Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-12


WINK Geo Peck. Chicago dyer.
was using gasoline. the liquid ignited
from friction, and he was Instantly en-
veloped in fire. He jumped into vat
of boiling water. from which he was
rescued with difficulty. probably fatal
ly injured.
Gov. MCINTYRE. Of Colorado, on the
4th. issued requisition on Gov. Stone
of Missouri for the return of Pat Grove
to Colorado. Grove is under. indict-
ment for the larceny Of valuable dia-
monds from Chapin's jewelry store in
Denver. He is now an inmate of the
jail at St Joseph, Mo-, on the charge
train robbery.
The South Carolina constitutional
convention adjourned sine die on the
night of the 4th. On the final adop-
tion of the constitution the vote stood
II to 2, all the negro delegates voting
against it on account of the suffrage
article, and two white delegates for
the indefinite reason that some parts
of the constitution they considered to
be unwise.
The administrative council of the
Grand Army of the Republic, on the
4th. fixed the date for the next en-
campment as September to 4, 1896, at
St Paul, MINI. On Tuesday, Septem-
Der 1, will come the naval parade and
opening day; September the grand
parade, which may be the last ever
held; on Thursday and Friday, the Sd
and 4th, the encampment proper will
be in session.
The feud among the Vanderbilts has
attained SO bitter stage that the Cor
nelius Vanderbilts will have their
daughters wedding strictly private
and transformations. simply to be
different from the Willie K. Wander
bilts. Therefore. young Miss Ger
trude will be married only in the pres
ence of her immediate family. w. Z.
will be invited-his wife. never.
THE Greenville hotel. located miles
east of Hortonville, Wis, was burned
ter, an employ of the hotel, was suffo-
Gated and taken from the burning
building dead. Several members of
medicine troupe" escaped death by
jumping from the second-foor win
dows. clad only in their night clothes.
SAID PAsHA, president of the Turk
ish council of state and formerly grand
vizier. has taken refuge in the British
embassy at Constantinople, fearing that
he will be arrested.
The offices of the socialist party,
which were recently closed in Berlin,
have been removed to Hamburg, out
side of the jurisdiction of Prussia.
WIN. ]. MURRAY, aged so, died in To-
ledo, O., on the 4th, afte voluntarily
fasting forty-seven days.
The bullion in the Bank of England
increased Ell, 1894 during the week
ended on the 5th.
OK the 5th the president sent to the
senate a batch of recess nominations.
DIR. r. ). Fox. a prominent physician
of Linneus, Mo-, who was found
guilty of stealing the body of Mrs.
Gates, was. on the 5th, sentenced to
the penitentiary for three years.
KING HUMBERT. gave an audience to
Hon. Wayne MacVeagh. the American
ambassador to Italy, on the 5th.
SAM SEwELL. assistant cashier of the
First national bank of McGregor, Tex,
was, on the 5th, indicted for the re-
cent robbery of that bank.
THE American Catholic league was
incorporated at Baltimore, Nd. on the
7th. 1t is founded on broad patriotic
lines, and based on the essential prin-
ciples of free institutions, and it is pro-
posed to make it one of the most inn
portant and patriotic organizations
that has ever existed among Catholics.
A TRUST. comprising almost every
factory in the country, has
been organized, and the price of tacks
advanced to almost double
the former rates.
THE town of Mariested, Sweden.
1900. was virtually de-
stroyed by fire, which started on the
night of the 5th.
Rev. F. Y. SATERLEE, of Calvary
church, New York city, was elected
bishop of the new Episcopal diocese of
Washington, D. c.. on the 9th.
On the 5th the stage running be-
tween Ager, Cal. and Klamath Falls,
Ore, was robbed for the eighth time
within as many months.