Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-01-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
SIR AUGUST WILLIAM LAWSON HEM
MING was. on the Odd, appointed gov
ernor of British Guiana, to succeed Sir
Charles c. Lees. K. C. NJ g., retired
from the post.
EDWARD LANG, a corporal in the
| United States army. stationed at Will
let's Point, \. V. was soundly thrashed
by his comrades for uttering disloyal
sentiments while discussing the Vene-
| zuelan controversy. Lang is an En-
| glishman by birth. He declared that
] in case of war he would not take up
gun against her ma jesty's government.
A REPORT comes from Paris that the
| countess de Castellane (nee Could is
| expected to present her husband with
| an heir during the Christmas holidays
| The count and countess are living
| quietly in the French capital.
THE North German Lloyd steamship
Spree was lowed off Warden ledge,
| near Totland bay, Isle of Wight, on
the ed, upon which she was run on
the 10Th, by four tugs, and proceeded
| to Southampton, apparently uninjured.
SAM EMERY, farmer living near
Creston, Ia, committed suicide, on the
23d, by sending a bullet through his
heart. He had been suffering from
cancer.
GEORGE G. OSBORNE, ninth duke of
Leeds, died at his seat, Horribly castle,
Bedale, England, on the 23d, after
! months illness. He was born in 1928.
FRANK FORBES, the actor, proprietor
of Forbes dramatic company. who
| murdered his wife at Grand Ledge,
Mich, in September, changed his plea
of not guilty to that of guilty in the
circuit court at Charlotte, on the 23d,
and was sentenced to hard labor at
Jackson prison for 25 years.
THE London Chronicle QiberaD in a
leader considers that if the proposed
United States commission be composed
of men like Edward J. Phelps, Andrew
White and George F. Edmunds, it must
command respect, and that some fur
Their proposal from Lord Salisbury
would become expedient and neces-
sary.
JOHN A. SLATTERY, a wel-known law
yer, having rooms in the Smith build
ing, near the government building, at
Cincinnati, fell down the elevator shaft
on the 23d, and subsequently died of
his injuries.
HERR AHLwARDT has practically
abandoned his mission to America.
Influential Germans, who were at first
inclined to support Ah1wardt and de-
mand he airing for him, have deserted
the Jewbaiter, and he is being enter
tanned now by the anarchist element.
GEORGE KING, master of the ex-
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knights of Pythias, ST. Louis, is miss
ing, and along with him has gone glim-
mering about two thousand dollars of
the funds of the lodge.
"A cABLEGRAM from Curacao, Dutch
Indies, on the 23d, stated that the
steamship Nansemond, Capt. Laksy,
from Curacao for Maracaibo, was in
collision probably on December ID
with the Spanish steamship Mexico.
near the Island of Aruba. The Nanse-
mond sank, and is total loss. Capt. |
Laksy and seven persons were drowned.
Thirty-fve lives were saved by the tug
Augusta.
IT is currently reported in Washing
ton that Chief Justice Fuller has been
selected as president of the Venezuelan
commission at cabinet conference on
the subject of selection of the members |
of the commission.
THE Brazilian foreign office is said to
have been in correspondence with Min |
lister Mendonca at Washington in rela- |
ton to South American conference,
in which all the Pan-American repnb- |
lies shall take part. The subject for |
discussion will be the Monroe doctrine |
and general matters affecting it raised |
by the new issue on the Venezuelan |
boundary dispute.
Two MEN were blown to atoms. seven |
more fatally injured and a number of |
others more or less hurt by the prena- |
ture explosion of a dynamite blast on /
the Chicago drainage canal on the |
evening of the 23d. The accident oc-
Cured on section IA, at point three
miles from Lockport and IS miles from
Chicago.
SERIOUS SrEPNAIK is dead. Re was
killed by train while walking over a
level railway crossing at Chiswick. En-
gland, on the 23d. Sergius Michael
1s41 at Hadjatsch, in the Ukraine
and came of semi-noble
family, descended from the Cossacks
of Little Russia.
THOMAS QUINN and Kate Mccarthy
We're arraigned in the New York city
police court, on the 25th. and remand
ed on the charge of having stolen sew
erai Thousand dollars worth of jew
cry and diamonds from the residence
OF tnelr Employer, Actor NJ. B. Curtis,
'>o 81. Nicholas avenue. |,