Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-16

A FIREMAN was killed, three trainmen
badly hurt and sixteen cars demolished
by a wreck on the 9th, on the Pan Handle
Road in West Virginia
THE Niagara Oili Company Of Buffalo,
N. Y, struck q heavy vein of gas on the
9th, on the Donaldson farm, near Wash.
ington, Pa. The pressure is said to be
stronger than that Of the famous McGui-
gan we'll
AN Internal machine, so rugged that the
passage of train would explode it, was
found on the bridge over the Salmon
River, south of Pittsburgh, Pa. the morn
ing of the 9th, only few minutes before
a passenger train was due.
Forty Apaches were killed in a recent
battle in Sonora
BOSTON entertained the Mexican editors
on the 10th.
GREAT damage has been done by floods
in Galacia.
MRS. NORRIS was killed by lightning at
Fort Popham, Me-, on the 10th.
INVESTIGATION shows there Is no cholera
in France.
The cranberry fields in New Jersey have
been seriously injured by fire.
MINISTER BOYD WINCHESTER arrived at
Berne, Switzerland, on the 10th.
HDssIAN flies are creating sad havoc In
the wheat fields in New York.
MAD-ID people are hopeful of entirely
escaping the cholera
SEVERAL cases of sporadic cholera were
reported at Toledo, O., on the 10th.
A NEW ship canal is proposed from the
Caspian Sea to Mchael's Bay.
DANIEL CARNES and Reuben Miller ia
| - -, E~I
the 10th.
IT has been decided to build a Metro
politan underground railway in Paris.
The session of the Supreme Temple of
Odd Fellows, at St Paul, Mimi, closed on
the 10th.
AT Black Rock, Ireland, on the 10th, DUR
ing a band performance, the British
flag was pulled down and the green flag
hoisted.
THE Board of Health at New Orleans
denies that there is any yellow fever
there.
THE French Government will maintain
and educate the seventh child in each
poor family.
| GENERAL SHERIDAN started on the 10th
for the seat of reported Indian troubles in
Kansas.
HENRY of Reuss German ambassador
to Vienna, accepts the regency of the
Duchy of Brunswick.
| GEORGE KoERNER was run over by an
engine on the Belt Road, indianapolis,
| Ind, on the 10th, and killed.
THE Agricultural Department at Wash
ington estimates the wheat crop at 363,.
0O0, 900 bushels.
| NEGOTIATIONS between Spain and the
| United States on the commercial treaty
have been suspended.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has declined an
invitation to attend the opening of Mag
| ara Falls Park.
CARDINAL MANNING, at London, has ac-
cepted the offer of the Pail Mall Gazette to
examipe its proofs of recent charges.
REPORTS from all over the South re-
| ceived by Bradstreet's show the cotton
| crop in very good condition.
w. II. PUDNEY, the aged sexton of ST.
| Georges Church, New York, was sem
fenced on the 10th to twenty years in the
Penitentiary for an assault on two little
girls.
A REPORT reached Dallas, Tex, on the
10th, of great battle in New Mexico in
| which sixty Indians and sixteen cowboy.
| were killed.
THE notorious Lee brothers, of Texas
and Indian Nation fame, propose to sur
render if they are paid the rewards, ag-
gregating several thousand dollars, off er.
ed for their capture.
A COUPLE of young Indiana farme rs
fought eight rounds with bare knuckles on
the 10th, in the presence of a select party,
to decide who should have the heart and
hand of girl they both loved.
THE Captain and first mate Of the Brit
ish brig j. Williams, which arrived at
Newcastle on-Tyne April 23d from VIII
mington, N. c., were sentenced on the
10th each to seven years. penal servitude
for killing Seaman Limberg.
THE steamer Caledonia from Boston, for
London, is reported spoken in latitude Al
north, longitude II west She was sailing
under canvas. Her propeller was loose.
A TERRIBLE halls torn passed over
section of Northern Michigan three or four
miles wide by ten long the night of the
9th, going over the lake to Port Hope,
Ont. Great damage resulted to standing
crops. The hail beat out windows and
otherwise injured buildings.