Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-08
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Lydia Ann Watt, in May last.
Gov. BUCHANAN of Tennessee had
so far recovered from his recent indis-
to the state capitol and attend to some
pressing matters
Gov. EAGLE of Arkansas, who is al
the home of his sist er-in-law, Mrs John
Doty, near Richmond, KY. was, on the
18th. declared by his physician, DIR.
Stuckey. of Louisville, to be in seri-
Gus condition.
DISPATCHES of the Goth indicated an
increase in the virulence of the cholera
epidemic in Russia and in Hamburg.
Germany.
JOHN VI. BURKE, of Spokane. was
nominated by the democrats of Idaho,
on the 21th. for governor
Hon. j. RANDOLPH TUCKER, of Vir-
ginia, was elected president of the
American Bar association at Saratoga,
\. Y, on the Goth.
HAL POINTER won the pacing match
with Direct finished at Columbus, O.,
on the Goth Best time, 2:113l.
THE tug Cornelia, lying at the foot of
Baltic street, Brooklyn, sprang a leak,
on the 27th, and Immediately sank.
The engineer, William 2. Seid, was
drowned.
A COMPANY has been incorporated I'M
der the laws of New Mexico for putting
a big international dam across the Rio
Grande five miles above Ell PasO. Tex.
for the purpose of irrigation. both in
Mexico and the United States The
construction of this dam will create an
inland lake fifteen miles long and about
five miles wide, with an average depth
of twenty-five feet.
Dr. THOMAS NELL CREAM, the al
legged American poisoner. was up again
in the Bov-strect UondonD police court.
on the 27th, and held, on the evidence,
on four charges of murder. namely. the
poisoning of Matilda Clover. of Ellen
Donworth, and of the girls Shrivell and
Marsh. The cases now go to the grand
jury.
THE prevalence of cholera in Western
Europe is generally ascribed to Russias
inhuman policy of driving out the
Jews, who carried broadcast the seeds
of the pestilence.
THE Russian town of Mcz1r, on the
river Prfpets, was destroyed by fire, on
the 21th, and nearly all of its 5000 pop
ulation are homeless and in great want.
THE Afro-American Migration society
has been incorporated at Chicago for
the purpose of assisting southern ne
groes to go to the north and northwest.
THREE HUNDRED of the Tennessee
troops at Coal Creek have been granted
on furloughs.
THERE is great disquiet among Ger
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with Russia.
THOMAS WOODLEY, consular agent
for the United States in Corfu, Greece,
died on the 27th.
THE Blue Grass exposition and fair
at Creston. Ia, proved great success.
A CALIFORNIA judge has decided that,
the day of execution having passed, a
murderer is dead in the eyes
of the law. though not hanged.
AN investigation by the Porte reveals
the fact that the burning of the house
of Rev. Mr.. Bartlett. the American mis-
sionary, at Bourdour. in Asia Minor,
was due to the carelessness of an Amer
lean servant and not to the fanaticism
of the natives.
SEVERAL persons, including three or
four fremen. We're injured during the
progress of 4 fire in a five-story build
ing in Wooster street, New York city,
on the 21th. The loss reached 800. 600
THE theater end of the Metropolitan
opera house building liz New York city
was destroyed by fire which started
in some unaccountable manner on the
stage in the forenoon of the 27th. The
loss is estimated at $500.
THE CHILEAN government has prohibit
ed sealing in the straits of Magellan,
the Chloe islands and Juan Fernandez.
THE main building of the Muncie,
lind. nail mill was destroyed by fire
ON the morning of the 27th, together
with forty-eight nail machines Loss,
800, 900: about half covered by insur-
ance. Three hundred men are thrown
out OF employment
A SENSATION was caused in Buffalo,
\. Y, on the 21th, by the announce
ment that Bank Examiner Witten had
found two of the dime savings associa-
tons. of which there are a large num-
Der in the city. in rotten condition.
THE story of the loss of the steam
yacht Wahpiti. with Hiram w. Sibley,
of Rochester, \. Y, family and guests,
ten in all, in Georgian bay, made pub
lie on the morning of the 21th, proves
to be a cruel canard.
On the Goth architects began pre-
pairing plans for two hotels of about
100 rooms each to be erected just out
side of the mill yard at Munhall sta
ton, Pa, for the use of single en-
ployes of the Carnegie Steel Co. The
will be fitted with all possible
and the men will be
furnished with nice rooms and good
food for a small sum per week.
REGARDING the change in the class
of armor plate for the war ship New
Y orl, now being built at Cramps ship
yard at Philadelphia, Secretary Love
Joy of the Carnegie Steel Co. says that
his company is acting under orders of
refused to discuss the relative merits of
the two classes of armor.
THE Marquis de Mores was put on
trial in Paris. on the Goth. on the charge
of manslaughter in having killed Capt
Meyer, of the French army, last June,
by running him through the right lung
with a sword in duel fought by De
Mores and Capt. Meyer, owing to
Movers resentment of De Mores' insult
to Hebrews.
ANTON PoTZEI., of New York. who
was found on the street. on the 2Sth,
and taken to Bellevue hospital suffer
ing from what was supposed to be
symptoms of Asiatic cholera. was much
better the next morning, and the ply
sicians diagnosed the case as simply
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