Iron County register., 1900-02-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Mrs. Samuel Thurman, aged 60, and
her daughter, aged II, We're asphyxi-
ated by natural gas at Sheridan, Ind,
on the 1st. When found the mother
and daughter were dead and Mr..
Thurman was lying on the floor with,
the gas key in his hand, unconscious.
Fire which broke out, on the 1st, in
George w. Stout's wholesale grocery
at Indianapolis, Ind, spread to Brink
mey, Kuhn & Co., wholesale grocery
stores, thence to Hendricks-Vance &
Co., wholesale boots and shoes, and
the A. Kiefer Drug Co., causing a total
loss estimated at S35O,OOO.
The United States supreme court, on
the 1st, witnessed the unusual specta-
Gle of the admission of lady and her
daughter to that bar upon motion of
another daughter. The ladies admit
ted were Mrs. Kate 2. Pier and Miss
q. II. Pier, of Milwaukee, and the
lady moving their admission was Miss
Kate III. Pier, of the same city.
AT the age of los years, Sadie Evans,
the gypsy queen, is dead at Elizabeth,
\. j., and the band which has been
encamped near that city for eight
months, is a camp of mourning. The
dead queen was very rich.
Mrs. Rene Simon has brought suit,
at Nashville, Tenn, for $4,000 damages
against Moses, Joseph, Louis and Fish
er Simon and Max Isaacs. She charges
that by threats and violence they
frightened and forced her husband cf
a few days, Jacob Simons, to leave her,
and that they prevented his returning.
The democratic members of the
Kentucky legislature met in secret
caucus at the Capital hotel, in Frank
fort, on the I'd, and again elected VIM.
Goebel as governor. This action was
first taken by the houses in separate
sessions, and Immediately after in
joint session.
According to r. G. Dun & Co. the
failures for the week ended on the I'd
were 232 in the United States, against
224 last year, and "a in Canada against
25 last year.
Correo Espanol, the organ of the
Spanish colony in the City of Mexico
thInks the European powers should
intervene in the Kentucky conflict,
which takes on the aspect of civil war,
The Kentucky situation has been at
tracing more attention in Mexico, OF
late that the South African war.
Miss Annie Wittemeyer, who became
famous as an army nurse during the
civil war, and is known throughout the
country as an author and lecturer,
died, on the I'd, at her home at Sara
toga, Pa. Miss Wittemeyer was born
in Kentucky, 72 years ago.
George n. Wiswell, of Milwaukee,
has been appointed sergeant-at-ar1ns
of the Republican national convention
to be held in Philadelphia next June.
Mr.. Wiswen received a letter, on the
I'd, from J. II. Manley, chairman of the
subcommittee having the matter in
charge, notifying him of his appoint
ment.
Mrs. Brown-Potter after reciting
''The Absent-Minded Beggar" in aid of
the yeomanry, at Bath, England, Oh
the 1st, sold at auction the tamborine
in which she made collections, kiss
to go with it to the highest bidder.
DkCnjidhoy Bomaniji, a Persian mer-
Chant, was the purchaser, at $40.
Hope for a peaceable and blood
less solution of the fight for the pos
session of the Kentucky state govern
ment had been almost abandoned on
the night of the I'd. 1t looked as if
civil war were inevitable. Every effort |
to compromise on an amicable basis |
had failed.