Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-11-14
NEWS And NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Pennsylvania, 5000 miners at Halle.
ton, who had been idle for weeks, re
sumed work on the 4th.
THE king of Ashantee rules 1000, OO(
people. and he has a supply of SO. OOt
rifles While England is cultivating
rows with Ashantee and Venezuela
the car will look after the division OF
China and Turkey.
THE ''Vossiche Zeitung" says that
Col. Won Hannekin, the German officer
who was military assistant to Viceroy
Ii Hung Chang, has arrived in Berlin
from China. charged with special
mission and fully empowered to ar.
range for the reorganization of the
Chinese army on the Russian, French
or German model.
LIU YUNG Flu, the Black Flag leade,
in the island of Formosa, is reported tc
have escaped on German varsity
from Amping to Annoy.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai says that
the five leaders of the Ku-Cheng mas
sacre were executed at Foo-Chow on
the 4th.
On the 5th William E. Hinshaw, con.
victed at Danville. Ind, of the murder
of his wife, was sentenced by Judge
Hadley to imprisonment for life.
THE University alumni of Kansas
City, Mo-, met on the 4th, to take
action on the death of Eugene Field.
A motion was made and carried that
in view of Mr.. Fields fondness fol
children, the entire contribution for
the intended banquet to have been
given to Mr.. Field on that night be
turned over to the Children's home.
THE secretary of the in terror has de-
cided a case between the settlers in
Oklahoma territory and the territory,
which deprives the former of lands
they settled upon when that country
was opened by presidential proclama,
ton. The land involved aggregates
Is, $50 acres on the Kickapoo reserva.
ton.
JOHN CoLLERY and John McIvan
were instantly killed and Frank and
Harry Jones frightfully injured at
Manor, w. Va, on the 5th, by their
train jumping the track and plunging
into the Potomac river.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH has grant
ed amnesty to all political prisoners in
Bohemia.
ALL the Welshmen in the mills OF
the National Tin-Plate Co. at Ander
son. Ind, went out on strike on the
5th. The cause is said to be the EN-
ployment of Americans where Welsh
men had been at work.
The United States Leather Co.
known as the Leather trust. has shut
down for two months the 100 tanneries
under its control. and thrown its more
than 200 employees out of work.
PITTSBURGH, on the 5th. not only re
ceived a gift of a $1,000. 600 library
music hall and art gallery from An
drew Carnegie, but the pleasing an
nouncement was made that Mr.. Car
negie would endow the art CALLER,
with $1,000, 600, and also proposed
erecting for the greater Pittsburgh
free libraries at Duquesne, Carnegie
and Homestead.
Mrs. FLORENCE MAVERICK. the Amer
lean woman who is undergoing sen
tence of imprisonment for life in En-
gland after having been convicted il
1889 of poisoning her husband, Jane
May brick, and on behalf of whom re
peated efforts have been made to Sc
cure a reopening of the case, wa
transferred, on the 5th, from Wokini
prison to the Jail at Aylesbury, will
other female convicts.
AT Prenselow, Prussia, on the 5th
Herman Springstein and his married
sister, Augusta Book, charged will
poisoning Springstein's wife las
March, and with having committed ;
| series of murders between 1888 ant
1892. were both condemned to death.
ANDREW d. MELLIcK, author of tn
| s.Story of the Old Farm" and a write
| of newspaper articles, died at his hom
| in Plainville, N. j., on the 9Th, aget
81 years.
HERR LEDERER, once a famous sing
er in Wagnerian opera, and also nota
BILE as the first to seize the would
| murderer Kullmann when he fred a
and slightly wounded Prince Bismarcl
at Kissengen. July Is, 1874, committed
suicide, on the 9Th. at Frankfort-on
Main, by shooting himself with re
volver. He was driven to the deed b,
extreme poverty, having lost the saw
ings of his life through the defalca
tions of the absconding banker Schoen
field.
| The New York. Lake Erie & Yves,
eru railroad was sold, on the 9Th, a
Ramapo, N. Y, under foreclosure de
cree to C. 81. Coster, Louis Fitzgeral
and Anthony j. Thomas, the reorgan
cation committee. for $50. 200, 900.
FOREST fires raging near Ligcnie,
Ind, have desolated a number of farm
and made many families homeless.
THE pope has fixed the 25th as tn
date of the next secret consistory an
the 2sth as the time for holding tn
nextspublic consistory.
MRS D. P. Bowers, the well-know
actress, died in Washington city, o
the 9Th, of heart failure superinduce
by pneumonia.
The canal boat w. 81. Swift, loade
with hay, was burned at Whitehall
n. Y, on the 9Th, and the captain
Larry Sutton, of Rondout, and tn
steersman, James Burke, of Water
ford, were both burned to death.
JOHN u. McGoLDRIcx, clerk of th
New York city court, secretary OF til
Tammany society and candidate Il
the democratic nomination for CO,
4 gress in the Tenth district until b
withdrew in favor of Amos j. Gun
mings. was dangerously stabbed. o
the 9th, by VIM. Bowling, bartende
THE final obsequies over the remair
of Eugene Field were performed o
the 9TH. The sad, yet beautiful, SER
ices were held in the Fourth Presb.
terrain church, at Rush and Superis
streets, Chicago, and were attended b