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

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
FIRE destroyed almost the entire
business portion of Galen. Mich, on
the Goth. Only two stores and the post
office are left. One man was injured;
| loss, $1,000
THE French steamer Dom Pedro was
wrecked, on the eth, off Cape Corfu
| bedo. She was bound from Passages
for GARLIC. She struck the Bales Cor
rubedo, when her boilers exploded.
sinking her in a few minutes Part of
her passengers and crew were saved,
but los persons were drowned.
MEND Al HOWARD, an American, who
was arrested and arraigned in the
Bow Street police court, London, on
April 80, on the charge of having in
his possession quantity of engraved
plates and other matter for forging
| notes, was, on the 2sth, committed for
trial without bail.
A DISTINCT earthquake shock was
felt at Brattleboro, VT, about 11:15 a.
IN. on the 2sth. The vibrations seemed
to be from west to east, and continued
from ten to twelve seconds, accompa-
MED by heavy, rumbling sound. Res
| idents in several parts of the village
rushed from their homes in great
fright. The shock was felt in other
parts of the county, and was the heav-
lest ever known there.
Mrs. HARRY B. SMITH, wife of the
auditor-elect of Marion county, Ind.
slipped and fell as she was entering
her yard on the 27th. Both limbs
were broken, one above and one be-
low the knee, and one kneecap was
splintered. She. is a heavy woman
and was returning after playing lawn
tennis. Her tennis shoes were slip
perry and caused the fall.
MORE cavalry regiments for Cuba
embarked at Cadiz on the eth. A
battalion of infantry which had been
ordered to the Philippine islands was,
at the same time. diverted to Cuba.
JACOB HENSON, colored, under sem
tence of death at Ellicott City, Md,
hanged by lynchers about o'clock on
the morning of the 2sth. A placard
was left pinned to the dead mans
breast on which was written: "We
respect. our court and judges Gov.
Brown forced the law-abiding citizens
to carry out the verdict of the jury.
White Caps"
BURGLARS entered the store of w. NJ.
Brown. United States trader at White
Eagle Indian agency. a few miles north
| of Perry, Okla, on the night of the
27th, and stole $4,000 from the safe
Brown is head trader for four or five
tribes of Indians. Clerks were sleep
| ing in the store at the time of the
burglary.
GREAT restitution is reported in a
strip of country embracing a part of
Grant county, Okla. While nearly all
of the territory has had splendid rains.
there is a distance extending from
miles south of Enid, north a distance
of 20 miles, almost to Medford, and
from miles west of Round Pond east
nearly to Lamont, a distance of 10
| miles, where there had been no rain
since October until quite recently.
THE trial of Herman Mudgett, alias
| Fl. II. Holmes, alias Howard, at Phila-
| delphia. on the charge of conspiring to
defraud the Fidelity Mutual Life asso-
citation out of $40, 900 by the imposition
| of corpse as that of Benz. F. Pitezel.
was brought to an abrupt ending on
| the 2sth, when the prisoner pleaded
| guilty.. StuLcuCc was uCACAICos
LAFAYETTE PRINCE, the Cleveland
| (O.) wife-nurderer, was hanged in the
| penitentiary annex at Columbus, on
the osth. He had protested religion
and was calm and unmoved to the last
H is neck was broken by the drop.
| THE Ohio republican state conven'
ton, which met at GAINESVILLE, on the
2sth, nominated Gen. Asa A. Bushnell
for governor.
| THE first issue of the Chicago Chron-
| icle, the only democratic newspaper
IN Chicago, made its appearance on the
2sth.
The Episcopal convention for the
diocese of Kansas, on the 2sth, elected
Dean Millspaugh, of Topeka, bishop te
succeed the late Bishop Thomas.
On the night of the 2sth Frank Ryan
for many years a prominent figure a,
the ST. Louis Merchants exchange, and
whose operations were on SO large &
scale as to gain him a national reputa
ton. died in his rooms at the Southern
hotel. Mr.. Ryan had suffered for sew
eral years with diabetes and an en-
largement of the liver.
| ERASMUS FREDERICK shot and killed
his former employer, John H. Lewis
superintendent of the Benton Manu-
featuring Co., st. Louis, because tn,
latter insisted on putting Fredericl
off with Sc. 9s for S14 worth of worl
which had taken two weeks to accom-
plish.
On the Goth Inspector Waterbury. a
Salt Lake City. Utah, arrested c. w
Carter, accessory to the robbery of TIN
post office at Rock Springs, Wyo.
On the 9th the steamship Colima
with 1s2 persons on board. includin,
, passengers and crew, foundered off tn
western coast of Mexico. Fourteen
, passengers and five members of TIN
, crew are all that were known to hav
been saved, though hopes were enter
tanned that other boats, containing al
! or nearly all of the missing, would We
make the land.
! On the Goth it was stated that tn
hull of the Inflated steamer Chicor
has been found lying at the bottom o
Lake Michigan, about miles from tn
. pier at st. Joseph, Mich.
q OK the Goth whilst the military wer
: in line waiting the order to fall in TO
the Gresham obsequies in Washington
Capt Whipple. of the ordnance bureau
= of the war department., one of Ger
s Ruger's staff, was Frustrated by a Sigh
; stroke of apoplexy. He WAS taken t
e the Emergency hospital, whence h
, was later removed to his home.
OK the 29th the Illuminating hous
2 OF the Winchester Repeating Arm
i Co, at New Haven. Conn.,, blew NJ
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