Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-09


treasury, including the gold reserve, at
the close of business May 81, was $780,
COS, $500. Decrease during the month
of May, s5,512,275.Oo. The aggregate of
the public debt at the same date, in
Guiding certificates and treasury notes,
was 81, sos, 44e, $1,000.
A DISASTROUS crevasSe occurred on
the right bank of the Mississippi, thirty
miles above New Orleans, on the I'd.
In one hour it had widened to forty
feet and was five feet deep.
A CONSERVATIVE estimate of the
amount of damage caused by the high
waters from Kansas City, Mo-, to New
Orleans, places the loss at the enormous
figure of $4,000, 900.
THE Steamer John Matthews. loaded
with corn. bound for Pine Bluff, Ark,
ran against the pier on the bridge over
the Arkansas river at Van Buren,. Ark,
at o'clock on the morning OF the 3D.
and sank. Rescuing parties at once
set to work to save the crew. Capt.
Black, the pilot, and at least one-third
of the crew are lost
THE levee in front of the Bell Chase
plantation, on the right bank OF the
Mississippi river, fifteen miles below
New Orleans, caved in, on the Sd. and
in few minutes a crevasse OF fifty
four feet wide and six feet deep was
raging. The break will cause great
loss to many planters in the lower
coast.
IN frightful thunderstorm in Lack
awanna county. Pa, on the night of the
I'd, two boys were killed and a boy and
girl fatally injured by lightning.
THE United States steamer Texas,
which has been under construction for
so long a time at the Norfolk (Va.) navy
yard is to be launched on the 2Sth, at
noon.
THE most desperate man Sewer coun-
ty, Tenn, has ever produced was arrest
ed near Knoxville on the Sd. His name
is James Sutton. His latest crime was
cutting one Little to pieces with
hatchet last September. For this he
was confined in the Sevierville Jail, but
escaped the following month. IN De-
cember he was recaptured. but III jan
nary made his escape again. Besides
other accomplishments. he has been
married three times and all his wives
are living.
IT is declared positively by a person
who is in a position to know, but who
declines to have his named used, that
the Dalton gang, which held up the
Santa Fe express at Red Rock, l. T., Sc
cured from the Wells-Fargo company
safe $4,000 in cash, which was being
forwarded from the treasury depart
ment at Washington to the agent of the
Sac and Fox Indians.
WHAT is believed to be the largest
aerolite ever known to have fallen Is
lying in the Caspian sea short distance
from the peninsula of Apsheron. SO
enormous is it that it projects twelve
feet above the water, and save for its
fused black crust, which gives it the
appearance of having been vanished,
it has the appearance of being one of
the usual rocky formations met with
along the coast.
A COAL train switching on sidetrack
half a mile west of Colchester, Ill, on
the evening of the Sd, ran into con-
struction train on the main line and
smashed up several cars. William Peck,
a young man of Colchester, was killed
outright; Swede named Gus Chelgren
fatally and several others severely in
jured.
GENERAL Strike Is 1IIlInlneHJ dt tllc
great Calumet and Hecla copper mine
in upper Michigan. The company
threatens to discharge all employees who
are members of the Knights of Labor
or any other labor organization. A
long struggle is expected. as the unions
are very strong at Calumet.
Mrs HENRY THOMAS, of Cadiz, O., sent
her 5-year old son Willie to store to
buy snuff on the Sd. Later the boy
was found dead near his house with his
mouth full of snuff. 1t is supposed that
he had undertaken to use it and was
strangled to death.
A BRANCH of the Illinois Wonan's Ex-
position board has been formed at
Bloomington, H., and the following Of
ficers elected: President. Mrs. Geo. T.
Brown; vice-president, Mrs. w. o. Davis;
secretary. Mrs. ii. c. Denote. The
women are taking interest in the move
ment.