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

MARTIN nelly, poor prospector,
has discovered a huge bowlder of gold
ore, weighing fully 10000 tons, at the
foot of Lookout mountain, in British
Columbia. Assays show it to run as
high as sos to the ton.
} WILLIAM PAUL was executed at the
Ohio penitentiary, early on the morn
ing of the 29th, for the murder of his
father-in-law. His neck was broken
and life was pronounced extinct in II Il
minutes. He protested his innocence
to the last.
A REPORT comes from Gu ba that the
Spanish turned loose three pack mules
loaded with poisoned provisions in the
hope that they would fall into the
hands of the insurgents and do deadly
work.
THE Denver Manufacturing Co. s big
brass and lock factory plant at Lake
wood, Col, was entirely destroyed by
fire on the Goth. Loss, 100000; in
surance, trifling.
THE Calhoun claimants and the con-
testants of the will of the millionaire
miner of Montana, Andrew ]. Davis,
have been asked to compromise and to
end the litigation which has been in
progress for so many years.
GUAM YIcK NAM, a Chinaman who
has been attached to the district at
torney's Office as an interpreter, applied
to the New York police commissioners,
on the Goth, for appointment on the
police force. Guam is an American
citizen, has forsaken his queue, and is
cordially hated in Chinatown. 1t is
said the Highbinders have offered re-
ward of SIS, 600 for his head.
DISPATCHES from Nice, France, on
the 29th said that the health of the
czarowitz, which has been precarious
for long time, had taken a sudden
turn for the worse. Great anxiety was
felt at st. Petersburg.
THE little town of Epiphany, S. D..
was completely wiped off the face or
the earth, on the 2sth, by a cyclone,
not a building being left standing.
Three persons were fatally and Is more
or less seriously injured in the imme-
date vicinity.
The Poe Memorial association of
New York has made a final appeal to
Gov. Morton, protesting against the
bill which provides for the widening
of the Kings Bridge road on the site
of the Poe cottage, and for the removal
of the cottage to small park to be
laid out across the street.
IT was reported from Grey Horse, 1.
T., in the Usage reservation, on the
Goth, that the Usage Indians were ex-
cited over the killing of one of their
number by white man named Nc
Laughlin, near Blackburn, and were
holding a war dance and threatening
vengeance on the whites unless Nc
Laughlin is punished.
THE Virginia court of appeals, on the
Goth, upheld the validity of the Maupin
anti-racing law of the state, but dis
charged from custody Lacey, whose
case was brought to test the law, on a
technical question of jurisdiction.
A COMPANY of militia from Pueblo.
Col, was ordered to Cripple Creek, on
the 30th, to prevent pillage and pre-
serve peace, should it be necessary.
COMMANDER BooTH-TUCKER was ar
raigned in the Center Street court.
New York city, ON the 29th, and asSe d
to explain his Summing tour, which
was interrupted by his arrest while
strolling through Chinatown. Justice
Simms, after hearing the commanders
version of the affair, discharged him
with reprimand, warning him that
the law against masquerading would
be strictly enforced
7. j. MoYNAHAN, owner of the Port
land hotel, in which the fire at Cripple
Creek, Col, started on the 29th, called
at the Office of the state insurance de-
partment in Denver, the same day, and
made statement which stands to
show that the FIRE was of incendiary
origin. Mr.. Moynahan stated that
5000 insurance was carried on half of
the furniture, and that the furniture
had cost but $500.