Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
Miss LOUISE EUeEr1R BoNAPARrr,

MISS LOUISE EUeENIR BoNAPARTE,
only daughter OF the late Col Jerome
Napoleon Bonaparte. and Count DC
Moltae-Huitfeldt, of Denmark, were
married at st. Paurs Roman Catholic
church, Washington, on the 29th.
Cardinal Gibbons officiating.
CHIEF HAzEN of the secret service
has issued a circular warning against
a new counterfeit $40 national bank
note on the Union national bank of
Detroit, Mich. The note is the prod
net of the same hand that produced
the recent counterfeit on the National
Bank of Commerce of New York. One
distinguishable feature is that the
back of the note is upside down.
Two MEN, one of whom was masked,
armed with pistols, entered the Glou-
cester City On. j. station of the Read
ing road on the evening of the goth,
and, under threats of instant death,
compelled Thomas Randolph, the sta
ton master, to open the safe. They
secured $50. 600, and escaped.
THE second day of the tariff hear
ings before the committee on ways
and means of the house of representa-
tives opened, on the 2sth, with the dis
cussion of schedule /, cotton manufac-
lures.
JOSEPH B. McCUELAGH, editor of the
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat, leaped from
q window at his home some time early
on the morning of the 31st, daShing his
brains ont on the tagging of the yard.
His body was found about $3.50 by
stable boy. Mr.. McCullagh had been
confined to his home by illness for sew
eral weeks.
WHEN called upon to surrender the
county books and funds in his posses
sion Henry E. Strauss, county clerk of
Langdale county, Wis, committed sui
eide by taking poison. He left a letter
admitting that he was a defaulter to
the amount of So, 200. He was ~ years
old.
Mrs. NETTIE R CRAVEN, the claim
ant to the estate of the late Senator
Fair, is seriously i'll in San Francisco.
Her sickness has been of long stand
ing, and apparently battles the skill of
her physicians. 1t is said that her
malady is such that she may die at any
time.
THE Bankers Exchange bank OF
Minneapolis, Mimi, suspended pay
H
Germ, and it's officers claim that they
have money to pay every depositor and
stockholder.
SAMUEL WHITAKER, shoemaker liv-
ing on Rindge avenue, North Cam
bridge, Mass, at three o'clock on the
morning of the Ist, shot and killed his
wife Catherine, blowing the top of her
head off with shotgun. He then at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat
with a razor. He was taken to the
Cambridge hospital in a critical condi-
ton. Whitaker is about fifty years of
age and his wife a few years younger.
Rum caused the tragedy.
The production of minerals and met
ais in the United States for the year
1896 is given at a total value of $685.
al, 46S, showing a decrease as COM
pared with 1895 of S24, $50. 266, or about
31< per cent. This decrease was large
" IN values rather than in quantities.
In none of the chief articles was there
any marked decrease, while several
show a considerable increase.
Hon. J. B. EUsTIs, the American
ambassador to France, held a New
Year reception in Paris, on the 1st,
which was very largely attended by
the members of the American colony.
Miss Eustis, daughter of the ambas'
sador, acted as hostess, assisted by
Mrs. George Eustis, Mrs. Allen Eustis
and Mrs. Vignaud, wife of the secre-
tary of the embassy.
ANDREW w. SWEET, who for many
years had been agent of the Adams
Express Co. in New York city, and
who was with Samuel Adams and as.
sisted him in founding the express
company, died in Bensonhurst, L. l.,
on the 1st, from Bright's disease. Mr..
SWEET was born in Maine as years ago.
A COLLISION between iceboats, one
of which was moving at the rate of
mile a minute, at Pepin, Wis, on the
1st. resulted in very serious injuries to
two of the crew of the boat run into
and in totally wrecking both boats.
TEMPERANCE advocates are demand.
ing the resignation of Topeka's police
commissioners for failure to enforce
the Kansas prohibitory law.