Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-29

list the Grand ROckland motel at Con-
gers, N. Y, was destroyed by fire. with
all its contents. The building cost
Sos, 600 and the furniture SIS, 600.
In response to representations made
by Mr.. T. p. O'Connor in the British
house of commons, on the ed, Sir
Matthew White Ridley, home secre-
tary, said he would consider it his duty
to inquire into the case OF Mrs. Flor
ence Maybrick. serving life sentence
for the poisoning Of her husband.
PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. the
negro orator Of Alabama, has been in
vited to deliver an address at the open
ing of the Cotton States exposition in
Atlanta, Ga, September 1s- Washing
ton is president of a normal and in
dustrial school for blacks at Tuskegee,
Ala He is one of the ablest negroes
in this country.
On the 22d the steamer Terre Bonnie,
from Kingston for Montreal. Can. with
several communicates of Knights Tenn
plar on board. struck reef at the foot
of Cascade rapids and sank shortly
after in the entrance to Lachine canal.
So far as reported no lives were lost.
THE Suffolk county (Mass) superior
court decided, on the 22d, tn at a China
man has as much right to smoke opium
in his own house or apartments as an
American has to smoke cigars or pipe
in his residence.
''NIsH" DUGAN, proprietor OF the
American house, in Pittsburgh, Pa,
was assaulted by a gang of toughs and
robbed of 1865 in cash on an Allegheny
Valley railroad train on the night of
the 22d. Four of the robbers were
captured, but the fifth made his es-
cape, carrying off the plumber.
AMONG the passengers returning from
Alaska by the steamer Queen, which
touched at Vancouver, B. c., on the
22d, was Vice-President Stevenson, ac-
companied by his two brothers, Messrs.
w. w. and j. C. Stevenson, and his
wife and two daughters.
Mrs. LORA PERKINS was arrested in
Minneapolis. Mimi, on the 23d, on a
charge of having killed her sister, Mrs.
Lola Hawkins. by setting her on fire,
on the 9th, for the sake of $1,000 life
insurance.
THE schooner Wanderer, which put
in at Sand Beach, Mich, on the 22d.
reported the loss of her captain. Alex
James Body, during a severe gale.
THE First national bank of Frank
lin. O.. closed it's doors on the 23d.
Mr.. MUTsr MINIMUTsU. japanese min
lister of foreign affairs, has been ele-
waited to the rank of count.
A MEMORIAL was sent to Gov. Morton
of New York, on the Esd, by the Cen
trail w. C. T. o., of Kansas City. Mo-.
asking that he pardon Marie Barberi,
the Italian now in Sing Sing prison
awaiting electrocution for having muir
dered her false lover.
JOHN w. HESTER, who is said to be
the wealthiest farmer in Clay county,
Ind, was arrested on the ED, charged
with procuring $500 of the state school
funds under false pretenses. He sold
large farm to John Riley, and after
executing the deed is said to have mort
gagged the property.
THE dreaded Russian thistle has ap.
peared in the vicinity of Abilene. Kas.
At Gypsum City the weed has already
made considerable progress, and is
growing in the village streets. The
local authorities are taking severe
measures to blot out the pest 1t is
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in cars from the infected regions.
THE board designated to examine the
dry dock at Port Royal, s. c., has re-
ported to the navy department that the
dock has not proven satisfactory and
recommends that it be not accepted by
the department The contractor will
be given an opportunity to bring it up
to the requirements.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL HARMON. on the
Esd, instructed United States District
Attorney Clarke of Wyoming to sue
out writs of habeas corpus for the
Bannock and Shoshone Indians, who
are under arrest and Evanston, Wyo.,
for violation of the state game laws.
J. kerr HARDIE, president of the in
dependent labor party of Great
Britain. and we'll known by his SO.
cialistic speeches in the last parlia.
ment. arrived in New York, on the
Esd, for lecture tour in this country.