Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20

HALF of the business portion of Hill
City, S. D., near the Harvey Peak til,
mines, was destroyed by fire, on the
18th, entailing loss o. S75, 600. One
man, Ed Cunningham, was burned to
death.
WORD comes from the northern part
of the Duluth tMinn. land district that
an extensive and valuable discovery
has been made of nickel ore. The vein
| is from eight to ten feet wide, and of
| very considerable depth. and assays an
average of 9 per cent nickel
AN explosion of gas in the Sterling
mine at Shamokin, Pa, on the 18th,
killed nine men and injured a number
of others.
NJ {. DAVIS. supreme cashier OF the
order of the Iron Hall. surrendered to
| the sheriff of Marion county, Ind, on
the 14th. Judge Fox fixed his bail at
$40, o0e, which Davis was unable to Sc
cure
The civil service commission has ex-
onerated the postmaster at Whitney,
Mich, against whom charges of often
sive partisanship had been made.
FoUR men and three horses were
killed in a collision between freight
trains on the New London Northern
| railroad, at Harrison's Landing, r. L.,
| on the 14th.
THREE miners were killed by a cave
| in at the St. Bel Pyrite mines in the
Rhone department of France on the
18th.
AFTER a warm debate, on the 14th,
the board of education of Detroit,
Mich, passed a resolution practically
| excluding all Roman Catholics from
acting as teachers in the public schools
| of that city.
FRAUDS in the coal and -four supply
departments have been brought to light
in the asylum investigation at Lincoln,
Neb. The testimony showed that the
steward several times took toll of the
flour passing through his hands, and
when cars of coal were delivered at the
asylum switch, after being counted and
registered, one or two cars, as the case
would be, hauled back to the yards.
THE president has granted pardons to
Gustave Anderson, Charles A. Ander-
son, l.. II. Berg, Warren C. Child, Louis
Fanstrup, Andrew Hauser, Peter John
son. James L. Jensen, Ed d. Mills. Neil
P. Nelson, w. S. Poppleton, all of Utah,
and convicted of polygamy, on condi-
ton that in the future they abstain
from unlawful coha bitation.
Miss LEOLA YOHN, young lady of
Champaign county. O., has proved to be
an heiress and the possessor of an es-
tate estimated to be worth $4,000. DR..
Yohn, a prominent physician of VAL
paraiso. Ind, died recently, leaving his
AT 70 <n hic vxy;fo The hSS
ond marriage, however, he having OBJ
tanned divorce from his first wife, who
was the mother of Miss Yohn.
AN elevator, containing thirteen &C.
cupants, fell, on the evening of the
18th, from the seventh story of build
ing at 231 Jackson street, Chicago
About half of the party were girls who
are employed in a cloak factory Nor
ris Young, the elevator boy, and Isador
Cobb, a young man, were seriously in
jured. The others escaped with slight
bruises.
LI6HTNING-RoD swindlers have been
working near Davenport, Ia, catching
number of wealthy farmers for
amounts from $500 to 5000 each. Several
victims have settled by compromise and
others will go into court. The opera
tors are thought to hail from Musca-
tine, la.
Mr.. HENRY WATTERsON, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Jo urnal, accepted an
invita- ton to deliver the dedicatory adj
dress at the Worlds fair. The invita-
ton reached him by telegraph, on the
14th, and he replied at once by wire.
ARNO NJ. SEIGLER, who, on Septe1n-
Der II shot his wife twice. was taken
into court at Shelbyville. Ind, on the
evening of the 18th, and without the
knowledge of his attorneys and to
every body's surprise, entered plea of
guilty with intent to murder in the
first degree. His punishment was at
once fixed at one dollar fine and twelve
years imprisonment
Mrs. LIZZIE STEVENSON and son
Albert of Cawker City. kas.. had rooms
at the Aborn house, Des Moines. Ia, on
the night of the 18th. They had never
seen gas before and blew it out. Mrs.
Stevenson was found dead the next
morning, but Albert survived.