Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Evangelical church at Audubon, Ia.
has decamped. He had been pastor of
the church about two years, and was
very popular. He borrowed all the
money he could get and ran extensive
bills. He left letter which his wife
found after he had been gone two days,
saying that she would not hear from
him again
THE question of Sunday opening of
the Atlanta exposition was settled
by an overwhelming vote at the di-
rectors' meeting on the 30th. H. q.
Cabannis, manager of the Atlanta
Journal, moved that the grounds be
opened and the midway closed on Sum
days. Capt j. w. English moved that
the whole matter be laid on the table.
This was adopted by an overwhelming
vote.
AS much of the population of Chica-
go as could find entrance to the audi
forums of Central music hall and the
Y. NJ. c. A buildings in that city. on
the night of the 3Oth. shouted itself
hoarse in appreciation of a series of
resolutions.in which the United States
government is asked to recognize the
Cubans as belligerents.
IN Washington city, on the 30th. i'm
mediately preceding the discharge of
the grand jury, written recommends
ton was submitted to the court favor
ing the establishment of the whipping
post in the District of Columbia for the
punishment of wife-beaters and other
petty criminals.
THE question as to whether or not a
| Chinese born on American soil is citi-
zen of the United States is to be tested
in the courts. Wong Kim Ark arrived
! at San Francisco, recently, from China.
| demanding a landing on the ground
that he is native of California. The
collector of the port, while admitting
his nativity, refused him landing.
/. riley BOYD, once an eminent law
yer and. politician and recently a min
| lister, was found dead in bed at Padu-
cab, KY, on the 3Oth. He had several
times threatened suicide, but the ver-
| dict of the coroner's jury was that Boyd
died of alcoholism.
JAMES DAVENPORT. a farmer, 50years
| old, and the father of ten children,
was burned to death in the town lock-
up at Cleveland, Okla. on the both.
He was drunk, and had been locked up
| IOE OiSG VI UiuS Tie peace.
| GEORGE HoLBRooK's .-year-old child,
while playing near the home of its
parents in Letcher county, KY, on the
| I'd, was stung by yellow jacket just
below the left knee. The limb swelled
rapidly, and in ten minutes the little
one was dead.
THE Produce Cold-Storage exchange
of Chicago, with liabilities of $780,
900 and assets $500, 900, went into the
hands of a receiver on the 1st- Charles
NJ. Stratton was appointed by Judge
| Brentano to act as receiver, and gave
bond in $4,000. The company had
been in financial difficulty for some
time.
A NOVEL feature of the Church con-
gress which opened at Norwich, En-
gland, on the 1st. will be the perform
ance of the Oberammagau Passion
play. under the patronage of the bishop
of Norwich. Bach's passion music will
be rendered during the performance OF
the play.
Two MEN were killed and several
wounded in New York city, on the 1st,
heavy iron beam which they were
| AoiSIALR W AokA u pm SAOhA.
THE car gave an audience, on the
30th, to Count Won Moltke, aide-de-
camp to theGerman emperor. who was
the bearer of an autographs letter
from the kaiser.
WIN. CoNNoRs, captain of the schoon'
er Southwest, lying at Marquette,
Mich, for shelter from the storm, wa:
drowned in that harbor on the 1st-
KING HUMBERr, learning that Queer
Victoria is DESTROYS of visiting Naples
has placed the palace of Capo di Monte
at her disposal
A DISPATCH from Cape Town, on tn,
!. I'd, said that Bishop Naples, of Nyas
saland, and Rev. Joseph Williams,
missionary, were drowned in Lake Ny
: ASA, on September 12, and that Rev
Mr.. Atlay. missionary, was recent.
/ murdered on the Zambesi river by ma
tives.
On the Cd Mrs. Langtry made a for
NAL demand upon the Union bank O
London for the sum of $40. 900, tn,
value of the jewels she deposited will
the bank, which were subsequently
surrendered by the bank to a stra nge
upon his presentation of forged or
der.
REV. WILLIAM E. HINsHAw, paste
of the leading Methodist church il
Be1leville, Ind, was convicted, on tn
I'd, of murder in the second degree TO
the killing of his wife. and his punish
ment was assessed at Imprisonment TO
life in the penitentiary.
THE Edward McGhee school for girls
at Woodville, Miss, one of the fines
institutions in the south, was destroye'
by fire on the night of the 1st TIL,
} inmates were rescued through the win
dows with much difficulty.
BRIG.-GEN. O. NJ. Poe, colonel of en-
| gineers of the northwest district, dies
at his residence in Detroit. Mich, Oh
l the I'd. aged 60. The immediate caus
( of death was erysipelas.
THE United States cruiser Brookly
J was successfully launched at Cramp:
, shipyard, Philadelphia, on the I'd.
THE prevalence of icebergs in tn
: / South Atlantic and Pacific oceans
becoming serious Cold weather is tia
rule, and ships are frequently froze
: up aloft so that the manning of h
yards is an impossibility.
THE condition of Gen. Malone, o.
, the Sd. remained practically M
: changed. His physicians said Their
was nothing on which to base any hop
for the sufferers of recovery.
4 DIR ELLIOTT F. RoGERs, of Chicago
: formerly of Worcester, Mass, instrue
! . tor in chemistry at Harvard, was foun
) dead in the laboratory of that institr
ton on the I'd