Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Z HANColS SEhIAlN SANfOBERI, mdC-
shall of France, died on the 2sth. He
was born it st. Cyr, department of
Lot, in 1909. and rose from the ranks
to the highest military rank under the
imperial regime. and was grand Off
Ger of the Legion of Honor.
DAVID HAMPTON. colored, suffered
death in the electric chair in the New
York state prison at Sing Sing on the
2sth. Hampton's crime was the MUIR
der of Mrs. Annetta Ahrens, a widow
20 years old, in her apartments in West
Fifty-fourth street. New York city, on
the night of December 30, 1892.
The mayor of Mount Sterling, KY,
was startled. on the night of the 2sth,
by receiving through reliable sources
information stating that a large force
of Morgan county men, armed to the
teeth, were on their way to Mount
Sterling to ravenge the lynching of
Blair.
THE book-binding and printing estab-
lishment of Mayor Samuel Dodsworth
of Leavenworth, Kas., was nearly de-
stroyed by fire on the 2sth, caused from
the heater. Several presses, all the
type and large quantity of paper
were lost.
ATTORNEY OLNEY has given
an opinion to the secretary of war
holding that army and navy officers
come within the scope of the income
tax law.
THE naval programme which has
been approved by the British cabinet
involves the construction, within the
ensuing fiscal year, of four first-class,
four second-class and two third-class
cruisers, twenty torpedo boats and
twenty torpedo destroyers.
The California senate, on the 25th,
adopted resolutions denouncing the
Reilly funding bill as antagonistic to
the interests of California and provid-
ing for the pursuit of all Indebtedness
even to the estates of deceased railroad
managers.
THE steamship Lain. which sailed
from New York for Europe on the
Goth, carried 50, Sc, 900 gold.
THE steamship Majestic, which
sailed from New York for Europe, on
the 30th. carried 81, 40 1000 gold.
THE coroner's investigation into the
terrible explosion at Butte, Mont, on
January IS, by which fifty-eight men
were killed. was concluded on the 31st-
The verdict fixes the responsibility on
the Kenyon-Connell Hardware Co. and
the Butte Hardware Co., in Whose
warehouses the explosion occurred.
The members of the companies are
charged with criminal negligence in
storing large quantities of powder
within the city limits contrary to law.
MAN claiming to be the Son of God
called at the Office of Gov. Mckinley
in Columbus, o., on the 3Oth. He had
wild look in his eyes, and when he
stated that he had a grievance that he
wanted righted, the attaches were no
little alarmed. He was not permitted
to see the governor.
A DISPATCH received from Hobart
Town. Tasmania, on the Goth, said the
report of the earl of Jersey, British del:
egate to the Ottawa inter-colonial con-
ference, had been laid upon the table
by the conference of Australasian pre-
miers sitting at Hobart Town.
FIVE armed men robbed the west
bound overland Southern Pacific train
near Wilcox, Ariz., on the GOTH The
express company's safe was blown
open with dynamite, which also
wrecked the car, and $4,000 in Next
can silver was taken.
WARD MCALIsrER, the well-known
society leader of New York, died. ON
the night of the 31st, after q weeks
illness with Ia grippe.
GOLD Withdrawals, on the 31st. re.
duced the treasury gold reserve to
So, 361 ,96e, Of which 81 geo, 600 was for
export