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

THE steamboat Stella Wilds sank 25
miles below Natchez, Miss, on the
14th. The passengers, crew and cargo
were taken off by the steamer Lulu
Prince. The Wilds was valued at Sl2,
600; fully insured. She will be raised.
The senate committee on public
lands, on the 14th, appointed Senators
Carter, Mcbride and McEnery, a sub
committee to draft land legislation for
Alaska.
THEODORE DURRANT has been re-sen-
fenced to be hanged on January next
for the murder of blanche Lamont in
San Francisco.
FRANKLIN WHITNEY, aged So, presi-
dent of the Williamsburg On. " saw
ings bank, was stricken with apoplexy
and died, at noon of the 14th, at the
corner of Broadway and briggs avenue,
Brooklyn, near the bank building.
The police of San Francisco believe
that the life of Rev. j. George Gibson,
Durrant's former pastor, is in danger.
Mr.. Gibson is protected night and day.
Since the murders in Emanuel church
many attempts have been made by
DuTrant's friends to cast suspicion on
the pastor.
The possible failure of the Hawaiian
annexation treaty in the senate has
led some of the annexationists to seek
a new plan for accomplishing the &C
QUESTION of the islands. 1t is urged
that they should be secured by pur-
chase for 81, 600, 900, the amount of the
Hawaiian debt.
PROF. e. SToCKMEYEB, of Fort Scott,
KaS., predicts furious blizzard, with
disastrous gales, on or about the 21st,
which will continue for about two
days. The storm, he predicts, will in
clude all the northern and central
states, sweeping from the Pacific to the
Atlantic.
The noted Shelby and Jenkins feud
has broken out afresh in Ballard coun-
ty, KY. Alfred Shelby shot and killed
George Jenkins on the 14th. The two
men met in the woods, and the latter
opened fire first and was instantly
killed by ball from a Winchester
rifle.
In the voting, on the 14th, in the Vir-
GINA general assembly for United
States senator, Hon. John w. Daniel
practically received the unanim Gus
vote of both houses, the election being
a mere matter of form.
CHARLES G. WARREN, of Port Towns
end, Wash, a returning passenger on
the steamer Allkire, reports the dis
covery of rich placer diggings near
Dyea.
A DISPATCH from Bermuda says that
there was a sharp shock of earth quake
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of short duration, but was sufficiently
severe to awaken and alarm people.
BRYAN GILBERT, the seven-year-old
son of Judge w. D. Gilbert, of Atchi-
son, Kas., has been granted a condi-
tional license to practice law before
the supreme court of Kansas. The
Incense is to take effect when the lad
shall become 81 years of age. He is a
legal wonder, and passed an examine
ton that would have done credit to
any applicant
The entire Gillian cabinet resigned
on the 14th. The event caused a sensa-
ton.
FIRE, said to be the work of incen-
diaries, on the 10th, destroyed the
courthouse at Ardmore, l. T., consum-
| ing the written testimony in Indian
citizenship cases affecting 1,500 per-
sons, besides many valuable court rec
ords. The fire also destroyed the inn
plement house of the K. A. Kemble Co.,
causing an additional loss of $40, 900,
with SIS, 600 insurance. The loss on
| the courthouse cannot be estimated.
The State bank of Perry. Kas., was
entered, early on the morning of the
18th, by burglars, who blew open the
safe with dynamite and secured 81, 300.
The burglars escaped. They are be-
lieved to be ]. Collins and Charles
Cunningham, wanted in Omaha, Neb.,
for safe cracking.
TRAIN No. of the Baltimore s. Ohio
Southwestern, which left St Louis, on
the 10th, met with an accident at Iuka,
| Ill. The engine, postal car. baggage
car and two coaches were derailed by a
broken truck. The engineer and fire
man were slightly scalded. Beyond
this there was no injury whatever.
ALPHoNsE DAUDET, the novelist. ex-
| pired, suddenly, in Paris, on the even
ing of the 10th. He was dining with
his family when he was seized with q
sudden syncope. Physicians were sum-
moned, but he died almost immedi-
ately.
| WIN. TRRRTss. the well-known actor,
was assassinated. on the 10th, being
stabbed with knife as he was enter
ing the stage door of the Adelphi
theater in London. He had been play
! ing in the English version of William
GiIIette's American drama Secret
Service"
| The statement of the condition OF
the treasury, issued on the 18th, showed
available cash balance, S22ss Isl, i;
gold reserve. SI5e, SSS69a