Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-12

fell from the roof of house at Elm
Grove, w. Va, and was impaled on the
sharp points of a picket fence. One
| picket tore open his abdomen. His
wounds are probably fatal.
On the 4th the Republican conven-
ton at Montgomery. Ala, nominate
the following State ticket: For Gov
ernor Noble Smithson; Secretary OF
State, w. II. Vernon: Auditor, E. T..
Jennins; Treasurer, I. ID. Booth; Sup
erintendent of Education, Amos Towle;
Attorney-General, John T. Ezell.
AMONG the cabin passengers of the
City of Pekin, which arrived at San
Francisco from Hong Kong on the 4th,
were Count and Countess Yaumda, of
Japan.
Rob LYONS, a gambler known all over
| the West as Diamond Bob" shortly
after midnight on the morning of the
4th, was saved from the bullet of a
St Paul (AIinn.) burglar by two poker
chips which he carried in his pocket
and which stopped the deadly missile.
DURING a quarrel. on the 5th, over a
trivial matter while engaged in laying
carpets, Fred Hundley, aged sixteen
of Huron, S. d., drew a pistol and shot
| anu hIlitu HIS ldlutE. ZdCH L.
| Hundley, prominent lawyer and we'll
known citizen.
THE lottery people seem to be gain
ing ground in the Louisiana Legis-
| lature, and are in a very confident
mood. They desire to force vote as
| soon as possible. The opponents of the
| lottery attribute this to the lavish use
of money.
| A CLoUD-BURST struck near Brookline,
! Ont, on the 5th, swelling the creek to
the proportions of a river. Six bridges
and nearly all the mill dams in the
township were swept away. The rail-
road was washed out. cutting Off rail
communication. Several barns and
other Outbuildings went down in the
flood, and a great amount of damage
was done all through the township.
The loss is estimated at SD, 900.
THE seven Belgian glass blowers who
arrived at New York on the Umbria,
recently, and were detained on suspi-
cion of having come under contract to
work for the Warwick Glass Company
of New Jersey, were, on the 9Th, or
dered to be sent back to Belgium.
BUSINESS failures throughout the
country, during the seven days ended on
the 9th, numbered: For the United
States, 119; Canada, %; total, POS, COM
pared with 21S for the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last year
the figures were 200 in the United
States and % in Canada.
TIE Indiana Democratic State CEN
trail committee met at Indianapolis, on
the 9Th, and fixed the date of the State
convention for August 2S, against the
protests Of a ma jority of the candidates
who began their canvass months ago in
the expectation of a July convention.
THE Masonic Grand Lodge at OF
tumwa. Ia, on the 9th, disposed of the
Cerneau question by ordering members
to withdraw from that body or have
charges preferred for expulsion. The
vote stood 5S3 for and 475 against the
resolution.
Mis-. SMITH, of Middlebury, Coma,
rushed into a pond, on the 9th. to res
cue her two boys whose raft had cap
sized, and getting beyond her depth
persisted with her children.
THE streets of Salem, Mass, were
flooded and many of them washed out,
on the 9th, by the heaviest thunder
SlOIIu vi bIlc StdSOu- Hall Vi UIt ltIc-
phone boxes in the town were burned
out.
THE Ames' Threshing Machine and
Reaper Works, situated in the outskirts
of Oswego, y. y, were struck by light
ming, on the night of the 9Th, and
burned; loss, $40, 600.
THE steamer Viking and consort.
Michigan, were reported stranded on
the reef off Eagle Harbor. Mich, on the
9Th. Both vessels are ore-laden from
Ashland, Wis.
By the breaking of the fange of
wheel u passenger train was thrown
from the track of the Chicago Il North
western road at the edge of Rockford
Ill, on the 9th. Engineer +. w. Brais-
dell. who had run on the road thirty
six years, and section men August John
son, John Gustapson, Emil Anderson
and Miles Anderson were instantly
killed Fireman SecOr, of Freeport,
was terribly injured and may die.