Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-30

NINE EGLANTINE GAUDIN, of Wood
cliff, N. j., after years of hard work,
has suddenly found herself heiress to
the enormous fortune of ST., 900,
left her by her godmother, Emile Pr
maud, of California.
The joint conference of Indiana
bituminous miners and operators at
Terre Haute, on the 23d, agreed to dis
agree, and there may be a strike May 1.
A NEW YORK sculptor is the first
American artist to whom permission
has been granted to erect an outdoor
statue in France. The statue will be
that of George Washington, and will
be erected by American women in
Paris It will be the only outdoor
monument of an American in Europe.
AT Tampa, Fla, on the 23d, Hazel
James, who was hayward, shot her
self. She was member of leading
Georgia family, her grandfather hav-
ing once been governor.
WILLIE SHAEFFER, a SchoolbOy of IL
years, hanged himself in the cellar OF
his home, in Philadelphia, on the Esd.
Some weeks ago the boy told his moth
err that he had been studying science,
and learned from it that he was af-
f1icted with typhoid pneumonia and
would not live long. He continually
brooded over his supposed diseases, and
frequently predicted that he would not
live long.
LITTLE B. ANDREWS, bicycle rider.
while racing with an electric car at
Baltimore, Md, on the 23d. was thrown
in front of the car and killed.
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settlers of Douglas county, Ill, died
on the 23d. aged SO years. One of Mr..
Dilliner's peculiarities was his belief
that the earth was fat, and notwith-
standing the fact that strong evidence
to the contrary was presented to him,
his opinion was never shaken.
The wife of Herman Scharnitzka, a
wood carver, no Yonkers street, Cleve-
land, O., on the 23d, tried to kindle a
fire with the aid of coal oil. The oil
can exploded. burning her fatally, and
two of her children, five and three
years old, who were clinging to her
skirts, were burned to a crisp.
THE S., 900, GOO Cuban repub bile bonds
placed on sale in New York were all
taken by investors.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, aged 20, died at
Warsaw, Ind. on the 23d. He served
in the Forty-second and Forty-third
congresses, and was a minister to Uru-
quay and Paraguay under the Garfield
administration.
BoorH-TuckER, the Salvation Army
commander, knocked out tramp in
New York and reduced the belliger-
ency of another tramp who attempted
l. l.. 1,a f,.or
stuck a pin in tender part of the En-
glishman's anatomy, and he was not
long in demonstrating that he could
fight as well as preach.
MANUFACTURERS of steel nails, in
consequence of the rise in the price of
steel, have advanced the price of their
product.
A SERIOUS conflict between Christians
| and Turks occurred at Epislzopi. in the
| island of Crete. There were two days
fighting, and so persons were killed
and wounded. The Cretans have APP
pealed to Greece for aid.
On the odd Ezra Beamon Newton,
| the oldest Shaker in the country. died
| of old age at the Harvard (Mass.) com
munity, aged 1O1.
A DISPATCH from Buluwayo, South
| Africa, stated that Captains Napier
| and Duncan. with 200 whites and 1OO
| natives, with Maxim and Hotchkiss
guns, met the Matabeles three miles
| from Buluwayo. The Matables num-
bered $4,000, and fought desperately,
at one time forcing the allies to fall
back. The latter rallied, however,
and repulsed the natives with great
slaughter.
In drunken row between Simon
Hasselback, aged 20, and his son Will
liam, aged IS, at Union City, Pa, on
the Gath, the old man drew a revolver
and shot his son, and then turned the
weapon on himself and sent bullet
through his temple. Both were fatally
injured.
| WILLIAM TURNER and William R.
Dunlop, the Burden diamond robbers,
were arraigned in the Marlborough
Street police court, London, on the
oath. and remanded pending the ar
| rival of witnesses from America