Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03

OK the 25th United States Secret
Service Detective Louis Summers ar.
rested Capt Henry R. Patton, foreman
of the Patton Manufacturing Co. 1o-
Gated in the Indiana penitentiary at
Jefersonville. on the charge of circu-
lating counterfeit money manufac-
tured by the convicts. Patton con-
fessed.
MRS. LANGTRY. who expects to re-
ceive divorce from her husband about
October 9, will thereafter take mp her
residence on her Lake county (Cal)
ranch. and devote her time to the
breeding of fine stock, the growing of
fruits and the cultivation of garden
truck.
SIX MEN were killed outright and
five fatally injured by an explosion of
dynamite in the Belgian mine in Ace-
laide park miles from Leadville. Col,
on the Goth. The explosion caused
cavern under which the miners were
crushed to death.
In the United States court at Guth-
RE. Okla, Mrs. w. c. Taylor was, on
the Goth, acquitted of the charge of
murder, the jury being out but two
minutes. Mrs Taylor shot and killed
William Henry Harrison on February
% last, while the latter was trying to
force an entrance to her house.
DURING a recess in the Irish national
convention in Chicago, on the 26th,
nearly 1000 of those present signed
petitions to congress in favor of recog-
nizing the Cuban patriots as belliger-
ents-
The Venezuelan authorities at Cara
cas- refused to interfere with meeting
of young men held for the purpose OF
organizing club to aid the Cuban in
| surgents, and it is stated that the
Spanish minister to Venezuela will re-
sign and leave the county. Thus Ven
ezuela may be the first to recognize
the struggling Cubans.
On the, morning of the 2sth Martin
Adams, of Cincinnati, who caused the
death of John Dinner by putting strych-
the Columbus penitentiary annex at
1908. His neck was not broken, and
he died Of strangulation in twelve and
one-half minutes. Adams was indiffer-
ent to his fate up to the time he mount
ed the death-trap. when he showed
slight nervousness.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE. of Brooklyn, has
accepted the call to be co-pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Washing
ton city. This decision was commune
Gated by him to the special committee
of elders, deacons and trustees in a let
ter received on the Goth. DR.. Talmage
is to be co-pastor of the church. with
equal authority with DIR. Sunderland.
SIR ARTHUR PAGET, of the British
legation at Washington, has ordered
the Herreshoff firm to construct 214
rater yacht to be used for racing in
British waters. The boat will be 27-
feet water line, and will be finished in
mahogany. The hull will be covered
with bronze.
PASSENGER train No. 1 ON the Ba1ti-
more & Ohio side-wiped passenger
train No. 4, lying on the switch near
Tunnelton, w. Va, on the 27th. United
States Marshal Garden, of Wheeling,
w. Va, and ex-Secretary of State VIM.
A. Ohley, of Charleston. were fatally
scalded by escaping steam; Miss Mary
L. Downtain. librarian of the state,
was also probably fatally injured.
Several other passengers were injured
slightly.
1HE DEiIlSu sup Guar VI AuStTids
from Santa Rosalia. March 25, for
Swansea and Falmouth. and the British
ship Lord Spencer, from San Fran
cisco, April 9. for Queenstown, long
overdue at their respective ports of
destination, have been given up for
lost.
A STRANGE hog disease has within
two or three weeks swept away thou
sands of fat porkers in Mclean and ad-
| joining counties in Illinois and threat
ems the determination of swine in those
parts
| THE Standard Oil Co. has leased
| IS ZOO acres of land in the Rugby tract
in Tennessee, where oil and gas have
| recently been discovered in paying
quantities.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the
eth, said: "Great Britain at length
appears to be in earnest. She has now
five war ships on the Yang-Tse-Kiang
and four more ships will join them inn
| mediately.