Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The more the matter is studied the
more manifest does it appear that the
marvellous improvements which have
recently been made and which are still
constantly in progress in the invention
and manufacture of the engines and i'm
plementS of war, and of the projectiles
and explosives adapted to them. are
steadily and rapidly tending toward a
point which, when it is arrived at. will
make a war between two civilized peO-
piles highly inexpedient, if not morally
impossible.
March 81 of the current year the num-
Der of immigrants from all countries
except Canada and Mexico was 90, ST.,
an increase of 9,239 over the same pc
Rod of last year: and vet there be those
who insist that this is a land which Of
fers no attraction to people who are
anxious to better their condition.
ANTHONY CRAIG, an Austrian, whose
wife was insane, and whom he had
few days before brought home from the
insane asylum at Independence, was,
together with his wife. found dead in
their home at Dubuque, Ia, on the even
ing of the 5th. Craig had killed his
wife and committed suicide because life
was unbearable with his life's partner
ir an insane asylum.
THE largest crowd of people that
ever visited Button, o., witnessed.
on the evening of the 18th, the para
chute leap of Miss Dessa Garrett, of
Cincinnati She made the ascension of
1000 feet. and was carried by the wind
half mile from where she started.
The descent was one of the most horri-
BILE ever witnessed, as she fell in stone
quarry in about twenty feet of water
and was dead when taken out.
THE village of Churchill, Queen Anne
county, Md, was struck by a cloud
burst, on the night of the Sd. and many
houses in the town were badly dam
aged. No one was seriously hurt, but
the loss to property was heavy.
OPERATOR HAYES, Engineer Kelly
and Fireman Brown, who are charged
with being the cause of the recent rail-
road accident in Harrisburg, Pa, gave
bail, on the 5th, for their appearance at
the September term of court in Harris
burg.
GEN. JAMES S. GARRISON says that
Mr.. Carnegie's vast fortune has been
made by his men, and he has written
much about the responsibilities of
wealth, and should put some of his
beautiful theories into practice in deal
ing with the workmen at Homestead,
Pa, as there has been no convulsion in
business requiring such course as has
been taken there.
A POSSE of deputy sheriffs sent to
Carnegie's Homestead pa works to
guard what was in no danger were es-
corted out of town by the locked-out
employees, on the 5th, not being allowed
to enter the works.
A GALLERY that has been dubbed the
Conservation Bureau has been erected
in the New York post office, from which,
through the Slated blinds, the eyes of
keen-eyed inspectors can view the oper-
atoms of employees. some of whom have
been. of late, very careless, to use mod
crate term.
FRESH deaths from cholera have oc-
CURED in the suburbs of Paris. DIR.
German Zee describes the condition of
the barracks of Paris as scandalouS. He
says they are perfect hotbeds of infec-
ton, and that some of them have not
been cleaned, whitewashed or repaired
in a century.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Times says: Cholera APP
pears to be advancing towards Moscow.
1t is privately reported that the disease
has appeared on the other side of the
Volga in Samara. The mortality is in
creasing in Baku and the suburbs
THE sundry civil appropriations bill,
reported to the senate, on the 9th, from
the committee on appropriations, car
ries items aggregating $50, 797, 79s. an
increase of s1I. 514, SIG over the house
bill Included in the increase is an APP
preparation of S., los, 900 in aid of the
Worlds fair.
A NEGRO named Jones, charged with
the murder of NJ. Tierney. was taken
from the Jail at Weston, w. Va, on the
9th and hanged by mob.
CLAUS SPRECkELs sailed from San Fran
cisco for Honolulu, on the steamer Aus
tralia, on the 9th. 1t is stated that he
will erect a sugar refinery there.
PRESIDENT HARRISON promptly made
arrangements to keep himself posted on
events transpiring at Homestead, Pa,
during the disgraceful riot of the 9Th.
Mrs. ANNIE BRoDERIcK and her three
children were suffocated in the burn
ing of their home in New York city ut
S:45 a N. of the It'll.