Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-25


at New bury. S. c., at a political speak
ing on the 18th. A quarrel ensued and
bloodshed was narrowly averted by the
fortunate breakdown of the platform
on which the friends of the parties had
crowded, pistol in hand.
On the 18th Supreme Cashier Davis
of the order of the Iron Hall refused to
surrender his books to the investiga-
ton committee, and soon after disap-
peared.
On the 18th the president pardoned,
because of i'll health, George West, of
Arkansas, sentenced in 1889 to eleven
years Imprisonment at Little Rock for
larceny.
The grand stand at horse show be-
ing held in Buxton, Derbyshire, En-
gland, fell, on the nth, while crowded
with thousands of persons. About 700
went down in the ruins. Fortunately
there were, so far as can be ascer-
tanned. no fatalities.
WITH the strike of the Nickel Plate
switchmen. on the 18th, all theVander-
bilt lines at Buffalo were tied up. The
situation was sOgrave that all the state
troops were placed under orders and
5000 were hurried to the scene.
A FIRE, on the night of the 18th, in the
town Of Scordavsk. Russian govern
ment of Saratov, destroyed 800 houses
and made 100 persons homeless
THE British parliament was pro-
rogued, Oh the 18th. until Decem Der 4.
THE members of the retiring British
cabinet went to Osborne, on the 18th,
and surrendered their seals of office,
and on the same day the new ministers
called upon her majesty Queen Victoria
and received at her hands the seals SO
surrendered. Writs on which the new
ministers must go before their con-
stituents for reelection were issued by
the speaker of the house of commons.
CHARLES II. PECKHAM, of Central viii
lage, Westport, Mass, presume bly, in
sane, surrendered to the police of Fall
River, on the 18th, declaring himself to
be the murderer of Mr.. and Mrs. Borden,
whom he said he killed ''Out of pure
love of blood" He wished some of the
officers to accommodate him by hang
ing him at once.
IT transpires that Miss Lizzie Borden
was arrested for the murder of her
father and step-mother at Fall River,
Mass, on the strength of certain state
ments made by Bridget Sullivan. a do
nestle employed in the family, which,
if borne out, will make strong circum-
stantial case against Miss Borden.
THE trotting and pacing records have
both been broken. Nancy Hanks trot-
ted a mile, at Chicago, on the 18th. in
2:074. and Hal Pointer paced a like dis
lance at the same place, on the 18th, in
2:0514. In both cases the new pneu-
matte tired sulkies were used.
THE seige of Fort Anderson at Coal
Creek, Tenn, was raised. on the 10Th,
by Gen. Carnes. who Immediately de-
named the surrender of Capt. Ander-
son, who had been captured by treach-
cry the day before. This was at first
refused, but upon Gen. Carnes' threat
to make reprisals upon the captured
miners the captain was speedily surren-
dered.
NEARLY all the New York state
troops had arrived in Buffalo by a.
m, of the 10Th, when Gen. Doyle issued
general order establishing fifteen
camps, there being fully sixty miles of
track to be guarded, together with
roundhouses, repair shops, freight sheds
and depots.
The steamer Texas, from Montreal
for Bristol, and the steamer Trafalgar,
from Pictou for Montreal, collided in
Lake st. Peter, on the 10Th, both vessels
being cOnsidera bly, damaged.
Up to the 10Th the state treasurer of
Pennsylvania had paid out sl52, 900 on
account of militia service at Homestead.
THE convention of the Irish Catholic
Benevolent union at Toledo, o., was
brought to a close at noon on the 10Th.
THE window glass factories will open
September under last years scale.
THE Thornton family, of Arkansas,
held a reunion on the 10Th. One hun
bred members were present, their ages
ranging from month to 9Oyears.
ANARCHY reigns in many towns in
Persia owing to the prevalence of the
cholera.
THE Salem Wire Mill Co., of Findlay,
o., is erecting an immense fence around
its property preparatory to an indefi-
mite shutdown on account of wages.