Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-10

Mrs. SoPHRoNIA TwITcEELL. the wo-
man Spectator, well known in Wall
street. New York city, and on the
Pacific coast, died, on the Sd, in Brook
| lyn.
THE government is closing all schools
| in the south of Russia because of the
prevalence of cholera. Twenty doc
tors have gone from st. Petersburg to
Kief and ten to Pondolia.
A PLEASURE yacht carrying party to
| a dance at the lower end of Lake
George, n. Y, ON the night OF the
Sd, with twenty-nine people on board,
| ran upon sunken pier, ,careened over
and sank in eighteen feet of water.
Eight womenand one man were
drowned
The worsted goods mandatory OF
John Bromley & Sons. of Philadel-
phia, was closed. on the Sd. on account
| of the depressed condition of trade.
Three thousand employees were at
&C ted.
Co. of Denver. Col, has been placed in
the hands of Charles Il. Mason. as re-
ceiver, who will wind up its affairs.
The treasury department purchased
16O, 900 ounces of silver, on the 4th, at
seventy-two cents an ounce, an adj
vance of lie cents an ounce over the
price paid on the I'd.
The alleged vulgar Oriental dances
on the Midway plaisance at the
Worlds fair are to be investigated,
and their suppression will doubtless
follow an adverse repot.
SCRANTON. Pa. was startled, on the
4th, by a report to the effect that Pres
ident f. S. Moffat of the Lackawanna
Iron and Steel Co., who went abroad
about six weeks ago for the benefit of
his health. had committed suicide in
London. Mr.. Moffat had been suffer
ing for some time from insomnia and
nervousness induced by overwork-
HARD fighting is accompanying the
siege of La Plata in the Argentine re-
public, where Gov. Costa of the prov
ince of Buenos Ayres is practically cut
off from communication with the cap
ital by the revolutionary troops who
are infesting the city. During the en-
gagement 400 men have been slaugh-
tered
The tornado insurance at cyclone
stricken Pomeroy, Ia. has fallen much
below the figures of the first estimate
The insurance on the claims filed up to
the sth inst, aggregating over 100 in
dividual losses, is only s21, 667.4O. The
first estimates were all the way from
$50. 900 to $4,000. There were few
claims not vet filed that may bring the
total up to $4,000. About $4,000 has
been received by the relief committee.
CUIEF-JUsTICE GEO. w. STONE of the
supreme court of Alabama celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of his elevation
to the bench in Alabama on the 4th.
The Ala bama Bar association, through
its executive committee. presented its
congratulations to the ef-justice in
the shape of Il resolution unanimously
passed at its last annual session, ac-
companied by beautiful silver service.
Mr.. GEORGE S. WRIGHT. better known
as Banker Wright. died at his residence
in Cleveland. o.. on the 4th, from the
effects of a stroke of apopleXy. The
deceased was at one time one of the
best known bankers in the city and
was considered one of the best finan-
ciers in the state and amassed a large
fortune He retired from business sew
eral years ago.
Mrs. SARAH L. BOLTON, the Indiana
poetess, died at her residence in In
dianapolis. Ind, on the 4th. aged 81
years. Her poem. paddle Your Own
Canoe" has been translated into many
languages and is known the world
over. Union Forever" published in
the early years of the war and set to
music. was standard war song.
DURING parade advertising the
''Bom bardment of Fort Sumter in st.
Louis, on the night of the 18th, four per-
sons were seriously burned by the pre-
mature explosion of pyrotechnics. set
on fire as a result of carelessness. Fort
Sumter" and the FLOATING Battery
were destroyed.
The vicinity of Sharptown. Ind, was
visited on the morning of the 4th by
the most disastrous storm known in
years. doing immense damage to crops
and farm property. A cloudburst oc-
Cured flooding the lands to a depth of
eighteen inches.