Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28

SHERIFF 8. B. LARD, of Riley county,
Kas., was shot and instantly killed at
Leonardville by Ike Warren, a jointist,
or ''bootlegger," upon whom he was
endeayoring to serve a warrant. War
capped lynching.
The Indiana Bankers association, in
session at Indianapolis, on the 21st,
| adopted q resolution approving the
monetary commission. The resolution
regards the appoin tment as wise and
expresses the opinion that it will be
productive of a plan of currency and
banking in support of which the peo-
pie can heartily unite.
LoCHIEL GRAHAM, So years old, and
said to an ex-captain of the United
States artillery, and to have been
formerly an aide-de-camp of Maxi
| milan, was sentenced, at the West Sus-
sex Eng sessions, on the 21st, to IL
months imprisonment for defrauding
tradesmen at Horsham, Sussex.
THE Turkish government has granted
permission to the ThessaEian refugees
who fed from Thessaly after the inva-
sion of the conquering Turkish troops
under Edhem Pasha to return to their
homes through Phourka pass, Monseka
pass and two other passes, near Trik-
hala and Alymra-
DIR. NEWTON BATEMAN, for II years
president of Knox college at Gales
burg, Ill, and an educator of ma
| tional repute, died of heart disease on
the Dist
On the 21st $50 soldiers, sick, wound
ed or otherwise incapacitated, en-
barked at Havana for Spain.
THE report telegraphed from Vic
toria that the Canadian government
had decided to charge a duty on every
pound of goods taken into the Klondike
country, including miners packs, was,
on the 22d, denied from Ottawa
WHILE Mrs. Joseph Howard, of Wash
ington county, Ind, was at Cincinnati
preparing to take the supposed re-
mains of her husband home for inter
ment, letter arrived from the latter
saying that he was in Nashville. Two
weeks before he had mysteriously dis
appeared, and the remains of a muir
dered man found in the Portland canal
were identified as those of Howard.
MARGARET E. CODY entered suit in
the district court at Denver, Col, on
the 22d, for S25, coo damages for SANDER
against Melville c. Brown, at one
time a member of congress and now
attorney for the GoIIlds in their fight
against Mary Angel, who claims to
have been a wife OF Jay Gould.
SEVERAL points in southwest Vir-
ginia are reported as having expert
enced an earthquake shock on the
night of the 21st. No damage is re-
ported.
A CHICAGoAN writes from White
Pass, Alaska, that there have been six
suicides, three hangings, IL killings
and a number of deaths there from ex-
posture.
A GRANDSON of Gen. Phil Kearney
has been adjudged, by a supreme court
commission Jersey City, N. j.. an habit
uaI drunkard and will be sent to a
sanitarium.
ROBERT T. LINCOLN will su cceed tn
late George NJ. Pullman as president of
the Pullman Palace Car Co. The Pull
man family, who own a majority of
the stock, expressed a wish that Mr..
Lincoln accept the place. and he gave
his consent.
The president gave a public recep-
ton on the 22d, at which a large num-
Der of callers paid their respects.
Among them was Hiss Cossio Cisneros.
the escaped Cuban girl. She was ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Karl
Decker and Mrs. John A. Logan. Mrs.
Logan introduced the party.S
THE controversy over the use of Vic
tor Hugos LES Miserables" in the
girls high school of Philadelphia.
which has attracted general attention.
has been settled by the placing of an
abridged edition of the work on the
eligible list of French books for the
school.
SECRETARY OF WAR ALGER has sent
to Lieut.. Col. Randall, commander of
the United States troops at st. Mi
chael's, Alaska, an order directing him
to make use of the reindeer in Alaska
for the transportation of supplies and
the relief of sufferers.