Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-05-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

\ cL"UB-BVRsT. on the morning OF
the 18th. caused the waters Of the river
Floyd. which passes through The center
of Sioux CITY. Ia. to overflow lis banks
and in Il few minutes a large portion of
the city was inundated. and. although
the work of rescue was promptly inau-
gurated. Il number of the unfortunates
We're drowned. Seventv-fve houses
We're carried away. and 300 with their
contents. We're ruined.
SIxTEES cottages in the SC,vver p0r-
ton of the city of New Orleans. valued
at 10000, We're destroyed 10y fire ON the
18th. Loss covered by insura nee in To-
cal companies.
The earl of Hopetown. governor of
Victoria. refused to postpone the exc
cution of the murderer frederick Bailey
Deeming. is set down for the I'D.
THE mail carrier from NarshalOt
carried news to Guthrie, Okla. On the
18th. of a battle between United States
deputy marshals and horse thieves in
the Sac and Fox country, IN which two
of the thieves and one of the deputies
were killed. These are the thieves who
killed William Stormer, of Orland, re-
Gently.
WHILE riding in New York Central
express train Albert l.. Stetson. an en-
pIoye of. Cross Il Begun. dealers in dia-
,mOnds and jewclry in New York. sud-
denly became insane. Just rs the train
was passing Hyde Park. y. Y. he
leaped from his seat. shouting 'They'r re
after me in q loud voice. and standing
in the aisle drew pOcket-llnifc.
plunged it into his throat aEol with two
twists of his wrist drew it tss the right
and left. cutting his throat from ear to
ear.
PRINCESS CHRISTIAN. third daughter
of Queen Victoria. represented her
majesty 1T the second drawiug-roOm of
the season. held on the 18th at Buck
ingham palace. Mrs Robert 7. Lin
coin, wife of the American minister.
presented Mrs. Potter Palmer. of Chi
cago. and Mrs. Grubb. wife of the Amer
lean minister to Spain.
Mr.. Ii. K. GARDEN gave a dinner at
the Manhattan club. New York. on the
18th. in honor of ex-Presidcnt Cleve-
land. ex-Secretary of State Thomas f..
Byard. .ex-Minister to England Edward
j. Phelps. Mr.. George q. Williams and
Mr.. George :. Coe. comprising the adj
visGry board for the bOndholders of the
state eff Virginia. There We're also pres
ent Gen. FitzEugh Lee, John InInan.
Senator Brice, ex-Secretary Fairchild
and others
JomN h. WADE. a book-bindser- went
hunting on the 18th, in the vicinity OF
Laramie. Wyo. His dead body, into
which had been fired two charges of
shot. was found eight miles from town
at dusk. Investigation indicated that
Wade accidentally shot himself In the
groin. and that after suffering intense
" for some time ne ended his misery by
e1nptying the second barrel of his gun
into his heart.
TIE great relar bicycle run between
Chicago and New York was begun on
the 18th. at noon. The riders carry a
dispatch from Gen. Miles to Gen. How
ard. and DO delay is made day or night
each relay being ready and started tn
receive the dispatch bag. VI uch inter
est Is manifested By wheelmen along
the route
LORD SALISBURY. the British premier.
made speech al Hastings, on the 18th.
IN which he surprised his hearers by
declaring that the free-trade policy of
Eng land had tseen carried too far and
that the time he'd come to look about
and See wherein British labor could be
protected from foreign competition.
ADvICEs from Liverpool. on the 18th.
announced the death. IN that city. of
ex-Congressman John a. Anderson. of
Kansas. consul-general at Cairo. Egypt.
who was en- route home on account of
failing health. He was for many years
engaged in the ministry in Kansas. and
was president of the Kansas state agri-
cultural college for seven years
THE quarters of three cavalry COM
panies and the post canteen were burned
at Fort Mckinney. Wyo.. on the 18th.
All of them Were new buildings. and
with their contents were worth $780,
| 600. This puts half of the garrison in
tents. but the weather is mild. The
explosion OF stove in one of the COM
pany's houses started the fire. BY hard
! work the stables were saved. Nobody
was injured.
IT has been definitely decided that
Gov. Mckinley viii deliver the formal
opening ad dress at the dedication OF
the big convention hall in Minneapolis
| on the night before the opening of