Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-01

bed at Bolivar, N ", on the morning
of the 2Ith.
NEvIN JACKSON, employed at Nichof'
sons Brick Works, in Steubenville. o.,
attempted TO remove an obstruction
from the crusher on the oath. He
stopped over to reach for the stone
while the mill was revolving rapidly
and fell in. The immense wheel ground
him to pieces.
DR.. JOHN DAVIS, one of the most
prominent physicians of Cincinnati and
president of the Law and Order League
of that city. died suddenly, on the 26th,
aged sixty years, He was an intimate
personal friend of ex-President Hayes
FIRE at Plaineilhe, Ind, on the 26th,
destroyed Jenkins Hotel. Littells store
and other buildings. Loss, $4,000; an
surance, IS. James Mcbride, a
prominent ciJizen of the town, is under
arrest charged with firing the block.
JOHN r. JOHNSON and Mahlon Sperry,
workmen, were literally blown into
fragments by an explosion, ON the Goth.
in the cartridge house of the American
Forsythe Powder Company, at Lake
Hopatchcmg, n. j.
THE Erie railroad depot at Port Jer-
NAS, ~ w. " Dis ONN III
ON the 9th. 1t was one OF the hand
soonest passenger depots ON the line of
the road. and had been built only about
three wears.
Mrs. ELLEN GIBBONS. aged eighty
years, was burned to death at her home
in Saratoga. n. Y, on the Goth 1t is
not known whether her death was acct
dental or a case of self-murder.
ORRIN ENNIS. who was carrying
goods from burning saloon in FIRE.
mont, Wis. on the Goth, was caught in
the fall of the building and burned to
death.
Mrs. JOHN DIEBRICH and three of her
children We're burned to death in the
destruction of their home in Rochester,
n. y, early on the morning of the Goth.
IT was reported, ont the 25th. that the
town of Rec Heights, S. D., had been
wiped out by fire.
THE thermometer registered 40 de-
grees below zero at I4yndonville, Vt,
Christmas night.
Two Schoone.rs were driven ashore
during the gale. ON the Goth. on the
Rhode Island coast, one near Narragan-
sett Pier and the other at Black P0lnt
Both vessels Were wrecked. but the
crews. with the exception of three who
were washed overheard, We're rescued
by the life-Saving crew.
THE renegade Sioux who took refuge
in the Bad Lands are reported to dlave
held Il council. on the Goth, as the result
of which Il general return to their res
ervations Was decided upon. anna the
only real danger of further bloodshed
seems to rest upon the attempt 1G dis
arm them.
The old Curiosity Shop" in Fetter
Lane, London, made famous by Charles
Dickens. is To be torn down to make
room for modern improvements. The
house was the home of Praise God Bare
bones and Damned Bare bones. we'll
known characters of the time of SroTn-
we'll
HUGIES anti Buttner, the two bogus
divorce peddlers arrested in New York
CITY, have both confessed, and have
given up the Cook County Oil seal and
blank decrtes in their possession and
are prepared to take their medicine
THE mask has been torn from another
pious frard in Madison, n. j., W the
person of Nathaniel Niles, ex-presiient
of the Tradesmens National Bank, who
composed hymns, but who in private is
shown to have been a swindler-
FRAUDS fW,consular agents in Cana
da, which areialleged to amount fe'o over
million dollars, have been brought to
the attentim,of the Treasury Depart
ment, and a. searching investigation is
in progress.
THE proposed golden wedding Of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Evans at Owatonnie,
Mimi. on Christmas Day. became an
occasion of mourning by the sudden
death the day before of Mrs Evans
Eleven childrenymho gathered TO join
the festivities attended her funeral on
the Goth.
A FARMER named Holloman. residing
in Mahaska County, Ia. found, on the
26th, on the edge of a small creek OH his
farm solid gold nugget weighing sev-
enty ounces.