Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-29
NEWS AND NOTES.
PERSONAL AND eENERAL

ter-General Wilson for the vacancy
created by the death of Chief Justice
Richardson of the court of claims
DR. VIM. CAMPIoN, president OF
Queens college, Cambridge, England,
died on the goth.
THE president and Mrs Cleveland
attended the Sesqui celebration OF
Princeton On J. } college. On the 22d
the president delivered an address.
The first carload of this seasons
crop of oranges was shipped from Los
Angeles, Cal, on the 10th, to Chicago,
four weeks earlier than ever before.
The Exchange Telegraph Co. OF
London announced, on the Goth, that
the British parliament will reassemb BILE
on January Is.
FUNERAL services over the late
Henry E. Abbey, the theatrical man.
ager, were held in the Church of the
Paulist fathers, New York city. on the
goth The church was crowded with
friends and acquaintances of the dead
The steamer Arago, owned by the
Oregon Coal & Navigation Co., from
Coos Bay, for San Francisco, was car
ried by the current and driven on the
rocks of the jetty at Coos Head, Ore,
on the 10th. In an attempt to land q
boat load of passengers and crew, the
boat was capsized and 12 were
drowned.
SUPT. RICHARD RUSH, in charge of
the publication of the naval war rec
ords, says that during the past year
the second and third volumes of the
war records have been published. The
fourth volume is in the hands of the
printer, and it is hoped that two more
volumes will be ready for the press
during the current fiscal year.
THE international Typographical
union by voting down a motion to the
effect that only printers, members of
the union, shall be allowed to work as
repairers or machinists on the linotype
left the matter precisely
where it was before the annual session
of the typographical union.
Two LUMBER-LADEN schooners which
were believed by their owners to have
been wrecked during the recent storm,
with their entire crews, numbering in
all 13 men, arrived at Philadelphia, on
the goth, both with loss of deck loads
and sails and one with cabins flooded,
and kept afloat only by the buoyancy
Of her cargo.
HARRIET BLAINE BEALE, with her at
appeared quietly before Judge
of the supreme court of
Maine, at Augusta, on the Goth, and
asked for a divorce from her husband,
Truxton Beale. Mr.. Cornish made q
brief talk and the divorce was decreed.
In the case of Miss Celia Rose, on
rial at Mansfield, o.. for having caused
The death of her father, mother and
brother with poison, the jury returned
; verdict acquitting the accused on
,he ground of insanity. She will prob
ably be adjudged insane and sent to an
Isylum.
A COMPARATIVE statement of the re-
,eipts from internal revenue, issued on
he Goth, shows the total receipts for
september were $4,000, 100, a slight
rain over September, 1895. For three
months ended September 80, 1896, the
eceipts amounted to S37, 794, ss7, gain
f $50,
LORD BRAssEY, the governor of Vic
oria, Australia, in a speech on i'm
'erial federation, on the goth, said:
1t would be wise, if possible, to bring
america into a grand defensive league |
4 the Anglo-Saxon races, which would |
ffectively secure the peace of the |
world"
REV. CANON ANDERSON, principal of |
he Montreal diocesan college, died on |
he 21st.
JUSTIN S. MORRILL,, of STAFFORD, VT,
Tas reelected United States senator |
rom Vermount on the Goth. In the |
enate no other name was presented,
nd Senator Morrill, Received the en-
ire 80 votes. In the house he received |
ID votes.
A DISPATCH was received at Juneau
Vis., on the Goth, from the coroner of
fredericksburg, Va, stating that w.
!. Rambusch, the absconding banker,
ad committed suicide there. The dis
atch asked what disposition should be
Iade of the body.
THE big distributing reservoir of the
akland Gal Water Co. broke through
s walls, on the Goth, and 1000, 900
allons of water were let loose with
lsh. A wall of water seven feet high
IRE down Oakland avenue, but beyond
ooding the streets no great damage
as done.
A BERLIN dispatch says: The st. Pc
'rsburg Viedomosti gives details of
lie Van massacre, secured from fugi-
yes who have arrived at Elchmiadzin.
hey declare that no Armenians are
# in the Van district
MRS. COLUMBUS DELANo, wife of the
tie secretary of the interior, fell and
roke her hip at Columbus, o., on the
Ith. She is old and i'll, and the mis-
ap may prove fatal.
POSTMASTER MOSES YowELI., at Sid
~, Ia, was removed, on the 2lst, and
s daughter was appointed to the
ace.
THE cornerstone of the American
Hall of History at Wash
gton was laid on the 21st.
WHILE endeavoring to locate a leak
house No. 954 North Halstead street,
licago, on the 21st., Charles Calland
,ened the door of the room occupied
: George McWhorley. Instantly there
as tremendous explosion, and Cal
nd was thrown across the room, re-
living injuries that may prove fatal.
pom investigation McWhorley was 1
und dead.
ALMOST the entire business portion ,
the village of Lancaster, n. Y, was
armed on the 2lst; total loss, $50, 0Co,
Irtly covered by insurance
JOHN HoLLINGHEAD, the Washington
unity (Ala.) farmer who partiei- {
tied in the lynching of Christopher c