Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-06
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
CAPT. HOOPER of the revenue cutter
Corwin reports the arrival of his vessel
at Sand Point, Alaska, ON September
10. He had the British sealer Henrietta
in tow, seized at Ounalaska, for viola
ton of the customs at Tonki bay, in
transferring and receiving cargo in
American waters without proper per-
nit
THE number of deaths from the chol-
era within the whole Russian empire,
from the beginning of the epidemic I'M
til the 25th, is officially reported at 1885,
$40.
JOHN SHAVER, aged IS, while sitting
at a window at Schenectady, n. Y,
was struck by lightning few weeks
ago. partially paralyzed and marked
with scarlet circle on his right cheek,
below the eye. On the night of the
26th there was a terrific crash of thun-
der and Mr.. Shaver's daughter ran into
his room, where she found him dead on
almost the same spot where he was
struck before.
1T is believed that only two of the
1000 members of the Forty-ninth New
L
1861 are alive to-day, and both are resi-
dents of Cincinnati One is Jacob Kesa-
Ter and the other G. G. Messner, fore
man of the Commercial-Gazette job
rooms.
The post office at Great Bend, Kas-.
was robbed at 3 o'clock on the morning
of the 26th. The thieves got $40 in
cash, but left 5000 in stamps. The door
of safe containing the registered mail
was blown off, but the safe was not
robbed.
Miss BERTHA ROSE, II years old. of
Haverhill, o., school-teachera at Otway,
O., was drowned. on the Goth, by fall
ing from n swing into Scioto Brush
creek. She held to the rope suspended
over the creek, screaming for assist
ance, until her strength failed her.
Only few small children were present.
THE Mexican government has refused
extradition in the case of Lewis, of
Kansas City, Mo-, charged with swind-
ling the Lombard Investment Co., of
which he was an employee: AS forgery
was proved in the case of Russell, his
alleged accomplish, the authorities have
ordered the eXtradition of the latter.
THE falling of the scaffolding about
the new Broadway Methodist Episcopal
Sunday-school building in Camden, n.
j., on the 27th, resulted in the death of
one man and perhaps fatal injuries to
two Others
Two BONES exploded outside the house
of a banker of Bologna on the Goth.
there was discovered
bomb charged with nitro-glycerine, the
explosion of which. experts say, might
have wrecked one-half of the city.
Eighty persons living in Bologna and
Pavia, and known to be anarchists,
have been arrested.
THE grand jury of Anderson county,
Tenn, found two indictments, on the
leader of the miners in the Coal Creek
One indictment charges
him with murder in the first degree.
A TERRIBLE wind and snow storm
prevailed on Mount Washington, n. H..
on the night of the Goth, the wind
reaching a velocity of 100 miles per
hour. Wire communication with the
Glenn house and the summit was cut
off and the trains could not get down
the mountain on account of snow and
ice.
A FIRE, supposed to have been started
by children, swept thewhole eastern side
of the business street of Howard, S.
D., on the 27th, causing a loss estimated
at 100000: insurance. $50, 900. Il. Il.
and wife, an aged couple,
10 st their lives while saving household
goods.
JOSEPH FIELD, of Midd1etown, one of
the wealthiest farmers in New Jersey,
celebrated his one hundredth annivcr-
sary on the 21th. The old gentleman
having just passed through
several days sickness, he is now
healthy, and bids fair to live several
more years.
OPHIR FARM mansion, the country
residence of Whitelaw Reid, was the
scene, on the 21th, of an interesting
wedding, the contracting parties being
Miss Ella Spencer Reid. niece of White
law Reid, and Judge Ralph Chandler
Harrison, of California. The bride is %
years of age, while the groom is So.
Lolita, the actress, is being treated
at a private hospital in New York city
for her old spinal trouble and will prob
ably be unable to fulfill her engage
ments for several weeks
THE captain of one of the British
sealing vessels seized by Russian cruis-
ers, says the scheme is to make only a
pretense to seize American vessels, so
as to help the United States cause in
the coming Behring sea arbitra ton
MAUD HILLMAN, while playing the
leading part in Lady Audley's Secret"
at the Breed opera house, Norwich,
Conn, on the night of the 27th, acct
dentally stabbed herself near the
heart, inflicting severe flesh wound.
The doctor says the accident will rot
interfere with her engagements.
THE Lima co. car works were en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the 2sth-
Two hundred cars in course of con-
struction were also destroyed. The
fire spread to two large oil tanks which
were exploded. Total loss, estima ted
at e100, 900; insurance about half.
GEN. SIR JOHN Ross, commanding
the troops in British North America,
will retire soon.
On the 2.th gang of robbers ca ptnred
the railway station at KonolSovo. on the
Vladikavkas railway in Russia, tacked
train going to Rostiff and, having
overpowered the officials after great
struggle, robbed the railway cashier of
5000 roubles.
\ LENA BROWN. the Bordentown IN.
j. murderess, who cholxed her own and
two other little children to death, was,
on the 2Sth. indicted for willful murder
THE mine owners of south Scotland
have decided to reduce the WAGES of