Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERsoNAL AND GENERAL.

not guilty.
THE cornerstone of the new Meth
odist college at London, KY, was Laid
on the 23d. The exercises were CON
Quoted by Bishop Hendricks, of Kansas
City. The school will be under the
supervision of the Women's board OF
missions of the NJ. E church, south
and when completed will cost SIS, 900
WHILE making an excavation al
Parras, Mexico, recently, a subter'
ranean passage was discovered, which
was explored and found to lead to all
parts of the city. Several large cham.
bers were found, and in one of them
were several casks filed with Spanish
gold coin amounting to $50, 900.
On the 23d ex-Congressman A. T.
Walling dropped dead of heart disease
at Circleville, o., his home.
JOHN L. CowAN, the Young lumber
merchant who disappeared from Pitts
burgh, Pa, last winter, leaving an in
debtedness of $3.50, 900, and was later
arrested in Central America and
brought back to Pittsburgh, was found
guilty, on the 23d, on three charges OF
forgery.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND returned to
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| tomac river fishing trip.
| DAVID BELAsCo recovered judgment
in New York city, on the Esd, after a
long trial, for $4,000 against n. K.
Fairbank, millionaire of Chicago, for
! training Mrs. Leslie Carter for the
stage. Interest at five per cent. from
1890 was allowed by the court, and mo-
ton by Fairbank for new trial was
denied.
Mrs. HANEY, the keeper of the sec
ton crew boarding car at Rock Springs,
Idaho, and her six-months-old child
were shot and killed, on the Esd, by a
man who was recently discharged from
the section. The murderer then COM
mitted suicide.
THE big pottery of Richard o. Rem
mey & Son, located at Kensington, Pa,
was destroyed by fire on the 23d. The
loss on stock and buildings will
amount to SIS, 900; partially insured.
Nearly 100 hands are thrown out of
employment.
An attempt was made about mid
night, on the night of the oath, to as
sassinate Rev. A. Cornish, pastor of
the United Brethren church, one of
the largest churches in Fort Scott,
Kas. He had been driving boy thieves
from an orchard and was armed. He
fred four shots at his assailant, who
fed, but none took effect.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN T. r. HUDD died at
his home in Green Bay, Wis, on the
23d, of paralysis of the heart. He was
one of the best-known politicians of
the northern part of the state.
NrC ET nF
Daniel BURY, who was hanged for
his share in the Phoenix murders, in
Dublin, in 1882, died in Chicago on the
23d.
DURING a sharp thunderstorm at
Sioux City, Ia, on the 23d, lightning
struck and instantly killed Mrs. Mary
Paulson while standing in her dining
room.
DURING the political excitement in
Chatham, Ont, on the night of the
23d, a balcony of the Royal Exchange
hotel collapsed while a crowd stood
underneath. Fifteen persons were Sc
verely and some probably fatally in
jured.
EDWARD KANTER died at his resi-
deuce in Detroit, Mich, on the oath, of
Bright's disease, aged 72 years Mr..
Kanter was the founder of the Ger
man-American savings bank of De-
troit, and was well known in New Or
leans and other southern cities.
DENNIS GRIFFIN, a hod carrier, 30
years old, who was working on the
Brighton lodging house in San Fran
cisco when it collapsed, died from his
injuries, on the oath, making the
fourth victim of that distressing disas-
ter.
EVERY state in the Union was repre-
sented in the fifth annual convention
of letter carriers, which opened in To-
ledo, o., on the cath.
BENJAMIN T. SHIvLEY, of st. Joseph
county, was nominated for governor
of Indiana by the Democratic state
convention, on the oath, together with
full state ticket.
4 CYCLONE swept over a section of
country four miles south of Clayton,
Wis, on the oath. A number of dwell
ings and barns were demolished. One
man, name unknown, was fatally in
jured.
On the 24th the republican editors of
Michigan paid their respects to Maj.
Mckinley at Canton, o. They were
introduced by Hon. James O'Donnell,
editor of the jackson Citizen. formerly
congressman from the Third district,
and prospective candidate for gov
ernor
A CLoUDBURsT did immense damage
in Marshall. Tyler and Wetzel coun-
ties, w. Va, on the oath. Several i'm
stances of teams and cattle being
washed away are reported.
JAMES EVANS fred into a crowd of
young men gathered at his house in
Newark, o., on the night of the oath,
10 bell" his daughter Lizzie. who
was married early in the evening, and
mortally wounded James Arlington,
aged "a, one of the belling pcrty.
The jury in the case of ex-State
Senator l. c. OIL, of Youngstown. O.,
ON trial at Columbus on a charge of
offering brides to influence legislation,
returned verdict, ON the 18th, after
seven hours elaboration, of not guilty.
Cor. A. G. BRACKET, retired. died
ut his residence In Washington city ON
the 25th.
SIX THOUSAND Sioux, the remnant of
the most powerful fighters of the
American Indians, celebrated the great
event in their war history-the TWEEN
tieth anniversary of the destruction of
Clusters command on the Little Big
Horn, June 25, 1876.
An organization was formed at En-
poria, Ras., on the 25th, for enforcing
the fish laws. Within a week over 90