Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-19
Dr.. j. II. MCLEAN, OF st. Louis, died on

the 18th at Dansville, N. Y.
Mrs. EMMA FRANCIS SHAW, while en-
route from San Francisco, committed sui
eide at Pittsburgh Pa, on the 18th, by
taking stry chime. Her husband, Isaac 4.
Shaw, is general manager of the Electric
Light Company at Williamsport, Pa.
Domestic trouble is said to have been the
cause of the rash act
MRS. SARAH J. ROBINSON, of Somerville,
Mass, has been arrested on charge OF
having caused the death of her son Will
liam by administering poison in his food.
She is forty years of age and has
been a widow for four years. At the
same time Thomas r. Smith, of Hyde
Park, was arrested charged with being an
accomplice to the crime. A dozen similar
charges are laid against Mrs. Robinson.
The receipts of the Government since
July l have been nearly 100000 in ex-
cess of the receipts during the same period
of | st year. The increase was about
| 81 10000 from customs and about 81 $780,
| 600 from internal revenue.
THE Chief of Engineers of the army
states that it will be almost impossible to
| make much Roadway with the work to be
done under the provisions of the River
| and Harbor bill because the season is so
| far advanced.
| THE Hungarian town of Sillein has been
| destroyed by fire. The property burned
| includes four hundred houses, a church,
nunnery and school. The loss is $780,
| 600.
| FIRE destroyed Newton's planing-mil
at Hastings, Mich, on the 18th.
MRS. CLEVELAND is sadly afflicted by
! the warm weather at Washington, and is
anxious to get away.
ARoYAL commission is to be appointed
to inquire into the recent Belfast riots.
| Four lives were lost by the capsizing of
the schooner Frolic in Boston harbor.
FURTHER indictments in connection with
the Squire Flynn affair at New York are
expected.
IT was expected that fifty thousand
workmen would attend the Socialist meet
ing at Brussels on the 18th.
| THE loot secured by the British in Bur-
nah was sold at auction at Calcutta for
| 100 900 rupees.
a GASOLINE stove explosion at Sedalia,
Mo-, on the 18th, fatally burned Cora E.
Shepherd and caused an $1,000 fire.
C. J. RIrCH1E, president of the British
| local Government Board, has been re-
| elected to Parliament.
| AN explosion occurred in a colliery in
Lancashire, England, on the 18th, in which
14O men were at work. Forty lives are
said to have been lost.
JOHN DoUGHERTY, of Mount Union, Pa,
has invented folding paddle which he
expects will revolutionize steamboating.
NEAR indianapolis, on the 18th, light
| ming killed Mrs. Buckhart while asleep in
bed with her husband and child, neither
of the latter being hurt.
| JOHN WAGNER, who has a wife and
three children living at Columbus, O., shot
and fatally wounded his mistress at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 18th.
DR.. RICHARDSON made an incision in
the abdomen of John McCarty at Boston
on the 18th, drew out and cut open the
stomach and removed set of false teeth
which he had swallowed. The patient is
recovering.
| THE amount of three per cent. bonds
held to secure National bank note circula-
ton, included in the 10th call, issued on
the 14th, is 1856, $50.
THE school ship Constellation, with the
Annapolis cadets on board, arrived at
| Fortress Monroe on the 18th. Cadet
Schley, of Indiana, fell from aloft on Au-
gust and was killed.
FIRE destroyed twenty-six of the prin-
cipal business houses at Folsom, Cal, on
the 18th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $685..
coo.
| MRS. GEORGE DEAKENHART and her
eight year old daughter died at their home
at Bakerstown, Pa, on the 18th from eat
ing toadstools, which they thought were
mushrooms.
GOVERNOR IRELAND expresses the great.
est respect for Secretary Bayard, and at
the same time expresses his own views on
the Mexican matter in terms that are not
hard to understand.
THE grand jury at New York on the
18th dismissed the case of Colonel VIM. II.
Glider, the Attic explorer, who was
charged by Dolly Adams with taking a
81 900 bond from her. She asked leave to
withdraw the complaint, and signed a
document saying that she did not believe
that the defendant intended to defraud
her of the bond.