Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-12

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on the Cincinnati Southern at Sleepy
Hollow. So miles north of Chattanooga,
Tenn \ hundred feet further and the
train would have gone over trestle.
100 feet high. Several persons were in
iured. but none seriously.
1HE young Czechs and German hber-
ais, have. as far as results are known,
been successful in siXtyfour rural dis
tricts of Austria. This insures a ma
ioritv for Count Won Taafe as premier.
THE Hartford line steamboat City of
Richmond was totally destroyed by fire,
on tire 5th while lying at her pier in
New York City. The loss to the steam
boat and cargo is $50, 900.
Low Doc, a brother of the famous
Sioux Big Foot, is under arrest. charged
with having stolen two of Big Foot's
children from the Indian school at Fort
Bennett, ). d., where they were placed
after the death of their father and muir
dering them.
THE city of Madrid on the 5th, suf
fered much damage from hurricane.
THE pool room owned by Jack McAu-
life. the champion lightweight prize
fighter in brooklyn, was raided, on the
9Th, by the police. McAuliffe and six
employees We're held in 81. 600 bail each.
The pool room had been open only
few days and was the only place of the
kind in Brooklyn.
a BLOODY riot occurred in New York,
on the 9Th. between striking and non
union clOakmakers. Pistols, police
mems clubs. canes and stones We're
freely used.
CHARLES SWAIN, man employed in
laying the iron on the upper deck of the
high bridge at Muscatine. Ia, fell from
the top of the span, or the 9Th, to the
ice in the Mississippi river, a distance
of so feet. His skull was crushed and
other bones were shattered. and he was
| instantly killed.
EVA BLOCH, a young Polish woman.
| who committed suicide by hanging in
the lavatory of the union station in
Pittsburgh. Pa, on the 9th, left note
of which the following is a translation:
please telegraph that ! have commit
ted suicide because did not stay in my
native country"
On the 9Th a stranger presented
check for s., 500 at the DuqueSne bank,
in Pittsburgh, Pa, and receiving the
money thereon, quickly departed.
few minutes later it was discovered by
the bank officials that the check had
been raised from S25 to s.. 500.
CORONER LEVY of New York issued
| warrants, on the 9th. for the arrest of
the officers and directors of the New
York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Co., who had been held responsible by
| the coroners jury for the death of the
victims of the tunnel disaster.
MAJ. WIssMANN las defeated the XII
| bosh tribe, in Zanzibar, killing 200,
| wounding sixty and capturing fifty.
! The German loss was two killed and
| about fifteen wounded. Sixty thousand
head of cattle and much ammunition
and ivory was captured.
| THE great miners' strike in the Mo
| nongahela river district ended on the
| 9th. settlement was effected by the
| coal operators cOnceding the demands
of their employees, and they will here
after pay 81 cents per bushel for min
| ing.
| AN English physician named S. f.
| Egart, who had lately been winning
enormous sums at the gambling tables
| in Monte Carlo, while engaged in play,
on the 9th. was attacked by apopleXy
and died at the table.
| THE CHILEAN insurgents have been de-
feated at Ovalle and have reiterated on
| Las Arena.
! The French cartridge works at
Bourges are working double time on
| government orders.
SCHUYLER HAMILTON, JR.. the com
missioner sent by the surrogate's court
of New York to Paris. France, to OBJ
tain the deposition of j: o. Green, who
found what is supposed to be the body
of Robert Ray Hamilton in Snake river
| last September, has returned and his
report has been given under seal to the
surrogate.
THE 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. Lud-
wig Samuel. of South Bethleh EN-, Pa,
| fell from her crib, on the night of the
! 5th, into a bucket of water and was
| drowned A similar death occurred
about year ago in the same family.
The authorities are investigating the
| case.