Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-01-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

CHESTER MCCoRKLE, aged Is. and
Reuben Fisher, Ii, living near Dorsey
Vile. Pa, found can of blasting
powder, on the 18th, and accidentally
exploded it McCorkle died several
hours later, and there was no hope for
Fishers recovery.
AT prayer meeting at South Pasa-
dena, Cal, a man known as Charles
Crawford arose, under deep excite
ment, and stated he could not hold his
secret any longer. He then announced
that he was Albert Deffendorfer, son
of a wealthy merchant of Huntington,
Pa, and fugitive from justice, under
sentence for burglary and larceny in
Pennsylvania. He went to Los Ange-
les, on the eth. and gave himself up to
the sheriff.
THE secretary of the treasury has sent
to the house of representatives list of
officers of the government coming I'M
der his department who are now dclin-
quent in rendering their accounts or
in the payment of balances due from
them for the last fiscal year.
CAPT. ALLEN. of the University of
Chicago football team of 1895, an
nounced, on the sth, that he had left
the university and started east to
study for the ministry.
UNKNOWN men called at the home of
Ed. Welsh, at Hol.on, Kas.. on the
night of the eth. blindfolded him,
threw him to the floor, cut off his left
hand with an AK and robbed him. The
community was aroused and blood
hounds were put on the trail of his as
sailants- who carried away the severed
hand with them.
A PRIVATE bank at Fayette, O.. was
entered by burglars On the night of
the 9TH, the safe blown open and every
thing of value taken. The robbers
probably got ten thousand dollars.
THE delegation of the Cuban repub-
lie. Gen. Thomas Estrada Palma, Sec
rotary Gonzala Querada and Treasurer
Horatio Rubens, reached Washington,
on the 9Th. after an absence of ten
days, to resume their efforts to secure
recognition and an accordance of bel
igerent rights to their government.
SEVERAL men were injured in Win
terset, Ia, on the 18th. by the collapse
of building occupied by the c. D.
Beverington Hardware Co., on the
south side of the square. The stock
dhti "SiC oiICu, as was liz
stock and building rsext west, also car
Iiied down by the crash.
THE republican senatorial caucus, on
the sth, decided to have the tariff bill
reported to the senate as it came from
the house, without amendment.
On the sth. Acting Portuguese Min
lister Senior Taveir, at Washington re-
ceived cablegram conveying the in
telligence of the capture of Gungun-
hama and his son Guida, by Portu-
guese troops.
THE Akron, Bedford & Cleveland L.
ter-Urban Railway Co.'S bridge which
spanned Thinkers creek. just southeast
of Bedford, O., went down under the
weight of q 1OO-horse power motor and
a heavy carload of coal on the 9th
rnree trainmen went down with the
bridge. one of whom was killed out
right and the other two fatally in
jured.
Mr.. E. B. WIeHT. for nearly dozen
wears correspondent in Washington OF
the Chicago Inter-Ocean and Boston
Journal, died suddenly, on the 9th, OF
heart trouble. Mr.. Wight had been
Washington correspondent for many
years. having been, at different times,
connected with the New York Times,
Chicago Tribune and the two papers in
whose service he was at the time of his
death.