Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Upon the conviction of Leslie c. Bon
ner at Toledo, o., of perjury, on the
5th, his aged father attempted to COM
nit suicide with knife and the son
tried tojump from the courtroom win
dow, so feet from the ground. Both
were prevented by bystanders.
BY the falling of freight elevator
in the New York-city post Office, on the
18th, six menwere more or less serious
ly hurt. Fourwere postal employees and
the other two were engaged by the con-
tractor incharge of the alterations now
going onin the federal building.
BY an explosion of gas in the Black
Diamond mine of the Brown Coal Co.,
two miles south of Monongahela, Pa,
on the 18th, several men were injured,
but none fatally. The gas is said to
have been ignited by an open lamp,
and the escape of the 300 miners was
remarkable.
THE board of directors of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Co., on
the Sth, declared a quarterly dividend
of one per cent. on preferred stock,
payable July 1. This is the first divi-
dend the company has paid in several
years.
DR. o. V. LIMERICK, of Cincinnati,
was, on the Sth, sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary for attempted
blackmail.
CAROLINE DANsAT and Martha Elsner,
each Is years old, were held to the
grand jury in Chicago for stealing two
bicycles. The girls rented the wheels
and erased the numbers.
THE official copy of Consul-General
Lees report on the Ruiz case was filed
at the state department on the Sth. 1t
is announced that President Mckinley
will call upon Spain for full and COM
plete reparation for the death of DIR.
Ruiz.
SOLDIERS at Fort Sheridan, Chicago,
took few shots, on the Sth, at Casimir
Zeglen's bullet-proof cloth with their
improved army revolvers and were I'M
able to pierce the tough fabric invent
ed by the Resurrectionist brother.
THE Sth inst. was the coolest June
day in New York on record, and it
came to q fitting end. At night huge
black cloud blew over NortOn's Point,
Coney Island, and for half a minute
there was snow.
DR. ANGEL, who was to have sailed
for Constantinople on the 18th, to as
sumo his post of minister to Turkey,
has postponed his departure for week,
in order to finish his work in the Mich
igan university, as lecturer upon inter
national law.
The Renwick building at Davenport,
Ia, occupied by the Davenport Furni-
ture and Carpet Co., was burned, on the
sth, an explosion being the cause.
Damage to the building, 900; fully
insured. The stock was valued at S20,-
600, and is total loss.
GEN. NELSON A. MILES, U. S. A, left
Rome. on the sth, for London, where
he will represent the United States
army at Queen Victoria's jubilee cele-
bration.
NATHAN SHURE, whose fireworks
factory at els Halstead street, Chicago,
was destroyed by an explosion and fire,
on the Sth, injuring number of peo-
pie, has made an assignment
THE class of 1897, comprising 1O4
young women, the largest class in the
history of the college, graduated from
Vassar on the eth.
THE Montrose Coli hotel, a two
story frame structure, and block of
stores were burned on the 9th. Robert
II. Mead, aged 65 years, of Portland,
Col, guest at the hotel, was burned
to death. A dozen other guests were
rescued uniniured.
Hon ]. c. WELTY, of Canton, has
formally announced that he will be a
for the democratic nomina-
ton for governor of Ohio at the state
and that he will have the
support of his home county.
THE decision of the Baltimore health
officials to return Miss Mary Samson,
the leper, to Allegheny, Pa. will, if
attempted to be carried out, meet with
strong opposition from the health
board of the latter city.
CLAUDE d. EARRING TON, for seven
years superintendent of the National
academy of design of New York, was
arrested, on the 9th, on n charge of
having embezzled over $4,000 of the
academy's funds.