Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
ALBEIT IL. KNIGHT, wealthy ant!

| ALBERT IL. KNIGHT, a wealthy ant!
highly-respected citizen of Omaha,
Neb., hanged himself in his barn, OF.
the 25th, while temporarily insane.
THE Congrega tional Church of Ash
ford, Conn, was struck by lightning, OIL
the 25th, and destroyed. 1t was one of
the oldest edifices in the State.
A PASSENGER train was wrecked q :
Glen Lake, five miles north of Glens
Falls, \. Y, on the Goth. Three cars wers
thrown into the lake, including one
passenger coach and the smoker.
About seventy-fve passengers were on
the train. but nobody was injured.
Hon. GEORGE W. McCRARY, ex-Secrn-
tary Of War, died from cancer of IL g
bowels ct the residence of his son-f,l-
law, DR.. ". c. Boteler. at st. joseph,
Mo-, on the Esd. aged fifty-four years.
Two little boys named May. aged fire
and seven years, We're struck by LOCO
motive on the Ohio River railroad ne;.r
Gallipolis, O., on the Goth, and instant
~ killed.
II was reported in Cairo, on the Gotta,
that Osman Digna had left Tollar in a
northerlY direction with large force.
AFTER a strike of two months the
100 mill and bench carpenters of Den
YER, Gel, have given up and gone to
work.
THE Italian Government has appoint
ed IN administrator of the affairs of tie
municipality of Rome.
JOHN COLEMAN, the eleven-year-old
son of Martin Coleman, Of Wobu,n,
Mass, died, on the 25th, of hydropho-
bia. The boy was bitten by dog about
two months before.
Two little girls named Harrington
were killed by d railway Urnin at South
Somerset, Mass. on the 27th, the elder
losing her life while trying to rescue
her little sister.
PRESIDENT HARRISON received the
Dependent Pension bill, on the 27th,
and late in the afternoon affixed his
signature to it, making it a law.
EX-SENATOR THOMAS w. PALMER, of
Michigan, was, on the 27th, elected
presid ent of the Worlds Columbian Ex-
position.
IT is claimed that the new cruiser
Philadelphia is the fastest war ship
af1oat.
a. J. DIAZ, an American Baptist mis-
sionary, has been arrested and jailed in
Havana, and the State Department has
been appealed to to secure his release.
THE business portion of the town of
Carbon, Wyo., was destroyed by fire on
the 2Sth.
AUSTIN CoRBIN's resignation as presi-
dent of the Philadelphia e Reading
Railroad Company was considered and
accepted by the board of directors on
the 27th.
The fifteenth annual four-mile
straightaway eight-oared she'll race be-
tween the Yale and Harvard University
crews was rowed, on the 27th. over the
Thames river course at New London,
Conn, from Gales Ferry to Winthrop
Point, Yale winning by three and one
half lengths in 21:29. Harvard's time
was 21:4O. This is is Yale's fourth sue
cessivc victory.
THREE bodies OF women were found
at Johnstown, Pa, on the 27th, all of
them being in the river just above the
stone bridge, where the great mass of
wreckage lay last summer. They were
under the water in the sand and all
were in a fair state of preservation.
Only one was identified. This was Mrs.
Roberts, wife of Howard j. Roberts,
cashier of the First National Bank.
AN immense seven-story double front
building fell at Knoxville, Tenn, on
the 27th. No one was near to be hurt.
1t had just been completed at cost of
$50 600 Briscoe & Co, wholesale dry
goods and notions, had just put in a
stock valued al $500, 600, which is buried
in the ruins.
SARA BERNHARDT was compelled to
stop suddenly and leave the stage in the
second act of Joan of Arc" in London,
on the night of the 27th. She was
seized with a fainting spell and lost her
voice completely. Later in the night
she was reported better, but still unable
to leave her bed.
A PHoSoGEAPI made by Thomas A.
Edison expressly for the Mikado Of
Japan, and presented to him recently
by Edison's representative, has been set
up in the Mikado's palace, and the
monarch is delighted with the exhibit
ton.