Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of important Eventa.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Miss FLORENCE HELM, who was for
two terms postmistress at Elizabeth
town, KY, and who is said to have been
the daughter of ex-Gov. Helm of Ken
lucky. died in New York. on the 18th.
from the effects of morphine taken
with suicidal intent
Gov. MCLAURIN of Mississippi has
appointed Senator-elect fernando De
Soto Money United States senator to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
j. z. George, whose term expires in
1899.
THROUGH her counsel, Emanuel NJ.
Friend, Mrs. Augusta Mack has sent
word to District Attorney Youngs, of
Queens county, n. Y, that she is ready
to tell all she knows about the murder
guilty to manslaughter.
A SHEPHERD named Vacher has been
arrested at Belley, France. charged
with committing a series of so-called
Jack-the-Ripper murders. He has con-
fessed to killing three shepherds, three
girls and two old women.
NEWS received from Long Valley,
Idaho, on the 18th, reported a battle
between the settlers and the sheep
herders there, in which three men were
killed and one dangerously wounded.
On the 18th the president appointed
Rafael Madrigal, of Maryland, United
States consul at Cartagena, Colombia.
THE south-bound cannon ball train
on the International & Great Northern
railroad, was held up, on the 18th, in
hi Of he
city of Austin, Tex, by four train rob-
bers, who relieved all the passengers of
the money they carried, but failed to
gain access to the express company's
safe. They then uncoupled the loco
motive and ran four miles down the
track, where they took to the woods.
During the robbery the conductor and
one passenger were wounded, and
another passenger had his shirt collar
shot away.
SINCLAIR MCCOY, q New York drum
mer, who shot himself at the Southern
hotel in st. Louis, September IS, died,
on the 18th, at the Mullanphy hospital
while an operation was being per-
formed for the removal of the bullet
from his brain.
HERBERT CROW, a young business
man of Hastings, Neb., was fatally
stabbed, by young woman with a
hatpin. The steel entered the mans
side and broke off. The victim refused
to give the name of the girlor the cause
for the attack.
THE Denver Coli police board has
to investigate the charge.
made by Chief-of-Police Ripley of Chi
cago, that Samuel Straebler, who is said
to be a handler and protector of pick
pockets, is living in that city under
the protection of two members of the
police department.
EXTENSIVE reinforcements are being
made by Great Britain to her fleet in
the waters of the north Pacific. Aspe-
cial train passed through Winnipeg,
Man.. on the 18th, having on board $50
officers, marines and sailors for her
war ships in thone waters.
THE Sherman house, one of the larg-
est and best known hotels in Chicago,
was damaged IS, 600 by a fire that broke
put. on the 18th, at 1870 a. m. There
was quite a panic among the servants
and guests, but all escaped injury.
A DEAL has been contaminated trans
ferring the big plant of the ]. /. Case
Machine Co. at Racine,
Wis, to syndicate of eastern capital
lists. The purchase price is said TO be
y, 900, 900.
THE post Office department has re-
ceived data regarding the general
italian exposition to be held in Turin
next year, and invitations have been
extended for further American ex-
hibits.
d. J. OLIVER, the veteran charged
with dynamiting the residence of Gov.
worth Kas., and attempting murder,
IS undergoing trial in the federal
court at Leayenworth.
SENATOR TILLMAN, of South Caro-
ina. is quite sick, but there is no inn
danger of serious results.
Mrs. LANGTRY's Norman won the
Czarowitz stakes at Newmarket, En-
gland, ON the 18th.
CHARLES POLLOCK. who started from
England, on the 18th, to
cross the English channel in a balloon,
landed at 4:S0 p. m. the same day, IA
miles from Amiens, France.
THE sultan of Turkey is said to be
strenuous efforts to obtain the
of American missionaries
from the interior of Asia Minor. If his
efforts should be successful, the policy
Of exterminating the Armenians could
be accomplished without European
witnesses.
THE Havana Official Gazette, of the
18th, publishes an edict signed by the
judge calling upon Evange-
lima Cossio Y Cisneros to present her
self for term of Is days in Jail and or
dering all civil and military authori-
ties to endeavor to apprehend her and,
If captured, to send her to Havana Jail.
J. C. KING, reliable business man of
Portland, Ore, declared, on the 18th,
that his brother had discovered the
mother lode of Klon-
dixie.
THE authorities at Vera Cruz, Mex
leo, have ordered the ships arriving
from New Orleans into quarantine for
nine days. There is no yellow fever at
Vera Cruz this season, and the people
are alarmed at the possibility of the
of the disease from the
United States.
REINFoRcEMENTs for Cuba are being
hurried forward by the military au-
thorities of Spain. About 5000 addi-
tional soldiers will leave that country
for the island before the end of the
present month
AT the meeting of the new board of
directors of the Western Union Tells
graph CO., held in New York city, On
the 14th, Thomas +. Clark. formerly
assistant to the president was elected