Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-05
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

same gang of bandits that looted the
| town of Carney. The Sac and Fox
agency is only SO miles from Carney.
ELMER CLAYTON, the 1s-year-old
youth who was convicted of murder
| ing Henry Hodgetts, farmer Of
| Pluckemin, was arraigned at Somer-
vile, \. j., and sentenced by Judge
Magic to be hanged on December 10.
Two ACTIVE young women prisoners,
arrested for being drunk and disor-
derby, jumped from high barred win
dow of the Tombs prison, New York
city, on the Goth, and made their es-
cape.
JAMES l. HUEY, who has been resi-
dent of Arkansas City, Kas., since
1871, committed suicide on the Goth.
He locked himself in his room and
turned on the gas, dying from asphyxi-
alton
HENRY w. CORNELL, a lawyer, and a
son of ex-Gov. A. B. Cornell, was ar
rested at Dobbs Ferry, y. Y, on the
26th, charged with grand larceny.
Cornell denies the allegation.
THE police of Milwaukee, on the
Goth, arrested on the charge of bur-
glary Minnie Gordon. aged IL years,
and her step-sister, Mary Freuck, aged
81 years.
THE preliminary inquiry into the
case of E. H. Horner, the alleged Eu-
ropean lottery swindler, arrested in
| Montreal, Can, recently, was con-
tinued on the 27th. 1t is said that let
tiers are being received every day,
| alleging fresh instances of Horner's
sharp practices.
Mrs. CARRIE WHALEN, wife of Daniel
| Whalen, jumped from a bridge at
Rochester, \. Y, with her infant child
in her arms. She was rescued with n
rake, but the bab be was dead. She said
she was moved to the act because her
husband could not support her. She
had been drinking.
The treasury gold reserve at the
close of business, on the 27th, stood at
| SlJ9,O5G, PAS. The days Withdrawals
at New York were S43l, 4OU.
The battleship Oregon arrived at
Monterey, Cal, on the 27th, to prepare
for her final acceptance trial of IS
| hours at sea.
THERE was filed in the Middlesex
court of insolvency at East Cambridge,
| Mass, on the 27th, a voluntary petit
ton of insolvency on behalf of Rev.
Elmer IL. Capan, d. D., president of
| Tufts college. There was no state
ment of assets and liza Utilities.
! The Illinois state supreme court, on
| the 27th. refused to grant rehearing
in the case of Julius Mannow, the
| self-confessed murderer of Carey L.
Birch in Chicago.
AFTER partial hearing in the case
of Dugald Crawford, charged with at
| tempting to intimidate voters, Acting
| Judge Smith. in the St. Louis court of
criminal correction, discharged the
| defendant on the 2Sth.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business on the 2sth stood at
| Sis, 732, O4O. The days Withdrawals
at New York were s3ts. 500.
THE three-year-old son of Oscar Mar
shall, a North Bend (Wis.) farmer,
was murdered, on the 2sth, at Gales
vile, by hired man named Palmer.
| Marshall and the man had a quarrel,
and to get even with his employer
Palmer took the little boy to the barn
| and deliberately crushed his skull with
| an AK.
| Gov. STONE of Missouri has offered
q reward of 5000 for the arrest and
sentence to the penitentiary of each
person who robbed the Chicago & Al
ton train at Blue Cut, on the night of
the oath, and $500 for each one SEN
fenced to be hanged.
ELMER S. DUNDY, judge of the United
States district court for Nebraska,
died at his home in Omaha, on the
2Sth, after brief illness. aged sc. He
was a native or Ohio and went to Ne
braska in 1857. He leaves a valuable
estate to his widow and three children.
A. b. HAMILTON died at Harrisburg,
Pa, on the 2Sth, from the effect of a
stroke of paralysis. He was SO years
old. Hamilton learned the printing
trade with Simon Cameron, and held
the position of assistant clerk of the
state senate, printer to both houses of
congress and state printer.
AN explosion of natural gas at Ava
lon, a suburb of Allegheny, Pa, on the
2Sth, killed Bessie Osborne, aged 13
years, and seriously injured her
brother Dale, aged nine years, and her
sister Edith, aged six years. The house
was radly wrecked.
THE marriage of Miss Helen Hoyt
sherman to Mr.. William Ogilyie Grit.
| nIn was at ICES IholuGS. Id
on the 2sth, at st. Paufs Episcopal
church. The bride is the youngest
daughter of Maj. Hoyt Sherman, a
brother of Senator Sherman and the
late Gen. Sherman.
JOSEPH w. HAMBURGER. a wealthy
business man of Harlem, \. Y, drank
a pint of carbolic acid, on the 2Sth
and killed himself. Mr.. Hamburgel
. was 81 years of age, a member of the
: Columbia club, and was reputed to bt
: worth $500. OOO-
Ii. c. CoCKRELL was convicted in thu
United States court at Louisville, KY
on the 2Sth, on the charge of using the
mails for fraudulent purposes, and sen
fenced to is months imprisonment il
the Jeffersonville Qnd.) penitentiar,
. and fined $500. This is the limit.
GEN. FITsHUGH LEE, the Unlteo
I States consul general to Cuba, in
formed a correspondent at Havana, Oh
the 2Sth, that he would sail for New
I York on the 31st. Gen. Lee said tina
: the purpose of his trip was to visit hi
g family and attend to private business
FRANK Il. BUNCE, the manager o
the Lyceum theater in New York
died in his office at the theater on tn
I | 29th.
By an explosion of gas in No. shat
, of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the goth. fou
men were killed and two injured
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