Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-06-11

The body of the late Hon. James q.
Blaine will be taken from Oak Hill
cemetery, Washington, to Augusta, Me.
Mrs. Blaine has decided to have both
the body of her husband and her SON
Walker buried there.
ALEXANDER III. MCGUFFEY, a promi-
nent attorney of Cincinnati, and au-
thor of the series of school books bear
ing his name, which have been used by
children of several generations, died,
at his late home on Mt. Auburn, q SUBJ
urb of Cincinnati, on the Sd.
The Kansas Democratic state con-
vention at Topeka, on the Sd, elected a
solid silver delegation to the Chicago
convention.
THE passenger elevator of the Fret
denwald Printing Co., of Baltimore,
Md, fell from the fourth floor to the
basement. on the Sd, with an awful
crash. Fourteen men and women
were in the car. The elevator conGuc-
tor had a miraculous escape, coming
out uninjured. The other 10 persons
were terribly injured, broken legs and
arms being the fate of many.
HERR RoHLFs, the African explorer,
died at his residence at Ruengsdorf-on-
Rhine, on the Sd.
Miss LUCILLE CALDWELL and Rev. ].
P. Halsell eloped from Danville, KY,
to Cincinnati, on the Sd, and were mar
ried. The bride is the youngest daugh-
ter Of Judge Logan w. Caldwell and
the groom a young minister of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church.
The Indian widow of Peter Seyeres,
who died at Caughnawaga, Can, re-
Gently, was, according to the Indians,
born in ITS, and was a pure-blooded
Iroquois. Her great age of lis years
gave her great prestige among her peo-
pie.
PERsIMMoN, the prince of Wales colt,
at to l against, won the Derby. Leo.
pold de Rothschild's st. Frusquin was
second, and H. E. Beddingtcn's Earwig
time since 1867.
RESIDENTS of Eastwoods Heights, a
suburb of Syracuse, n. Y, are wildly
excited over the finding of gold in pay
ing quantities. The ore was discov-
cred by ]. T. Batter, while digging
well. at depth of 40 feet.
AUSTIN CoRBIN, the railroad mag.
nate, was thrown from his carriage in
front of his farm house near Newport,
n. H.. on the 4th, and SO badly injured
that he died few hours later. His
coachman, John Stokes, met a like
fate. and Corbin Edgell, a nephew, and
Paul KunZier, who, with Mr.. Corbin,
were just starting on a fishing trip,
were also thrown out and very seri-
ously injured.
In the United States district court
at St. Louis, on the 4th, Judge Adams
sentenced Horace r. Coudy to Is
months in the Randolph county Jail
at hard labor. Coudy was clerk IN
the money-order division of the St.
Louis post Office, and pleaded guilty
to embezzling money-order funds.
DETECTIVES MCCAULEY AND EVAN
HOE, with their prison ers, VIM. Dun
lop and VIM. Turner, arrived at New
York from Liverpool on the 4th. Dun
lop and Turner declined to make any
statement in relation to the robbery
of the Burden family diamonds.
On the 4th the senate passed, with
out amendment, the house flled-cheese
bill, by a vote of 81 to Is.
The festivities attending the Hum
garian millennial cele bration. the in
augural ceremonies of which began at
Buda-Pesth, on the I'd, were resumed
on the 5th. The principal feature of
the ceremonies was the public exhibi-
tion of the emblems of royalty.
AT the mornings session of the an
nual congress of the Scotch-Irish So
ciety of America, at Harrisburg, P..,
on the 5th, Robert Bonner, of New
York, was reelected president for al
other year, notwithstanding his ex-
pressed desire to retire.
DUNLOP and Turner, the Burden
jewelry robbers, were arraigned in
the general sessions court in New
York city on the 18th. Dunlop pleaded
guilty and was remanded for sentence.
Turner pleaded not guilty.
MINISTER to Mexico Matt !. Ransom
is on a visit to his home in North Caro-
lima.
THE senate, on the 5th, confirmed
the nomination of VIM. Churchill, OF
New York, to be consul-general at