Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-06
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AFTER being out GO hours, the jury
in the case of Louis Gordon, accused
of setting fire to his shirt factory in
New York city, in 1894, to obtain $751;
600 insurance, returned verdict, on
the Goth, of guilty in the third degree,
accompanied by recommendation to
mercy. The penalty is seven years
imprisonment.
A LOG house in Marengo township,
near Marshall, Mich, occupied by two
families named Page, was destroyed
by fire, at two o'clock on the morning
of the 3Oth, and Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Page and their two sons, one three
years of age and the other three
months, were cremated.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, accompanied
by DIR. O'Reilly, reached Washington
from his brief shooting trip to Guam
tico, on the Potomoc river, on the even
ing of the Goth, carrying thirteen ducks
that fell before their guns.
AUGUSTUS S. PENNoYER, a we'll
known theatrical manager, died at his
home in Philadelphia, on the 3Oth, of
pneumonia, aged &c years. He was
brother-in-law of Roland Reed, the
actor.
r. B. NELSON, who was shot in the
forehead at Wheeling, W. Va. two
months ago, died, on the 3Oth, in Mont
pelier, Ind. He never regained con-
seriousness.
SIX MEN were killed and % injured
by the explosion of boiler in the
works of the Hollidaysburg Pa.) Iron
and Nail Co. on the 3Oth.
THE urgent deficiency bill, reported
to the senate on the Goth, carries an
increase over the house bill aggrega-
ting 81, 500, 664.
AN attempt was made on the life of
King Charles of Portugal, on the Goth,
by man who hurled stone at his
majesty while the latter was driving
in an open carriage. The missile hit
an aide-de-camp who jumped from the
vehicle and seized the would-be assas-
sin and handed him over to the police.
DIR. JOHN A. BROOKS, of Memphis.
Tenn, has received call to the Lon
don tabernacle, the largest Christian
church in Europe. DR.. Brooks was the
first prohibition candidate for governor
of Missouri, 1884, and in 1888 he was
nominated for vice-president by the
National prohibition convention. He
was for many years supreme master
workman, Ancient Order of United
Workman.
ANNA and Mary Mcmahon, domestics
of Galesburg, ILL.,, have put in claim,
through local patent agent, for Sl5,-
600, 900, supposed to be the estate of one
Thomas Mcmahon, an Australian gold
miner. They have answered an adj
vertisement in New York paper for
heirs to the estate.
The Journal DIES Debats Paris re-
grets that Europe has not some sort of
Monroe doctrine to protect it from the
meddling Of the United States in purely
European affairs. The resolution
adopted by the senate and house of
representatives, it points out, is direct
summons to the powers to carry out
the clauses of the treaty of Berlin.
AN American miser named Peters,
who was picked up in the streets of
Paris, on the Goth, in dying condi-
ton. and who died later was ascertained
to be worth 1000, 900 francs in Ameri-
can securities.
HUGH DEMPSEY, who had been doing
time in the Riverside penitentiary for
participation in the poisoning of work
men during the great strike at Home
stead, Pa, was, on the 31st, released
on a pardon from Gov. Hastings.
GEORGE NJ. KELLOGG, of the Troy (O.)
surrey works. on the 31st, confessed to
an embezzlment OF So, 900 of the COM
pany's money, and said it mad been his
intention to start a bank at Columbus,
of which he was to have been cashier.
GENERAL MANAGER NEWMAN of the
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. has
completed arrangements at Detroit,
Mich, for the esta blishment of new
boat line between Cleveland and
Toledo, with a daily service each way.
LLOYD MAYOR, noted desperate,
who was wanted on the charge of rob-
bling the Wells-Fargo express of S16,-
900 at Gillett. Col. a few months ago.
was. on the 31st. sentenced to the pen
itentiary for Is years for attempting to
kill a man named Finlayson at Lead
vile, who refused to drink with him.