Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-25
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

struction and repair, in the absence of
Chief Constructor Wilson. This model
will DE sent TO the coming exposition in
Portland, Ore.
TEN THOUSAND people attended the
early settlers picnic at Dubuque, Ia,
on the 18th, and arrangements were
made for the erection of a monument
over the grave of Julian Dubuque, to
whom baron Carondelet, the Spanish
governor of Louisiana, gave a grant of
land in 171s.
Mrs. n. E. BEAsLEY, of Chicago, is
the inventor of a grain pipe line for
carrying small grain. The project is
still in its incipiency, but Mrs. Beasley
is confident of the final success of the
invention.
GRAssHOPPERs in countless thronps
are doing an immense amount of dam
age in Huron and adjoining counties of
Ohio to oats and other growing crops
So destructive have they been that
whole fields of oats have been destroyed
Farmers have plowed them under or
turned cattle in the fields. Garden veg
etables and other green things are sub
ject to their rava2es.
PROF. JAMES LAwHEAD. territorial
auditor and superintendent of instruc-
ton. died at Guthrie, Okla, on the 18th,
aged 60. He had been a very promi-
nent educator all his life, and held
many prominent positions in Kansas
and Ohio before going to Oklahoma.
TIE train bearing the body of Rep
resentative Warwick of the Sixteenth
congressional district of Ohio left
WaS hinrtnr, he Of ha
for Massillon, his former home, where
the funeral services were held on the
10th.
THREE THOUSAND mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine with cleaning lances and bril-
liant uniforms, afoot, in carriages and
on camels, wendell their way through
the oasis of Omaha on the evening of
the 18th. The caravan was n magnifi-
cent spectacle and 10000 people gath
erod along the line of march to witness
the grand parade.
WIN. CUDAHY, a contractor of the firm
of Phillips & CUdahy. at the Michigan
state prison in jackson, was killed at
that institution. on the 18th, by a life
prisoner named Henry Blockman, who
is doing time for numbering his wife
and family.
JOHN DUNBAR, aged %, waded beyond
his depth while seining fish. inviolation
of the state law, in the Des Moines
river near Dayton, Ia. on the 18th, and
was drowned. A dozen companions
watched him drown, unwilling to risk
their own lives in trying to save him.
SHERIFF J. L. LOPEZ, of Las Vegas
n. NJ, telegraphed to Chief of Police
Harrigan of st. Louis, on the 18th, to
send him a hangman's rope by express
Immediately, as they had man out
there, supposed to be a horse thief,
that they wanted to hang right away.
The sheriff said the execution would be
legal and proper.
In consequence of the dread prevail
ing in Teheran, the Persian capital,
over the invasion of cholera, the shah
has taken up his residence at camp at
Elburz, twenty-four miles from Tehe-
ran In the city there is an alarming
increase in the number of cholera cases
reported daily. Every day the deaths
average 500.
CANADA's sheep trade with Great
Britain has been a failure this season.
Shippers have sustained heavy losses,
and are now dropping out of the market
altogether, so the season is practically
over. The shipments up to August Is
amounted to IA, 763 sheep, against %, 739
for the same period last year.
THE body of Russell Benedict, who
died in Austria, July 10, has reached
Danbury, Conn, deceased's former
home, encased in a solid silver casket
deliberately embellished with gold. On
the top is gold crucifix two feet long.
The casket is carried by means of eight
gold handles, and is supported by six
lions legs. Festoons of gold flowers
are draped around it. In each of the
corners is gold angel six inches high.
On the 10th Major J. Houk, of Bald
win, Mich, met his wife Stella. from
whom he parted two years ago, in COM
pany with her sister and Frank Gray.
Pulling his revolver he shot and killed
the woman and probably fatally
wounded Gray. He was prevented by
bystanders from killing the sister.
THE town of Delmar, Del, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 10Th.
The burned area comprises about three
acres and includes all the leading
stores, two churches, railroad station
and repair shops of the Delaware rail-
road company; the postoffice, Delmar
hotel and 100 dwellings. Hundreds of
people were rendered homeless with
the loss of all their possessions
THE names of the members of the
new British cabinet were made public
on the 10th. The list comprises many
veteran statesmen of long experience in
various official positions, some of them
having been with Mr.. Gladstone during
former terms as premier.
AN itinerant Italian, travelling with
his little son and trained bear. took
shelter from a storm under tree in
the Adirondacks. The tree was struck
by lightning and all three were killed.
THE duke of Devonshire was married
at Christ church. London, on the 10th,
to the dowager duchess of Manchester,
with whom his name had long been
associated.
SIX workmen were killed and fifteen
injured by the wreck of a construction
train, caused by an open switch, near
Coshocton, o.. on the 10th.
DRAFTS of the order of the Iron Hall
on NJ. c. Davis. the supreme cashier.
which have heretofore been honored by
the Meridian national bank of Indian
apolis. Ind. through the clearing house,
went to protest, on the 18th, Judge
TAYLOR having issued an order that no
more checks or drafts be honored pend
ing the hearing of the petition for the
appointment of a receiver.
THE Brown-Ketchum iron works OF
indianapolis has made the lowest pro-