Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

WITHOUT debate and without obiec-
ton Senate Hill. on the Goth. secured
the passage by the senate of his bill
providing for expediting the claim of
the government against the Stanford
estate arising out of the personal liza
bility of the late Senator Stanford as
an original stakeholder in the Central
Pacific Railroad Co.
THE commissioner Of internal rev.
enue says it will be exceedingly diff
cult to secure effective treasury regu-
lations under the provision as it stands
in the alcohol bill, and estimates that
it will result in loss of $4,000, 00G in
revenue if not repealed.
Mrs. MARY JOHNSON. widow, who
lives near the soldiers home at Leaven-
worth. Kas.. on the Goth. instantly
killed an old veteran named Patrick
Donohue. Mrs. johnson alleges that
Donohue invaded her premises for the
purpose of stealing fruit.
ELIJAH DALTON. one of the five white
caps sent to the Indiana state prison.
south. at Jacksonville, under a five
years sentence from Salem, died in
prison on the Goth.
GEORGE L. RUSSELL. one of the origi-
nal seven brothers who constituted the
now powerful house of Russell IL Co..
engine and thresher builders, of Mas
sillOn, O.. died on the 21st.
POLICE SUPERINTE NDENT BYRNEs of
New York city, on the Goth, preferred
charges against Police Captain Steven
son of the Mulberry Street station.
Stevenson is charged with having re-
ceived brides while in command OF the
Leonard Street station. He will be
tried before the commissioners.
HIRAM BERKsMITH was blown to
pieces and Andrew Roose and four
other persons We're fatally injured. on
the 21st, by the explosion of the boiler
of Z threshing engine on Berksmith's
farm. miles south of Byron, Ill.
JOHN PETERS. manager of the Fud-
den Lumber Co. at Acl1ley, Ia, was
found in his office. on the morning of
the goth, with bullet hole in his head
and barely able to speak. He said that
he had been shot and robbed of $1,000.
He was mortally wounded.
THE confederate veterans associa-
ton of Atlanta, Ga, took the lnltla-
tive on the Goth, for the erection of a
Joint monument to the memory of Gen.
Mcpherson of the federal army and
Gen W. II. I. Walker of the confeder-
ate army. who We're killed within few
wards of each other. The grand army
post of Atlanta will join the monument
movement.
PEOPLE of Chelsea. Wis, a village
lately destroyed by forest fires, have
appealed to Gov. Peck for aid, saying
they are without food. clothing or
shelter, and have no means to obtain
either.
THE court of inquiry investigating,
at Shanghai, the circumstances at
tending the sinking of the Chinese
transport kow Shung by the Japanese
war ship Naniv-a has rendered deci-
sion holding that the japanese COM
nander in firing upon the transport,
was justified. and therefore the Japan
csc government will not be called upon
to make any compensation for the de-
struction of the vessel.
AN unknown man fcf! off an east
bound freight On the Fort Wayne road
at the depot in Salem. o., on the Odd,
and was instantly killed. his body De
ing cut in two. The victim is supposed
to have been a tramp who was beating
his way.
LAWYERS and jurists to the number
of 200 occupied the front seats in Con-
vention hall in Saratoga, n. V, when
the seventeenth annual meeting of the
American Bar association was called
to order at 1880 a. m. on the ed.
Miss EDITH CLARK was terribly
burned, on the 22d, by her clothing ig-
hitting from spark from a locomotive
on the Panhandle road at Grafton sta
ton. Pa. She may not recover.
COMMISSIONER MILLER of the inter-
nal revenue bureau says the income
tax will be collected notwithstanding
the failure of congress to make an ap-
preparation therefor.
A. S. TUCKER, Chicago board of
trade broker. shot himself dead. on the
esd. in Washington park. He had keen
posted on change by the manager of
the clearinghouse as having failed to
nav his debit balance.
THE Pail Mall London) Gazette says
it is stated that the Norwegian mem
bers of the party assert the untitncss
of the American members of the Well
man arcti: expedition to take part in
such an enterprise.