Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-05-14


on the bill granting an increase to $12
per month of pension to the survivors
of the Mexican and Indian wars and
to their widows, with proviso, how
ever, that no widow who was not mar
ried to the soldier or sailor prior to
March 10, 1886, should be entitled to
the benefits of the act.
JOSEPH J. MARTIN, who was treas
urer of Philadelphia from 1878 20 1888,
and head of the cattle-shipping firm of
Martin. Fuller & Co., of that city.
which was the first to develop . mar
ket for beeves in foreign countries,
died, on the 9th, aged IS years.
THE claim of Adah Richmond, the
actress, that she married John Stetson,
the Boston theatrical manager and
millionaire, in 1871, in Providence, R..
l., has no official record in that city to
support it.
The treasury gold reserve, at the
close of business on the 18th, stood at
Sis, 1854, 124. The days Withdrawals
amounted to $4,000.
CARDINAL LUIGI GALIlIBERTI, titular
| arch bishop of Nice and formerly papal
nuncio at Vienna, died at Suchtein, near
Dusseldorf, Prussia, on the 18th, from
throat trouble. He was born in Rome
in 1886 and created cardinal in 1893.
THE riding school attached to the
University of Heidelburg, Germany.
was burned on the night of the 9Th,
and two women, two children and %
horses were burned to death.
Mr.. AUBRY BEARDsLEY, the English
artist who was reported to be very i'll
in Brussels, has recovered his health,
and resumed his work in London.
THE United States war ship Mime.
apolis sailed from Southampton, on
the 9TH, for Cronstadt-
HENRY SAVIOR, while delirous from
fever, leaped from a third-story win
| dow of St. Josephs hospital, Fort
Wayne, Ind, on the 18th, and received
injuries which caused his death an
hour later. He was 35 years old and
leaves wife and five children at Ant
werp, o.
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL
WILLIAM TILGHMAN, of Guthrie, Okla.
received a draft for 81 ZOO, on the 9TH:
from the Rock Island Railway Co. for
the capture of Bill Raider, the outlaw,
recently convicted.
The Deutsche-Asiatich bank at Ber-
lin, on the 9TH, paid to the agent of the
government of Japan the sum of 81,
100000 marks as part OF the Chinese
war indemnity.
GEN. BERNAL, of the Spanish army,
has been driven out of Cuba by Gen.
Weyler. THE Butcher and Bernal
parted bitter enemies, and are likely
to fight duel if they meet in Spain.
The jury at Columbus, o. on the 9TH.
in the case of Ohio VS.. ex-State Senator
John L. Geyer, of Paulding, indicted
for alleged solicitation OF brides, re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.
By a vote of 425 to SS the Methodist
general conference at Cleveland, O., OF
the eth, decided that the four women
delegates might retain their seats.
PETROLEUM of good quality has been
found eight miles east of Guthrie.
| Okla, and there is much excitement
THE Citizens bank of Union City.
Ind, closed its doors, on the sth, be-
cause of inability to collect. There
| had been quiet Withdrawals from the
| bank by depositors, and when the city
| and school treasurers withdrew their
accounts the bank had not a dollar
left The liabilities are $4,000, and
the assets $4,000.
A ROME (N. " jury in the case OF
John Watson Hildreth, one of the boys
| who wrecked New York Central ex-
press train, returned q verdict, on the
9Th, of murder in the second degree.
and he was sentenced to Auburn prison
for life. Theodore Hubbard and Her
bert Plato, his two accomplices, got 40
years each.
RoMULUs CoTELL, the murderer OF
the Stone family at Tallmadge, O..
pleaded not guilty, on the sth. when
arraigned before Judge Kohler, of
Akron, although he had previously
confessed the crimes. Attorneys were
appointed to defend him, but the date
of the trial was not fixed.
The treasury gold reserve, at the
close of business on the 9th, stood at
SILT, 656,314. The days Withdrawals
amounted to 81, 544, 400.