Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-01


spike and horseshoe works, owned by
Abbott tss Co., at Montreal, Can, were
| completely destroyed By fire on the
! night of the oath. Loss, 1926, 900; fairly
covered by insurance.
A PANIC was said, on the 25th, to ex-
ist in Hamburg, and large numbers of
cholera victims remained unburied, the
undertakers' assistants deserving their
posts.
GRAND MASTER SWEENEY of the
Switchmen's brotherhood was vicious
" assaulted by striker named Quinn
on the street in Buffalo, n. Y, on the
25th, because the latter had lost his job
on account of the strike.
HoN. JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER, of
Virginia. delivered the annual address
before the American Bar association at
Saratoga. \. Y, on the 18th.
ADvIC from Berlin of the 25th
stated that there were grave fears that
cholera had gained a foothold in that
city.
SEVEN miners were crushed to death
and three others injured by the falling
in of the roof of a mine near Swansea,
Wales, on the 18th.
THE reported interview between the
Borden sisters in the Jail at Fall River,
Mass, in which Miss Lizzie, who is ac-
cused of the murder of her father and
step-mother was said to have made
compromising statements. is declared
by Matron Regain and all parties con-
cerned to have been entirely without
foundation.
THE notorious Bud Lindsay, who fig
ured SO conspicuously in the late Ten
nessee miners riots, was released on
s., 900 bail, on the Goth, and boarded a
train at Coal Creek for Knoxville: but
squad of soldiers took him from the
car and locked him up in the guard
house.
THE clearinghouse returns of the
United States for the week ended on
the 25th, according to Bradstreets
Ia bic, aggregated s1.O0s, 500, SS7.
THE New York board of health is
making {. gallant fight to keep the
cholera out.
THE international peace congress at
Berne voted, on the 26th, to hold its
next meeting in Chicago in 1898.
THE failure of the brakes upon some
Pullman cars while making up a train
at the Union depot in Pittsburgh, on
the Goth. caused serious crash by col
lision with the standing portion of the
train, resulting in the crushing of plat
forms. the breaking of windows and
serious injury to several persons.
Rev. L. NJ. Brown, pastor of the First
Lutheran church at Wynantskill, n.
Y. was knocked senscleSs by stroke
of lightning, on the Goth, while adj
dressing the young people of his church.
His injuries are not necessarily fatal.
THE health authorities of New York
city, on the Goth. issued stringent or
ders for the cleansing and disinfection
of some of the more filthy quarters of
the city in view of the possibility of an
importation of cholera.
ID. II. MONROE, one of the leaders of
the riotous miners in east Tennessee,
had a preliminary examination before
Squire Kincaid at Coal Creek, on the
26th, and was held to the criminal court
without bail on charge of murder in
the first degree.
Gov. EAGLE Of Arkansas, who is at
the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. John
Doty, near Richmond, Ky, was. on the
25th. declared by his physician, DIR.
Stuckey, of Louisville, to be in seri-
Gus condition.
JAMES r. MORTON was hanged at
Camden, n. j., on the Goth, for the
murder of an aged colored woman,
Lydia Ann Watt, in May last.
Gov. BUCHANAN of Tennessee had
SO far recovered from his recent indis-
position on the Goth as to be bile to go
to the state capitol and attend to some
pressing matters.
DISPATCHES of the Goth indicated an
increase in the virulence of the cholera
epidemic in Russia and in Hamburg,
Germany.
JOHN NJ. BURKE, of Spokane, was
nominated by the democrats of Idaho,
on the 27th, for governor.
Hon. J. RANDOLPH TUCKER, of Vir- |
ginia, was elected president of the
American Bar association at Saratoga, |
n. Y, on the Goth.
HAL POINTER won the pacing match
with Direct finished at Columb bus, O.,
on the Goth. Best time, 2:11M.