Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-03


interior department approved patents
for 9ss, 2O6 acres of land to the Union.
Pacific Railroad Co. The lard is all in
Nebraska, being situated in the North
Platte, Grand Island, Bloomington
and McCook land districts. The pat
ents were issued in pursuance of the
resolution of Representative Mondell,
| of Wyoming, which provided that
lands should be patented to bond-aided
roads which had been sold to bona fde
purchasers.
ACTING CAPT. FLOWERS of the small
pox stricken steamer Earnwell died at
the Marine hospital at Lewes, Del, on
the 2Sth.
1T was reported in London, on the
2sth, that the Brazilian minister to
Italy had left Rome and gone to Paris
in consequence of the strained rela-
tions between Italy and Brazil, which
had resulted in the former govern
ment sending an ultimatum to Rio
Janeiro, demanding prompt and COM
plete satisfaction for the outrage COM
mitted on Italian subjects in Brazil.
AT noon of the 2Sth the family of
Charles w. Green, travelling passenger
agent of the Big Four railroad, con-
sisting of Mrs. Green and three chill
dren, boy aged Ii, girl aged 9, and
little girl of 6, were found dead in
their home in Kansas City, Mo. The
mother is supposed to have shot the
children and then killed herself
druing a fit of insanity.
CALVIN AND GEORGE DEL, brothers,
aged 16 and Is years, were drowned in
the canal near Middletown, Pa, on
the 2Sth. They were swimming, and
Calvin was seized with a cramp.
George went to his assistance, and
both were drowned. The bodies were
recovered
ALL the collieries under the Lehigh
Valley Coal Co. s system were, on the
2Sth, ordered to work six days a week
until further notice. This is the first
time in many years that the miners
there have had a chance to work full
time.
DR.. GALLAGHER, the American dyna-
inter who Is years ago was sentenced,
in England, to imprisonment for life,
was released from Portland prison on
the 2sth. He looked pale and thin,
and his hair was very gray.
THE visit of Lii Hung Chang to the
United States is not of an official char
acter. He has no special mission from
his emperor, although he bears an au-
tograph letter from his royal highness
to President Cleveland.
OFFICERS bagged five cattle thieves
few miles northwest of Vinita. I. T.,
on the 27th, and they were lodged in
Jail at Vinita. The cattlemen have
suffered considerable loss from cattle
being driven from the range in the
night, few head at time, and sold
to local butchers in neighboring towns.
Mrs. o. II. STICKLEs, wife of a farmer
on Clapboard Hill, just outside of STRAIT
ford, Conn. gave birth, on the 2Sth, to
four children-three girls and boy.
The largest weighed seven pounds and
the smallest five, and the total weight
of the quartet was "a pounds.
THE statue Republic" which stood
at the head of the grand basin in jack
son park, Chic ago, during the Column
bian exposition, was burned, on the
2sth, by order of the South Side park
commissioners. The figure cost about
S25, 900, and was 60 feet high, standing
on a pedestal 40 feet in height.
BARON FAvA, the Italian ambassa-
dor, conferred with officials of the
state department, on the 2sth, in refer
ence to the lynchlng of Italians in
which may become an in
affair. The ambassador
stated that he had, from the consul at
New Orleans, a positive statement that
the men were Italian subjects.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. accompanied
by Private Secretary Thurber and At
Harmon, left Buzzard's
Bay, on the 2Sth, for New York, to at
tend the reception to Ii Hung Chang.
On the 2Sth dispatch from Rome
said that private letters received from
stated that the Turkish
was on the eve of being
overturned, and that provisional gov
eminent would be appointed.
THE body of Outlaw Bill Doolin was
buried, on the 2sth, in Summit View
cemetery, Guthrie, Okla. Express com.
panies have paid 81, $40 for the killing
of Doolin.