Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-03-21
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE coronation of the car will take
place in Moscow during the latter part
of May.
JOSEPH PIERRE DROUILLARD, a vet
eran of the war of 1912. died, on the
18th, at his home in Gallipolis, o., his
demise leaving but four surviving vet
eraHs of that war. Mr.. Drouillard
fought in eighteen pitched battles in
the war of 1912. Had he lived until
September, he would have been nine
ty-nine years old.
On the 18th Secretary Herbert re-
ceived a cablegram from Capt. Crom-
well, commanding the Atlanta, at Co.
Ion, stating that all was quiet at
Bocas del Toro and all we'll on board
his vessel.
In London, on the 10th, the new
American loan opened at per cent.
premium and closed at So.
WILLIAM w. TAYLOR, the fugitive
treasurer of South Dakota, was traced
by Pinkerton detective to Havana,
where he had gone from Tampa. Fla,
on the steamer Olivette. He had a
months start, and got away from Cuba
before the detective could lay hands
on him. He was last heard of in the
City of Mexico, under the name of
Mason.
of the 18th, robbers entered the store
kept by NJ. Pounda, and, loading the
safe on a pair of trucks, secured at the
station, hauled it several miles into
the country and blew it open with dy-
Mantle. They secured about $50.
Observation-Disclosures BIssELL re-
turned to Washington, on the 18th, to
close up the urgent business of the de-
partment prior to his retirement on
April 1.
WHILE assisting the Ward line
steamer Seneca, from Havana, to make
her dock at New York, on the 18th, the
tug NJ. p. Starbuck was capsized and
her crew thrown into the water. All
were picked up little worse for their
immersion except the captain, Joseph
BRANDON, in whose case the efforts at
resuscitation proved unavailing.
Mrs. KATHERINE TODD CRITTENDEN,
widow of the late Ma. Gen. Thomas
L. Crittenden, of Kentucky, died, on
the 18th, at the home of her nephew.
Edmond II. Taylor, of Buena Park,
Cook county, Ill, after an illness of
two weeks.
AGENTS WHITNEY and bennett, of
the Parkhurst society, were arrested
in New York city, on the 18th, on
charges of conspiracy to prosecute De-
tectives Jacobs and McManus. War
rants were also out for Samuel Cohen,
who figured in the cases.
GEORGE GRIDDALL and Maggie
Wachter, witnesses for Harry Hay
ward, the defendant in the Cling MUIR
der trial in Minneapolis, Mimi, ar
rested for perjury. were liberated, on
the 18th, because the grand jury re-
fuse to indict them, believing convic
ton impossi BILE on the evidence sub
mitted.
The Spanish cruiser Reina Regente
with 400 souls on board, was three days
overdue at Cadiz, on the 18th, and
much anxiety was felt for the vessels
safety.
News was received from Shanghai,
on the 18th, that Col. Won Heneken.
the German commander, had left the
Chinese service.
In London, on the 18th, the new
American loan opened at s. and closed
at So.
ARTHUR SAUER, the bookkeeper and
cashier of the Defiance CO., national
bank, who disappeared January Is,
was arrested, on the 18th, in the Bre-
WORT house in Chicago, by Central de-
tectives who had long been on the
lookout for him.
JUDGE BAKER, of Chicago, on the
18th, discharged the last panel of TWEEN
ty-three jurors, after rendering de-
cision that the system in vogue of
drawing citizens for jury service in
Cook county is illegal, and that every
jury serving in the courts to-day is do
ing so on an unlawful basis, and that
all verdicts rendered by them are,
therefore. illegal.
By the burning of a hotel at Mac
keysville, w. Va, early on the morn
ing of the 18th, three persons lost
their lives and four others were SO
badly injured as to make their recov
cry doubtful.
FIRE in Kansas City, Mo-, on the
18th, destroyed a four-story building
occupied by the English Supply Co.,
dealers in engine supplies and wrought
iron materials, and a five-story build
ing occupied by the Western Newspa-
per Union and the Great.Western type
foundry, causing a total loss of over
$500, 900, about ne-half covered by in
Surance.
SIX ITALIANS and one American lad,
were killed (the last-named accident
ally), on the 12th, by a mob in retalia-
F. L -
at Rouse, Col. 1t is thought the Ital-
ians were all naturalized citizens.
AN order issued by Supt. James E.
White of the railway mail service
denies postal clerks the privilege of
free transportation except over their
own routes. All commissions and
passes which have heretofore been is
sued allowing clerks to ride free over
other lines have been called in.
Gov. MCINTYRE of Colorado received
a telegram from Washington, on the
14th, asking him to proceed at once
against the murderers of the Italians
at Walsenberg.
AN amended bill to abolish capital
punishment passed the Nebraska SEN
ate on the 14th. 1t had a good pros
pect of passing the house, and the gov
ernor was said to favor it.
Four men were buried under the
walls of the Commercial Trading Co s
building in Laramie, Wyo., which was
destroyed by fire on the 18th. James
Foster was taken out dead, and George
Cordinier, a university student, was
fatally injured.
A PHENOMENAL vote was cast at the
republican primaries in Cleveland, O.,