Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


was drowned in the Presumscot river
at Deering, Me-, on the 4th. Mrs. Mary
'Curran, quite elderly, who saw the &C
,cident, dropped dead from excitement.
Four women have recently been muir
,dered and lmutilated in Oostburg,
small village on the island of Dads,
Netherlands. All were of the poorest
class. The murders were committed
at night, and the bodies were dissected
in the manner pursued by Jack the
Ripper. Up to the 4th no arrests had
been made.
On the 18th the Hawaiian sealing
steamer Alexander, Capt. Mclean, ar
rived at San Francisco from the Japan
sealing grounds with catch of little
over 5000 skins. Capt. Mclean denies
having been in Behring sea.
A PANIC and rush in which thirty or
forty persons were thrown down and
trampled, was caused by fire in the
Eden theater at 'Ostend, Belgium, on
the night of the 4th. Many of the VIC
TINS were taken to the hospital.
On the 9Th the great Midland rail-
way of England issued an order to lay
off thirty daily passenger trains on and
after the 10th. owing to the scarcity of
fuel caused by the miners strike.
The earl of Aberdeen sailed from Liv-
erpool for Ameraea ON the 18th.
On August 4 the village of Honton-
kri, Japan, was destroyed by fire; on
9th Hakozakizi, containing sixty
houses. was burned, and on the 10th
the village of I~anokami, in Tamba
province, was destroyed with loss of
sixty-four lives
The delegates of the Pan-American
medical congress at Washington were
rendered a reception by President
Cleveland at the White House on the
9th.
BARTHoLDI, the sculptor, wants to
build an American Pantheon of marble
or brass around the statue of Liberty
in New York harbor, concentrating
the deeds of brave Americans
DIR. JAMES JOHNSTON, who has recent
iy returned from a two years trip in
Africa, says he does not believe Emin
Pasha is dead.
CHINESE pirates seized steamer off
the Chinese coast. killed eighteen per-
sons, stole $40 900 and carried off two
American women.
Gov. MCKINLEY Of Ohio addressed
the old soldiers at Indianapolis, Ind,
on the 9th. He did not refer to poll
tics.
On the 7th the national congress of
trades unionists, in session at Belfast,
adopted a resolution introduced by
Ben Tillett advocating a bill to regu-
late the hours of labor to eight day
in all trades and occupations.
-, 1a
tional encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic at Indianapolis, Ind,
there were many pathetic scenes, but
none more so than that of the gather
ing of the Eleventh Indiana, Gen. Lew
Wallace's old regiment. The author of
Ben Hur" tried to make a speech. but
his feelings got the better of him and
he broke down in tears. There were
about 100 of the boys there, and half of
them were soon crying.
The citizens of Viewer, Ia, II miles
south of Burlington, are excited over a
cold bfooded murder which took place
there on the 9th. An unknown man
had been caught robbing Dave Robin
sons house and was being taken to
Fort Madison, when he d rev a revolver
and instantly killed Herman Antel-
man. a farmer, who was assisting in
his arrest. The murderer escaped.
AN awful accident occurred on the
Pennsylvania road near Colehour. ILL.,,
on the nth, caused by collision be-
tween a freight and milk train. both
of which had been given the right-of-
way. Ten persons were instantly
killed and score of others frightfully
mangled.
No BIDS having been made for con-
vict labor in Minnesota the state has
400 prisoners for whom it has no work.
The charwoman employed in the
British house of commons died. on the |
It'll, under very suspicious circum-
stances, and the doctors examination
leaves scarce q doubt that she died of |
Asiatic cholera.
The Manchester & Sheffield Railroad |
Go. of England gave notice, on the |
7th, that on account of the scarcity of |
fuel caused by the miners strike, they
had suspended the services of ffty-fve
daily trains
A cLcLoNR at Lockport, La. on the |
7th, besides destroying many build
ings and much other property, caused
the death Of eight persons and the |
Of many others