Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-30
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
| Mrs. PRUDENCE LEAGUE, for many
years a minister of the Friends church
in Indiana, died at the home of her
daughter, in Wabash, on the 10Th, aged
81. She was born in Ohio. For City
years she travelled through central In
diana, conducting services of the
Friends church, in the families and in
the meeting houses.
PROF. HENRY S. PR1rcHARD, teacher
OF astronomy and mathematics at
Washington university, St Louis, has
been honored with the title of doctor
of philosophy by the university OF
Munich, Germany. Prof. Pritchard has
been in Munich a year, and will return
to st. Louis next September.
REV. F. E. BEEBE, Baptist minis
ter OF Delaware, O., has retired thirty
of his wealthy Pensioners because
they belong to Knights of Pythias
lodges and Masonic organizations.
The Mount Vernon Baptist association
has voted him silent" but Mr.. Beebe
refuses to deliver up his ordination
papers
AT a meeting in Boston, ON the elst,
of the directors of the Tamarack Mi
ming Co., dividend of four dollars a
share was declared, payable June IS,
to stockholders of record May 81. This
makes a total of dividends declared
and paid to date of 81, 270,00o.
A DISPATCH from Pekin, on the 21st,
stated that an imperial decree had
been issued recalling from Formosa
the governor and all of the other Chi
nese officials. civil and military
On the night of the 10th, in the re-
vival meeting conducted by Evangelist
Chapman and Bill Horn at Ottumwa,
Ia, w. 7. Miller was among the first
to profess conversion. On the Goth he
fell dead on the street from a broken
blood vessel.
ADvICEs from western Michigan say
that all fruit and vegetables that sur
vived the previous frosts were ruined
by that of the night of the Goth.
j. B. KoETTING, ex-cashier of the
South Side savings bank of Milwaukee.
which suspended in 1898 with $780,
600 deposits, and which will not pay
twenty cents on the dollar, changed
his plea of not guilty. on the 21st, to
guilty of receiving deposits in an in
solvent bank, and was sentenced to
five years in states prison.
BIZ an explosion of nitro-glycerine.
on the 21st, the California powder
works at Pinola, Cal, were destroyed
at loss of $3.50, 1000, and five white
Ill IA
and a number injured.
An explosion occurred at the Monon-
gah mine, 80 miles south of Morgan
town, w. Va, on the 21st, in which
four persons were killed and several
injured. The remainder of the 1872
men at work got out in safety.
FRANZ Won SUPPE. the famous COM
poser, died in Vienna on the 2lst-
THE Schroeder Commission Co., car
rying on bucket-shop business in the
Exchange building at Kansas City, Mo-.
failed ON the evening of the 21st, with
liabilities placed at s135. 600. There
the wrong side of the wheat market
and was caught short
THE Michigan senate. on the 21st, by
a vote of Is to IL, passed the bill to re-
store capital punishment in certain
cases in that state.
REPRESENTATIVE CoGswELL. of Mas
sachusetts, who had been i'll at Wash
ington for three weeks. died at o'clock
ON the morning of the ED. He suf-
fered from a complication of diseases,
and his death had been expected for
some time.
GEORGE 81. HosMER, the well-known
oarsman, was reported, on the ED. to
be in a critical condition at the city
hospital in Boston. A few days before
he accidentally swallowed some small
splinters of broken glass while drink
ing, and the physicians did not expect
him to live, as internal bleeding had
set in.
THE Vivant hotel, opera house block
and several other buildings in Anti
go, Wis, were destroyed by fire early
ON the morning of the 22d. The
guests of the hotel were compelled to
jump from windows to escape the
flames and several were severely
bruised; loss, sec. 1000.
THE crew of the German steamer
Virginia. lying in the harbor of Copen-
hagen, mutined, on the 22d, whereupon
the captain drew his revolver and shot
several of them, one or two seriously.
This quelled the mutiny. and the
wounded men, together with the others
concerned in the revolt, were placed
under arrest.
A DISPATCH from London, on the
ed, stated that Gen. Booth, of the
Salvation army, was seriously i'll in
that city.
On the 22d the Pittsburgh (Pa-) jury
in the case of Pitcher Baldwin against
Chris Won der Abe. manager of the st.
Louis Browns, for false Imprisonment,
gave Baldwin s., 500 damages
GEN. S. S. HINKLE, a prominent law
yer of Washington city. and adjutant
general of Ohio during the war, died
in Washington very suddenly on the
21st.
THE statement was current in Wash
ington, on the ed, that on the assem-
bling of the next congress Representa-
tive Boutelle will offer resolution to
strike from the records of the navy de-
partment President Cleveland's CEN
sure of Admiral Meade, because it is
without precedent to censure an Off
Ger uutried by court-martial for an al
legged offense.
THE trial of Capt II. w. Howgate,
upon the remaining indictments charg-
ing him with false certi6cation of his
current accounts as disbursing officer
of the signal service. and with forg-
ing a voucher for 81 600 in favor of the
American Union Telegraph Co., was,
on the Esd. set for June 6.
A REPORT from st. Petersburg. on
the o3d stated that (,ermanv had