Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-11-26
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


in the celebration. The situation in
San Paulo is daily becoming more and
more grave.
The supreme court of Missouri, on
the 10th, passed upon the case of the
State of Missouri VS.. Burgdorfer on a
writ of error from the city of st. Louis.
The opinion of Judge Claiborne is re-
versed and the case remanded. Judge
Thomas, who delivered the opinion,
holds the Stone anti-pool bill to be con-
stitutional. This decision will close all
the pool-rooms in ST. Louis.
ADvICEs from Rio de Janeiro confirm
the statement that Fonseca's govern
ment has prohibited the use of codes
by the cable companies at all points
under the dictator's control. This
means that all news sent abroad from
those points must first pass inspection
by press censors The telegraph sys-
tenn in Brazil was constructed by the
government, and has always been I'M
der its control.
THE taking of the Testimony before
Chief Justice Dee and Judge Allen, at
Plymouth, n. H., to determine the de-
gree of murder in the case of Frank c.
Almy, who pleaded guilty to the MUIR
der of Miss Warden, began on the 18th.
the story of Almy's residence in their
family and detailed the murder scene.
Almy frequently shed tears.
DURING the progress of the great fire
in st. Louis, on the 18th. woman
named Bradley, in attempting to cross
Broadway, became entangled in some
fallen wires, and catching hold of live
electric wire, was instantly killed.
SIX four-story brick business houses
in Carter street, Chattanooga, Tenn,
the property of w. \. Posey, were
burned to the ground on the 18th. The
total loss is about $4,000, with small
insurance.
THE wholesale house of the Minneap-
oils Glass Co. and Lindsay Bros agri-
cultural implement house, at Mime
apolis, Mimi, were burned on the 18th.
The total loss is nearly 5000, 600; fully
insured.
The clergy of Brazil are actively ag-
itating in favor of the restoration of
Dom Pedro.
IN the lower house of the Austrian
relchsrath, on the 18th, the govern
ment was questioned in regard to the
late panic, and as to what would be
done in regard to rumor-mongers whose
stories affected markets. Prime Minis
ter Taafe stated that the public prose.
cutor was proceeding against the au-
thors of the alarming reports.
THE Freeman's Journal of Dublin
states that it was admitted, on the
18th, by the secretary of the national
league that only two pounds had been
subscribed in Ireland during the previ-
GUS week to the leaugue funds. The
Journal holds that this shows that the
Parnellites are nearly without strength
A SHIPS boat belonging to the bark
entine North Bend, containing five of
her crew, was capsized in gale near
Port Townsend, Wash, on the nth
Two of the sailors were picked up by
passing vessel after drifting about for
some time, but the other three became
exhausted and We're drowned.
TESTERS boot and shoe factory at
n. Y, employing 700 hands,
was partly demolished by high gale
on the 10Th. The north wall went
down with a terrific crash, and the
hands, panic-stricken, rushed for the
doors and windows. Men trampled on
each other in their mad flight, but for
tunately no one was fatally injured.
The employees of the nail department
of Oliver & Roberts works at Pitts
of 20-per-cent. reduction in wages.
The men are not organized, and will
accept the reduction.
News reached St Paul, Mimi, on the
night of the 18th, that wolves had
killed three children of Andrew Gullick
during the day near the rolling mills at
New Brighton, ten miles north of st.
Paul.
PROF. LIBBEY has presented to the
Princeton college library the library of
the late Prof. Guiot, which consists of
8, 900 books and pamphlets and 1000
maps. This collection came into Prof.
Libbey's possession through Earnest
San Dose and has been catalogued.
The collection is very rich in books of
early date and contains complete sets
of scientific magazines.
FRED KoHLER, plumber at Sioux
City, Ia, was overcome with gas. on
the 18th, while repairing a broken
main in an area way and persisted. He
was discovered by a clerk named Zim-
norman, who was overcome and came
near perishing in an effort to rescue
kohler.
EIGHT young lads were out coasting
at Leadville, Col, on the 18th, and
while going at terrible speed collided
with an immense ore team. All were
badly bruised while one, Willie O'Neill,
was thrown under the horses hoofs and
fatally injured
On Police Commissioner Sankey's
farm, south of Terre Haute, Ind, on
the 18th, Joseph Carter, foreman of the
farm, was gored to death by bull
which he was trying to manage. He
died in a short time.
CHARLES NELSON, living south of
Goshen. Ind, attempted to burn what
he thought was a paper wad out of
gun with hot iron. When the hot iron
was applied in the muzzle a load was
into his groin, tearing him
in terrible manner and causing him
to bleed to death.
AN aged couple, James Ellis and wife,
were found dead in their home at Troy,
o., ON the 18th, from inhaling natural
gas, and their three children were I'M
conscious. The fire was left burning
in the cook stove, but from irregular
pressure the fire went out. The valves
being open. the gas soon filed the |
room.
SHERIFF HARTMAN, of Blair, Neb., |
thur Sloan, the Fontanelle murderer.
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