Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-10

On the Sd Secretary Foster appointed
Henry Stockbridge commissioner OF
immigration at Baltimore, Nd, and
Ferdinand Armont, commissioner of
immigration at New Orleans.
THE secretary of war, upon the re-
quest of Secretary Rusk. has issued
orders that no cattle from the Cherokee
strip shall be permitted TO be driven
| north of the quarantine line, but that
all such cattle must go south on the line
esta blished by the department of agri-
culture.
THE sale barns of DR.. N. P. Valerius
& Co., importers of horses, at Water
town, Wis, were burned on the Sd.
The loss will reach SOS, 600, with insur-
ance of S20,b0o. The horses burned in
Guided several valuable Clydesdales re-
Gently imported from Scotland. Not
one was saved.
THE New Orleans overland express
was stopped four miles south of Nodes
to, Cal, on the evening of the Sd, by
two masked men. Detective Lowe
Harris was shot and seriously wound
ed. The robbers were frightened off
before they got anything.
THE marriage engagement of Miss
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daughter of Rev. DIR. Talmage, to Mr..
Daniel ID. Mangam, Jr, a wealthy
young grain merchant, is announced.
The marriage will take place in the
early winter, and will be the first cele-
brated in the new Brooklyn tabernacle.
Mrs. MARY BUTCHER died at Atlantic
Highlands, n. j., on the Sd, aged 104
years and 10 months. She was born
near Port Monmouth, n. j., had been
married three times, but is survived by
only one son, T. 7. Rogers, now beyond
the prime of life.
JERRY THOMPSON, a notorious rus
tier" and two companions were caught
changing brands on cattle in Custer
county, Mont. and were all hanged to
the same tree. This is the first lynch
ing of cattle-thieves in Montana for a
number of years
WHILE attempting to cut an electric
wire on a pole thirty feet from the
ground, on the 4th, Chas. WEIGH, of the
Edison Electric Illuminating Co., of
Lancaster, Pa, was tranSfXed with
$500 volts of electricity. He shot
downward from the bar on which he
sat, but his body was caught on a wire
underneath, from which he hung un-
conscious in the air. He was rescued
from his perilous position and will re-
cover.
through the roof of an old four-story
frame building in New York, on the
4th, crashing through all the floors.
The building was used as Chinese
opium den and two of the inmates
Were slightly injured.
CANovAs DEL CASTILLO, prime min
lister of Spain, called ministerial coun-
ell. on the 4th, to discuss the Catalonian
agitation against the reciprocity treaty
with America.
S. =. STIKER,a mechanical engineer of
Buffalo, n. Y, has, it is claimed, dis
covered method of making ice with
gas and returning the gas to the mains
unimpaired. He has an experimental
plant at work in the Provincial Gas
Co.'S works at International Bridge,
Ont, and can, it is said, produce a
temperature of so deg below zero No
chemicals are used-simply water and
gas.
NEARLY SEQ men employed at the
Beatty glass-worl1s at Tiffin, O., We're
in a state of enforced idleness in con-
sequence of a strike, on the 4th. of the
$50 boys employed in sticking up and
gathering in The boys demanded an
increase in wages, which the managers
refused to give.
THE president returned from his gun
ming trip to Manumuskin, n. J., on the
afternoon of the 4th. He again proved
himself crack shot, fourteen falling
to his share of the forty-five birds
killed. j. Robert Mckee brought down
nine, and George w. Boyd seven.
AT independence, Ia, the worlds
trotting record for stations was broken.
the 5-year-old stallion Allerton beat
ing Nelson's record of 2:1034, making
the mile in an even 2:10. Direct, b. G.,
paced mile in 200, thus lowering all
harness records.
THE state department notified Minis
ter Egan, on the 4th, by telegraph, to
recognize the authority of the junta, or
congressional government of Chilli.