Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-05-07

A DISPATCH from Cape Town, South
Africa, on the morning of the 10th,
said il was reported from Johannes
burg, on good authority, that John
Hays Hammond had died from excite
ment and the shock, on an official mes
sage being received of the death SEN
tence being committed.
LOUISE ADAMS. aged % years, and
Annie Shrimp, aged IA, were drowned
in the Delaware river at Philadelphia.
on the 30th, by the capsizing of row.
boat.
On the 30th Cleveland, o., was visited
by the heaviest rain storm ever known
there, and much damage was done, the
sewers being unable to carry off the
surplus water. Many Easements were
flooded. Girls at work in the base
ment of the store of Levy & Stern, toy
manufacturers, were caught unawares
and narrowly escaped with their lives.
Shade and fruit trees were uprooted
all over the city.
EDWIN BETHEL, the Boston actor who
fred four shots at his wife, known as
Miss Dallas Tyler, at the Hotel Heu-
blan in Hartford, Conn, on the Goth,
was arraigned in the police court, on
the 3Oth, charged with assault with in
tent to kill, and held in $1,000 bail for
trial.
BoURKE COCHRAN, the ex-congress-
man, while riding his bicycle in New
York city, on the 3oth, fell over an
other rider, who had met with a mis-
hap, and was painfully but not dan
gerously injured.
A DISPATCH from Havana, on the 1st,
said: Zone of the the men captured in
the Competitor flibustering expedi.
ton is an American citizen named
Onna Milton. He will, with the others,
be summarily tried, which means swift
punishment if found guilty"
THE public debt statement issued on
the LIST, showed net increase in the
debt, less cash in the treasury, during
April, of S., 945,416. Total cash in the
treasury, $s6s, 799, $50.
SEBASTIAN GKABENHAUER, of Mar
shalltown, Ia, committed suicide, on
the LIST, by leaping overheard from the
inward-bound steamer Spree near Fire
island.
JENNIE, the daughter of Lorenzo O.
Powell, of Centerville, n. Y, was
burned to death, on the 1st, her cloth
ing catching from bonfire. Mrs.
Powell, in trying to save the life OF
her daughter, was SO badly burned
about the arms and chest that great
pieces of flesh dropped from the bones,
and her condition was considered crit
zeal.
The Swiss national exhibition was
formally opened in Geneva, on the 1St,
by DIR. Adolphe Duecher, vice-presi-
dent of the Swiss confederation.
THE third and pr obably final at
tempt to tie up the lines of the Union
Traction. Co. of Philadelphia ended in
failure on the 1st.
MAYOR ALLEN of Columbus, O., has
issued an order that all gambling
places in the city be closed
THERE was uDrestrained iubilation
in New Haven. Conn.,. on the night of
1st. over the victory won by the sons
of E Ii in the annual debating contest
between Harvard and Yale.
THE quadriennial conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal church began it's
sessions at Cleveland, O., on the 1st,
with representatives from all parts of
the world in attendance.
BILL DooLIN, chief among western
outlaws, was indicted at Saltwater,
Okla, on the 1st, for the murder of
Deputy United States Marshals LATE
Shadley, Richard S. Head and Thomas
Poston in September, 1895.
A MAN who gave the name of John
Lewis, and who said he was an iron
molder, was arrested in San Francisco,
on the 1st, while attempting to
strangle an abandoned woman in al
alley.
PRINCESS BEATRICE, youngest daugh-
ter of Queen Victoria, and widow of
Prince Henry of Battenberg, has been
appointed governor of the Isle OF
Wight, the Office previously held by
her husband.
PROF. GEFFIEKEN, the well-lknown
authority on international law and ed
itor of the diary of Emperor Frederick.
was suffocated in fire caused by the
explosion of lamp at Munich, Bava'
ria, on the LIST.