Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

burg, Pa, died, on the oath, aged 72.
He was vice-president of the Gettys-
burg Battlefield Memorial association
and prominent trustee of Gettysburg
college. He commanded the One Hun
dred and Sixty-ffth Pennsylvania vol
unteers during the war for the sup
preston of the rebellion
A DISPATCH from Havana, on the
cath, said: 1.-TWO political prisoners
who are now confined in the Cabanas
fortress will be shot this week"
THE formal unwilling and transfer
to the city of New York by the Grant
Monument association of the Grant
statue is set for April 25. Gen.
Grants grandson, U. S. Grant, the son
of Col Fred Grant, will unveil the
statue.
Ex- UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER
ROBERT CHARLsoN, of Alfalfa, Ala, was
sentenced in the United States court at
Birmingham, on the cath, to three
years at hard labor in the Brooklyn
IN. W penitentiary, and to pay fine
of 500 and costs on each of 12 indict-
ments for presenting false accounts.
AT. Brooklyn, n. Y, on the cath, it
was discovered at an autopsy that the
death of Lizzie Switzerland, aged nine
years, was due to mineral poisoning,
the result of eating April fool candy.
A DISPATCH from Athens to the Lon
don Times, on the oath, reported the
renewal of the murders of Christians
in the island of Crete, and the exist
ence of a panic there
ROBERT ANDERSON, vice president of
the Merchants bank of Canada, died
in Montreal, on the 25th, leaving an
estate valued at 81, 0OO, 600.
THE New York Repu b1ican state con-
vention, on the cath, declared for Levi
P. Morton as the choice of the Empire
state republicans for presidential cam
didate.
SENATOR DAVIS, of Minnesota, hav-
ing authorized the withdrawal of his
name, the Minnesota republican state
convention unanimously declared for
Mckinley as presidential candidate
JUDGE WooIsoN, in the federal court
at Council Bluffs, Ia, on the 25th, SEN
fenced O. p. Smith, of Wood bine, a
confirmed bootlegger, to 1s months in
the penitentiary and to pay fine of
$3.50.
A SPARK from a locomotive caused
the loss of 5000, 900 feet of lumber in
the yard of the n. B. Holway estate at
La Crosse, Wis, on the cath.
THE entire Baltimore & Ohio South
western railway shops at Washington,
Ind, closed down indefinitely. on the
25th, throwing 500 men out of employ
ment.
THE farmers in the southern part of
Bartholomew county, Ind, report that
a flock of golden eagles have recently
settled in that neighborhood, and are
playing havoc with the young pigs
and lambs. One farmer reports the
loss of every lamb from q large flock
of sheep; another of IL from one flock.
Ar a meeting of the officers of the
W. C. T. q. in Chicago, on the 25th, it
was decided to hold three conferences
ON the Pacific coast during the next
winter, at Seattle, Portland and San
Francisco.
FREDERIcK BENNETT, of BROOKLYN, n.
Y, awoke from his sleep, on the morn
ing of the 25th. to find his wife uncon-
scious by his side. By the time doc
tor arrived at the house Mrs Bennett
was dead It is Supposed that death
was due to heart disease. The wife
had retired the night before after chat
ting happily for several hours with
her husband
THE eanestrian statue of Gen. Han
cock, which is to be erected in WASH
ington, was seized by constable, on
the 2sth, for q debt of $50, which the
compiler of \ biographical encyclopedias
claims is due him from Mr.. Henry ).