Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-14
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CAUsUALTIEs.
A SERIES of mysterious explosions oc-
Cured on the 9th in the bar-room of Swans
restaurant, Detroit, Mich. Flames in
stantly broke out and the building burned.
Swan had recently made an assignment.
On the 9Th German farm laborer
| near Marengo, Iowa, shot his sweetheart
and then committed suicide.
On the 9th five men were killed and
fifteen wounded by an accident on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, near More
head, KY. Fourteen men were also injured
OF the L., N. q. & T. Road near Port Glib
son, Miss. All were railroad construction
hands.
On the night of the 9Th Crossman &
Kluenter's furniture factory at Allentown,
Pa, burned. Four men are known to have
been killed by falling walls, a number in
iured, and it was feared there were others
buried in the ruins.
On the 7th two Baltimore & Ohio
passenger trains collided near Fallsburg, o.
No one was fatally hurt, but several sus-
tanned ugly bruises.
On the night of the 9th Samuel Nor
man, of Dayton, o., finding two burglars in
arrest of the other.
On the eth gang of young ruffians
at Minneapolis, Mimi, took lad named
Johnny Nolan to a neighbours barn and
hanged him, where he was struggling in
the death throes when found and cut down.
AT Leipsic. Germany, two letter
pouches containing SO, 600 marks were stolen
from mail cart on the 9TH. T.. -
On the Sth VIM. Buchert, bugler of
the United States troops at Cincinnati, was
drowned while trying to get into the second
story of the barracks from a skiff.
On the Sth a series of tank explosions
at the Standard Oil Works at Long Island
City, L. l., destroyed property to the value
of $4,000. Windows were broken on
Blackwell's Island by the force of the ex-
plosions.
-- MISCELLANEOUS. ;4s .-.
THE Navy Department has purchased
the Thetis, said to be the stanchest whaler
that sails from Dundee, for the Greedy re-
lief expedition. .i t4'.' -.t4 80 -tii
ON thei6th the high water stopped the
gas works in Cincinnati, and the water was
I till rising. :..-.,.. ..,. .....
THE delegates to the Mississippi Riy-
er Convention called on the President on
the 9th.
FLOODED railroad tracks and wash
outs are reported in every direction.
THE great cotton factory strike in
Lancaster, England, has ended in favor of
the operatives. 4.. ...ts.
On the 9th the Stove Manufacturers
Association held its annual meeting at
Cleveland, o.
THE Coinage Committee of the House
of Representatives will report a bill to re-
tire the trade dollar. -ul..sr &.
DISPATCHES received from various
points on the 9th indicated that there was
reason to fear that the flood in the Ohio
River would exceed that of last year.
Great damage had already resulted. The
Mississippi and Missouri We're both rising
rapidly and some OF the larger Southern
rivers were also Oh boom. The prospect
for big water in the Lower Mississippi was
good.
Egypt Baker Pasha's defeat was even more
complete than at first reported. 1t is the
old story. His Egyptian troops simply
did not fight at all, but lay down and beg
ged for mercy from inferior forces of the
hended. A detachment of 4O6 men under
Tewfk Bey was cut off and slaughtered be-
tween Sinkat and the coast. Tokar and
Sinkat are hopelessly lost.
b A COLLISION occurred recently be-
tween bodies of native troops in Algeria.
A French force was called out to restore
order. ~ ....-........
On the 9th the Mississippi River Con-
ing of Importance was done owing to the
inability of the Committee on Resolutions
to present their report. IL
On the 9th the river coal-miners of
the Pittsburgh district held convention
to decide about demanding increased
wages.
The Committee on Agriculture of the
Senate has ordered a favorable report on
the bill to prevent the spread of pleuro-
pneumonia. .s9 ...-r
A NUMBER of the big Texas cattle
companies have consolidated at Dallas,
forming the Continental Land and Cattle
Company, the largest in the world. a~b'
& In Milwaukee,, Wis, the two thir-
teen-year old boys who attempted to rob
and murder street -driver have been
convicted. 1s3 81 s,.o5l .e,...f: !
TIE, Naval appropriation bill as pre-
pared by the Committee, is completed. l.
appropriates 81 ,565.e3S less than last year.
The commission investigating Super |
intendent French of the railway mail serv. |
ice has summoned two hundred postal !
clerks to appear at Indianapolis. ..!s Il
On the 9TH the River Convention
adopted resolutions approving the work of |
the River Commission and urging Con- |
gress to apply the same system without de-
lay to the Improvement of the Ohio, Mis- |
souri, and other navigable rivers; also, de- /
claring that Congress in making appropri- |
atoms should shave regard to the estab-
lishment of free water communication be-
tween the valley Of the great river of the |
West and Underwater of the East" Hfu4I
THE newspapers of Paris are joking /
England on the results of the Egyptian
The merchants of Terre Haute, Ind,
are organizing board of trade. 49,