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

the address of business firms was added.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
BARON HIRsCH, the well-known
philanthropist, is suffering from an at
tack of influenza and congestion of the
lungs. His condition is serious.
SIMON LOCKEOY writes that the king
and court party of Italy are in favor of
war. and that the king will endcavor
to provoke a war between Germany and
France in order to divert Italy's atten-
ton from domestic financial difficult
ties.
IT is officially stated that acceptances
have been received by the United States
government from eight countries of
Europe of the invitation to participate
in the bi-mctallic conference.
ADvICEs by steamer from Honolulu
state that Robert Wilcox. leader of the
Instruction there a few years ago. and
sixteen others have been arrested for
treason.
Miss LILLE NORFOLK, aged so. quite
well-known in brooklyn society and
amateur theatrical circles, committed
suicide, on the night of the 30th, by
choking herself to death. She kEelt
beside a washbasin and held her throat
against the marble until she was suffo-
Gated.
ALL the Europeans have left Serina-
CUR, Bengal. There were 2,45O deaths
from cholera there from May eth to the
51st.
SIXTYTwO business houses of Mason
City, Ia, were closed. on the 31st, on
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sweeping the city. During the eight
days preceding there had been $50 con-
versions and the work was seemingly
only begun. Evangelists Munhall and
Birch, assisted by Doctors Parsons, Pat
terson. Millikan and Johnson, are con-
Quoting the work.
Gov. MCKINLEY of Ohio has received
a letter from one who signs himself the
leader of the Red Mountain Still Gang"
of Red Mountain, near Birmingham,
Ala, which claims that the gang COM
mitted the Columbus Grove bank rob
berry and murder last August, for which
Frank Won Loon is now awaiting exc
cution at Columbus.
A YOUNG Italian in Rome has recent
ly perfected an invention which will
prove of immense value in future war
fare. 1t consists of a species of candle
intended to be projected from a cannon.
On striking any solid substance it
breaks and, taking fire, produces light
of 100, 900 candle-power, which illumi-
mates the field for a great distance.
AT the New York produce and cotton
exchanges ANIMALS. on the 1st, the for
mer reported years business of s4lO,-
2O6, 900, an increase of $50. O00.0 900 over
the previous year. The cotton ex-
changes report showed: Total transac-
tions for future delivery, 90, 49,. 800
bales, against 20. $50, 800 bales last year,
and 81 .Os4. 100 in 1890; spot sales, 49,
pa bales. against 1868 and 5,443
bales in the other two years. The mem
bers of the exchange now hold the
largest stock of cotton in the port of
New York ever brought there. SO, 900
bales. amounting to more than half the
entire stock in the ports of the United
States.
TRAIN No. IS on the st. Paul & Du-
luth road was derailed fifty miles south
of Duluth Mimi. on the 1st. by strik-
ing two oxen. The engine and seven
teen cars were ditched. killing Fireman
David Burroughs. Engineer John Kers-
land sustained a broken leg, and the
brakeman, name unknown, was badly
injured.
BRIG. GEN. ID. S. STANLEY, command
ing the department of Texas was
placed on the retired list, on the 1st, on
account of age. and Brighten. c. Il.
FELTON,, Acknowledgements, will close his
active service in the army for the same
reason on the oath.
THE floods in indianapolis and vicin-
ity caused by the heavy rains of the
last days of May caused the loss of at
least thirty lives.
DURING a fight between factions of
Chinese in Chinatown. Sacramento. on
the night of the 31st, two Chinese were
killed and several wounded.
Miss MILDLY" MORGAN. the foremost
woman writer on topics connected with
horses and cattle in the United States,
died. on the 1st, at st. Francis hospital,
Jersey City. y. J.. aged Is. She was
known to every cattle breeder of any
prominence in the country. and her
opinions were eagerly sought. The
bulk of her ample estate passes to her
sister Jane, a well-known artist.
THREE HUNDRED MEN are at work on
the Wolfiey canal in Arizona. and it will
be rapidly pushed to completion. 1t
will be seventy-six miles in length. and
the largest irrigation canal in the United
States. The dam in the ella river. from
which the water will be supplied. has
been completed. 1t will open to cult
Walton 800. 900 acres of land heretofore
part OF the desert.
GEORGE SEBASTIAN. aged 35, a once
wealthy citizen of New Orleans, who
went to Monte Carlo and lost his entire
fortune. and returned and took a posi-
ton as porter in the establishment he
once owned. committed suicide. on the
LIST. by shooting himself in the head.
He was in love with a young woman,
but his impoverished condition pre-
Guided the idea OF marriage.
CLARENCE G. WILSON, of Burlington,
Ia, superintendent of the Iowa lines of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, was
washed from the railroad track at Dud-
ley, Ia, on the I'd, by sudden wave in
the Des Moines river and drowned.