Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-12-30
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

due to the disagreement in regard to
wages, was expensive to both sides, but
is now ended.
THE soldiers and sailors monument
to be erected by the city of New York
will be placed 1000 feet from the tomb
of Gen. Grant. At a meeting of the
commission, on the ed, having in
charge the construction of the memo
rial, Claremont, on Riverside drive, was
chosen as the site
PHILIP ]. CARTER, the seaman who,
on June 80, murdered Master-at-Arms
Kenney on board the battleship Indi-
ana, in the navy yard at Brooklyn, was
found guilty, on the Goth, of murder in
the first degree without capital pun
ishment.
SECRETARY ALGER has determined,
after advising with the medical officers
of the war department. and persons
who have had much experience in arc
tic regions, to make large use of con-
densed food preparations for the Klon-
dixie relief expedition.
THE state of Nebraska, by the attor-
ney-general, has filed civil suit against
ex-Treasurer BARLEY and his bonds
men for $685., 900. This is the amount
which BARLEY is charged with en-
bezzling from the public school fund.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR BLISS has
issued instructions that all boomers"
who trespass upon the Wichita reser-
walton before it Is opened to settlement
are to be arrested.
IT is understood in Paris that the pre-
liminary inquiry into the charges made
I,ao
suited in his committal for trial by
court-martial.
MORTIMER T. HUMPHREYS, who, ten
years ago, had a national reputation
as a billiardist, died on the street in
New York city, on the 2lst, of heart
failure, aged SO years. Humphreys re-
Gently had been sporting writer.
An eight-pound dynamite cartridge
exploded in the rear of the Arbuckle
coffee building in Brooklyn on the
night of the 21st. Nearly 5000 panes
of glass in the neighborhood were
shattered, and that the explosion was
not attended by loss of life is remark
able.
CHAs. SCHMIDT nailed revolver to
an upright pillar in the store where
the 21st, pressed his head against the
muzzIe and pulled the trigger. He died
instantly. He was but IS years of age,
and killed himself on account of a love
affair.
THE imperial Japanese diet reopened
on the goth. The union of the three
chief political parties is complete, and
will certainly carry in the house of
representatives a vote of no confidence
in the government.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Vienna, on
the 2Ist, said: THE Arabs along the
Persian gulf, notably at Busrah. Kur-
nah and Ell Kalif, have revolted, and
troops are on their way there"
ONE HUNDRED operatives employed in
the mills of the Royal Weaving Co., at
Pawtucket, r. l., left work, on the
21st, and joined the silk weayers, who
were discharged because they would
not teach beginner.
PRIVATE JOHN w. H. DAVIS, Fourth
cavalry, stationed in Yellowstone park,
was frozen to death, while carrying the
mail from the Lake hotel to Thumb
station. Private George Murphy, who
was with him, turned back and was
saved, although badly frozen.
JOHN LAswELL, driller, was instantly
killed, and Horace Wathen, his assist
int, was badly injured by the explo-
sion of dy Mantle cartridge at West
Point, KY. on the 2Ist. The men were
working on a gas well on the premises
of Laswen at the time.
A PACKAGE containing $40, 900 Jnys-
teriouSly disappeared, on the Goth, from
the safe of the Southern Express Co.
in the office at Columbia, S. G. A party
of Pinkerton men from Philadelphia
are investigating, and they think they
have thief spotted.
CHRIS MERRY, the peddlar, charged
with wife murder. and his alleged &C
complete, James Smith, were arraigned
in court, in Chicago, on the 21st. They
pleaded not guilty. Neither had a
lawyer, and both objected to an early
trial. Judge Horton, however, set the
trial for the eth.
THE jury at Terre Haute, Ind, that
tried Mrs. Sadie Crookshanks for the
alleged murder of her husband, re-
turned n verdict of acquittal on the
2Ist
ASSISTANT SECRETARY SPALDING is
sued orders, on the 2Ist, for the release
of the Silver Heels at Wilmington, n.
c. This step was taken on a report by
the United States attorney that he
could obtain no evidence upon which
to proceed against the vessel.
THE post office at Alton, /. T., was
entered by burglars on the morning of
the 21st, the safe blown open AID
about $3.50 in money and other valua-
bles taken,
ACCORDING to special dispatch from
Shanghai, the British Far Eastern
squadron will make a demonstration at
Che-Foo, on the north coast of the
Shan Tung promontory, as warning,
it is supposed, that Great Britain in-
tends to oppose the division of Chi ma
without consulting her.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween the leaders of the senate and
house which practically secures the
passage of the Hawley bill to increase
the army by two regiments of artillery.
At the beginning of the session it was
doubtful whether the measure would
meet with favor on account of the ex-
penditure required.
A. T. GREEK, a stock raiser, who re-
sided near Francisco, Ind, was on i !
way TO Louisville, KY, with stock on
the 2Ist. The train stopped for some
cause on treStle az, near English.
Greek walked out to look after his
stock, not knowing that the caboose
was on the trestle, and fell rs feet,
breaking his neck.
The schooner yacht Yampa, which is
liz