Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Az examination of a newly-made
grave in Forest Hill cemetery at Ham
burg, Ia, on the Goth, disclosed the fact
that it had been robbed. The examina-
ton was quietly proceeded with until
more than a dozen graves We're opened.
In each instance it was found that the
body had been stolen, only the empty
coffin in many instance remaining to
show that a body had been buried. The
community is terribly aroused.
THE feature of the national competi-
tive drill at Omaha, Neb., was the won
derful work of the Hale Zouaves of
Kansas City. Their drill was in double
time and almost perfection. The en-
tire company scaled 14-foot fence. and
the last man went over the barrier in
the remarkably quick time of one Min
ute and forty-five seconds.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was occa-
stoned at Homestead, Pa, on the Goth,
by the announcement that Manager
Potter of Carnegie's plant had signed a
three years agreement with all the
skilled labor, except the members of
the Amalgamated association, at the
present wages.
Col. JOHN c. ROSE, claim agent for
the Pennsylvania railway. and one of
the most efficient men in the service,
was struck and killed by New York
& Susque hanna train at Marion, n. j.,
ON the night of the Goth.
A PAPER sent 10 the senate, on the
Goth, by President Harrison recon-
mends retaliation upon Canada for its
excessive canal tolls on American car
goes
THE committee appointed at Mime
apolis to notify Hon. Whitelaw Reid of
his nomination for vice-president
waited upon that gentleman at Ophir
Farm, near White Plains, y. Y, on
the 21st, and formally discharged the
duty. Senator Dubois spoke for the
committee and Mr.. Reid made suita-
BILE response accepting the nomination.
INFORMATION has been received in
Washington to the effect that Don
Manuel Antonio Malta, who was min
lister of foreign affairs of Chill during
the Baltimore trouble, and who wrote,
the insulting dispatch concerning it to
President Harrison, has prepared
book of 800 pages reviewing the cOntro-
versy, which is now in press.
THE funeral of Emmons Blaine took
place from the Mccormick residence in
Chicago on the 21st. The remains
were inferred in the Mccormick family
vault at Graceland.
SIXTEEN stokers were severely scalded
by an explosion of the boilers on the
French armOred cruiser Depuy de
LONE. at Brest, during a test of the
steaming apparatus on the Dist
WILSON'S spinning mill at Newry,
Ireland, was destroyed by fire on the
21st. Six hundred hands are thrown
out of work.
SOME of the leading ministers of New
York have joined the Salvation army.
The most disastrous flood since 1869
visited the vicinity of Richford. Vt,
on the 21st. The booms in the Missis-
squoi river broke and thousands of logs
went down the stream, entailing a loss
which can hardly be estimated. An
other boom broke further up the river
and two miles of logs were let loose. 1t
was feared that the iron bridge and
several buildings would be carried
away.
Ex-PREsIDEST CLEVELAND and Gov.
Russell of Massachusetts, went fishing
at Buzzard's bay. on the 21st. They
did not have extraordinary luck, but
the ex-president is credited with an
aside to the effect that he ''hoped to
land a good catch tomorrow, or, at the
farthest, the day after"
ONE year ago on the 21st Alley Bros.
& Place. one of the largest leather
firms of Boston, failed with liabilities
of $4,000. On the first anniversary of
the failure the firm sent out checks to
their creditors covering the final pay
ment of 100 cents on the dollar with 6
per cent. interest, and the present
financial condition of the firm is of the
best
a RUSSIAN named Adolph Herskovitz
was held for trial in New York. on the
21st, for having knouted his wife in the
most brutal manner because she took
four cents from his pocket while he
slept to buy milk for his starving child.
THE announcement is made that Ed
win Gould. second son of the railroad
king, is to marry Miss Salo Cantine
Shrady, adopted daughter of DIR. George
c. Shrady. of New York city.
RAyACHoL, the anarchist, was placed
on trial in Paris on the 21st. He is
charged with five murders and the vio-
lation of a tomb for the purpose of
plumber. The jury was drawn by lot
and their names kept secret in order to
guard them from the friends of the pris-
oner in the event of conviction. Few
persons were allowed in the courtroom.
A FEARFUL collision between q
west-bound passenger train and a
freight train on the Frisco occurred
near Brush Creek station, Mo-, on the
22d The trains met on a sharp curve
and came together with terrible
crash. Horace Gilmore, fireman on
the passenger train, was killed and five
others injured.
EMPEROR WILLIAM and King Hum
bert visited Juterberge, ON the ed,
where they witnessed the artillery
practice. AS they returned to Berlin
they were cheered by the immense
throngs that crowded the route. The
cheering was continued until the en-
peror and his royal guest entered the
schloes.