Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-02-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

filed with the secretary of state at
Trenton, Il. j., of the Rubber Goods
Manufacturing Co., with an authorized
capital stock of $5O,OOO,OOO, one-half of
which is to be preferred and the other
half common stock.
On the Goth, while at work in one of
the boilers of the cruiser New York,
in dry dock at the New York navy
yard, six men were scalded through
the unexpected turning on of steam in
the boiler. One of the men is perhaps
fatally injured, but the others are ex-
pected to recover.
Grant G. Gillett, the Kansas cattle
trader, who recently failed, with liza
bilities aggregating over a million dol
lars, has turned all his property over
to his creditors, and it is stated that
the latter have promised that no Grim
inal action shall be instituted against
him if he shall return from Mexico.
Charles Green, of ST. Louis, who has
a lien for about $4,000 on the Ken
lucky association race track at Lex
ington, KY, the oldest in the United
States, will soon begin cutting it up
into town lots. There will be no more
racing at Lexington.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Talley,
living on Cedar creek, in Newton coun-
ty, Mo-, were at church, on the night
of the Goth, their three children, whom
were burned to death. On returning
at II o'clock the parents found the
house in ruins.
Former Acknowledgement Augustus
81. Garland was stricken with apoplexy
while addressing the United States su-
preme court, at Washington, on the
Goth, and died within ten minutes. The
occurrence came with startling and
tragic unexpectedness and created a
profound sensation.
Maj. Walker, the Illinois pioneer,
was reported, on the Goth, to be dying
at his home in Lewistown. Maj. Walk
er was 95 years old on December Is,
1898. He was born in Virginia in 1903,
and was married to Miss Ann Simms
siXty-tive years ago. She is still in
good health. They reside on the same
spot they settled when they came to
Illinois in 1885.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Robertson, two
of the pioneer settlers of Knox county,
ILL.,, died, recently within three
days, and both were buried in one
grave. Mr.. Robertson was a prom
inent citizen, serving for number of
years on the board of supervisors and
in other capacities.
Capt. Fritz Muller, Troop E, rough
riders, has presented the Historical So
ciety of Santa Fe, n. NJ, with a heavy
chain which he found fastened to a
tree in front of Santiago, Cuba, the
loose end holding the bones of man
who had died while thus confined.
The captain also presented an ancient
Arabic manuscript he discovered in a
block house on San Juan hill.
Advices, of the 27th, from Kokomo.
Col, on the Colorado & Southern rail-
way, announced that an accommcda-
and Kokomo, The train was thought
to be stuck in a big snow bank.
The crusade against the polygamous
Mormon, Representative-elect Rob
erts, of Utah, has brought the issue
fairly before the peaple. In their
anxiety to record their protests
against polygamy, many churches
and societies are filing them with the
present congress, though it is the
next congress which will decide the
question.
Disabled by an accident to her
steering gear during a trip up the
Sound, the steam canalboat J. C. Aus
tin, of New York, ran on the rocks off
Norwalk, Conn, on the 27th, and sank
Accompanying her was the consort
David B. Fisk, loaded with coal con-
signed to Westport. Five of the per-
sons aboard the vessels lost their
lives
The pension bureau, on the 27th,
granted a pension of $12 a month to
the widow of Chief Yeoman George n.
Ellis, or Peoria, Ill, the only man in
CUR navy killed at Santiago in the an
Inhalation of Cervera's fleet. Ellis
was on the Brooklyn and was exposed
on the open deck to ascertain the
range of the enemy with a stadimeter,
when his head was blown of by a
shell.
The Eagan court-martial was closed
on the 27th. Within an hour after
the court had been cleared for DELHI
GRAFTON the verdict was made up and
was forwarded to the proper review
ing authority by the judge advocate.
An unofficial report from Washington
saws the verdict was guilty with
sentence of dismissal.