Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

EBENEZER WAMBAUGH, aged rs, and
wealthy, of Centerville, Ind, tied a
rope to a door knob, then the rope over
a door, got on chair, tied the other
end of the rope around his neck and
kicked the chair away. He was dead
when found. His wife died recently.
AT Lattimer, Pa, Angelo Dongola
entered the chamber of Mrs. Anna
Annutz, at night, but fed on her rails
ing an alarm. He appeared the next
morning and begged the woman to for
give him or kill him. She did the lat
ter, firing five shots into him.
The battle-ship Indiana is paying
her first visit to New York. She is the
biggest United States warship, and
naval experts say she can whip any
thing her size afloat.
Nor since 1875 has the prospects for
peaches been SO flattering in Delaware.
TIE trees are in good shape, and are
filed with buds on every limb and
twig.
WILLIAM MILLIGAN, of Cascade, To-,
a veteran of the Mexican war, died on
the Goth, aged SIS. He served under
Gen. Scott and was present at the cap
ture of Mexico City.
ACCORDING to dispatch from Paris
Pere Hyacinthe, the distinguished pro-
testing priest, formerly Able Charles
Loyson, will marry Laura, daughter
of the late William Bucknell, an Amer
lean. Pere Hyacinthe is 60 years old.
MADRID dispatches, on the 21st ,
stated that the minister of colonies
was preparing to put into effect in
Cuba and Porto Rico the refor ms
which were passed by the cortes and
promulgated more than year ago.
AT the Baltimore conference of the
A. NJ. E. church Bishop Gaines made
an address which created somewhat of
a sensation. He told the ministers
that all who used whisky or were
guilty of any immoral acts would not
receive any appointments, SO that if
they were left out they would know
the cause.
FURTHER advices received from Ber-
Der in the Soudan, on the 21st, say
that in the recent fight among the
members of the khaEfa's bodyguard at
Omdurman, 500 men were killed in
stead of so, as first reported.
A SPECIAL passenger train from Hal
flax. on the Canadian Pacific railroad,
carrying $50 European immigrants
bound for Minnesota, the Dakotas and
Washington, ran into a washout, on
the 21st. killing three second-class
passengers and injuring many.
WHILE sitting at the supper-table,
on the 22d, entertaining friends called
in to celebrate the arrival of his mother
from Denmark, Christian Andersen,
living near Greenwich. Conn, was
struck in the face by a thunderbolt.
which entered at an open window, and
instantly killed.
THE Dominion department of rail-
ways and canals, on the ED, sent out
notifications that efforts were being
made to have the Welland canal
opened as soon as possible, but that it
was feared it could not be got ready
before May /.
Hon. FRANCIS JEwIrT, OF Lowell,
Mass, died, on the 22d, in his sixty
sixth wear. He was a member OF the
firm of Jewett & Swift, which ships
dressed beef from Chicago to the east
ern market.
LOUIS p. HERMANN and Charles
Pustolka, both wife-murderers from
New York city, were electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison on the esd.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND recently spent
day at ex-President Harrison's pri-
vate fish-pond near Leesburg, W. Va
He ished hard all day. but only sue
ceeded in landing a few croppies.
TELEGRAPAIC communication with
Buluwayo was cut of at Fig Tree, a
small place near Mangwe, southwest
of Buluwayo. on the Esd, and, in view
of the serious condition of affairs, it
caused considerable anxiety in Cape
] Town.