Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-10

THE ladies' committee, which during
the past year has been engaged in
raising the 500, 600 endowment fund
for a chair of English literature in
Lawrence university. at Appleton,
Wis, have completed their work Mrs.
j. T. Witter, of Grand Rapids, gave
$4,000, on the Sd, making S110. 600 raised,
and thus securing Senator Sawyer's
conditional gift of SIS, 200.
ELIZA CUMMINGS, SIS years of age, of
Hillsboro, O.. guest at the Empire ho-
tel, Sixty-third street and Boulevard.
New York city, while in fit of insan-
ity, on the Sd, jumped from the ifta
story of the hotel to the yard. andwss
instantly killed.
JOHN TOD, of Cleveland, one of the
prominent business men of northern
Ohio. and a son of David Tod, one of
Ohio's war governors, died suddenly
of apoplexy at the Crittenden hotel in
Columbus on the Sd.
DIR. LOUIS PERNAs, Senior Figuerra,
druggist, and several other we'll
known residents of Cienfuegos, Cuba,
have been arrested as political sus-
poets
HALF a dozen steamers are said to
be bound tight in the ice along the
| north shore of Lake Superior, and 1t
will be impossible to release them.
Mr. AND Mrs. WALTER NJ. CASTLE
are in Philadelphia. The object of
their visit is to have the afflicted wom-
an undergo treatment for nervous dis
ease. Mrs. Castle is in a private insti-
tuition, and she has been examined by
specialists. 1t is the intention of Mr..
Castle to have his wife's mental and
physical condition improved before
starting for their home in California.
The ten-year-oid son of E. B. Warder,
wealthy citizen, was strangled to
death at his home near Antioch, KY,
on the I'd. He0was weak from sick
ness, and was seized with a spell of
coughing that resulted in death.
A COPY of the Book of Common
Prayer of the Church of England,
abridged and edited by Benjamin
Franklin, at London, in the year 1873,
was sold for SI,25O at auction in Bos-
ton on the I'd.
The guns of the vanguard of the
army of Gen. Maxine Gomez are thun-
dering uucomfortably near the gates
of Havana, while the captain-general
is ostensibly in pursuit of Antonio
Maceo in Pinar del Rio.
EUGENE w. HARRINGTON, deputy city
comptroller of Buffalo, n. Y, has been
arrested on charge of grand larceny.
An investigation had shown that Har-
rington had been ''stuffing' payroll.
HAVANA newspapers are urging the
necessity for carrying on farming
operations in the island to avert
disastrous famine.
IT is claimed by the UrUguayan min
lister of foreign affairs that the threat
ened revolution in that country is I'M
important.
ALL the candidates on the silver
municipal ticket of Boston withdrew
on the 4th.
THE strike committee, on the 4th,
called out all of the Hamburg harbor
workmen, irrespective of the character
of their employment, in order to as
sist the strike of the dock laborers.
The men called out include the engin-
GERS, bargenen and otheRs employed
by the state and city.
THE proposition of EnGlishmen, act
ing unofficially, to present Ambassa-
dor Bayard, at the close of his mission,
with a substantial recognition of the
esteem in which he is held by individ-
uals, is said to find no expression OF
disapprobation at the state depart
ment.
ECUADOR has had another disastrous
fire, Daule, an important town in the
province of Los Rios, being the scene.
More than thirty houses in the bust
ness section of the town were de-
stroyed, the losses aggregating hum
dreds of thousa nds of dollars.
ARTHUR PALMER, of Montezuma, o.,
and E. l.. Godfrey, of Emlenton, Pa,
both oil men, were drowned in the
reservoir at St. Mary's. O., on the 4th.
Palmer broke through the ice and God
frey went under while endeavoring to
rescue his companion.
THE Milwaukee health department
reported, on the 4th, wholesale poi
soning of families in the northern part
of the city, supposed to have been
caused by eating bread FROM a certain
bakery, containing arsenic.