Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-24

mother and daughter were gone HI,
rested easy until Tuesday about noon
when he proceeded to Mrs Donnellv':
and there learned that his wife had no
been there at all; that Mrs. d. was in
her usual health. and in no notion o.
dying at present; that she had not beer
sick, and had not sent for Mrs W.
| Since then he has been unable to learn
anything of the whereabouts of the
mother and daughter; they have, to
him, disappeared as completely as il
the earth had opened and swallowed
them. There had been no disagree
ment or trouble in the family, and Mr..
W. is unable to assign any reason what
ever for their strange conduct.
Mention was made in last week s
REGISTER of the sad death of Hon. G.
ID. 4ancey's only son, the news coming
to us just as we were about to go to
press. The following particulars are
taken from the Piedmont Sentinel ::
IAN appalling accident occurred here
Tuesday, by which little Charley Yam
cey, the bright and promising son of
Hon. c. d. Yancey of this city, met a
sa1 and untimely death. Charley with
some other boys had gotten on freight
train for ride as it was pulling out of
the yard. going north at few minutes
after twelve o'clock. When the train
reached the rOad-crossing just north of
town he attempted to jump from one car
to another and fell between the cars.
He was drug quite distance and sew
eral cars passed over him before the
train could be stopped. He was pick
ed up and put into the caboose and
brought back to the depot and carried
to the Commercial Hotel and medical
aid summoned. He lived about one
hour and half and was conscious most
of the time and talked to his father,
and told him he was dying. His body
was badly mangled. The wheels pass
ed over both thighs, cutting one leg
entirely off and his whole body was
bruised and torn. Proper religious
services were held at the Methodist
church yesterday afternoon, previous
to the interment. Charley's last words
were: Papa, mamma has been dead
nearly three years. | am dying now
Then closing his eyes a moment, he
opened them and said, There is mann
ma Then the eyelids dropped, the
light in the soft brown eyes went out
and he was with his mother. Charley
leaves father and two sisters to whom
we extend our sincere coincidence in
this their saddest of sorrows"
Last Saturday, about one o'clock P.
VI. was witnessed by many people the
most vivid display of halos and parhel-
la false or mock suns) ever seen in this
section. This magnificent display con-
sisted of a principal or prime halo of
bright colors, with the sun as its CEN
ter, and several brightly colored arcs
one on each side of the prime
halo. The point at which these arcs
touch the principal halo are called
parhelia or mock suns; parhelion be-
ing itself a source of light, sometimes
very intense, may have its surrounding
halos, &c. All phenomena of the lat
ter class are termed secondary. They
are in general. as might be expected,
much fainter than the PRIMARY ones,
but on this occasion they were distinct
Ly observed. These phenomena are
explained on the same theory as the
rainbOw-the reflection and refractiOn
Of light. But to understand this va
riety of phenomenon, we must consider
the sun to be partially obscured by a
mist or cloud, the latter not being of
the species called cirrus; and this mist
Dr. cloud consisting of small particles of
water in the spherical form, produces
the phenomenon of the rainbow.
But halos and parhelia depend upon
the presence in the air of innumerable
crystals of ice, generally forming a
light cirrus cloud. These crystals are
of various forms, and their combination
act as a prism, decomposing white
light, which passes through them, into
its constituent colors. These various
shaped prisms are suspended in the air
in all manner of positions, and are
constantly changing in such way as
to present to the eye some definitely
colored ray from each surface. 1t is
perhaps a difficult task to explain to
the unmathematical mind the forma
ton of parhelia, and to show why they
from the halo and form ex-
ternally to it, and are at the same alti-
titude as the sun. These phenomena,
though common to the artic regions are
rarely seen in this latitude, and scien-
tific knowledge of them is based upon
the accurate observations and records
of artic explorers. Those of Saturday
were exceptionally fine and excited not