Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-22

ond secretary of the United States en-
bassy In London, to Miss Marietta Ord,
daughter of prominent London
physician, was celebrated ut st.
Georges, Hanover square, on the 18th.
REV. ]. II. CRAWFORD, Presbyte-
rian clergyman of Indianapolis, Ind,
aged 60, who was visiting friends in
Los Angeles, Cal, dropped dead from
heart disease, on the 14th. while maxi
ing q purchase in clothing store.
J. d. KENEEDY, banker, and one of
the wealthiest citizens of Manchester
Ia, committed suicide, on the 14th, by
hanging. business reverses are said,
to have led to the suicide.
PEARSON & WETzEL's big wholesale
queensware establishment at Indian
opolis, Ind, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th. The loss will be over $751;
600; insured.
1t is reported that railway train
on the Saar Eiffel line, BerliE, convey
ing a large number of recruits, was
thrown from the tracks, on the 18th.
and so persons killed and many more
injured.
The total registration In Detroit.
Mich, this year foots up "a, 36s, which
is gain over four years ago of 4,5o0.
The steamship Columbia, which ar
rived at New York from Southampton,
on the 10th, brought 81, 652, 800 in gold.
Consignments of 81, 200. 900 on the Nor
mania and $3.50, 600 on the Etruria were
| expected.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business, on the 18th, stood at
L, = 80
New York city were S276, 200.
A SENSATION was created at Glovers-
vile, n. j., on the 10th, by the arrest
of City Clerk Wilmarth on charge of
| classifying the city's accounts and con-
verting money to his own use. Will
marth, when arraigned, pleaded not
guilty. He was released on $4,000
| bail.
THREE firemen were killed and sew
| era1 were seriously injured by col
| lapsing floors during a fire in Mon
| treal, Can, on the 10th, said to have
| been the most disastrous confagration
occurring in that city for many years.
HAROLD CAvELLE, alias Kimball, the
| matrimonial swindler, pleaded guilty,
on the 10th, before Judge Taft in the
| United States court at Cincinnati, and
was sent to the Ohio penitentary for
! II months and heavily fined.
The Bethlehem pa Iron Co. has
been notified that the test plates rep
resenting the group of 10 plates for
the turret of the Russian vessel Ros-
thislav has successfully withstood the
! bombardment of the big projectiles.
and that the group has been accepted
| by the Russian government officials.
The plates are eight inches thick.
J MICHIGAN outdid itself, on the 10th,
| in welcoming William Jennings Bryan,
and the nominee returned the cOmpli-
ment by breaking his own as well as
all other campaign records. He spoke
to % meetings, beginning at seven
o'clock in the morning at MuskegOn,
and ending at Lansing close to mid
night.
| ADJT.-G RUGeLEs, in his annual
report to the secretary of war, stetes
that the number of enlistments and
re-enlistments during the past year
was s,49s, of which s22s per cent Were
natives and the remainder naturalized
citizens.
Two PRESIDENTIAL candidates will
invade Chicago the last week of the
campaign. The gold democrats have
secured promise from Senator Pal
| mer that he will canvass Cook county
and make a number of speeches. vii
liam J. Bryan will also be there, and
| is scheduled for II speeches in the
three days he will spend in Chicago.
JUSTICE BEEKMAN, of New York city
on the 10Th. heard arguments on G
motion made on behalf of Mrs. Saraf
Ann Angel for the appointment OF &
commissioner to go to Grand Rapids
Mich, to take testimony in the suit Of
Mrs. Angel against the Gould estate
to recover her alleged dover rights
Mrs. Angel claims to be the widow
of the late Jay Gould.
THE Ohio supreme court, in decision
handed down, on the 18th, sustained
the constitutionality of the Dana law
which prevents name being printed
more than once on thesAustralian bal
lot.