Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-08

remains were taken to Mohawk. y. Y,
for interment.
VICTOR STUDLEY. a very fast young
man of nineteen, was arrested in Lin
coin, Neb., on the 31st, for series of
forgeries. Studley is son of the late
Editor Studley of the Albany On. "
Express. Young Studley's forgeries are
said to aggregate several thousand dol
lars.
ENGINEER COOLEY, of Minneapolis,
Mimi. has created excitement among
people who own property on the shores
of beautiful Lake Minnetonka by an
nouncing that the level of the water in
the lake was exactly five feet eight
inches lower November Il, 1890, than in
1852.
WARREN CLoUGH. who has been I'M
justly confined in the Nebraska State
penitentiary for fifteen years on the
charge of numbering his brother Stew
art. was pardoned by Governor Thayer
| on the LIST. 1t appears from recent de
velopments that the murder of Stewart
Clough was committed by Jack Trett
and Charley Stewart.
THE shops of the Illinois Steel Works,
at Chicago, except the blast furnace,
have been shut down, throwing 1,500
men out of employment. The officers
of the company are reticent in regard
to the length of time during which the
mills will remain closed, but say that
some repairs are necessary and it was
thought better to close down now than
later on.
DIR. HENRY CHRIsTIANsoN. one of the
most noted physicians in North Dakota,
was killed at Belmont, on the night .Of
the 31st. While making a rather sharp
turn in the road his road-cart struck a
| large stone and tipped over. In falling
out DIR. Christianson caught his foot in
| the wheel. andshe was so badly mangled
| that he died in an hour.
SCOTT THOMPSON. a negro living near
Bayboro. y. c.. went to church. ac-
| companied by his wife and oldest child.
| leaving in his house five of his children
and two grandchildren, whose ages
ranged from few months to fifteen
years. During services at the church
| Thompson house took fire and all seven
of the children were burned to death.
WHEN carload of supplies sent
| from Lincoln to the drought-stricllen
| farmers of Chase County. Neb.. reached
| VenangO. the county seat. the famiShed
| citizens. without waiting for the form
| atty OF delivering of the carload to the
| county clerk. broke open the car and
devourcd or carried away the contents.
AT the session of the Farmers ALI
ance in st. Paul. Mimi. on the I'd. con-
| siderable business was attended to.
| Resolutions were adopted and a new
| constitution was favorably acted on. y
resolution to indorSe the Ocala Ola. J
platform was heavily defeated. and the
| subject of sub-treaSuries was ignored in
| the regular resolutions, while the Con-
| ger Lard bill was indorsed.
/ FRANK Is. JEFFREYS was arrested at
| Baltimore. Md. on the I'd, for tapping
the wires of the Western Union Tele-
| graph Company which supply the pool
rooms at Arlington, Baltimore County.
with reports from the race tracks. y
complete office outfit, including a bat
terry of fifty cells and two instruments.
| and fifty pounds of wire We're captured.
| DR.. BooRs, of Kaschau, Hungary. has
discovered a remarka bic cure for diph-
| iberia He has been using it in his
private practice for some time, and re-
ports that only two and a half per cent.
|
| ADMIRAL MASON ). COOPER, of the
Haytian navy, the eldest son of Rear
Admiral George H. Cooper, of the
United States navy, died of erysipelas
at his home in Brooklyn, on the I'd,
aged forty-three years.
THE inhabitants of Rushville. Neb.,
are calling for arms and are organizing
a home guard.
| FIVE Red Cross ambulances have ar
rived at Pine Ridge. ). ID.
AT 3 a. m, on the I'd. the tow-boat
| Anna Roberts, of Pittsburgh. Pa, blew
out a cylinder head near Portsmouth,
| O., instantly killing five men and terri
| bly, wounding many others.
Two DISTINCT earthquake shocks oc'
! Cured at San Francisco, at two minutes
past noon. on the I'd. There was but a
| few seconds intermission between the
| shocks. The vibrations were nearly
north and south.