Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-01

ington, H., on the night of the 23d.
He was one of the five men who organ
| lied Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic at Decatur. twenty-five years
ago, and one of the committee who
drafted the first ritual. He was captain
| of Co. A, One Hundred and First Illi-
nois infantry. He was born in Ken
lucky in 1914.
| Mrs. INEVITABLE STRATTON DAYTON,
| 104 years old, rode in a carriage twenty
| five miles, over one of the most billy
and rocky roads in Connecticut, recent
| ly, and at the end of her journey de-
clared with vigor that she never enjoyed
a ride more in her life.
| On the gath the Dominion govern
ment voted down Listers motion for a
committee to investigate the charges
preferred by him against Postmaster
General Haggart.
| THE Philadelphia democrats, on the
oath, nominated W. Redwood Wright
| for city treasurer, and Theodore Z.
Jenkins for register of wills.
| THE roughers at the Etna and
Standard rolling mills of Bridgeport,
O., after a prolonged strike, returned
| to work on the 9th.
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Dor, and is now the guest of Senator
and Mrs. Eugene Hale at their home in
| Ellsworth, Me.
IT is officially announced that the
| yearly dividend of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad Co will be passed this year.
| NINE men were killed and twenty
| injured in a collision between a work
| train and a freight on the Pittsburgh
| s. Western railroad at McKim's siding,
| Pa, on the cath. Men who had escaped
| injury tainted with the horror of the
sights and sounds presented.
DAN SULLIVAN and Tom johnson, of
| Eau Clair, Wis, We're burned to death
| in forest fire on the Gath.
ENGINEER WILLIAM DAY, Fireman
James Larner and Brakeman c. A.
Sprague were instantly killed, on the
25th, in a collision between two freight
trains on the New England railway.
CONSIDERABLE damage was done by
the explosion, on the 25th, on the star
line dock at Detroit, Mich, of number
of drums of carbonic acid, left in an
exposed position while awaiting ship
ment.
The waters in the rivers in Cheshire
county, n. H., have become so low that
| many of the mills can only run about
half time Many of the springs in that
vicinity are quite dry.
JAMES DAZZLING and Sandy Ferry,
while dynamiting stumps near Garfield,
Pa, on the 25th: were instantly killed
by the premature explosion of a car
fridge.
THE examination of M. B. Curtis for
the murder of Policeman Grant, in
San Francisco, began on the 25th.
SECRETARY PROCTOR returned to
Washington, on the 25th, from his tour
of inspection through the west.
THE Gaiety theater in Liverpool was
burned on the morning of the 25th.
REV. DIR. UPPER, of Atlanta, Ga,
formerly of Leavenworth, Kas.) and
his wife have become reconciled and
all is peace again. The scandalous
stories, which came near disrupting the
reverend doctors family and destroying
his usefulness in the ministry, proved
to have been the concoctions of design
ing servants intent upon blackmail.
JAMES WILTSHIRE, of kOkOmO, Ind,
has received notice that he is one of the
heirs to the estate of William Wiltshire,
a California millionaire, who died at
w edVcTSVlIlc. Cdl, uHt III. Ht utdu
millionaire went to California in 1S49,
where he amassed a fortune estimated
at something over 81, 900, 900.
REV. SAMUEL DICKINSON BURCHARD,
who uttered the words, "Rum, Roman
ism and Rebellion which cut such
prominent figure in the last week of the
Blaine-Cleveland presidential campaign
in 1884, died at Saratoga, n. Y, on the
25th, of acute peritonitis.
PETER JOHNSON, of Dassel, Mimi,
thinks he has discovered the long-lost
art of tempering copper. He and Nile
Nelson, machinist, want to organize
company and start a factory in Min
neapolis. The new process will make
copper as hard as steel.
Mrs. FLORENCE MAVERICKS solicitor
in London has been notified that the
British home office will decline to re-
open the case of the unfortunate woman
in any form.