Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-11
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

in Toledo, O., two years ago. ant
whose body he buried under the house
where they lived, and which was re
Gently unearthed by dog, confessed
his crime while being escorted back tt
Toledo.
On the LIST the Illinois Steel Co. raised
the pay of all the men employed il
their Joliet works, except the ton
mage men, 10 per cent.
FLoRIANo PEIxoTo, ex.president o.
Brazil, died, on the Goth, aged SO years
He was accounted the most adroit poll
tician in Brazil, and won military
fame in the war with Paraguay.
GEN. GREEN CLAY SMITH, the veteran
preacher. soldier and politician, died
at his residence in Washington city, or
the 29th, after an illness of several
weeks duration. He suffered from a
malignant carbuncle, which resisted
all treatment
On the 29th Prof. Thomas Henry
Huxley, the distinguished English nat
uralist. died at Eastbourne, England.
He was born May 4, 1925.
Mrs. BENNETT, widow of Benson
Bennett, a locomotive engineer who
committed suicide at Indianapolis a
few months ago, locked herself and
her two children in their home in
Jacksonville, Ind, and administered
poison to each. When found, on the
LIST, by Mrs. John Gonole, visitor,
Ella, aged 10, and Omer. aged 5, had
long been dead. The woman was
gasping for breath, but unconscious.
s.
their burial.
TIE body of w. 1. Lothrop, an APP
prentice attached to the cruiser Con-
cord, who died and was buried at
Wuhu, China. about year ago, is to
be disinterred and brought to this
country for burial at Cherokee, Ia,
the former home of the deceased.
THE Otis Steel Co. of Cleveland, O.,
posted a notice, on the LIST. of 10 per
cent increase in wages beginning on
that date. The increase affects all de-
partments. There are 500 men en-
ployed at the works.
victed of killing Montgomery Gibbs at
Buffalo. n. Y, will, through their
counsel. Judge Hardesty, apply for a
new trial on newly discovered evil
dence which. it is claimed, will estab-
lish complete alibi. while indicating
that Gibbs was killed by another.
The big Rex mine at Leadville, Col.
was drowned out, on the 3Oth, and has
now over $50 feet of water in the shaft.
All the workmen made their escape.
The owners had spent thousands of
dollars in sinking and pumping the
plant.
Work was resumed, on the 1st, at
the plant of the Cumberland Nail and
Iron Co., at Bridgeton, n. j., after an
idleness of more than a year. EN-
ployment was given to $50 men.
DR. THEoBoLD SMITH, chief of the
division of animal pathology in the
bureau of animal industry, agricul-
tural department.. has been called to a
chair in Harvard university.
THREE masked highwaymen held up
a north-bound Southern Pacific pas
senger train near Riddles, Ore, at 1:15
o'clock on the morning of the I'd, by
placing dynamite upon the rails They
secured large quantity of registered
letter packages, and robbed the bet
ter-dressed passengers. Officers were
sent in pursuit.
THE funeral services over the re-
mains of DR.. Buchanan, who was cleo
trocuted at Sing Sing, were held in
New York city, on the I'd, Rev. j. E.
Halsey, officiating. The interment
was in Evergreen cemetery.
THE house of. Trotter Holiday, at
Col, was burned on the 1st.
Holiday and Miss Mary Turtle, his
niece, persisted in the flames.
THE Stamford Comm Manufacture
ing Co.. employing 500 hands, an
nounced, on the Sd. that the wages of
all its employees would be increased at
once 10 per cent.
THE loss by the burning of Godillot's
military Quitting establishment and
other buildings in Paris, on the 1st, is
now estimated at between 1000, 900 and
{, ZOO, 600 francs.
Two BOMBS were exploded near the
police barracks at Monopoli. Italy, on
the night of the LIST. No one was hurt
and very little damage was done.
WHILE 600 persons were crowded on
a bridge at Bristol, Ind, on the 4th,
witnessing a boat race on the st. Jo-
seph river, the bridge suddenly col
lapsed and went down with its living
freight into the stream forty feet be-
low. A desperate and narrowing
scene ensued as the victims of the &C
cident, many of them severely injured.
struggled and sought to escape from
their perilous position. Many casual
ties, but no deaths were reported.
A LABoRER walking through Boyne
street, Dublin. on the I'd, picked up a
tin canister which was lying in the
roadway. He attempted to remove the
cover when it exploded, instantly
killing him. The nature of the explo-
sive contained in the can is unknown.
DURING a parade IN East Boston. on
the 4th, representing A P. A. lodges,
Patriot Sons of America. Orange
lodges, Order of United Workmen and
other kindred organizations. a series
of riots occurred, in which one man
was killed and many others were Sc
verely injured, several o. the mob be-
ing badly dubbed by the police, who
did efficient work in dispensing the
unruly rabble.
Four of the Eve men who held up
the paymaster of the Nacasari Copper
Co., June Is, were recently captured
by the authorities of the Mexican state
of Sonora, taken to the scene of their
crime and shot to death, under the
new lasv providing for the punishment
of train and stage robbers in Mexico.
TAMMASY HALL celebrated the
Fourth of July in the historic wigwam
in New York city with the greatest
enthusiasm. Patriotic letters from
President Cleveland. Senator Hill and
others were read