Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

NANCY DEMlRE. IN attempting 10
alight from a weSt-bound train on the
| Erie road at LeavittSburgh. O., on the
| Goth, stepped in front of a train going
east and was decapitated. a brake
| man who tried to save her lost an arm.
| The woman's husband was killed at the
sa ne place and under similar circum-
stances few weeks before.
THE Secretary of War has denied tn @
request of the Kansas City National
Drill and Encampment Association for
detail of troops and the loan of tents
for the National encampment, to be
held at Kansas City, Mo, in June.
LIEUTENANT II. r. LEMLY, of the
United States army, has been granted
permission to accept from the Govern
ment of the Republic of Colombia a
position as instructor in the National
Military School at Bogota.
THE feeling in the Russian army is
strongly in favor of war, not with any
body in particular, but with somebody,
the preference, if any, being for Turkey,
Bulgaria. Servia and Austria in the
order named.
PATRICK HYNES, of GreenpOrt, l.. l.,
for two terms National treasurer of the
missing for some time and it is alleged
that there is u shortage of s., 400 in his
accounts with the order.
LUDWIG MAEQUARDT, an artist of
Philadelphia, shot his wife, on the Goth,
and then committed suicide with poison.
Mrs. Marquardt will recover She was
employed in Wanamaker's store.
\ SERIOUS collision between the
striking Golfers and the troops at Pill
sen. Bohemia, occurred on the Goth, in
which five of the strikers were killed
and seven wounded.
LARGE numbers of respectable young
English women are being shipped to
Queensland. Australia, at the expense
of the Queensland Government. They
are kept free of cost after landing until
proper employment is obtained.
Cal. WOOD, who was suspected of the
murder of Leander Pasco, at Glens
Falls, n. V, confessed his guilt on the
Goth. lie says that he had no accom-
plice in the crime, but Secreted himself
beside path in the woods and when
Pasco walked past he shot him in the
back The Wood and Pasco families
had long been at feud with each other.
HE hOAlc udII, DIT Iuc ouIlcO VI
Moxie pond, a body of water about six
miles long and two miles wide. near the
forks of the Kennebec river in Maine,
was carried away, on the 21St. and a
rise of from five to ten feet in the river
occurred. About 5000, 900 logs belong
ing to different parties are in the lake
and it will now be difficult matter to
drive them out.
MASKED burglars entered the house
of Judge CorncS, of DebrecZin, Hungary,
on the night of the 10Th, hacked the
Judge to death with knives in the pres
ence of his niece, bound the terrified
girl hand and foot, plundered the house
of a large quantity of valuable proper
| ". and escaped.
\ LITTLE daughter of Henry IIaskins,
of Duluth. Mimi, secured some
matches, on the 2lst, and went up
stairs To play with them. After time
/ her mother smelled smoke. and rushing
| upstairs found the child enveloped IN
| flames She died an hour later.
| THE Navy Department, on the 21st.
! formally accepted the dynamite cruiser
! NcSuviuS from the contractors, the
! Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company. of
| New York City, to be delivered 1t the
League Island Navy Yard at Philadel-
| phia.
I HALF \ MILLION dollars will be in
| vested in the erection of tin-plate
/ mill in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. Pa. if
the Mckinley Tariff bill passes. 1t will
| be one of the largest in the world.
! THE Robbins circus train was wreck
ed at three o'clock on tho morning of
! 10 bod npar a of q Nashua
| &, Rochester and Boston & Lowell rail
roads. One car full of carriages jumped
| the track and the rest of the train was
piled up in total wreck. The loss was
| heavy.