Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23

Or the 2eth Postmaster enerni Will
son will deliver an address at Chilli
| cothe, o.. the occasion being the city's
| centennial.
| The strike situation at the Brown
hosting works at Cleveland, o. assumed
SO dangerous phase, on the 18th, that
three more companies of troops were
| hurried to the scene.
WILLIAM c. WHITNEY has formally
| bolted the ticket nominated at Chicago.
| He says nothing could induce him to
vote for Bryan or to assist in any way
| in his election.
A. J. MONTGOMERY, Charles Hyatt
! and Dock Bennett were arrested at
! Perry, Okla, on the charge of having
murdered Allen Cook, a well-known
farmer and lawyer in the eastern part
of the county. Cook had beer missing
| ten days, and was found buried in a
| field.
Col. r. w. NELSON, who conducted
the prosecution which resulted in the
conviction of jackson and Walling for
the butchery of Pearl Bryan, was ten
dered a banquet by the Commercial
club of Newport. KY.
THE members of the cabinet are still
waiting for their cue from AIr. Cleve-
| land. Only one of them, the naval sec
rotary, has, as yet, declared open oppo-
sition to the Chicago ticket.
REV. MARION ROSE, born near Knox
vile, ILL.,, for IS years past we'll
| known Methodist minister in the In
diana and Illinois conference, died at
Virginia, ILL.,, on the 10th, aged 40
years.
In Brooklyn, n. Y, on the 18th, Jo-
seph Block was sentenced to prison
for life on a conviction of burglary in
the first degree. He had previously
pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and,
under the habitual criminal law,
second conviction made the fixing of
the maximum penalty imperative.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco on
the 18th, said: Stephen j. Field. asso-
ciate Justice of the supreme court of
the United States, is seriously i'll and
likely to die before morning. He is
being brought to San Francisco from
his country home at Paso Robes this
evening.
THE 5000 employees in the Lehigh
Valley Coal Co.'S collieries at Shenan-
doah, Pa, were agreeably surprised,
on the 18th, by being ordered to re-
sumo work on full time, instead of
four three-quarter days week, as be-
fore.
FAILURES throughout the United
States, as reported by L. &. Dun & Co.,
for the week ended or the nth, were
269, against 25S for the corresponding
week of last year. For Canada the
fDt1 arrair,cf CT
Miss EVA NELSON, a school-teacher,
died. on the 18th, at Omaha. Neb., from
injuries received in the Logan Ua.)
wreck, making the twenty-sixth vic
tim of that awful disaster.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business on the 18th stood at
500, 81, PIG The days Withdrawals
were go, 1913, 100, of which 81, 900, 600 was
for export.
Mrs ELIZABETH A. HUMPHREY, moth
err of ex-Gov. Lyman .. Humphrey, of
Kansas, died at Independence, Kas., on
the 18th, after short attack of malarial
fever. Mrs. Humphrey was born in
GAINESVILLE, o.. in 1912.
WIN. A. CLARK, who is known as the
silver king of Montana. who is reputed
to be worth more than $50, 600, 900, has
accepted an architects plans for a
granite mausoleum to be erected in
Woodlawn cemetery, New York, at a
cost of 100000.
WHILE on their way from Sandusky
to Lorain. o., in a small sailboat, on
the 18th, George Alexander and John
Ahlheit were drowned. A squall struck
ard upset the boat.
Elk. Gov. GEORGE T. ANTHONY is crit
ically i'll at Topeka, Kas. He has long
been a sufferer from kidney disease,
and it is believed that he can not long
survive.
The Humber bicycle works, at Gov.
entry, England, were burned on the
18th. There were 1000 unfinished BIZ
cycles in the factory, all of which were
destroyed. The total loss by fire is
ESQ, 900.
Ex-Gov. BoIEs, of Iowa, has written
friend that he would not accept a
nomination for congress if certain of
election.