Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-06-13
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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secret has offered to build magnificent
hall for the university of New York
and Boston woman, who is also t.
remain unknown, will give $3.50, 900 fol
an emergency hospital in memory o.
her husband, provided the public viii
add $5O,OO0 as a guarantee that the gift
will be pr operly looked after. Deed:
of liberality of this kind have been un
usually numerous of late.
CONGRATULATIONS are due Miss Edith
Rockefeller. Her S35, 1000, 900 would
have procured for her any variety o.
foreign title with the usual amount o.
golden SORROW" Instead of making
this kind of an investme mt, this very
sensible young woman has concluded
to cast her fortunes with Harold Nc
Cormick, an American with wealth
Drawn and brains.
LAWYERS from all over the United
States met at the Victoria hotel ir
Chicago. on the 4th, to engage in or
ganizing a national cooperative asso
citation somewhat in the nature of g
trust 1t was decided to incorporate
the association under the laws of the
state of Him Dis, but the membership
will be drawn from every state and
county in the Union.
A TROLLEY car on the Millville
Sharpsburgh & Etna electric railway
in Pennsylvania. while running at a
high rate of speed, on the 4th, jumped
the track at Pine Creek station and
rolled to the bottom of a 2O-foot EN-
bankment, smashing the car to pieces
and injuring every one of its ten occu
pants more or less severely.
In accordance with the terms of the
will of the late Francis Ives, of Bridge
port, Conn, all his fine horses and
well-bred dogs were painlessly put tc
death. on the 4th, by the use of chic
reform. This was done to prevent the
animals falling into the hands of those
who might be cruel to them.
THE grand jury of Wood county, at
Toledo, O., found indictments, on the
4th, against County Commissioners
Knight and Gibson for soliciting
brides from bidders on the new court
house.
VERY favorable advices were re-
ceived in st. Petersburg, on the 4th.
regarding the prospects of a definite
settlement of the questions remaining
in dispute between the powers and ia.
pan.
On the 4th the president appointed
John C.. keenan,, of Indiana, to be In
dian agent at Neahady agency, Wash
ington.
The Journal Mschak of Tif1is asserts
that prominent Aiwasian chief at
Trebizond, in the Armenian eparchy,
recently committed suicide in order to
escape prosecution at the hands OF
Turkish officials.
THE president. on the 4th, ap.
pointed II. Clay Armstrong, of Ala
bama, to be secretary Of legation at
Madrid, vice Stephen Bonsal. of Balti-
more, Nd, resigned.
IT was stated in Washington, on the
4th. that the president had decided to
appoint Acknowledgement Olney to the
secretaryship of state made vacant by
the death of Gen. Gresham.
THE London Star asserts that Oscar
Wilde's mental condition is seriously
affected, and that he is being careful.
ly watched by the medical staff of the
prison.
THE Formosa republic has collapsed,
and Sang, the rebel governor, has fled.
IN the New York court of oyer and
terminer, on the 5th, a jury was Sc
cured for the second trial of Police In
spector William Mclaughlin on the
charge of extortion. 1t took the court
and the counsel fourteen days to select
the jury.
THE steamer Electron arrived at
Port Tampa, Fla, on the 5th, loaded
with vegetables from the Manatee
country. The crew began unloading
on one side, when the steamer tipped
over and went to the bottom. No one
was drowned.
COUNT FERRADA, formerly Italian
under secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs, was mortally wounded by social
lists at Rimini on the 4th.
AN explosion of gas occurred in the
coal hole of the German ironclad Wur-
tenn berg, off Heligoland on the 5th.
Engineer Ghermann was fatally in
jured and three stokers were seriously
hurt.
SALvINA THOMAS, the daughter of
well-known parents, met George Nash
on the street at Portsmouth, Va, on
the 5th, and, upon his refusal to re-
tract certain statements derogatory to
her character, shot him. Nash fell,
volver and shoot the girl, who died in
stantly. The ball pierced her heart.
REV. FATHER MCMAHON. of Cherry
Mound. Allamakee county, Ia. was
drowned, on the morning of the 5th,
while bathing in the Mississippi at
Pictured Rock, near McGregor, Ia,
with Rev. Fathers O'Donel1 and Shee-
han, of McGregor.
Miss MARY IRENE HoYT, the daugh-
ter of the late Jesse Hoyt, the million
aire steamboat owner, has brought an
action in the supreme court of New
York city to recover S100, 900 damages
from Mrs Hetty Green for alleged
SANDER.
JOHN MILLER, of Aurora, H., while
en- route to Creston, Ia. on the 5th.
was robbed on the train of about So, 600.
He went to sleep after leaving OF
tumwa and when he awoke he was
minus his pocketbook.
CAPT. CLAvIJo, who, on the Sd, shot
and seriously wounded Capt. ten.
Prima- Rivera at Madrid. after the lat
ter had refused him the hand of his
was shot by sentence of
court-martial on the morning of the
5th.
The proposition to issue So, ZOO, 600
in bonds to buy the Kansas City mo
waterworks and to empower the park
board TO establish a new system of
parks in that city carried at the mu-
nicipal election. on the 9Th. by an over
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