Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


HIRAM MEEK, the engineer, was badl,
injured, and one tramp was killed ant
another injured in wreck on the NORTH
Pennsylvania railroad, near Sellersville
Pa, on the 4th.
THERE are fears expressed that the
foundation of the Washington Monument
at the National Capital may have BEEN
seriously damaged by the recent inunda.
ton, and q careful examination will be
made.
FATHER DAWN, a Catholic priest. was
murderously assaulted and badly in
jured. at the scene of the Johnstown dis
aster on the 4th, by a Hungarian with
whom he demonstrated for robbing the
bodies of the dead.
The late flood in the west branch of the
Susquehanna was unprecedented. Every
bridge on the river from Sunbury to
Cleartield, Pa, was washed away.
THE various funds established in Phila.
delphia for the relief of the sufferers in
the Conemaugh Valley had reached to.
tai of over $3.50, 900 on the 4th.
For the first time in the city's history,
the Democrats of Norwich, Conn.,, made
a clean sweep, on the Sd, electing their en-
tire municipal ticket, with the exception
of second sheriff, by a majority of over
300.
THE Charleston Is. c. News and
Courier, of the 4th, says: "We have
learned to know what timely help means
in season of disaster and distress, and
we at least should give without waiting to
be asked"
THE Garibaldi Legion ard many other
Italian societies of New York City made
their annual pilgrimage, on the Sd, to the
house on Staten Island in which Carl
baldi once lived.
PRESIDENT HARRISON presided at the
meeting held in Washington, on the 4th,
to raise money for the relief of the flood
stricken districts of Pennsylvania, and
made an eloquent and impressive speech.
Ten thousand dollars was subscribed be-
fore the meeting adjourned, and still
more valuable subscriptions Of food and
clothing were donated, by merchants of
the city, for immediate dispatch.
The report, circulated on the 4th, of the
loss of 10, 900 lives in China, turns out to
have been a misunderstanding. A Chi
nese firm in San Francisco who received
the news of the Pennsylvania disaster,
made the facts known to their country
men, who. in circulating the story, trans
ferred the scene to China
In Claiborne County, Tenn, Marion Nc
Carthy ambushed and killed John Pierce,
on the 4th, after quarrel over pay for a
hired horse.
THE Massachusetts, Legislature, On the
4th, passed the resolution appropr1ating
$50. 900 for the Pennsylvania sufferers.
On the 18th the coast guards at Skib-
bereen, Ireland, picked up the book
of the British steamship Danish Prince,
Captain Potts, which sailed from Swan
sea on May 2S, for Montreal, and there
are fears that the ship foundered in the
heavy weather which prevailed off that
coast.
IT is asserted that the Vatican is be-
coming seriously alarmed at the position
which Russia has recently assumed of in
terposing objections to the continuance
of Catholic missions in the Balkan States.
JOSEPH CRABBs, vice president of the
City Bank of Wabash, Ind, was adjudged
insane on the 4th.
INSTRUCTIONS were issued from Ottawa,
Ont, on the 4th, to release the captured
American schooner Matte Winship, upon
the American Consul giving security for
value.
THE English syndicate has bought the
the Ballantine brewery at Newark, n. j.,
the second largest in the country.
ON the 5th, President Harrison appoint
ed John Vigneaux, a Democrat United
States marshal for Western Louisiana.
He was recommended by Louisiana Re-
publicans for his efforts in protecting
negroes from violence in the November
election.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, suffered a loss of
100000, upon which the insurance was
but light, on the 5th, by conflagration,
which consumed every thing for an area
of five blocks, bounded by Hawk street on
the west Adams on the north, Selay on
the east and Greek on the south.
AN extensive fire occurred at Biloxi,
Miss, on the night of the 4th, resulting in
the destruction of twenty-fiv buildings.
at a loss of $4,000, upon which there was
but $1,000 insurance.
BELATED Pennsylvania railroad passeu-
gers, the uncertainty of whose fate had
caused much anxiety, arrived in Pitts
burgh on the 9Th. Their experience had
been one of hardship and exposure. The
journey from Altoona was made via
Ebens burgh. From the latter point to
] ohnstown the journey was made in
wagons.
LORD SALISBURY entertained Prince
Albert Victor at dinner on the evening Of
the 4th. Mr.. Lincoln, American Minister,
was among tie guests.
GEORGE c. EATON, OF Cincinnati, n
nephew of President Harrison, died at
N. c., on the 9Th, of consump-
ton, aged thirty five. The remains were
taken to Cincinnati for interment.
D. B. Dyer was elected mayor of Guth-
RE, Okla, at the election on the 4th, beat
ing A. V. Alexander by 800 to 500.
Mr.. PORTER. the new United States
Minister to Italy, presented his creden-
tials on the 9Th.
A NEwLY-MARRIED couple were found
in the ruins of the Johnstown Method
list Church. where the ceremony that made
them one had just been performed when
the fatal waters overwhelmed the struct-
ure. They were so tightly clasped in
each others embrace that they had to be
buried together. The minister, together
with nearly all of the guests, escaped.
JUDGE SULLIVAN, of the California Su
perior Court, has set July Is for hearing
the motion of Sarah Althea Terry to APP
point a receiver for the Sharon estate,
and refuses to recognize the injunction
from the United States District Court.
UP to the 5th Pittsburgh's donations for
the food sufferers OF the Conemaugh
Valley in money and goods, amounted to
a quarter of million dollars.
AMONG those believed to have been
swept away by the food in the Cone
Valley, were "Blind Tom," the
well-known pianist, and his manager,
who left Pittsburgh on Friday morning
for Johnstown. and have not been heard
of since. 1t is thought they were both
drowned. Being strangers, and one of
them a colored man, it is more than hkely
that if their bodies were recovered they
were unidentified.
THE posi-. office authorities report that
none of the mail sent through the flooded
district was lost. Even that sent to
Johnstown escaped.