.
Acers, the attorney for the eX-lottery
king, Peter Kline.
PROF. LEYDEN telegraphed from Lii
vadia to Count Schouvaloff. the Rus
sian ambassador to Germany, on the
31st, as follows: Il am in despair. A
catastrophe is inevita ble.'
HONORE MERCER, ex-premier of Que
bee, died, on the 3Oth, at Montreal,
Can, after long illness.
THOMAS SHARP was arrested at John
son Springs. Va, on the Goth, for
poisoning his wife in Kentucky. A
Kentucky officer caught Sharp as he
was going to mill with turn of corn.
Sharp had walked all the way from
Kentucky to Goochland, where he had
formerly lived.
THE town of Rising Sun, o., was
totally destroyed by fire on the Goth
Rising Sun has a population of 800
and is the center of the oil operations
not exceed $4,000.
GEN. CIENFUGOs, the lieutenant of
Ezeta. who was released from the
Alameda county Gall Jail, on the 27th,
ON an order from Secretary Gresham,
sailed on the steamer San Jose, on the
Goth, for Acapulco. 1t is his intention
to go straight to that place to return
to his young wife.
THREE men were killed il wreck on
the Beech Creek railroad near Clear
field. Pa, on the Goth, an examination
of whose effects showed them to be a
gang of burglars. They were other
wise unknown.
THE Zambesi, formerly Northern
Pacific steamer, but recently pur-
chased by some wealthy Japanese, ran
into the Japanese war ship Tsubukan
in Kobe harbor last month and sunk
her.
THE president has appointed James
P. Willett, of Washington. postmaster
of that city, to succeed Henry Sher-
wood, whose commission has expired.
A NEW petroleum wells has been
tapped at Baku. Asiatic Russia, at a
depth of seventy fathoms, which dis
charges 1900 tons daily.
THIRTEEN battalions of Hunanese
troops left Hank on the 3Oth, for
Chin-Kiang, whence they will proceed
overland to Picking.
AT Fredericksburg, Va, Charles
Searcy, the alleged Aqua Creek (Va.)
train robber, was taken before Judge
Fitzhugh for preliminary examination
on the 30th. On the warrant being
read, Searcy waived examination. The
case was sent to the grand jury and
Searcy was re-committed to Jail.
Col. JACQUES, the London agent of
the American claimants of the Townley
estates, who Is in custody on charges
of fraud, was again arraigned in the
Bow-street police court on the 31st,
and fully committed for trial.
THE members of the diplomatic corps
in Buenos Ayres representing the for
eign monarchies have agreed not to at
tend the festivities of the 18th, the an
niversary of the establishment of the
Argentine republic.
Two DYNAMITE bombs, filled with
scrap iron. were exploded outside of
two of the police stations in Milan,
Italy on the 30th. The fronts of the
buildings were wrecked, but, fortunate
1y, no one was hurt.
SEVEN persons were asphyXiated and
another fatally injured by jumping
as the result of fire in a New York
tenement on the 3Oth.
The emperor of China has summoned
the viceroys, governors and other Of
fcials before him to learn why small
country like Japan cannot be exter-
minated.
FIFTEEN inmates of an insane asylum
at Doenkoeping, Sweden, were Gre
mated in the burning of the institu-
ton on the 31st.
THE British steamer Tonnes foun-
| dered off Pembroke, Wales, on .he
| 3Oth, and fourteen of her crew were
drowned.
Nv ha 1of iSS JaI
his annual thanksgiving proclamation.
| IN his annual report to the secretary
of war Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance,
makes strong point on the INSULT
cheney of the appropriations for arm
ing and equipping the militia. He
says there is an urgent demand from
most states to have their arms changed
for a later and better model.
| Two ROBBERS broke into Polish resi-
dence at Mahanoy City, Pa, early or
the morning of the 31st, and were at
tackled by two boarders. John Frank
and Joseph Breniski. The robbers
drew revolvers and commenced firing
Frank was shot through the left breast
and mortally wounded. Breniski wa:
shot in the leg.
| MAJ. CLINT MCCLARTY died at Louis
Vile, KY, on the 31st, aged 65 years
Mai. McClarty was the founder of the
Louisville clearinghouse, and was one
of the best-klown men in the financia
circles of Kentucky. He served in the
confederate army as soldier in the
famous Orphan brigade.
FIRE in the shops of the Newbury
port (Mass.) car factory, on the 3lst
destroyed the large wooden structure
The flames communicated with thu