Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| HON. VIM. V. ALLEN, chairman OF the
| Populist national committee, sent Il
| Hon William Jennings Bryan, BY
mail, on the 14th, official notification
| of his nomination as presidential can
didate by the Populist national con
vention.
Ii HUSG CHANG sailed for China OF
| the steamer Empress of China, which
left Vancouver, Il. c., on the 18th. A:
the steamer left the wharf the Chinese
started a fusillade of frecracker:
which was kept up for over an hour.
IN lengthy letter Senator Butler
of North Carolina, on the 14th, Off
cially notified Hon. Thomas E. Wat
son, of Georgia, of his nomination as
vice-presidential candidate by the Pop
ulist national convention.
HENRY LICKEY was killed at Waupa
koneta, O., on the 14th, by bull which
he was taking to a watering trough.
The animal butted him until he was a
shapeless mass of flesh.
A THOUSAND Harrison county o.,
wool growers paid their respects tc
Maj. Mckinley at Canton, o., on the
14th, and had a very pleasant visit
with the republican presidential nomi
nee.
IT is now said that the arrest of Pat
rick j. lyman and three other dyna-
niters by and at the instigation OF
the British police authorities broke
up an extensive dynamiting plot which
had for its detectives British and Rus.
sian royal personages.
The London Pail Mall Gazette, Oh
the 18th, asserted that it was the de-
sign of the conspirator lyman to blow
up Marlborough house, the residence
of the prince of Wales, when his royal
highness should be there. According
to this yarn, the dynamiters intended
to reach the princes house by tunnel
ing from the house opposite.
IL letter written to Gen. Powell
Clayton, of the republican national
committee, Gen. Joe Shelby, of Mis-
souri,, uses the following language:
II pledge you my cordial cooperation
in averting the perilous conditions
which must inevitably follow the cleo
ton of Mr.. Bryan. Whatever / can
do in that direction l will cheerfully
do to the fullest extent"
NoTwITHsTANDISG efforts of press,
clergy and leading citizens generally,
more than three hundred men. women
and children sailed from Montreal,
Can, by the steamer Moravia, ON the
18th, for the sugar plantations in Bra
zil. 1t was expected that the govern
ment would prevent the departure of
the vessel, but it was learned that It
could do nothing.
BY the arrest of Harry Larraway, a
railroad porter, in Detroit, Mich, on
the 18th, the post Office authorities
claim to have stopped pilfering of the
Canadian mails between Chicago and
Detroit, in which thousands of dollars
were extracted from the Bank of
Montreal and other letters.
c. Il. SwETzER, receiver of the Chica-
go, Indiana & Eastern railroad, has
stopped all trains and indefinitely sus-
pended the operations of the road,
which has been running at a loss. He
has asked for court order to sell the
rolling stock and pay pressing claims.
"ToM' MANN, the English labor
leader, was arrested at Hamburg, Ger
many, on the 18th, where he had ar
ranged to address several meetings to
be held in connection with the pro-
posed simultaneous strike of dock
workers throughout the world.
THERE is a rumOr afloat that Mr.
Sewall will retire as the democratic
candidate for vice-president, and that
Chief Justice Clark, of North Caro-
lima, will be placed on the ticket by the
democratic national committee.
THE United States cruiser Bancroft
r. ~ L
She will touch at Gibraltar for orders
from Secretary Herbert before pro-
ceeding to her destination.
THE new law enforcing the use of
the metric system of weights and
measures in Mexico went into force on
the 10th, the anniversary of the declar-
alton of Mexican independence, which
event was celebrated in the City of
Mexico with great splendor.
The jury in the case of o. w. Win
throp, charged with kidnapping and
robbing Millionaire Campbell, of Hon.
olulu, in San Francisco, some weeks
ago, returned a verdict of guilty, on
the 10th, after q consultation of five
minutes.
FRANK A. MoRRELL, the proprietor
of the Harlem hotel, White Plains, n.
Y, was found dead in his room in the
6Olonial hotel, New York city, on the
10th, having committed suicide by in
haling gas.
The secretary of the interior. on the
18th, approved list of lands selected
by the Central Pacific Railroad Co, ,
containing 3s, s95 acres in Susanville,
Maryville and Sacramento land dis
triets in California.
The annual reunion of the Society
of the Army of the Potomac met in
Burlington, VT, on the 10th, for two
days session
THE new British armored battleship
nlustrious was successfully launched
from the Chatham dockyards on the
nth. The Illustrious is of II. 900 tons.
Her engines will have an indicated
horse power of 1900. and she will
carry 10 guns.
STRONG shock of earthquake was
felt at Bale st. Paul, Que, on the 18th
The shock was of about q minutes du-
ration.
WHILE acting as marksman during
rifle practice at the District Volun-
teers' camp at Niagara, Ont, on the
nth, Private Hatton, of Owen Sound.
was struck on the head BY stray bull
let and instantly killed
THE board of national soldiers homo
managers, during a business session at
Leerenworth. Kas-, decided on issuing
an order against admitting any more
veterans to the home at that place.