Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-04-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
IN the United States court in Boston,
on the Goth, Maj. John McDonough,
who pleaded guilty of stealing from
the mails, was sentenced to five years
in state prison. Maj. McDonough was
assistant superintendent of delivery in
the Boston Office, where he had served
in various capacities for thirty-one
years He was a prominent mason
and enjoyed a spotless war record.
BARRY MINES, the former confiden-
tial clerk of j. Pierpont Morgan & Co..
of New York city, charged with
the embezzlement of $4,000 from
that house, pleaded guilty to an in
dictment of grand larceny before JUS
tice Fitzgerald, on the Goth, and was
sentenced to three years imprison-
ment.
ARTHUR B. CHASE, a retired theatre
cal manager, of Holyoze, Mass, COM
mitted suicide, on the night of the Goth,
in his apartments in New York city,
by shooting himself in the head. He
was well known among the profession,
having been manager for Edwin Booth
and others of note.
THE department of state was mott
fed, on the Goth. by cablegram from
Osaka. Japan, of the sudden death at
Hiogo, of Consul Enoch j. Smithers.
Mr.. Smithers was appointed from Del
aware June 1, 1889.
THE secretary of war. on the 26th,
issued an order placing Paymaster-
General William Smith on the retired
list of the army, by operation of law,
with the Endorsement that he retires
with complete record of service well
performed. Col. Thaddeus NJ. Stanton
was appointed by the president to fill
the vacancy.
''1NJUN" JOE, once prominent chief
of the Ottawa Indian tribe, died in
Grand Haven. Mich, on the 25th. He
was rs years old.
IT is reported that John Y. McKane,
the old time political boss of Graves
end township, Kings county, n. Y,
who is now in Sing Sing prison, is in
sane. His particular hallucination is
that he is to be released from prison.
always on the morrow.
TwENTY-THREE prisoners were lodged
in the United States jail in Guthrie,
Okla. on the Goth. They were cap
tured by deputy marshals in various
partssof the territory. Among them
were three murderers, ten counterfeit
ers and six horse-thieves. There are
now twenty-eight people in the federal
Jail charged with counterfeiting.
SIX TALL roughly-dressed mountain
GERS held up No. 8 south-bound passen-
ger train on the Cincinnati Southern
railway, about a mile above Green
wood, KY, at 2:30 o'clock on the morn
ing of the eth. There were three de-
tectives on the train, and in the fight
which ensued, two of the train rob-
bers were killed and one wounded, the
detectives coming off without injury.
The three uninjured bandits made their
escape.
AT 1926 p. m. of the eth Iron Noun
tain train No. "a was held up at Will
Evansville, Mo-, by two masked rob-
bers. who ordered the express messen-
ger to open the safes. The messen-
ger did not have the combination to
the through safe, and the local safe
contained no money. At this point
the robbers became frightened and
left. having first possessed themselves
of Conductor Webb's gold watch.
THE newly-elected president and
vice-presidents of the German reichs-
tag decided, on the eth, not to apply
for the customary audience with the
emperor for fear of still further strain
ing the situation, but to merely leave
their cards at the palace in the hands
of Court Master Hompesche.3
THE Commercial bank of Cincinnati
made an assignment, on the 27th, to w.
II. Campbell, its cashier, payment on
its paper having been suspended by
the clearinghouse. 1t was the oldest
banking institution in that city, and
its failure is said to be due to long
continued Encouragement.
AT the meeting Of the Grand Army
of the Republic, department of Mich
igan, at Mount Clemens, on the eth, a
collection amounting to $500 was taken
up to assist destitute veterans in
drought-stricken Nebraska.
A DISPATCH from Madrid, on the
27th, stated that the Spanish govern
ment had decided to send Martinez
de Campos with 300 additional troops
to reinforce the army in Cuba
AN American named Wendell Read
was shot three times and fatally in
iured in the Northern railway station
in Paris, ON the 2eth, by an English
man named O'Brien. Both men were
bookmakers, and the shooting was the
result of a quarrel over money mat
tars-
The japanese loan of 8, 200, 900 yen to
Corea has fallen through, owing to the
refusal of Japan to grant Corea's re-
quest that the loan be kept standing
for fifteen years.
Mrs. FRANK ANNIs persisted in her
burning home, four miles north OF
Fenton, Mich. early on the morning
of the eth. She was ill and could not
save herself. although two young chill
dren escaped uninjured. Neighbors ar
rived in time to see her raise up in bed
as the flames enveloped her, but rescue
| was impossible.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, was visited by
| most destructive confagration, on
the 2sth, the flames spreading with
great rapidity because of the made.
auate water supply. Forty-six resi-.
deces and stores and many other build.
| ings went down before the all-devour.
ing element, while about 100 families
and many guests of hotels were rem
dered homeless. The aggregate loss
is estimated at S200,0 600. All the
palmetto trees along the sea wall from
the fort to Baya lane were killed
| The United States troops stationed
| there worked manfully to extinguist
the flames and to save property.
| THE mayor of Columbus, Ird., on the
+, es.h. ordered court of inquiry, an6
had all the ministers of that city served