Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-27


drift near the Johnstown bridge on the
20th-three women and two children-alI
badly decomposed and unacceptable.
One of the women held the bodies of the
two children, aged about six and fourteen,
clasped in her arms.
RHODE ISLAND voted, by large major
ity, on the 10th, to repeal the prohibitory
amendment to her constitution. The
amendment was adopted in 1856, by a vote
of IL, 113 to $3.50.
THE death of Joel Parker was an
nounced on the New York Stock Ex-
change on the 10Th.
GENERAL LUCIUs FAIRCHILD, of Wis
consin, notified the President, on ths
10Th, that he accepted the appointment on
the Cherokee Commission.
PRINCETON COLLEGE conferred the de-
gree of LID upon President Harri-
son. on the 10Th.
REPORTS accumulate of the ravages of
the "green nudge" among the wheat
fields of Northern and Western Indiana.
JOHN KERN, of Bellefonte, Pa, was as
saulted and robbed, on the night of the
10Th. in Cambria City. He was found next
morning lying in the street. unconscious,
and was taken to the hospital. The phy-
slcians say that his injuries are very
serious.
A SILVER brick from Colorado was auc-
toned off in New York for the benefit of
the JOhnstown sufferers and brought
$40.
THE King of Holland has had serious
relapse of the malady which last year
caused a temporary resignation Of the
reins Of government.
The Canadian Government has been
notified of the discovery of mine of ex-
celent anthracite coal at Canmore, N. w.
n H.,
miles and are over nine feet in width.
THREE Hungarians, Frank George,
Harry Harson and Alec Harson, charged
with trying to ok passenger train on
the Delaware & Hudson River railroad,
were arrested at Scranton, Pa. ON the
night OF the Goth.
WHITE man named Nottingham was
accidentally shot, on the Goth, at Parks
ley, Va, by his friend. Will Parker, while
fooling with a pistol. The ball entered
the thigh and passed up into the abdo-
men, making dangerous wound.
A STATE dinner, followed by a recep-
Paris. on the Goth. Among those present
were United States Minister Reid and the
visiting American engineers.
A SERIOUS riot, the outcome of the
strikes in that region, occurred at Klad-
no, Bohemia, on the Goth. The strikers
defied the gendarmes, and the latter were
compelled to fire several volleys into the
crowd before they could be dispersed.
Two OF the rioters were killed and twelve
wounded.
CARDINAL GIBBONS ordained tx priests.
nine deacons and eighteen sub -deacons
at the Baltimore (Md.) Cathedral on the
21st. Twenty-six others received the
lower orders and seventeen took the
initial orv cfa,, fouar6 he nria tboo6
A NEGRO, whose name is unknown,
whipped the little daughter of John Core,
a white farmer of Pastoral, Va. Mr.. Core
armed himself with a gun, went to the
negroes house and fired load of buck
shot into the Negroes breast. Core then
left and has not been arrested. The negro
is badly wounded.
AMOS S. BEECHER, of Winstead, Conn.,,
aged ninety one, died on the Goth. He
was the oldest Mason IN that State.
NEARLY 800 900 in wages was paid out,
on the 21st, to employees of the Cambria
Iron Company. The payment was for
wages for the two weeks previous to the
flood. At that time the company had
5000 names on its payroll. On pay day
$500 answered to their names. 1t is
known almost to a certainty that 1, 600 lost
their lives in the food.
THE schooner Baltic of ProvincetOwn,
Mass, from a whaling voyage, reports
that while in SANTANA Bay, in May, she
was fired on by a party of Haytien SOL
diers, but no one was hurt. The captain
was unable to get any satisfaction, and
will refer the matter to Washington.
On the 21st State Treasurer Isaac S.
Bamberg of South Carolina dropped dead
at his home in Columbia from heart dis
ease.
ALEXANDER NJ. FRYER, aged sixty
three, and his son Fred were working on
a house in Dorchester, Mass, on the Goth,
when the staging broke, and they fell
twenty feet. The elder man received in
juries Of which he died shortly after. The
son escaped with few slight injuries.
GARDNER r. COLBY, a wealthy dry
goods merchant and railroad capitalist
of New Y ork City, died on the Goth, aged
fifty years.
FIVE lives were lost, and one man was
fatally injured, by the destruction of
Hyer Bros fireworks establishment, in
Boston, on the 21st. Two boys are also
missing, and supposed to be lost.