Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-09

4 DELEGATION of citizens Of New
York and Brooklyn called on Gov. Nor
ton, on the 10th, and urged executive
clemency in behalf of John Y. McKane,
the former Gravesend boss. A per.
sonal letter from McKane to the gov
ernor was presented by the delegation.
It urged that McKane had fully atoned
for his crime, and that outraged justice
had been satisfied.
IT is considered probable, at Havan-
ma, that Gen. Bradley johnson. who
has been acting as the correspondent
of a New York newspaper, will have
to leave Cuba on account of the reports
which he has sent to the United States
regarding Cuban affairs.
The Cheyenne Indians in Montana
have dswned their war paint and are
holding pow-wows, preparatory to a
general uprising. Several troops of
the Tenth cavalry have been ordered
from Fort Custer to the Cheyenne
agency at Lame Deer, Custer county,
Mont. The Cheyennes have been I'M
usually indoIent this spring
CHARLES w. CLARK, son of w. A.
Clark, the millionaire mine owner,
banker and politician. and Miss Cath
crime Q. Roberts, of Helena, a young
stenographer. were married at Butte,
Mont, on the 10th. The groom's IA
ther presented him with a check for
500. 900.
The Confederate Veterans reunion
opened at Richmond, Va. ON the 3Oth,
with charming weather, clear and cool.
An immense throng of people was pres
ID IL. L
reunion was held in large auditorium
erected for the purpose, was crowded.
The auditorium was handsomely deco
rated.
By an explosion of gas in a man
hole of the Edison Electric Co, at Wa
bash avenue and South Water street,
Chicago, on the 1st, two men were IA
tally burned and two seriously in
jured.
A DISPATCH from Kobe, Japan, dated
June Is, received on the 1st, said the
steamer Kawanoura Maru had collid-
ed with and sank the Hozui Maru off
Hiroshima during storm, and that I7s
lives were lost.
The Red Star packet Rahmanieh,
bound from Sualxim for Suez, broke
her shaft, on the both, and drifted
upon a reef, where she foundered,
and go persons, mostly Greeks, were
drowned.
THE progress of the unlawful dem
gro wing out of the strike
at the Brown hosting works in Cleve-
land, o., was marked. on the Cd, by
further bioodshed. VIM. Rettger, n
young striker, who was pursuinga nom
union workman, was shot dead by the
latter, who was himself lmost killed
before being rescued by the police.
The police. while escorting the work.
men TO their homes, were followed and
attacked by a mob numbering thou
sands. At the Fourth police district
station they were ordered to charge
and dispense the crowd. which they
did, from 80 to 100 of the lat ter being
seriously injured by the officers
clubs.
L. j. LUCKY BALDWIN, the million
aire horseman, had a narrow escape
from assassination, on the 2d. at the |
hands of Miss Emma A. Ashley, the |
sister of Miss Lillian Ashley, whose |
suit for $751; for alleged betrayal |
was in progress before Judge Slack in |
San Francisco. A bullet from the !
revolver plowed through |
Baldwin's hair and buried itself in |
The wall of the court room near the |
bench.
The Associated Society of the Red |
Cross of Philadelphia decided, on the
I'd, to appeal to the public to aid the
g widows and 1870 orphans who are
eft penniless by the late mine disas-
,er at Pittston, Pa.
GEN. A. Il. LAwToN, of Savannah,
ia, died at the Clifton Springs N. "
Oh the I'd. He had a stroke
If paralysis some days before, from
which he did not rally. He was born
n 1916
THE Italian public revenue for the
irst half of the fiscal year just ex-
'ired was 10000, OOO lire more than the
evenue for the corresponding period
# 1896
The German reichstag. on the 2d,
'assed the oleomargarine bill through
econd and third readings. The bill