Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-11-29


TWO children or Yetta HreeY oss g OF
New York City, were burned to death on
the 2oI. during their mothers abse nee,
seeking aid OF q charitable society. She
had been deserted by her husband, and
found it impossible to provide FOR her
three little ones.
MATHEW BAKER, wealthy farmer res
siding between Venice and New Balti-
more, Hamilton County, O., hanged him
self. on the 22d. in his barn.
THE extensive works CT the Fl. Wayne
(Ind.) Jenney Electric Light Company
were totally destroyed by fire. on the 23d.
hundred employees are temporarily thrown
out Of work.
The balloon in which Prof. vandegrift
made an ascension from the Exposition
Park. at Columbus, Ga, on the 22d, sud.
denly burst after reaching an altitude Of
half mile, and the @ronaus descending
by parachute. alighted in the Chatta-
hoochie river, and was drowned.
RECORDER SMYrHE Of New York City,
on the 23d. sentenced James e. Bedell.
the forger, to State prison for twenty five
years and four months.
J. w. MACINTOSH & Co, Boston stock
brokers, suspended on the 23d.
ADAM BERKEs, the man who was whip
tOos fhSSOueAys al odIoAAAeas Os, Wy tAAO
White Caps, has lost his reason, and is
now a raving maniac.
MRS. MARY DORIAN, of Columbus, Ind.
who, on July q, murdered her husband
by pouring carbolic acid into his mouth
while asleep, was, on the 23d, acquitted
by a jury on the ground of insanity.
HENRY JONES, Of Petersburg, Va, was
frozen to death on the night of the 22d.
The supposition is that he went home at
q late hour intoxicated, and laid down on
the porch of his residence, where he was
found in the morning by some of his
neighbors. frozen stiff.
BISHOP FOLEY, the new Bishop of De-
troit, was received in that city, on the
2sd, by large reception committee and "a
procession of 10000 persons.
AT meeting Of citizens Of Boston. on
the 22d, it was decided to put an inde-
pendent candidate for mayor in nomina-
ton. =.
IMPROVED machinery is being imported
into Cuba to increase the sugar produc-
ton of the next cane crop.
ENGINEER WHITAKER had his legs
crushed In a railroad collision at Ham
mondsville, o., on the 23d.
GENERAL MILES arrived at San Fran
cisco. on the 23d, and took command of
the Division of the Pacific. General
night for New York.
PRESIDENT Hammer of the Parnell
Commission said, on the 23d, that he
would admit the reports made by the po-
lice for what they were worth.
"DEACoN" RICHARDSON gave notice on
the 23d that hereafter only American citi-
zens, native or naturalized, will be en-
ployed on his Brooklyn street-car lines
as conductors or drivers.
The project tor the consolidation of the
Cuban debt will fail. it is believed, on ac-
count of the different opinions enter.
tanned on the subject by the ministers at
Madrid.
ALBERT SHULTZ, at Altoona Pa, fired
gun, on the 23d, which he thought was not
loaded, and killed his eight mon tbs old
baby brother.
BY a cavern near Wilkesbarre, Pa, on
the 23d, the water supply of the city was
suddenly cut off, and a large mine was
from which the miners bare
ly escaped with their lives.
INDIAN AGENT JOHN BLAIR says the
Chippewas are slowly becoming extinct.
NEARLY all the business section of
Pocomoke City, Nd, a village in the
southern part of Worcester County, on
the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay,
was destroyed by FIRE on the night of the
22d.
DAVID HAMILTON, an extensive real es-
tate dealer, and owner of several business
structures at Wabash, Ind, failed, on
the 23d, with liabilities amounting to $780,
300 aud assets Of $25 900.
FIRE in the Crescent Avenue Presbyte- |
rian Church of Plainfield, N. j., on the !
23d, caused loss of S. Ooo; fully insured. |
CHIEF WIN. PRINrUP, Grand Sachem of |
the Tuscarora Indians, died on the res
ervatiOn, in New York, on the 23d. He |
was an able and intelligent man.
CANADIAN PACIFIC shares were pressed
for sale in London, on the 23d, on rumors |
that a branch is to be built to Detroit,
Mich.
PHILIP ]. Goss, the New York policy
dealer in whose place James E. Bedell, |
the foreer, lost S125O0o. pleaded guilty,
On the 23d, to felony, and was fined 81 900.
H. H. SCOTT killed Sidney K Irwin in
difficulty at Hinckley, Mich, on the 23d.
A FIRE at Duluth, Mum, on the 23d, de-
'troyed 5,00) worth OF property.
The Woman Suffrage Association con-
Tentinn at Cincinnati adjourned on the
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