Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-11-26

in FentOn IL Erampton'S portable saw
mill at New Castle, Pa, exploded with
terrific force. Charles Wilson was
blown $50 feet and terribly injured.
William Duberry was blown 100 feet
and is fatally scalded and bruised.
Other employees were more or less hurt.
but will recover.
Gov. JACKSON of Maryland has ap-
pointed ex-Congressman Gibson to the
vacancy in the United States senate
caused by the death of Senator Wilson.
The appointment is for little over a
month only, as the Maryland legisla-
ture will meet in January to formally
elect successor to Mr.. Gibson.
THERE seems to have been considera-
BILE foundation for the depression re-
ported at closing hours, on the 18th, on
all the European bourses with the ex-
ception of Paris. The newspapers of
the continent are bristling with alarm
list rumors, dark references and sensa-
tional intimations.
THE overdue steamer Elder arrived
at Southampton from New York on
the 10Th. She was obliged to stop, on
the 18th, on account of her machinery
getting out of order. After delay of
fifty-one hours in repairing she pro-
ceeded on her voyage.
The action of the municipal council
of Paris, in causing to be demolished
the Louis XVI. memorial chapel, is
generally condemned as lessening the
number of interesting places that draw
visitors to Paris.
ALL the states of Brazil are tranquil
wifi hn Of do,
Sui The reports of a revolt in Para
are untrue.
THE junta of the Brazilian province
of Rio Grande do Sui has adopted as
the design for its flag a white and red
globe.
PROMPTED by jealousy, as is sup
posed, Charles Feisner shot and fatally
wounded Andrew Stohl, at Carver,
Mimi, on the 18th. He then shot him
self twice in the forehead and died in
an hour.
JOSEPH J. AsHFoRTH, treasurer of
the Royal Arcanum Building and Loan
association, of Brooklyn, who is charged
with embezzling $4,000 of the funds
of that association, has been arrested
in Liverpool and is held for extradi-
ton proceedings. He is said to have
absconded from Brooklyn last May.
JEDEDIAH Bowen, aged rs, died at
Ripon, Wis, on the 10th. He was the
chief helper of A. F. Bovay, who is
credited in Flowers history with being
the founder of the republican party.
Bovay and Bowen held meetings and
agitated the question of dissolving the
wing party as early as 1855. Mr.. Bowen.
was prosperous merchant.
A VALPARAISO dispatch of the 10Th
intimated that ChHi was descending
from her lofty pedestal in dealing with
the assault by Valparaiso mob on the
sailors of the Baltimore. The dispatch
of United States war ships to Gillian
waters was occasioning much specuia-
ton and eXerting a salutary effect on
the native arrogance.
HENRY AsHENFELTER, of Phi oeniXville
Pa, died at Deming, n. NJ, on the 10Th,
aged rs years. Mr.. Ashenfelter was one
of the pioneers of the iron rail industry
in Pennsylvania, and for forty years
was connected with the Phenixville
iron works.
WILLIAM j. CoNLIN. known in the
theatrical world as Billy Florence,
delphia, on the night of the 10th, aged
60 years. The cause of his death was
pneumonia.
INFORMATION was received at the
navy department on the 10th of the
death of Lieut.-Com. Joseph Marthon,
on board his ship, the Palos, at Shang.
hal, China, on the 18th.
w. ii. BRoTHERToN. the man who at.
tempted to trundle wheelbarrow from
San Francisco to Chicago on a wager.
died at La Junta, Col, on the 10th, of
mountain fever.
FRANK ALMY, the murderer of Chris
tie Warden, was declared guilty of
murder in the first degree at Plymouth,
n. H., on the 10Th, and was sentenced
to be hanged the first Tuesday in De-
cember, 1892. He was at once taken to
the state prison at Concord to be con-
fined until the day of execution, in
view of the determined disposition
to deal with him by lynch
law.