Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

JOHN Y. MCKANE, now in Sing Sing
under sentence of the New York courts,
has been baffied in his efforts to secure
release on a writ of habeas corpus, the
supreme court of the United States, on
the 14th, affirming the judgment of
Judge Lacombe in refusing to issue a
writ against Warden DurSton, of Sing
Sing.
'DINK' WILSON, one of the Glen
dale (Mo.) train robbers, who subse-
quently to that crime participated in
the murder of Detective Harvey, of
Syracuse, n. Y, was electrocuted in
the penitentiary at Auburn, n. Y, on
the l4th. Charles Wilson, his brother,
is yet to be tried for the crime.
THE Louisiana general assembly. on
the 14th, elected Senator Don Caffrey
for the long term as United States
senator, beginning March 5, 1894.
THIRTY-FIvE workmen engaged in
tunneling the East river at New York
had narrow escape from death by
asphyxiation, on the night of the 14th,
by the fumes resulting from the blast
ing operations. Two of them when
found by day men were unconscious,
and many were unable to help them
selves.
IT is feared that four Harvard stu
dents lost their lives, on the 18th. by
the capsizing of their sail boat in Bos-
ton harbor. evidences of the disaster
but no trace of the missing men hav-
ing been found up to the 18th.
IT was officially announced, on the
18th, that cholera existed in seven gov
ernments in the south of Russia.
PAwTUcKET, r. l., was visited, On
the 10th, by a most destructive confia-
grafton, confined chiefly to the coal
and lumber yard district. The flames
ragged on both sides of the river. being
carried across the stream by a burn
ing schooner. The fire departments
of surrounding towns assisted in get
ting the mastery overy the flames.
Loss estimated at over 100000.
THE Denver Coli manufacturers
exchange has decided to hold an indus
trial exposition during the meeting of
the national convention of republican
clubs in that city, June 26 to 90, in
elusive.
Mr.. w. II. EDWARDS, United States
consul-general at Berlin, died in that
city, on the 10th, after a long and
painful illness, the basis of which Was
inflammation of the lungs.
NOTWITHSTANDING the general pa
ralysis in industrial affairs through
out the United States during the nine
months of the fiscal year ended March
81, the balance sheet in the annual re-
port of the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa,
discloses net profits amounting to ST.
$40. SO9.11.
In consequence of the coal strikes in
the United States, several Scotch coal
mine owners were asked, on the 10th,
to tender a number of shiploads of coal
to New York.
THE enforcement of an autonomous
customs tariff against Spain by Ger
many began at midnight of the 18th.
ADvICEs reached London, on the 10th,
that the yacht Valkyrie had been
wrecked off the coast of Africa, all
hands being lost.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake were
experienced in the Annandale and
Eskdale hills, near Dumfries, Scot
land, on the 18th. The vibrations
travelled northward.
Mr.. WILLIAM X. VANDERBILT has
rented Lord Lovett's deer forest at
Branden, Scotland, and will soon visit
that place with a hunting party.
BARON ROBERT OPPENHEIM, the Paris
financier, has ordered built in France
a racing yacht to cost 500, 600 francs.
The boat is intended to compete with
the Vigilant and other yachts of that
class.
The jury in the case of DR.. Henry
Meyer, of New York, charged with
having poisoned Ludwig Brandt to Sc
cure insurance money on his life, re-
turned verdict. on the 18th, finding
defendant guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree. The verdict is equivalent
to sentence to life imprlsonment.
VERY REV. THOMAS NJ. A. BURKE. VI
car-general of the diocese of Albany.
has been nominated bishop of that di.
Geese to succeed the late Ri Rev. Fran
els McNierney.
DIR. CALVIN WARNER, Of Carroll
county, Nd, has brought suit against
Mrs. Emma S. Powell, for breach Of
promise. Mrs Powell was Miss Wey-
bright, but was married few weeks
ago to Mr.. William II. Powell. Mr..
Warner claims IS, 600 damages
MRS. ELIZA J. HAaeIN, wife of j. B.
Haggin, the well-known race-horse
owner, died in New York city on the
18th. -