Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08

JACOB n. SAMPSON, the assistant pros
ecuting attorney of Lenawee county.
Mich, who was indicted for conniving
at the escape of Anton 4. Christensen,
arrested in New York city on charge
of embezzlement, was arraigned be-
fore Justice Mcmahon, in general ses-
sions, on the LIST, and released on $500
bail.
NOAH RABY, on the LIST, celebrated
his one hundred and twenty-ffth birth
On. j. } poorhouse.
1t is said that Hetty Green is about
to begin foreclosures of mortgages
upon about s., OOO, GOO worth OF Chicago
property.
THE nomination of Benjamin But
terworth, of Ohio, as commissioner OF
patents, was sent to the senate by the
president on the 1st.
Col FRED GRANT decided. on the I'd,
to decline President McKinley's offer
of the position of first assistant secre-
tary of war.
A NEW Atlantic cable is being manu-
featured at Calais, France, and will
shortly be laid.
MALTBY breaker, an immense struc-
ture operated by the Lehigh Valley
Coal Co. at Maltby, five miles from
Wi1kesbarre, Pa. was destroyed by
fire on the I'd. 1t was one of the best
equipped coal breakers in the Wyoming
region, containing all the modern ma
chinery. 1t employed nearly 800 men,
and had capacity of 1000 tons per day.
An explosion, on the night of the 1st,
wrecked the dryhouse of the Shamo-
kin Powder Co., four miles west Of Sha-
mokin, Pa. The shock was felt for
many miles. The barn of David Ham,
farmer, living near the scene of the
explosion, in some manner caught fire
and was entirely destroyed.
A SERIOUS riot occurred, on the I'd, at
Antequera, IS miles from Malaga, in the
province of Andalusia, Spain, caused by
popular uprising against the imposi-
ton of the octroi tax. Several people
were injured before the police were
able to suppress the disorder.
On the I'd Fourth Assistant Postmas-
ter-General Bristow made his first ap-
pointments of fourth-class postmasters.
His predecessor, Mr.. Maxwell, did not
appoint anyone for his last month,
which left Mr.. Bristow about $500
places to fill, caused by deaths, resig-
nations and removals.
THE four members of the Button
gang, Frank and Antonio Borrego,
Lauriano Alarid and Patricio Valencia,
were hanged in the Jail yard at Santa
Fe, n. NJ, on the I'd, for the assassina-
ton of ex-Sheriff Frank Chavez on the
night of May 20, 1892.
CORNELIUS O'DONNELL and John Baird,
two oil men of Pennsylvania, were
blown to atoms near Celina, o., on the
I'd, by an accidental explosion of nitro
glycerine.
THE steamer Griggs of the Queen
line, plying between Columbus, Ga,
and Appalachicola, Fla, on the Chatta-
hooche river, was sunk II miles north
of Columbia, Ala, at one o'clock on the
morning of the I'd. Five persons are
known to have been drowned and four
others are missing.
II is stated on undOubted authority
that the efficient manner in which the
Turkish forces were modified on the
Greek frontier is due to German officers,
and it is added that all the plans of
campaign intrusted to them to carry
out have been prepared by able strate-
gists in Berlin.
THE bishop of Canea has sent mes
sage of fervent appeal to the Christian
people of Europe, imploring them to
compel their governments to stop bonn
harding, and to cease opposing the
unanimous desire of Cretans to escape
tyranny by a union with Crete.
JOSEPH FIELD, the oldest person in
Monmouth county, n. j.. died on the
night of the 1st, aged 104 years. Uncle
Joe" was born September 90, 1892, on
the homestead farm in Middleton town
ship, and lived there all his life. He
remained single till he was rs years old.
JOSEPH B. McMAHAN, owner of Nc
Mahan's circus, was shot and fatally
wounded at Wichita, Kas., on the ed.
by J. P. Cunningham, deputy sheriff of
Taylor county, Tex. The shooting
arose over the arrest of one of the
circus performers named Purdy, on
the charge of burning the Windsor
hotel in Abilene, Tex.