Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-10

THE mercantile appraisers of Phi1a-
delphia were up before Judge Finletter
in the court of quarter sessions on the
Sd. They were Edward w. Patton,
Samuel Hoseman, Albert Crawford,
James B. Bell and Harry Hunter. Fur
man Shepard, the counsel for the ap-
praisers, in their behalf pleaded guilty
to two of the six indictments against
them.
FULL returns from the election
throughout Arizona show the constitu-
ton to have been adopted by an over
whelming majority.
A Two-HEADED calf with four perfect
eyes has been born on the farm of S. L.
Patterson, near Creston, Ia The mon
strosity is being kept alive on bottle.
AS West indianapolis Qnd.) street
car was crossing network of railroad
tracks at Kentucky avenue. on the 4th,
a Big -Four passenger engine, backing
down from the depot, struck it and
made complete wreck of it. There
were sixteen passengers in the car who
were thrown in every direction.
Strange as it may seem, none were
killed outright, and but three persons
were seriously hurt while six others
were more or less bruised.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country, during the
seven days ended on the 4th. number,
for the United States, 3O4, and for Cam
ada 26, or a total of $50; as compared
with a total of 295 for the previous
week. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 3le, repre-
senting 2S2 failures in the United States
and 80 in the Dominion Of Canada.
BY a collision on the New York &
New England railway, at East Thomp-
son, Conn.,. on the 4th, between the
steamboat train, bound east and two
hours late, and a freight train, five
persons were killed outright. Another
was burned to death in the smoker,
which took fire, and several others
were seriously hurt, including at least
one fatally.
A FIRE occurred at Blair, Neb., on
the 4th, in which six business blocks in
the heart of the city were destroyed
Loss, about $780, 600. The cause of the
fire is unknown.
Gov. CAMPBELL of Ohio was consid-
erably worse on the 4th. He had a
high fever and could not open his
mouth without precipitating a parox-
ysm Of coughing.
On the 4th the condition of Cyrus w.
Field had so far improved that his ply.
stefan expressed the opinion that his
final recovery was assured.
Dom PEDRO H., eX-emperor of Brazil,
who for fifty-five years reigned over
that country, died in Paris, on the 4th,
aged 66 years. He became emperor by
the abdication of his father at the age
of 6 years and assumed sovereign power
when not quite Is, and was deposed in
1889.
MANY of the valuable papers taken
by the Frisco train robbers at Glen
dale, Mo-, were found. on the 4th, in a
ravine between Webster and Tuxedo
park. about two miles from the scene
of the robbery. The robbers had evil
IDENTIFY sorted their booty there and
left scattered over the ground all that
had no intrinsic value to them.
SECRETARY RUsK's proposal to eX-
clude from the United States Canadian
as well as British cattle in order to
force the British authorities to revoke
the order under which American cattle
exported to Britain are slaughtered at
the port of landing, causes great uneasi-
ness and not little resentment among
Canadian breeders.
BY the falling of the walls of the re-
Gently burned Shepard building in ST.
Paul, Mimi, on the 4th, Contractor
Wilcox and a score of laborers en-
ployed in clearing away the ruins were
buried under a mass of debris, and
seven of them, including Wilcox, killed
and the rest injured, some of them
fatally.
IT now transpires that Edward NJ.
Field, the New York financial wreck,
was responsible for the sensational sui
eide of Marie Eugene Josephine Ari-
gasea at Tarrytown, on the Hudson,
last summer.
THE report of the Massachusetts board
of agriculture on the subject of aban-
doned farms shows that there are 900
such farms in the state, but the board
do not conclude that farming in Massa-
chusetts is declining.