Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-05
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| trophies won in sixty-three of the
eighty events in which he participated.
His trip was also a financial success.
AFTER killing his two children by
locking them in a large box and suffo-
eating them with gas, Herman Hat
tenhorst, of Brooklyn, IS years Of age,
eide, on the gath, by sending bullet
crashing through his right temple.
A PLUG blew out of the mud valve
of the electric-light plant at Washing
ton, Ind. on the night of the cath,
sca1ding six tramps who were sleeping
just above the boilers Two of them
died in terrible agony a few hours
later, and a third was fatally injured.
THE Berlin Tageblatt asserts that
Germany, Russia and France have con-
cluded an alliance committing them to
common action upon all questions con-
corning Turkey.
THE Trans Mississippi congress met
in Omaha, Neb.. on the 25th. with del
egates present from every state in the
west
SHERMAN ARMOUR was arrested in
Everett, Wash, on the 25tb, on the
charge of post Office robbery committed
at Gains Mill and Vienna, w. Va. He
admitted his identity, and consent
ed to go back to West Virginia.
Mrs. HARRIET A. HAYNES, whose IA
ther ran the first steamer on the Hud-
son river, the Experiment, died in st.
Thomas, Ont, on the 25th. She lacked
two months of being 100 years old.
ARTHUR ARNAUD, the noted French
communard, died in Paris on the 25th.
By a head-end collision, on the 26th,
on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad. just east of Shoemaker, N.
NJ, between the east-bound Chicago
limited and freight train, both en-
gines were destroyed, and two persons
were killed and two fatally and large
number seriously injured
THE 5-year-old daughter of Frank
Owens, living near Chalmers, Ind.
picked up,a stick of dynamite on the
goth. 1t exploded, tearing off her
hand and otherwise inflicting danger
Gus injuries.
F. A. BAILEY, of Chicago, who has
grown oranges in Florida for twenty
yea rs, estimates that the usual crop of
6, 600, 900 boxes has this year fallen to
100, 600, as the result of last winters
frosts.
LLOYD MONTGOMERY. aged 10, in jail
at Albany, Ore, has confessed to the
murder of his father, for scolding him,
and of his mother and Daniel Nc
Keecher, for taking his victims part.
WYOMING is to be again hunted over
for elk, deer and moose, to restock the
Scottish highland preserves, owned by
wealthy Englishmen.
w. C. BIRD. labor commissioner of
the state of Kansas, has filed suit for
divorce from his wife, Sarah NJ. Bird,
alleging cruelty.
On the 25th an earthquake shock,
lasting fifteen seconds, was felt at
Greedy. Col. No damage was done.
THE directors of the Childs- Drexe1
home for union printers decided. on
the Goth, at meeting in Indianapolis.
Ind, after the evidence before them
had been carefully considered, to send
a committee to Colorado Springs to in
vestigate the charges that have been
preferred against Superintendent Shu-
man of the home,
A NUMBER of the colored friends, in
Washington, of Mrs John T. Waller,
| the wife of the ex-consul to Madagas-
| taking steps to have a benefit perform
| ance given her in that city. 1t seems
that Mrs Waller is completely out of
| funds for immediate needs, and has no
| available resources.
REPORTS from Union county, Tenn.
say that revenue officers captured a
still, twenty persons and 1000 gallons
of whisky. The still was located near
a church, a deacon of the church be-
ing the leader of the moonshiners-
THE treasury officials have received
information from Atlanta, Ga, that
| the Chinese theater at the exposition
has proved a pecuniary failure. and
twenty-three of the Chinese women
connected with it have gone to San
Francisco.
| HARRY HAYWARD, who is to be
hanged at Minneapolis, Mimi, in De-
| cember, for the murder of Catherine
Cling, and who had all along protested
that he was innocent, has confessed
his guilt, the confession being made
public on the Goth.
THE queen regent of Spain has been
agreed upon by the governments of
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to act as
arbitrator in the delimitation of the
boundaries of those countries
HERR STADTHAGEN, a member of the
German reichstag. has been sentenced
to years imprisonment for insulting
Prussian ministers
Miss JosEPHA PHILIPA PAPY, of st.
Augustine, Fla. has just entered upon
the first year of the second century of
her life. She was born in St Angus
tine, and in all her 100 years she has
never been outside the limits of that
city.
DIR. AHLwARDr, the anti-Semitic
passenger on board the steamer Spree.
which sailed from Bremen, on the Goth.
for New York.
| LATEST details of the explosion at
Palma, on the island of Majorca, make
it certain that eighty lives were lost
Some of the victims were blown to
| atoms, and few OF the bodies could be
identified because of multiIation.
/ IT is decided that the worlds skat-
ing championship contest will be held
at St Petersburg this winter. with the
understanding that Montreal, Can. Is
to have it next winter.
HARRY HArwARD has confessed that
IL socured the murder, of Catherine
Icing ut Minneapolis, for which he
Jst.nds sentenced to hand