Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-06

NA- W. hICHARDS. president OF CEe
Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Co.,
and director of the Continental Insur-
ance Co. of New York, died of heart fail
ure on ferry boat at New York on the
| night of the .1th. He was "a years of
age.
GEORGE FRANKLIN CoMsTOCK. ex-
chief judge of the New York court of
appeals, died in Syracuse, on the 27th,
after a lingering illness, aged 81 years.
ABORTION of the immense works of the
Singer Manufacturing Co at Eliza beth
port, n. j.. were destroyed by fire on
the 18th. Total loss. over $3.50, 900, with
| no insurance. Several hundred en-
| ployes We're thrown out of work.
Mrs. ANNIE MURPHY, so years old,
| was shot and fatally wounded by he.
| husband, Thomas, at their home in
New York. on the 2Sth. for asking him
| for money to buy provisions for break
| fast
GABRIELLE DE Rosa. of Portland,
Me-. who sta bbed and killed his broth
err, was, on the 10Th. found guilty of
murder in the first degree. The pris-
| oner was not affected in the least, hav-
ing evidently expected the verdict. A
sentence of imprisonment for life will
be imposed.
Two more bodies from the Western
Reserve, which went down recently in
Lake Superior, were found on the
2Sth, one an unknown seaman and the
other supposed to be the engineer.
MIKE BRENNAN and Joseph Strol1ol
| were fatally burned, on the Goth, by
being precipitated into pot of molten
metal at the Edgar Thomson Steel
works at Braddock, Pa.
A FIRE in the Winslow block at Har-
riman, Tenn, on the goth, caused a
loss of $4,000. The United States Ex-
press Co. and Western Union Telegraph
Co. were burned out.
TEN men were entombed by a cave
in at the East Norris mine at Iron
| wood, Mich, on the Goth. It is feared
that they have all been killed.
THE condition of Senator Mills. of
Texas was reported worse on the Goth,
and he may be unable to take further
active part in the campaign.
THE official figures of the guberna-
torial vote of Maine at the last cleo
ton. every city, town and plantation
included. gives Cleaves (rep.), G7.5S5;
Johnson (dem.). 55,O13: Massey (pro.),
8, Isl: Know lton Qabor). LOGO; Bette
man (people's), 3,O05; scattering, Il.
Total. 12G, 629; Cleaves' plurality, 12,512.
TIE and 10-year-old daughters of
Charles Billups. of Huntington, w. Va,
were shot while sitting in the doorway
of their home. on the Goth. and the
elder one is not expected to live. The
shooting was done by Mrs. James Pike,
an aunt of the children. She was
melted to commit the deed by an at
tack made on her husband by Billups.
The steamer Massilia, which arrived
at New York on the 3Oth, reported
that on September -. in latitude 1855
and longitude 45:15, she ran into the
wreck of Il large vessel which was
fioatin level with the water, and
stove in one of her bow plates, causing
the steamer to leak slightly. No other
damage. The wreck is dangerous to
navigation.
Two NEGRO women-Martha Haley
and Leach Nixon-were. on the 30th,
convicted at Hartford, NC, of poison
ing Mollie Nixon by placing arsenic in
her food. Leach Nixon is sentenced to
be hanged December 5. and Martha
HALEY to life imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary.
A WARRANT was issued in New York.
on the both, for the arrest of Count
Mitkiewicz. who is said to have de-
frauded several business men of that
city and Brooklyn by means of his
schemes for the promotion of enter
prises in the Chinese empire.
THERE was no perceptibie change in
Mrs. Harrison's condition on the 30th.
She had passed a fairly good day and
was resting comforta bly,.
JOHN Connolly. a well-known man
of Newark. y. j., and one of the found
ers of the baseball club there, dropped
dead on the 30th.
PAUL T.: BUTLER. Of Alamo. Mich,
was nominated for congress, on the
3Oth, by the Third district prohibition
lists.
In Bayreuth typhus fever has become
epidemic. The daily number of dealt
average between ten and twelve.
PRINCE HENRY of Reuss died of diph-
liberia at RadautZ. on the 30th.