Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-29

ROBERT W. HAMER, q well-known re-
tired broker living at 1857 Deming
court, Chicago, committed suicide, on
the ed, by shooting himself through
| the heart Dependency over ill-hea]th
is supposed to have been the cause.
THE post Office department has issued
| a fraud order against the Financial and
Commercial Co. of Chicago.
FIVE masked men broke into the res
dence of John Quinlan, at Niles. O., on
the ed, and, after gagging and bind
ing him, ransacked the house and Sc
| cured 81, 200 in currency, besides lots of
valuable jewelry.
REPRESENTATIVE HOLMAN, of Indiana,
| died at his home in Washington city,
on the 22d, at 2:O5 p. NJ, after an i'll
/ ness of some weeks Spinal meningitis
| was the cause.
THE general conference of the super
intendents of the Baptist missions of
| the west, met in the Young Mems
| Christian association building in
Omaha, Neb., ON the 22d. Many prom
| inent missionary workers from west
ern states and territories were present.
| IRA STANsBURY, of st. Louis, aged II,
| got angry at Motorman James E..
| Tharp, on the 23d, because the latter
| insisted that Stansbury get his buggy
on the car track, and, stopping the
vehicle right in front of the car, let
down his buggy top and deliberately
shot Tharp, fortunately, however, in
| f1icting only a flesh wound. STAINS
| bury was arrested.
| AT Williamsport, Mich, on the 2Sd,
Mrs Albert Hovey, aged 80 years, muir
| dered her mother-in-law, aged so, with
! an AK, severing the head entirely
from the body, and then poured oil on
| the lifeless body and set it on fire.
In response to an inquiry from Wash
| ington, the Commercial club of Oma-
ha, Neb., on the 23d, wired an offer to
furnish warehouses for the Indian sup
| ply depot free of cost to the govern
ment for five years.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY decided, on
the Esd, to nominate VIM. R. Day. of
! Canton, o., to be first assistant secre-
| tary of state, and ex-Representative
Bellamy Storer, of Cincinnati, to be
minister to Belgium.
JOHN II. RAAP, a Chicago wholesale
liquor dealer, was shot and killed, on
the 23d, by his former secretary and
| confidential clerk, who afterward put
the revolver to his own temple and
killed himself.
ACCOMPANIED by 80 or 60 Cinnamon
of high and low degree, WI Ting
Fung, envoy extraordinary and minis
ter plenipotentiary from China to the
United States, Spain and Peru. reached
Chicago, on the Esd, on his way to
Washington, and after drive through
the principal streets of the city, left
over the Panhandle for Washington.
REPRESENTATIVE DoRR, of West Vir-
ginia, introduced bill IN the house,
on the 23d, to repeal the civil-service
law.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Chronicle in Cuba writes: 1.-The report
that the insurgent party is dead and a
| thing of the past is an erroneous rumor.
1t would be hard, indeed, to find amore
lively corpse. The insurgents were
never in a better condition to fight than
now, the season being in their favor,
: and they lack neither food, clothing
nor ammunition"
A LONDON dispatch of the esd said
the situation at COnstantinOple was
deemed to be extremely critical, and
unless Osnan could gain a conspicuous
triumph the cataclysm of Constan-
| tinople, which the powers have dis
gracefully compromised themselves in
| trying to prevent, might come at any
moment.
CENTRAL Iowa, portions of Kansas,
| Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio We're Wis
| tied, on the 23d, with destructive rain
| and wind storms. At Des Moines, Ia.
three inches of rain fell, and much dam
age was done to railroad and other
property in that vicinity.
Mrs. CHRIsTIANA BoNEKEssEL died re-
Gently at Bessemcr, Mich. Those VINO
knew her best say she was 90 years old.
She was married IS times, the last
time, only six months ago, to a young
man.
A LONDON dispatch announces the
death, at Sandringham. at three o'clock
on the morning of the 9th, of Prin-
cess May of Teck, duchess of York,
| during confinement.