Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-04-11
THE widow of Alexander Dumas died

| in Paris on the Sd.
| Mrs. PARAN STEVENS, who, with the
late Ward McA1lister. was for many
| years a society leader of New York,
died of pneumonia at her home in New
York city on the Cd
| NEWTON WALTERS, tie 19-year-old
slayer Of George and James Cox, was
found hanging to a tree, on the Sd,
from the scene of the atrocious double
crime.
| COMPTROLLER ECKELs, on the 4th.
closed up the First national bank of
Ravenna, Neb., and the First national
bank of Dublin. Tex:
THE Columbian liberty bell was rune
in Chicago. at noon of the Sd, in honor
of Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, author
of America" Mayor Hopkins and
Supt. Lane of the public schools were
in charge of the ceremony. The ring
ing was done by committee of school
children, representing each state and
territory.
| EDWARD VAUDEVILLE was sentenced
to year in Jail by United States Judge
Sage at Cincinnati, on the Sd. Mande.
vile was postmaster at Springda1e.
His salary was inadequate to support
him, and he stole money from regis
tered letters.
| By a vote of % to /, during an exciting
session of the congregation of the Pres
byterian church at Chaumont, n. Y.
on the evening of the I'd, it was decid-
ed to ask Rev. William Cleveland.
brother of President Cleveland, to ten.
der his resignation of the pastorate. II
| is reported that politics has been a
disturbing element
WILLIAM DAVIS, a farmer, near Val
paraiso, Ind, is in a critical condition
as the result of vicious horse biting
off most of his right hand and pulling
out the tendons from the wrist. Blood
poisoning is feared.
| ISAAC A. MILLER, pioneer mer.
chant and president of the Citizens
state bank at Council Bluffs, Ia,
dropped dead of heart disease in the
Grand hotel barber shop in that city
on the 4th.
| A LITTLE more than a year ago the
Globe iron works at Cleveland, o.,
made cut of 10 per cent. in wages.
| On the Sd notices were posted in the
| works announcing restoration to the
| old rate.
THE Spanish steamer Ignacio de
| Logo, conveying 1000 soldiers to rein
| force the government troops in the is
| land of Cuba, arrived at Havana on
| the 4th.
BERTHA HUTINET, aged II years, com
mitted suicide, at Milwaukee the
morning of the 4th, because her
mother slapped her in the face when
she returned home about midnight.
and refused to tell where she had
been.
JOSEPH ]. WILLIS, chief engineer OF
| the Louisville (ky.) veneer mills, met
a horrible death on the 4th. He was
| caught in a shaft of a fywheel making
200 revolutions a minute and was
dashed against the wall and ceiling of
the room until his body was a shape
less mass, almost every bone being
broken.
O'BRIEN. the American who shot his
companion, Waddle, in Paris, on March
%. confessed to Judge Franaueville, on
the 5th, that he is really O'Brien, the
American bunco steerer. This was the
| first admission of his identity that
the prisoner had made.
A CONSTRUCTION car on a branch line
of the Second avenue street railroad
in Pittsburgh, Pa, became unmanage-
able. on the 5th, and jumped the track,
killing one man and injuring another.
A CONSCIENCE contribution of $50
from Pittsburgh, Pa, was received at
the treasury department, on the 5th,
and was placed to the credit of the
conscience fund.
A. G. MCLEAN, first mayor of Van
couver, B. c., died in that city on the
4th. He was formerly a resident of
Winnipeg, Man.
In the British house of commons. on
the 5th, the Irish land bill was read a
second time without division.
In an accident on the Bellaire,
GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati railroad at
Whigville, o., on the 5th, four persons,
including the engineer, were instantly
killed, and the fireman was fatally in
jured.