Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


anniversary of the famous fete day at
the Worlds fair, and that, also, of the
burning of the city twenty-three years
ago. Two parades, a grand military
club ball and a couple of club BAN
quets were the features of the day.
X. n. STEvEs. a lawyer, was arrested
in Portland, Ore, on the 9th, in con-
nection with the assassination of
George W. Savers, whose body was re-
coved in the Willamette river on the
5th. He is charged with murder and
held without bail.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai to the
Central News of London, dated the
9th, says the mouth of the River Min
below Foo Chow has been closed. in
fear of an attempt on the part of the
Japanese war ships to steam up the
| river.
BRAKEMAN JOHN CLEwELL, while
crossing a track on the Pittsburgh &
Lake Erie road at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 9th, to throw switch, caught his
foot in frog and was run down by an
approaching train and fatally injured.
MARY KERsIE, young Hungarian
girl, who arrived in this country on
stantly killed, at Olyphant. Pa, on the
9th, by Frank Beck, whom she refused
to marry.
AT a cabinet council in Paris, on the
| 9th, the plans for a cable from Brest
to New York and another from Hayti
to New York We're examined.
Mrs. CoRBIN, wife of Col. Fl. c. Cor
bin, of Ohio, assistant Acknowledgement
of the army, died at her home in Wash
ington city on the 9th. She had been
i'll for several months.
THE suit of Mrs Martha Jones, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, to recover $1,000 from
the Fidelity Mutual Life association
on policy on the life of her husband,
was brought to a remarkable and alb
rupt termination on the 9th. The de-
Tense produced in court deposition
and photograph of the supposedly dead
man, showing that he is now living in
England. Jones disappeared in Decem-
Der. 1889.
THE London mint has struck a new
British dollar, which resembles the
Japanese yen in size, weight and fine
ness. The coin is expected to circulate
largely in Singapore and Japan. 1t
" Ill NC ColHtd ny luC DOIhOoy
mint, which has agreed to charge per
cent. mintage, instead of per cent,
charged for rupees.
THE North German Gazette COM
ments ironically upon the opinion of
the American minister at Pekin, who
advises the removal of the wives and
children of foreigners from Pel1in to
Shanghai, in view of the proba BILE
Japanese attack upon the Chinese capt.
tai. The paper says that the minister
has no means of learning of the Japa-
nese movements.
ANOTHER battle has taken place in
the orient, the japanese having, on the
9th, run the gauntlet of the Chinese
fort on the Shan Tung promontory and
captured Che-Foo, a treaty port on the
Yellow sea. Foo-Chow, another treaty
port, 700 miles south, is threatened.
JENNIE, 2-year-old daughter of Con-
ductor Lancaster. of the Missouri Pa
cific railroad, was burned to death, on
the 9th, at farmhouse 12 miles south
of Olathe, Kas.. where Lamaster's chill
dren live with their grandmother. The
child was playing with the fire in the
kitchen stove, when its clothes caught.
INVESTIGATION by the police has re-
vealed the terrible fact that forty old
soldiers have been robbed and muir
dered at the national military home at
Dayton, o., and only passing notice
taken of the crimes. The grand army
has taken the matter in hand.
GEORGE LAHORE, an acrobat, fell
distance of forty feet during per-
Torrance in Chicago on the 9th. His
right leg was broken in several places,
and it was thought it might be neces-
sary to amputate it to save his life.
Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD, worlds
president of the w. C. T. o., who went
to Cincinnati to address the Ohio state
convention, was reported seriously ill
in that city on the 10th. Lady Somer-
set was with her.
PROF. LEYDEN, of Berlin, was again
summoned by wire to attend the car,
and started for Livadia, on the 10th, to
remain some time.
THE treasury department is prepar-
ing custom regulations to govern the
entry of exhibits for the Atlanta Ca
exposition.
On the 10th the Hungarian house of
magnates passed the third reading of
the bill providing for civil marriages.
SIR JOHN DUGDALE ASHLEY, baronet,
the well-known sportsman, died in Lon
don ON the 10th.
AT 1890 o'clock on the morning of
the 18th, burglars blew open the safe
in the New Lexington CO., post office
and secured $500 in money and stamps.
The explosion knocked out the whole
front of the building and awakened
the entire populace, but the burglars
made their escape.
A GREAT temperance meeting was
held in the Auditorium in Chicago, on
the night of the 10th, to give voice to
the opposition of the holy see to the
saloon.
ONE man was killed and six men and
one woman were badly burned or in
jured by jumping and dropping from
the windows of a four-story wooden
tenement house which was burned in
Boston on the 18th.
In the United States circuit court at
Omaha, Neb., on the 18th, Judge WOOL
son decided that the receivers may
the Omaha & st. Louis (Wabash) road.
n d. SMITH, IN employee of the bu-
reau of engraving and printing, was
arrested in Washington, on the 18th,
charged with stealing $4,000 two-cent
stamps from the bureau.
THE Minneapolis & ST. Louis railroad
was sold in Minneapolis, Mimi. on the
18th. at sheriff's sale, and purchased
for the stockholders committee for
s.. OOO 600 cash.