Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-08
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Eventa
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

non, Pa, while endeavoring to save her
4-year~old son who had strayed on the
track of the electric railroad, was
struck by car and instantly killed.
The child was fatally injured.
THE Hawsiian Gazette denies that
the re has been ar expression of desire
OF the part of the Hawaiian papers for
snneXaticn to the United States.
THE largest oil well struck in the
PENNSYLVANIA oil fields was opened, on
the Goth, in tire McCurdy field, Is miles
west Of Pittsburgh. The well started
off at the ref5e of 500 barrels an hour
and isestimated to be doing 10000 bar
rels yer das-. An exact measurement
can aot be taken, as more than half the
product rs going to waste on account of
Insufficient tankage-
Ri the Colorado state fair in Pueblo.
or the 26th, during the progress of the
2:sD tretting race, just after passing I'M
dor the wire in the third heat, the horse
Tramp s., suddenly stopped, staggered
up against the fence and fell dead He
Evas owned by MIR. Leonard, of Denver,
who mad recently refused $4,000 for
hin, holding his price,atS75, 900. TrarEp
IS. record was 2:21.
fFIE settlers in 'Calispel valley, in
northern Idaho, are alarmed over the
menacing attitude of the Indians in
that section. Marsela, the chief of the
/ Calispels, it is reported, has ordered all
white settlers out of the country, and
she Indians are running off the set
tiers stock and otherwise annoying the
whites
The cor0ner's inquest on the sup
posed suicide of William Adams, who
was found hanging in his barn near
Columbus, Ind, has developed that
Adams hfad received white cap anony-
nous letters threatening his life. The
grand jury,will investigate.
DIR. JOSEPH ,;JENCKEs, rector of St
Paul's Episcopal church in Indianap-
oils, Ind, has resigned on request OF
his congregation, which objected to his
conviction that the end of the world Is
near at hand.
Hon. THOMAS MCGREERY, NJ P, was
expelled from the Canadian house OF
commons, on the Goth, by unanimous
vote. His offense was boodliug.
FREIGHT train No. SIS on the Erie road
eollided with section of passenger
| train No. ,, near Kent. O.. on the 30th.
+ CUR PERSONS were
| the engineer and fireman of the pas
senger train, and thirty persons in
| iEred.
AN attempt to wreck the train on
which Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
aria was travelling to Reichenburg was
| frustrated, on the night of the 31sd, by
| the discovery of bomb which was ia-
| tended to blow up the bridge at Rosen-
| thai over which the emperor's train was
/ TO pass.
\ SPECIAL cable from La Libertad,
San Salvador, says that the command
/ ant of that port denies the rumor about
| q revolt in Guatemala.
| The Dixon County bank, at PGnca,
/; Neb., was entered by five masked bur
! glars, on the night of the 29th, the
| Waterman being overpowered. THEN
| efforts to break into the vault were in
/ Interrupted by citizen. and the robbers
| hurried to the railroad, where they had
a iaand-car in waiting, and amid a fusil
/ lade of bullets escaped. One of the rob
bers was shot, but the others carried
/ him away with them.
/ AssEMBI FRANK =. DEMoIT:sT
I'of Rock1and county. \. V. who is rIn
der various indictments for forgery
,etc., was married at Nyacl1, on The
ssth, to Iantha Shakespeare, daughter
i OF a well-known ieweler OF that place
NINE. BoULANGER, widow of Gen
| B,2ulaneer. who is residing at Yer
| sailIes. on being informed of her hus
! bands suicide at Brussels, tainted
/ Since then she has been in a state 'O1
! deepest detection, and is apparently
overcome with grief.
/ PROF. RENFRo, a white teacher on &
/ ,eolored normal school at huntsville
| Ala, attempted, on the LIST, to chastise
/ Ebenezer Kahn, colored pupil, Kahn
seized a threc-inch steel chisel and inn
/ bedded it in Reufro'S brain, killing
/ hin.
| THE comptroller of the currency is
sued statement, on the 1st, showing
that on that date, the total amount OF
national bank notes outstanding aggre
gated Sill, S17,319. a decrease for thu
month of September of S5,917, 139.
A SOLDIERS monument was unveiled
at POttsville. Pa. on the 1st, in the
presence of a. vast assemblage.
| CAPT. CHARLEs Fl. WARRENS, Four
teenth infantry, has been placed on thu
retired list of the army.
The strike of miners in the Pitts
burgh ;(Pa.) district is more genera
than was expected. Ten Thousand
miners are idle, and work at all the
railroad mines has ceased.
TIE adhesion of the Australasia
colonies to. the. universal postal union
| which has been for years anxiouslN
Sought by the commercial nations o.
the world, went into effect on the 1st-
EIGHT miners We're killed at the
| Aborgwnf colliery. near Brldgend
Wales, on the LIST. by the over-winding
of the pit gear.
HoS- HARVEY NJ. WATTERsoN died il
Louisville, Ky, on the night of the
| 1st. He WAS born in Bedford county
| Tenn, November %, 1911. In 1889 ht
succeeded James II. Polk in the Tween
ty-siXtk congress and was the 0uly sur
| viving naenher of that body. esservet
in the Twenty-seventh. and Twenty
| eighth congresses, and in 1S43 was sen
by President Tyler to South Americ;
on an important diplomatic mission. III
declined Office at the hands of Pnesi
dents Pierce. Buchanan and johnson
He was a strong Union man during the
late war.
The city of Halifax, n S, was 70
ported, on the morning of She I'd, to IN
in the embrace of mighty confagra
zion. which threatened the destruction
i.ssf the city and all the shipping in th'
docks. 4 hundred casks of kerosen,
stored in one of the warehouses on The
idoel1s added largely to the spread of TIT