Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Pension Office issued during the
fiscal year just closed Isl, 65S pension
certificates. The number issued during
the preceding year was 1922 Of the
number issued during the year just
closed 66.537 were original pensions,
which is an increase of nearly Is, 0OC
compared with the number issued dur.
the preceding year.
TERRIBLE storms have done consider
able damage to the State of Michoacan,
Mexico. In consequence communica-
ton by most of the telegraph lines from
there into the interior and the capital
is interrupted.
THE congicts in the Illinois State
penitentiary at Joliet were great suffer-
ers during the recent heated period. In
the State shops, employing 15G men, so
were overcome. In the stone shop,
where 500 men work, 100 men were on
the sick roll. In the shoe-shopS, work
ing $50 men, over 100 were overcome.
In the cooper-shops the worst place in
the prison, where 200 men work, half of
them were Frustrated In the granite,
marble, chair, wire and harness shops,
employing about 800 men, the proper
ton was equally large.
A QUEER provision has turned up, in
Boston, in the will of Mrs. Endora c.
Atkinson, who DEGREES that upon her
death her body shall be examined mot
dissected SO as to prevent proper'buriaD
by students at the Massachusetts Gen
eral Hospital, in the hope that science
may be aided in alternating suffering.
KING HUMBERT has dissolved the
Municipal Council of Rome.
JUDGE STEWARDS decision that de-
faulting State Treasurer Archer was
not amenable to the laws of Maryland
on the charge of embezzlement was re-
versed by the State Court of Appeals on
the 1st. According to the statute, as
construed by Judge Stewart, the pen
atty for ENLIGHTENMENT of State funds
did not apply to the State Treasurer.
The Court Of Appeals holds, however,
that ''he is indicted as Stevenson
Archer, and as such is answerable for a
crime committed while holding the
office of State Treasurer"
OCONNoR, the oarsman, admits that
he was fairly beaten by Stransbury, the
Australian. He declines to make fur
Their matches in Australia.
CAPTAIN MURRELL and Miss McCor-
mick were married. on the 1st, in Grace
Church, Baltimore, Md, by Rev. Mr..
Powell. Captain Murrell is best known
as the rescuer of the passengers of the
sinking steamship Danmark.
THE owners of travelling show,
which included in it's animals num-
Trentschein, Austria, on the charge of
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body to the bears who devoured it.
A SEVERE storm accompanied by a
cloudburst struck GAINESVILLE, O., on the
evening of the 1st, lasting about two
hours and doing much damage. A small
creek in the western part of the city,
ordinarily about three feet wide, spread
to width of 225 feet and depth of
about thirty feet Several bridges and
buildings were swept away by the flood
of water.
DURING a thunderstorm on the night
of the Goth, Mrs. John Price, who re-
sided near New burlington, O., went
out of the house and began setting tubs
to catch rain-water. While doing so
she was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed.
THE dead body of William Hinshaw
was found lying in the middle of the
road twelve miles north of Richmond,
Ind, on the morning of the 30th, with
two bullet wounds. White Caps are
suspected as Hinshaw had recently re-
ceived threatening notices to desist in
his attentions to a young lady of the
neighborb God; and he was returning
from visit TO her when he met his
death.
JOE HOPKINS and Charles Smith,
burglars, were shot and dangerously
wounded by George L. Hicks, of West
Superior Wis, on the 30th. The men
entered Hicks room, when he fired,
putting bullet through the breast of
each.
ANOTHER destructive conflagration
visited the city of Seattle, Wash, on the
1st. The fire originated on the water
front, and rapidly spreading was soon
beyond the control of the fire depart
ment, and Tacoma and other cities
were appealed to for help.
THE Hendricks monument was I'M
vailed at Indianapolis, on the 1st, in the
presence of an immense concourse of
people from all portions of the country.