Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| II would seem that Europe has faith
in the stability of the French repub bile.
! For the first time in three quarters OF Il
| century the per cent. French rentes
are quoted at par. This is encoura~ in@
for other nations having republican
! tendencies.
| L. HABEECOM. first auditor of the
| trxasurE department, has resigned
| Mr.. IIa bcrcom will resume his news
| paper connections in Washington.
! CONVENTION week brought together
| in Minneapolis Il number of the rela-
| tives of President Harrison from vari-
Gus parts of the country. On the night
of the 18th Il reunion of the Harrison
| family was held at the residence of f.
J. Davenport in Minneapolis, whose
wife is niece of the president. There
| We're present two brothers. two sisters.
| an uncle and Il number of nephe*s and
nieces of the president.
TIE false work of an iron bridge in
course of construction across the Lick
| ing river between COvingtOu and New
port. Ky. collapsed. on the 18th, and
| carried down with it ninety men en-
plOyed upon the structure. Forty of
| them. including two of the contractors.
We're crushed under the ruins at the
bottom of the river and killed: an
equal number were seriously injured,
and but few entirely escaped.
DURING Il terrific storm at Earring.
Ia, on the 18th, Il 2-year-old child cf
Geo. Hannume, of Dodge township.
was caught in the storm and drowned
in pond made by the flood.
THE Worlds Columbian exposition
committee of the house was in session
several hours. on the 18th. considering
its appropriation bill, but did not COM
plete the measure.
The usual commencement exercises
of the Wisconsin state university at
Madison. were dispensed with. on the
18th, and Maj. j. W. Powell. director Of
the United States geological survey.
delivered an address before a large
audience, the subject being The Law
of Culture"
FATHER MoLLISGER, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, the healing priest. to whom thou
sands We're focIling for help, died at
80 p. III. on the 18th.
THE seven large ice houses belonging
to the Union Ice Co.. of Chicago. and
situated in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. at the
mouth of the bay. We're blown down.
on the 18th. during a terrible gale from
the southeast.
DURING a terrible tornado which
struck Bangor, Me-. on the evening of
the 18th. doing considerable damage.
the little steamer Annie, which carries
excursion parties up and down the
PenobScot river, was caught in the
squall a short distance below the Maine
Central wharf and capsized. Miss
MADELEINE Adams was drowned. Six
teen other passengers had narrow
escape.
scene, on the 18th, OF fearful storm of
wind and hail, which spread death.
manning and destruction over a wide
expanse of country. Its effects were
most severely felt in the demolition of
school buildings, and the killing and
injury of the pupils The storm ex-
tended through New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia.
Mrs. DEACON. the cause of the agedy
at Cannes. France. in which NJ. Abeille
was shot and killed in her apartments
in the hotel by her husband. has arrived
in San Jose. Cal. and is living in retire
ment at the home of her brother.
Charles Baldwin, a short distance from
San Jose.
THERE is serious disagreement on
the wage question between the Anal
gamated Associat ton of Iron and Steel
Workers and the Pennsylvania iron
manufacturers, and unless there is
compromise effected there will be gen
eral strike on July l.
WILLIAM HENRY PAINToN. who,
while robbing old Mr.. and Mrs Mi
chacl Strominger, at Lewisburg. Pa,
March 81, overpowored and bound
them, from the effects of which Mrs.
Stroruinger died, was hanged at York,
Pa. on the 18th. for the murder.
A MEETING of American hardware
manufacturers was held in New York
on the 18th. The session was secret.
and it was rumored about among retail
hardware men that gigantic trust was
about to be formed by the wholesalers
and manufacturers.
THE indictments found in New York
against Messrs- Ives and Staynor for
appropriating money belonging to the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail-
road have been dismissed The district
attorney did not think conviction
could be obtained.
FRANK TURNER, white, was fined 500
in each of 1,577 cases for Illicit whisky
selling in the local-option town of Lam
caster, KY. and John Smith. a negro,
confessed judgment in 1.533 casas