Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-08-20
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| don Omnibus Co.. shows a decrease of
$4,000 in net receipts during the past
six mont tbs, which is attributed mainly
to the recent strike.
FAMINE and pestilence have followed
the excessive rains in the Magura dis
trict of the Cartcathean mountains in
Austria The wet weather ruined the
| crops, and insufficient and improper
food has caused typhus fever and
dysentery to prevail.
CHARLES VAN WIKE, aged - years,
fell over the high bank of the Niagara
river below the falls, on the 18th, and
| was dashed to death on the rocks $50
feet below.
THE heat at Naples is greater than
for years and is causing many deaths.
A FREIGHT train on the Danbury &
Norwalk branch of the Housatonic
railroad, going at high rate of speed,
ran upon an open switch at Danford sta
| ton, Conn. on the 18th. The depot was
demolished. The locomotive was some
what damaged and five loaded cars
were wrecked.
THE bureau of American republics is
informed that the first linen mill to be
established in Mexico was formally
opened few days ago, near the City of
Mexico. The mill has been built by
Mr.. /. Hammer, an Englishman, will
cover about AZ, 900 feet when completed
and will produce large range of linens
and other goods
THE United States deputy marshal at
Pine Ridge agency, S. D., recently cap
tured complete counterfeiting outfit,
| ipc1Y,1incr r,,nl1S for tho 70 of of
dollars, halves and quarters The spu-
rious coins were excellent counterfeits,
and large number had been placed in
circulation before their character was
detected and suspicion directed against
Charles Wilson. who has been arrested.
THE Peoples savings bank of Atchi-
son, Kas-, which failed last winter, will
probably pay its depositors dollar for
dollar, the good crops this year having
increased the value of many real estate
mortgages upon which money can be
realized.
A COMPLICATED pernicious fever, the
same as yellow fever, or worse, is rag
ing at Port au Prince, Hayti
THE Mohican has not been ordered
from Behring sea to China, as reported.
THE Berliner Tageblatt states that
Friedlander Bros, jewelry firm of
Berlin, have instituted proceedings
against DIR. Carver, the well-knOwn
American marksman, for obtaining
credit for jewelry to the value of S3,225
and then absconding. DR.. Carver's
whereab bouts is unknown.
AT $50 o'clock on the morning of the
18th the volcano of Colima, Mexico,
began to show signs of eruption, and
after time the whole city became COW
cred with ashes. This is the most ex-
tensive eruption ever known there, and
will be lost.
THE application of Mrs. Walter
Beverley Crane, formerly Miss Alice
Cooper, of New York, for an nulment
of her marriage, on the ground that Mr.
Crane forced her by threats to consent
to the wedding, and that the marriage
had never been contaminated, was re-
fused by the London court in which
the proceedings were instituted.
THE executive committee of the Ohio
Building Association league met in Gin
cinnati. on the 18th, to receive new APP
plications for mem bership in the league.
Hon. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL died at
his home in Cambridge, Mass, early on
the morning of the 18th. He was born
in the city in which he died February
%, 1919.
On the 18th, the last day on which
the stockholders of the keystone bank
of Philadelphia, could pay their assess
ments as levied by Comptroller Lacey,
only twenty-siX out of nearly 200
stockholders had paid the assessment.
Out of the aggregate amount of $780,
600, only $4,000 had been paid to Re-
ceiver Yardley. He will Immediately
bring suit against those who failed to
pay.
a HEAVY hailstorm passed over the
region of Sawyer and Big Lake. Mimi,
on the 18th. totally destroying gardens
and crops of all kinds. The heaviest
part of the storm passed directly over
village of Chippewa Indians one
mile north of Sawyer. demolishing
number of huts. No deaths are re-
ported.
A GREAT sensation was caused in Ber-
lin by the report of the Russian ukase
against the export of rye and rye meal,
this being an important article of food
among the poor of Germany.
SECRETARY TRACY says he is plan
ming to have the white squadron visit
the gulf states this fall and winter. and
if possible go up the Mississippi as far
as Viclksburg.
Miss ZERLINA ROsENFIELD, a type
writer, has secured a Judgment in New
York against ex-Congressman John Nj.
Glover, of st. Louis, for $500 and costs,
for services.
NELSON \. BRADT, who arrived in
Chicago on the 18th, claims to have
made the trip from New York to San
Francisco and back to Chicago on a
bicycle.
COL G. A. WooD died at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, on the 18th, of COM
federal brigade at the battle of Mission
Ridge.
THE democratic state committee met
in New York. on the 18TH holding but
fifteen-minute session. Saratoga was
chosen as the place for the state con-
vention, and the time fixed was Sep
tembe Is.
john MILLER. of Willesbarre Pa
was stabbed to death by John Smith,
during a quarrel. on the 18th. There
had been trouble between the men for
n long time.
ONE of the most terrific hailstorms
ever witnessed in central Minnesota
passed near Melrose on the evening of
the 18th. Thousands of acres of the
finest wheat IN the county was knocked
down in few moments, many of the
farmers losing all their crops, includ-
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