Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

down by train on the New York,
Lake Erie & Western railroad at
Passaic on the 9th. Thomas Hart, aged
81, was instantly killed, and Prof.
Dunn, Thomas Hill and John O'Keefe
were seriously, though not fatally,
hurt.
SOME CONSERVATION has been caused
at Lisburn, a fiourishing town in the
north of Ireland having intimate con-
nections with Belfast, by the discovery
of leper among the paupers of the
town.
EX-CONGREssMAN JOHN B. PACKER,
of Pennsylvania, died of heart disease,
at Sunbury on the 18th.
Mr. GLADSTONE went to Hawarden,
on the 18th, to attend the funeral of his
son.
RIoTOUs strikes have occurred among
the reapers at Velletri. an agricultural
town about 81 miles from Rome.
Troops called out to subdue the rioters
killed two and wounded several of
them.
FOREMAN VIM. G.. BERG and his helper,
James Quinn, We're caught in a huge
clay crusher at Ewart's tile works at
Akron, O., ON the nth, and horribly
mangled Quinn died within a few
moments and Berg cannot possibly re-
cover.
A MOB of negroes attempted to lynch
fellow-negro, James Davis, at Bel
field, Va, on the sth, but were pre-
vented by white citizens. Davis is in
Jail on charge of numbering another
negro.
By direction of the president, Sec
ond Lieut.. Eugene T. Wilson, of the
First artillery, has been detailed as pro-
fessor of military science and tactics
at the Ohio state university at Column
bus.
HIGH officials near to the person of
the car are said to believe that the
Russian autocrat contemplates visiting
Paris during the coming autumn.
Two FREIGHT trains on the Cleve
land, Canton & Southern railroad col
hded near ewburg, O.. early on the
morning of the Sth and a number of
cars were smashed into kindling wood.
Five men were badly hurt, two of them
probably fatally.
Mrs. POTTER PALMER, of Chicago,
was granted a private audience with
the French republic, in Paris, on the
sth. BY special invitation Mr.. and
Mrs. Palmer occupied the presidents
private box at the opera.
THE steamer A australia from Honolulu
brings news that George McFarlane,
halloween of the Wailapee plantation,
has brought suit against the Hawaiian
Commercial Co, of which Claus Spreck-
els is president, for taking forcible and
illegal possession of the plantation.
One million dollars damages are
claimed
THE wheat crop of the state of Wash
ington is said to be in danger of partial
destruction by gophers and squirrels.
THE report of the board of visitors.to
the United States military academy has
been submitted to the secretary of the
navy. The board in it's report recon-
mends that the age of admission be
fixed from Is to IS, instead of Is to 90,
as according to existing law. The Off
GERS in charge of the academy, the re-
port says, are able and deserve the
highest commentator, but the odious,
brutalizing and un-American habit of
hazing has not as yet entirely disap-
peared from the academy.
THE German government has in
formed NJ. Ribot, French minister of
foreign affairs, that the relaxation of
the passport regulations for Alsace-Lor-
raine, ordered at the time of the recent
Swiss railroad disaster in order to ena-
bic the friends and relatives of the dead
and wounded or missing to seek for the
victims, has been made permanent.
On the 9th Secretary Foster directed
the reinstatement of James c. Wins
well, examiner of silks in the APP
praiser's office at New York. Mr..
Winswell was suspended by Appraiser
Cooper on the charge of undervalua-
ton of silks. An investigation by
treasury officials disclosed the fact that
the charges We're groundless.
THE first certificate of admission
which Yale ever granted to wom-
an was received by Miss Irene w.
Colt, of Norwich, Conn, on the sth.
Prof. Seymour, of Yale, notified Miss
Colt that she had passed the examina-
ton satisfactorily and would be adj
mitted.
CHRISTIAN DAHLEN, a prominent citi-
zen of New Britain, Conn, fell under
the wheels of train at New Haven, on
the 9th, while attempting to alight from
a car while it was in motion. His
breast was rent open, and his heart and
lungs torn from his body.
THE German steamship Cleopatra,
which recently struck sunken rock
in the Straits of Magellan. was stranded
to prevent her from sinking. The pas
and or-ayy yvarp saved The
steamer will be total loss.
COUNT MICHAEL Platter. a wealthy
Russian land owner, was murdered and
robbed on the Sth, while travelling on
an express train of the Warsaw & St.
railway. No arrests have
yet been made.
MITCHELL Bros. planning mill, yard
and eighteen dwellings, together with
Is, 600, 900 feet of lumber, at Jennings,
Mich. We're burned on the night of the
Sth. The loss is placed at 500, 900; in
surance, $4,000. The cause of the fire
is unknown,
EXPERTS FAUNCE AND BROWN, APP
pointed to examine the books of the
keystone and Spring Garden banks of
We're at the treasury de-
partment in Washington, on the 9th,
receiving their instructions prior to be-
ginning the work.
AFTER July 10 the wages of puddlers
at the Central iron works and Chesa-
peake nail works of Bailey & Co., and
the Lochiel plant of the Harrisburg
Rolling Mill Co. at Harrisburg, Pa,
will be increased from 1878 to 81 ton,