Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-02


Engineer Burke was dying in the Mil
| waukee wis. hospital he repeated con-
stantly In his delirium: My God. Some
one has cut the air brakes" They also
say that a much larger sum of money
was lost by the express company than
| was admitted, and intimate that the
wreck on the Chicago & Northwestern
near Racine, on the 25th, was planned
by robbers.
Gov. PATTIsoN of Pennsylvania de-
| cided, on the 9th, to issue writs for the
extradition of James Hughes, grand
master workman of the assembly of
garment cutters, wanted at Rochester,
n. ", on charges of extortion and con-
spiracy.
A BILL was passed by the Maine house
| of representatives, on the 27th, provid-
ing that no person shall be allowed to
vote who can not read and write his
name.
THE government has been granted
three months extension of time in which
to introduce testimony in its case
against the Bell Telephone Co.
Mrs. CATHARINE Tuck was burned
to death, on the 27th, in a fire which
completely destroyed her house at
Jaynesville, Me.
THE Berlin bOurse is disturbed by ru-
mors of movements of Russian troops
on the Austrian and German frontiers
THE men employed in paving the
streets of Boston have been granted
nine-hour day by the contractors
THE Boston Car Spring Co., with a
factory at Roxbury, Mass, went into
irS ha O-th
AFFAIRS are rapidly reaching crisis
in Sligo, Ireland, when bloodshed will
be unavoidable.
Bishop RYAN is sick at the Providence
hospital in Washington, D. c.
JOHN FREDERICK, New York letter
carrier who supported his sisters, COM
mitted suicide, on the 27th, by cutting
his throat with razor. He was
obliged to lay off one day recently on
account of sickness, caused in great
part by cigarette smoking, and it is
supposed he was temporarily insane
when he took his life.
SENATOR WALTHALL and ex-Gov.
Lowry, of Mississippi have accepted in
vitations to deliver orations at the I'M
yelling OF the confederate monument
at Jackson, Miss. on June 3.
THE capture of a gang of counter
feiters at Dobria, in Posen, ON the 27th,
will proba bly, lead to the unearthing of
an extensive nihilistic plot.
A BUTTE (Mont) all-night saloon was
raided, on the night of the Goth, by
masked robbers, who forced the bar
tender to open the safe and give them
81, 100 belonging to workmen who had
left it there for safe-keeping.
IT is officially announced that the
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church of the United States. sixteen in
number, will meet in Greeneastle, Ind.
May 10. to hold their semi-annual ses-
sion. They will then fix the dates for
the meeting of the various conferences
and appoint presiding bishops.
WHILE party of timber cutters We're
saving down tree on the Lane farm,
two miles east of Lebanon, Ind,
smell resembling natural gas issued
from the tree where the saw was pene-
trating. A match was applied and a
flame five feet high burned for twenty
minutes. Upon examination the tree
was found TO be hollow.
A HANDSOME English woman named
for marriage frauds. She inveigled
forty-three men into marriage by adj
vertising herself as wealthy widow.
Her last victim was viscount. who al
most ruined himself by gambling.
CHARLES ARBUCKLE, the senior MEM
Der of the well-known Brooklyn coffee
firm, and somewhat familiarly known
as Baby Bunting" in the famous
breach-of-promise case with Miss Clara
Campbell, of Ironton. O., affectionately
termed ''Bunnie.' which cost him S45,-
900, died in Brooklyn, on the night of
the 27th, of pneumonia, aged So.
THE Norwegian bark Dictator, from
Pensacola. Fla, to West Hartlepool, En-
gland, laden with pine lumber, with a
crew of fifteen and the captains young
wife and little boy of 3 years, went
ashore in strong easterly gale, on the
27th. four miles south of Cape Henry,
Va. Eight lives We're lost, including the
captains wife and boy.