Iron County register., 1892-07-07

MRS. ESTHER McCULLoCGH. of Chat
tanooga. Tenn. will soon be Iii years
of age. She was born in Hancock conn
ty, Ga, in 1779, and has nursed the
wounded in three great wars, in addi-
| tion TO those of Indian fights. Mrs. Me-
Cullough lives with her daughter. Mrs.
Robertson, herself an octogenarian.
The mother wears glasses and is some
| what deaf, otherwise she is very well
preserved.
THE grand jury of Orange county, \.
Y, failed to find an indictment against
the lynchers of Bob Lewis, but found
true bill against the village officials of
Port Jervis for criminal negligence in
permitting the lynching.
NELSON WHITEwoRTH, a stonemason.
was killed while working on a bridge in
Leavenworth. Kas., on the 2sth. He
was engaged in placing rock. when
one that was about to be lowered by a
derrick fell upon him. striking him on
the side and hips. He was terribly
crushed. and died few moments after
being struck.
JAMES AcKMAN was struck by Pam
| handle train and instantly killed at
Frankton. Ind. on the 2Sth. The train
| was special, and was going sixty miles
| an hour, when Acl.man, who was cross
| ing the track. was struck and hurled
eighty feet through the air. He was
horribly mangled.
TWELVE workmen were buried be-
| meath a falling brick wall while re-
pairing the Winston building at Lynch
burg, Va, on the goth. Mr.. j. c. Ii.
Winston. a prominent business man,
was caught in the ruins and killed.
Three men were taken out dead, four
badly and two slightly hurt, while
three others were said to be in the ruins.
WILLIAM GoRMAN. who suddenly dis
appeared from his home in Pittsburgh,
Pa, forty-three years ago. and was sup
posed to have been murdered by rival,
has turned up in Montana as man of
wealth. He has invited his two broth
ers, who are worl>ingmen in Pitts
burgh. to his western home to share his
fortune.
The brazilian chamber OF deputies
has voted, 40 to +. to raise the state of
siege imposed by the government pend
ing the presidential election.
PROF. THEODORE W. DWIGHT. of Co
lumbia college. aged 30. died at Utica,
y. y. on the 2sth, after a short i'll
ness. from heart trouble.
JAMES WILDER. superintendent of all
the United States railway mail business
west OF the Rocky mountains, died sud
denly at his home III West Algoma,
Wis, on the 29th. of dropsy. aged 50.
The illicit distillery business in East
Tennessee is on the increase. Officers
attacked a party Of moonshiners at a
IL
the Goth and big fight followed. One
of the officers was fatally wounded and
rumber of the mountainous are
thought to have been killed.
THE senate Worlds fair committee,
on the 30th. ordered a favorable report
on the bill introduced by Senator Pal
mer making an appropriation of So
900, 900 to aid the Worlds Columbian
exposition. The measure as reported
is about the same as the Durburrow, or
house bill.
ALI. the glass factories at Bellaire,
O.. have been permanently shut down,
the manufacturers claiming that they
could not compete with the factories
located in natural gas towns. About
$50 men are out of employment.
SAM LoONEY. a laborer. became in
volved in a scutfie with his wife near
Chattanooga, Tenn, on the 30th, and
both made for a gun near by. She Sc
cured it and killed him as he ran out
of the door.
A LITTLE child of Enoch Acres, while
playing in Haynes mill at Aten, Tenn,
fell into 4 bin containing several hun
dred bushels of wheat and was smoth-
cred.
Work will be begun in September Oh
the four steamships to be constructed
in this country by the international
Navigator Co., in compliance with the
terms of the recent act of congress ad-
mitting the steamships City of New
York and City of Paris to American
registry. The vessels will be built by
the Cramps.
THE National savings bank of Buff
falo. y. y. has been placed in the
hands of receiver, and will probably
resume business for the benefit of de-
positors.