Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-03-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

GOLD has been discovered in the City
Creek canyon, within the city limits of
Salt Lake, Utah. Assays are reported
running as high as $500 gold and $40 in
silver per ton.
THE remains of Gov. Greenhalge
were inferred at Lowell, Mass, on the
9th. After a private service for MEM
bers of the family and immediate
friends, public services were held in
the First Congregational church.
A DISPATCH from Lincoln, Neb., on
the 10th, said: "Gen. John NJ. Thayer
is dying at his home here, and his end
is expected at any moment He as
sumed active charge of the Mckinley
campaign a few weeks ago, and by
overwork was taken i'll and can not re-
cover. He is about seventy years of
age, and has received more honors than
any man in the state"
THE Massachusetts, Legislative COM
mittee on constitutional amendments,
on the 10th, reported reference to the
next Legislature of a petition for an
amendment giving women the right
of suffrage.
arrived in London unexpectedly, on
the 9th, overland from Brindisi, in re-
Spouse to urgent appeals from head
quarters for his advice regarding the
American situation.
A FAVORABLE report was made, on
the 10th, by the house commerce COM
mittee on the bill for a third bridge
across the Mississippi river at st.
Louis.
THE Raines liquor tax bill passed
the New York senate, on the 10th, by
a vote of 81 to Is.
SIR AUGUSTUS w. L. HEMMING, the
newly-appointed governor of British
Guiana, sailed from Southampton for
New York. on the 18th, on board the
steamer Havel, en- route for his new
post.
CARDINAL AroLLI arrived in Chicago,
on the i1th. from Omaha.
SAMUEL RUSSELL, a coachman, and
two children, Carlos H. Blacknan,
eight years old, and Willis T. Black
man, Jr., 16 years old, were killed, and
Marguerite Blackman, ten years old,
was seriously injured, her right leg
being broken and her body bruised, by
their carriage being struck by train
at Hinsdale, Chicago suburb, on the
night of the 10th.
CHARLES C. HAYS, a boy, died of
smallpox, On the night of the 10th, at
the Eruptive hospital in Louisville. Ky.
Two other children in the house in
which he lived on Frankfort avenue,
were reported down with the dis
ease.
Mr.. GLADSTONE arrived .in London,
on the 10th, from his trip to the Ri
viera. in excellent health.
p; SENATOR DAVID B. HILL and Benja-
min Dos .Passos, of New York, acting
as attorneys Cor the state. have fled an
appeal in the matter of the Jay Gould
estate. They make four separate counts
of So, 600, 600 each. and say that to ex-
empt those moneys from the transfer
tax affords every descendant an easy
method for evadlng the statute, and
that it is expressly fraud.
ONE of the most disastrous accidents
| in the history of the Delaware, Susque-
hanna & Schuylkill railroad happened
at Gum Run, Pa, on the 18th, when the
boiler of an engine attached to coal
train exploded, killing four men and
fatally injuring one other.
WILLIAM WEHRLI, residing in Woods
county. Okla, was found dead In his
house on the 18th. He was sitting up
right in his chair with a bullet in his
head, the work of some assassin. There
is no clew to the murderer.
A GANG of Mexican desperadoes
crossed the river, on the 11th, near
Fort Hancock, Tex, and captured $500
sheep, belonging to Mr.. Pitchery.
They drove the sheep to the Mexican
side and into the plainA The Next
can frontier guards started in hot pur-
snit Of the shieves.
E. H. McDoNALD. Jr., president of
the defunct Pacific bank of San Fran
cisco, was, ON the 11th, acquitted of the
charge of falsifying the records Of the
concern. Mcdonald was arrested two
years ago, after the failure, and has
been In prison ever since. The jury
disagTeed In . former trial