Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-24
On the l7tn the wife of Leonard Hills,

OF Holland, \. Y, put a wet dynamite
cartridge in the oven to dry before her
husband used it Shortly after the
cartridge exploded with fearful result.
Ralph, a son of about 10 years. was
killed, and Mrs. Hills was SO badly in
jured it was feared she could not re-
cover. The house was shattered.
AGITATION is proposed to be started
in Montreal, Can, shortly with view
to the admission of United States cat
tie into Canada. If the government
grants such permission it is proba BILE
that dead meat factories will be estab-
| lished. and next summer will also see
American cattle exported to the old
country via Montreal.
WILLIAM MAIER, the young baker
who murdered his bride of six months
in Wheeling, w. Va, on April ) last,
| was hanged there on the 18th He pro-
fessed religion and expressed hope to
meet his wife in Heaven. His neck
| was broken by the fall.
THE police of Berlin. on the 18th,
raided a number of houses suspected to
| be haunts of anarchists. They sue
ceeded in capturing several anarchists.
! and seized all the papers they could
| find.
PARIS anarchists threaten the English
| embassy with dynamite in revenge for
the extradition by England of Fran
co.'s, an accomplish of Ravachol.
BERNARD MULLER, a Russian Jew,
| died at Bellevue hospital in New York
| city from anthrox. disease in which
| the veins and muscles become infested
| with animalcul3.
THE recent dissertation of soldiers
graves at Wilbur. Ind, by painting the
| tombstones red was only small part
| of a broad and precon certed outrage in
Morgan and Hendricks counties. Five
other cemeteries were similarly visited
and were similarly abused. The head
piece over every soldiers grave within
| a range of twenty miles in the western
part of Morgan county and eastern part
of Hendricks was painted red and flags
over the graves were dipped in the
paint.
MILTON SAVIOR. formerly congress-
! man from Ohio, died very suddenly
at his clearinghouse in New York
city on the nth. Mr.. Saylor was about
| 60 years old. The cause of death is said
to have been heart failure. Mr.. Saylor
years. but it is understood that his wife
and family live in Cincinnati
A NEATLY-DEEssED man called at the
banking house of Dubois & Co. in
Washington, on the 18th. and presented
a check for 500, made payable to Hon.
James G. Blaine, and bearing the
forged Endorsement of that statesman.
The note was signed I'd. S. Carraway,
Pension Accountant" He was placed
under arrest. and then he frankly adj
mitted that he had forged the name of
James G. Blaine to the note.
A FEARFUL prairie fire in the south
west part of Woodruff county. Ia, was
finally gotten under control, on the
18th. after a duration of TWEEN ty-four
hours. 1t burned over an area of
twelve miles long and in places several
miles wide. The town of Sloan mar
rowly escaped burning. The loss on
buildings, grain, bridges, etc, will be
fully $4,000.
THE Charleston Is c. News and
Courier has had an exhaustive exami-
nation made of the condition of the cot
ton crop of the south. 1t shows that
the crop is short far beyond the calcu-
lation of experts; that the greater part
has been picked and rushed to market,
and that the late crop will amount to
practically nothing.
Mrs. ELIZABETH CANNON, residing six
miles north of Mason City, Ia, commit
ted suicide on the night of the 18th.
She arose from her bed. stripped and
went out into the cold, and when
found. thirty rods from the house, was
frozen stiff.
c. w. RIDGEwAY, general manager
at Helena, Mont. of the Rocky Noun
tain Telegraph Co, a connection OF
the Postal company, is missing, and is
said to be several thousand dollars
short in his accounts. A widow ac
companied him in his fight.
GEN. RosECRANs, register of the treas
ury, was removed to Fortress Monroe.
Va, on the 18th, in the hope that the
change will remove the present danger
in his case of paralysis. He has lost the
use of his hands, and is almost helpless