Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-04
Two MEN entered a gambling house

at No 90 Quincy street, Chicago, the
other night secured $4,000 in cash,
| and with revolvers still leveled at
badly-frightened group of three
faro dealers, backed out of the door
| and made their escape.
WIN. T.. MURRAY, a veteran Chicago
board of trade man, died at Pass Chris
tan, Miss, Christmas night. He was
at one time a prominent trader in Chi
cago, and ran the first million-dollar
wheat corner made on the Chicago
| board. Murray was born near Roches-
| ter. n. Y, ffty-nine years ago. and be-
gan his career in Chicago as book
keeper for N. X. Fairbank.
MRS. ALFRED HEDBERG, widow of
Capt. Hedberg. the army officer who
was shot and killed at Fort Sheridan,
Chicago, by Lieut.. Nancy some time
ago, is in Washington with the avowed
intention Of making trouble for the
officials by whom Nancy is to be tried.
and who, she claims, are not ardent in
their prosecution.
THE tradition that Cayuga lake never
gives up it's dead has at last been up
set, for at noon on the 18th the body
of Miss Mary L. Yeargin, who, in COM
pany with Instructor Merriam, of Cor
nell, was drowned in the lake Novem-
Der IS, was found by Lehigh Valley
track walker on the east side of the
lake, about miles from Ithaca, n. Y.
FRANCIS J. DEwEs, the wealthy Chi
cago brewer, received word at New Or
leans that his child was dying in Chi
cago, and, chartering an Illinois Cen
trail train, the tracks were cleared and
Mr.. Dewes and his wife were whirled
over the 1000 miles at the rate of mile
a minute. He paid about 81, 900 for the
trip and broke all records between New
Orleans and Chicago, making the run
in % hours and 80 minutes
AS measure of precaution against
possible dynamite outrage, the pub
lie securities in the custody of the
Bank of France have been removed to
the Place Ventadour, where there is
an immense strong room. The esti-
mated value of the securities is up
wards of 1000, 900, 900 francs.
AN unconfirmed report was published
in Lisbon, on the 27th, that the Count
dArces, Portuguese minister to Brazil,
who was making preparations to de-
part from Rio de Japeiro on leave of
dOScHCc. Ido DcCh Uy OIOcI VI
President Peixoto.
THE Hanging Rock stove foundry at
Ironton, o., was burned to the ground
on the 27th. Sixty men are thrown out
of employment. Loss, $40, 900 on foun-
dry, and $4,000 on stock and patterns.
The foundry will not be rebuilt.
ONE THOUSAND families, representing
1000 persons, will be provided for by
the Indianapolis committee having
charge of the care of the poor of that
city.
THE nineteenth annual convention
of the Northwestern Commercial Trav.
elers' Insurance association began in
Chicago on the 2Tth.
PRIME MINISTER CRIsPI of Italy is ar
ranging in Germany tofioat loan of
e24, 000,00
w. w. LLOYD. noted Shakespeare
can essayist, died in London on the
% tn.
JOHN PUENING, a saloon-keeper and
treasurer for the corporation OF Elm
wood, suburb of Cincinnati, embez-
zled $1,000, the entire funds of the
town, and disappeared on the 27th.
Mrs. MARGARET MARTIN, relict of
the late William Martin, one of the
most eminent women in the Methodist
Episcopal church south, and author of
many books on Methodism, died in
Columbia S. c., on the 9th. She was
born in Scotland in 1907.
BANK EXAMINER KIMBALL said, on
the 2Sth, that the rumors that certain
New York city national banks were in
trouble was unfounded. All the ma
tional banks of that city, he said,
without exception, were in good con-
dition.
The large elevators and flour mills
of A. w. Doherty & Bro, at Ladoga,
Ind, were totally destroyed by fire on
the 2Sth; loss, $4,000. with about
$4,000 insurance. They will be re-
built.
SAMUEL MCKooN died at San Diego,
Cal, on the 2sth, aged 81. He was the
Oldest Free Mason in the United States,
having been admitted as a member in
1928