Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

mission of California into the Union
was celebrated in San Francisco, on the
9th, in an imposing manner.
ADvICEs from Armenia state that
the kurds are destroying crops and
raiding villages, while the Turkish
authorities remain passive making no
attempt todrive out the invaders.
REV. ADoLPH DOELLING, secretary of
the Northwestern Orphan Asylum at
Green Bay, Wis, pleaded guilty, on
the Sth, to stealing a watch and two
dollars from the residence of Rev.
Phelps, of st. Louis, ch., whose
daughter he was engaged to marry, and
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
one year. He pawned the watch in
Grand Rapids and used the proceeds to
make up deficiency in his cash &C.
count.
THE United States steamship Balti-
more, with the remains of Captain
Ericsson on board, arrived at GOthcn-
burg, Sweden, on the 9th.
Mrs. MAHALA X. PAUL. of Boston, a
widow aged eightytwo years, was
killed, on the Sth, while attempting to
cross the railroad track at Sharon,
Mass.
THE offer of Secretary Window to pay
one years interest on the four-per-cent.
bonds went into effect on the 10th, and
a flood of bonds poured into the Sub
Treasury in New York as soon as the
doors were opened. In the first hour
over IS. 900, 900 in bonds were presented
and 81, 900, 900 more were offered before
the close of business.
THE grand jury of Queens County n.
V, voted, on the 10th, to indict Mayor
Gleason of Long Island City, for as
sault in the second degree, for vicious
attack upon newspaper reporter.
CAPTAIN Il. L. Tanner of the United
States Fish Commission steamer Al
batrosS saws that unless the Govern
ment prohibits seal catching on the
Prebylov islands fur-bearing animals
will be extinct before two years.
A HUMAN body, supposed to be that
of Baron Won Strauss. an Austrian no.
bleman, has been found in the Moran
mountains in Washington, half de-
voured by wild animals and carrion
birds
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw and Arch bishop
Corrigan were among the prominent
arrivals at New York from Europe by
the White Line steamer Teutonic on
the 10th.
A WORKMAN who fell from the third
floor of building in course of construc-
ton in Buffalo, n. Y, on the 10th, was
saved from fatal injuries by striking on
the head and shoulders of q passing
woman. The woman sustained bruises
about the back and a sprained ankle.
JUDGE LACoMBE, in the United
States Circuit Court in New York City,
on the 10th, refused to grant a writ OF
habeas corpus in the case of Shibguia
Juglao, the Japanese murderer, who is
now in solitary confinement at Sing
Sing under sentence of death by cleo
tricitv.
JOHN GREEN farmer who lived near
Seymour, Ind, aged thirty-eight, was
engage in blowing out stumps with
dynamite on the 10th. He had bas-
ketful of cartridges on his arm and was
placing one in a stump, when 1t ex
ploded prematurely, tearing him into
atoms. But few fragments of his body
could be found.
For the third time since the great
Charleston earthquake vast volumes OF
black smoke, running to height OF 900
feet. have recently been regularly
emitted from the seven mountain peaks
of the Blue Ridge chain, near Ashvllle
n. C. Many of the people have be
come so alarmed that they say they
will leave the eighborhood.
THREE men entered the Second Ma
tional Bank at Bay City, Mich, on the
10th, and two of them went to the teller
and book-keeper and engaged them In
conversation about banking business
The third slipped around to the back OF
the bool1-keeper's desk and stole pack
age of bills amounting to 50, 400 when
was ready for shipment, and got away
with it.
RUSSIA has given orders to the GOV
errors of Siberia to prevent any further
| immigratio of Chinese into that prov
! ince.
| FOREST fires are doing enormous dam
age in the Caucasus. Large detach-
ments of troops are being employed bJ
the Russian Government to aid the To-
cal authorities in stopping the spread
of the confiagration.