Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-12-23

GEORGE SHEEHAN, peddler, a.teo
"a, shot his wife in cheap lodging
house in Cincinnati, on the 10th, and
then shot himself. The woman may
die. Sheehan will probably recover.
Jealousy is given as the cause.
Two OF the new guns for the for+ifi-
cations at San Diego, Cal. have ar
rived, and the third is on the way. The
weight of these guns is 81, 100 pounds
each; weight of carriage, 2O0, 900 pounds;
length OF gun S616 feet; weight of pro-
jectile, SIS pounds.
NELSON WIrrLEsEY, collector of the
customs at Council Bluffs, Ia, who alb
seconded. recently, leaving a S., 900 short
age, was arrested, on the 10th, by Off
GERS at Danville, KY. With him was
woman. wife of a Council Bluffs mer-
chant, who previously stood well in
the community.
THE Diario de la Marina, Havana,
publishes letter accusing Gen. Wey-
Ter of having embezzled SIC. 900 from a
fund which was started in Havana for
the relief of the families of number
of soldiers who persisted as the result
of a railroad accident.
A. c. HARMswoRTH, England's patron
Of arctic exploration, has presented his
arctic ship Windward to Lieut.. Peary,
and will have her overhauled and sent
to America for use in his coming expe-
dition.
THE president, on the 10th, sent the
nomination of Joseph McKenna, of
California, to be associate justice OF
the supreme court of the United States,
to the senate for confirmation.
THE president, on the 10th, sent to
the senate for confirmation the nomi-
nation of Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois,
to be comptroller of the currency, vice
Eckels, resigned.
JOHN MORGAN, the triple murderer,
was hanged at Ripley, w. Va, on the
| 10th. The execution was without any
unusual incident.
Mrs. LARS ANDERSON and husband
have returned from their honeymoon
trip to the orient, and will stop in San
Francisco a short time before going TO
their Boston home. Mrs. Anderson,
who is not yet 81 years old, is heiress
to fortune of $50, 900, 900.
The famous French model Lucie
Hagerland had her beauty destroyed,
on the nth, by vitriol thrown at her
by another model named Juiduicelli in
fit of jealousy.
The electric light plant at Port HUI
ron, Mich, was burned on the 18th;
loss, $4,000.
THE National Civil Service Reform
league, in session in Cincinnati, on the
18th, reelected Carl Schurz president
by reclamation.
j. II. MARTINDALE,o of Scranton, Kas.,
aged 81, and recently married, was
found frozen to death in a pasture a
few miles south of Carbonate, Kas., on
the 18th.
GRAND FORKS, n. D., suffered from a
destructive fire, with losses aggregat-
ing nearly 81, 900, 600, on the 18th. Three
lives are supposed to have been lost.
DURING the past year 424, 249 head of
cattle have been shipped into Kansas.
From Texas 233, 444 head were received.
being IA, 252 more than last year; from
Arizona 50, O4S, or 1855 more than in
1896; from New Mexico, 1913 or 81
967 in excess of 1896; from Old Mexico,
81, 900; from Oklahoma, 80, 495, or 16, 122
more than in 1896; from Missouri, T.
351, which exceeds last years record
by 5, 463.
he SuOdA oOGOAOLAS RLOS olAAAO Al
the will, not of the Spanish people, but
of Senior Sagasta, which has not had
the approval of the cortes, and which
Sagasta is afraid will not he Endorsed,
but rejected by that body when it comes
up for legislation.
POLICEMAN WILLIAM RUSSELL. et Chi
cago, shot and killed a robber or the
night of the 18th, and half an hoxz
later he was called up by telephone
and promoted by Chief Ripley to SER
geantcy.
JOHN J. HANRAHAN and Patrick Fer
ris, election judges in the Seventeenth
ward of Chicago, were convicted, on
the 18th, Of classifying election returns
at the last aldermanic election.
s AMUEL S. DUNHAM, special agent of
the department of labor in Alaska, who
started for che Klondil1e region several
months ago, is missing, and the fear is
entertained that he has been lost in the
| northern wilds.