Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-20

THE holv OF the MIN who was run over
and Killed by p Rapid Transit train ON.
the Lug Island road was identified. on
the 18Th, as that of Jonn Ogden, a retired
hotel-kseper OF Norristown, Pa. Engi-
neer Edward Locke has been held on a
charge os homicide.
TEE Grand Opera House block in Svra-
cuse, N. J., was destroyed by Ere on the
18th.
JONI B. ALLEN. of Seattle, was nomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans
OF Washington Territory en- the 18th.
THE Pennsylvania railroad made cut
In grain freight rates, on the 18th, with.
out consulting with the other roads, but
was met promptly by the Lake Shore and
other competing lines.
INFORMATION was received, on the 18th,
that the steamer Lauraaia, while enter
ing the harbor of Port Luz, Canary
islands, came into collision with the Ital-
ian stermer Sud America, from Monte
vldeo, which was lying ct anchor. The
latter, which had on board 216 passengers
and crew of sixty seven, sank almost
Immediately. One hundred and eighty
of the passengers and sixty three of the
crew were rescued and safely landed.
On ~ nine bodies were recovered.
SUBSCRIPTIONS at the mayors Office In
New York to the yellow fever relief fund,
on the 14th, amounted to s. GOT .25.
GOVERNOR HILL OF New YORK spoke to
5000 people on the grounds of the Oswe-
go Agricultural Society on the IA th.
ONE Of the two men struck by Lacka-
wanna train in Buffalo, on the 6 tn, recov-
cred consciousness, on the 14th, and CAV 9
his name as Thomas Hughes. and said
that his companion, who was killed out
right, was Charles Tully, of Providence,
r. I.
THE launching Of the cruiser Baltimore,
which was to have taken place at Phi la
delphia, on the 18th, was postponed in
definitely.
A PARTY of four young men and women.
were carried over Paramount dam in the
SchuylSill river at Philadelphia, on the
night Of the 18th, and two Of them, Frank
Caffrey and Minnie Luffty, were drowned.
CHARLES A. PITCHER, ex-teller of the
Union Bank of Providence. R. l., was
convicted at Montreal, on the 14th. on a
charge of taking stolen>goods into Cana
da.
J. BELOW and l. Martin, eighteen and
twenty-five years of age respectively,
were arraigned, on the 18th, before the
United States Commissioner at Dubuque,
Ia, for robbing the post Office at Hazle-
ton. They were unable to furnish bail,
and We're committed to Jail. Below
claims to be the son of Colorado judge.
FIVE persons were drowned in the Hud-
son river, near Hastings, N. Y, on the
18th. They were out in q sail boat, which
was swamped half mile from shore.
CHARLES KLEIN, of Fit. Wayne. Ind, at
tempted. on the 18th. to shoot his wife,
and failing in this, beat her head into a
jelly with the butt end of his revolver.
He then went into the yard and shot him
self through the temple.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
for the erection of John Jacob Aston
memorial cathedral In Sioux Falls, Oak.
PETER RAMENSoN, of Racine, Wis, beat
his daughter into insensibility, on the
18th, aud it is thought that she will not
recover.
HARRY GOLDEN, alias Louis P. Myers,
an ex-convict, was sentenced, on the 14th,
to three years In the penitentiary for at
tempting to blackmail Rev. Dominick
Skunk, Catholic priest at San Pierre,
Ind.
THE Cooperative Implement and Hard
ware Company, with houses in Creston and
Lenox. Ia, assigned on the 18th.
The Russian Government has granted
Prieshevalski s., 900 roubles to enable
him to proceed with his Central Asian
expedition.
Hon. JOHN c. EDWARDS, who went to
California in 1919. died at Stockton, on
the 18th, aged eightyfour. He was Gov
ernor of Missouri from 1874 to 1s4S
The st. James Hotel at Point Pleasant,
N. j., was burned on the 18th. The wife
of Rev. II. r. Nye is supposed to have
persisted in the flames. Many guests
narrowly escaped with their lives.
THIRTY buildings were destroyed by fire
at Washburn, Mimi, on the 18th.
THE body of j. C. Treboul, who disap-
peared two months ago, was found in a
thicket near Wichita. Kas., on the 1&h.
with q bullet-hoIe in the head. 1t is
thought that he was murdered, as he was
known to have money when last seen,
and none was found OF the body.
ZANZIBAR is becoming quiet, and the
Sultan is withdrawing his troops.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamer
Nepaul, bound for China from London,
went ashore, on the night Of 18th, near
Marseilles France. All hands were saved.
The captain, however, died shortly after
from stroke of apoplexy, which result
ed from the severe shock the accident to
his vessel caused him.