Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

then committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart
AT the close of business on the Goth.
the treasury gold reserve had been
reduced to $50, 761, 336.
JOSEPH w. JOHNSON. of Bridgeport,
Conn, was found dead in his room at
the Midland hotel in Kansas City. No.,
on the night of the goth. His clothes
were of expensive black worsted, and
in the pockets were found 1926. SO in
money, mostly in large bills Heart
failure was the cause of death.
NAYLoB's opera house and three ad.
joining buildings in Tcrre Haute, Ind,
were destroyed by fire, on the 21st,
causing loss of s15O,OOO to SITS, 900,
with perhaps s12O, 900 insurance.
DURING the passage of the barken-
tine Herbert Fuller from Boston to
Halifax, where she arrived on the
21st, the captain and his wife and the
second mate were brutality murdered
in their berths. The vessels crew
were promptly placed under arrest,
pending investigation Of the myster-
ious and bloody affair.
THE main storage house of the Dia-
avenue, Chicago, was destroyed by fire,
on the 21st, causing loss of $40,
The fire broke out at 3 a. m, and was
caused by an explosion on the second
floor, the exact nature of which was
not known.
Mrs. J. ii. ToLFREE committed sui
eide at Mojave, Cal, on the night of
the goth, by drinking carbolic acid.
She was private secretary to President
Cleveland when he was mayor of Buff
falo. 1t is believed she was insane
when the deed was committed.
D. G. BARKER, of Albert Lea, Mimi,
was knocked down by an electric car
in St Louis, on the 21st, and badly in
jured. He was attempting to board
car from the wrong side of the tracks
when the accident happened. Barker
is 81 years of age, and was in attend
ance at the populist convention.
Two NEW counterfeits of United
States silver certificates have been dis
covered by the treasury department.
The first is a one dollar, series of 1891,
check letter G, signed by J. Fount Till
man, register, and D. n. Morgan, treas
urer, and having portrait of Stanton.
The second is a five dollar, series of
1891, check letter B, signed by ]. Fount
Tillman, register, and D. n. Morgan,
treasurer, and having a portrait of
Grant.
A CLoUDBURsT caused the loss of ten
lives on Benson's creek in Franklin
county, KY, on the 21st. While the
cloudbu-st was worst in Franklin
county. the heavy rainfall extended
over Shelby, jefferson, Woodford and
Fayette counties, and was general
over the state.
MISS ANGIE KnLBURN and Miss Hall,
of Chicago, the latter sister of Mrs.
Albion w. Tourgee, were thrown from
a carriage at jamestown, n. Y, on
the night of the 21st, and sustained
injuries which, IN Miss Killburn's
case. resulted in death.
EX-SENATOR MATT w. RANSOM, min
lister to Mexico. left Salisbury, n. c.,
on the 22d, for Mexico City, to resume
his official duties. The generals health
is much improved.
A MODEST monument to the memory
of John Brown was unveiled at North
Elba, n. j., on the 21st, under the
auspices of the State Forestry associa-
ton. An address was made by Gen E
A. Merritt, and State Excise Commits
sioner Lyman delivered the GRAFTON.
THE New York Sun publishes an ex-
preston from Prince Bismarck on the
pending European crisis, in which the
ex-chancellOr is reported as saying that
England must eventually fight Russia
and France to retain her grip on India
and the Soudan.
REV. DIR. HALsEY W. KNAPP, a we'll
known Baptist divine, died at his bone
in Brooklyn, on the 22d, aged n years.
THE town of Hot Springs, King
county, Wash, health resort with
about two hundred population, was
reported, on the 22d, to be in immi-
nent danger of destruction by forest
fires. The flames had crept down the
sides of the Cascade mountains and
into the foothills where the village is
located, and threatened to consume
everything.
THE Republican state convention at
Parkersburg, w. Va, on the 22d, NOM
mated Hon. G. w. Atkinson by accla-
nation for governor.
PRESLEY STEWART, a farmer, resid-
ing three miles south of Middletown,
O., near Shakertown, has discovered a
rich deposit of the finest quality of
mica in hill in the center of his land.
1t is worth s12 pound.
JOSEPH P. MYERS, who was cashier
of the Seaboard Air Line at Charlotte,
N. c., and defauIted with So, 200 of the
company's money, was arrested in
New York city on the 22d. He con-
fessed his guilt, and 81, 200 was found
on him. With him was Mrs. Ella
Bisonette. for whom he deserted his
wife and eloped on July II.
GEN GEORGE w. JONES, the oldest
surviving ex-United States senator,
died at Dubuque, Ia, on the night of
the 22d. aged 90 years. He was born
in Vincennes. Ind, April 12, 1904.
The National Federation of Afro
American Women and the National
League of Colored Women will here
after be known as the National Asso-
citation of Colored Women, the two
bodies having agreed to unite.
THE Artemisa correspondent of Eel
Pals" Havana, says that Antonio Ma
Geo is encamped at Rubi, in Pinar del
Rio. and is planning an early attack
ON the trocha-
COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY
BOWLER announces that he will bolt
the Chicago ticket. He is not ready.
however, to declare that he will vote
for Mckinley.
SOLOMON ]. HENNINGER, who had the
rare distinction of having fought on
both sides during the late .war, died in
South Whitehall township, Pa