Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND acres OF
wheat was totally destroyed by recent
hail-storm in Manitoba.
| DIR. PELLEGRIN, president of the
| Senate of the Argentine Republic
| threatens to resign. President Celman
has offered every post in the Cabinet to
| leaders of the opposition, but they have
| all declined.
ROBERT BROWN, a newsboy who runs
| between Omaha and Sydney on the
| Union Pacific railway, was bitten by a
| tarantula that was hidden in bunch
| of bananas he was handling. His arm
| became so swollen as to burst his shirt
sleeve, and he suffered great agony.
A physician on the train took him in
charge, taking him to Omaha for treat
| ment.
THE police of Warsaw, Poland, have
| expelled from that city fifty-four for
eign Socialists with the warning that if
they return they will be imprisoned at
hard labor.
THE New York Central Railway Com
pany is said to be gradually discharging
| all the particularly active Knights of
Labor in its employ.
THE official rough count of the Cen
sus Bureau shows the population of
| Philadelphia to be 1,044, S14 which is
| an increase during the last ten years
of 1917, 724, or %. 81 per cent.
TIE Town Council of Wick, Scotland,
| has conferred the freedom OF that place
upon Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, of Pitts
| burgh, Pa,
| NORTHWESTERN Iowa was visited by
| Il most destructive hail-Storm on the Sd.
| Hail-st0nes as large as hens eggs fell
| to depth of six inches, killing many
cattle and horses, and injuring persons
| who were exposed to the fury of the
storm. Nearly every thing in its path
which was fourteen miles wide, was de-
stroved.
| THE crop prospect in the Dakotas is
rapidly being reduced to a minimum by
the continued drought.
| WILLIAM kEMMLER, the first to re-
ceive sentence of death under the new
law of the State of New York prescrib-
ing electricity as the means, met his
fate at GAO on the morning of the 9th,
within the walls of the New York State
| prison at Auburn.
| THERE are 226 oil mills in the Find
lay and Lima CO., oil districts, while
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| Among those completed are a number
of gushers of wonderful productiveness.
In the municipal election in Salt Lake
City. on the 4th, the Liberals elected
| their entire ticket by liberal" ma jori-
| ties over the mbined Mormon and
| Labor tickets.
| On the 9th the agreement between
England and France in regard to Fan
zibar was signed.
THE Egyptian Government has sent
troops to FL TORI to prevent the land
| ing of pilgrims returning from Mecca,
where cholera is raging with fearful
virulence.
On the 9th the press Of London pub
iished detailed accounts of the electro
cution of Kemmler. The general opin-
ion expressed was that execution by
means of electricity is a failure
4 MILITARY Gordon has been estab-
lished in Lisbon to prevent the entrance
of any person coming from cholera-in-
fected district.
THE Cotton Association of Cairo has
issued report stating that the pros
poets for the Egyptian cotton crop are
more favorab BILE. The number of cotton
worms has decreased.
On the 9th the joint committee of the
Trunk Line Association and the Cen
| trail Traffic Association began two
days session in New York City, the
conference being called to fix uniform
class of rates on all east-bound freight
from Chicago to the seaboard.
DR.. LoMAX. of Marion, Ind, has given
property located near indianapolis to
the State Medical College of the latter
! city to the value of 500, 600.