Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-06-29
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
IT is the intention of the British gov
eminent to abandon the financial
clauses in the Irish home-rule bill and
to substitute in their stead new clauses
empowering the Irish legislature to
frame its own budget to the amount OF
s5, 000. 600, which, however. must be
submitted to the imperial parliament
for ratification.
felt at Charleston, s c., Wilmington,
n. c.; Augusta, Ga; and other south
eastern cities on the night of the Goth.
On the 18th lightning killed gun
ner named Mcdonald at Westmoreland
Fort, near Queenstown. Ireland, and a
laborer at Middleton, near Cork.
LIEUT.. ROMANoFF, of Russia, who. 1t
Is said, IS no less a parsonage than
Duke Alexander, a cousin of the car,
is registered at the Richelieu hotel in
Chicago. The duke is travelling incog.,
and it is said wishes to avoid notoriety.
Two DEATHS from sunstroke occurred
in London. on the 10Th. and intense
heat throughout the United Kingdom
was reported.
FIRE set by an incendiary nearly de-
| stroyed the gas works at Warsaw, Ind,
on the night of the 18th, Schuyler
Wolford, the night man. was fatally
burned, and johnson Affords leg was
dislocated.
THERE viii be a monster reunion OF
war veterans, both Union and confed-
crate, at the Worlds fair, October 20 to
"a, inclusive.
Mrs. CLEVELAND and Baby Ruth left
Washington, on the Goth, for Buzzard's
Bay, Mass
PoSTMASTER-GENERA BISsELL, after
considering competitive proposals, has
awarded to Thomas Kane & Co, of Chi
cago, the contract for furnishing, dur
ing the next four years, all carriers
distributing cases, routing tables and
stools that may be needed in free de-
livery post Offices
FRANCIS SPIES, merchant and consul
of Honduras, committed suicide at his
residence in New York, on the 2lst, by
shooting himself through the head.
Mr.. Spies was 55 years old.
ALL the telegraph wires leading from
New York city to Sheepshead Bay race
track were cut on the Goth. A big
force of linemen were sent out. but the
wires were grounded as fast as the
breaks were repaired. The race-track
owners are determined that the pool
rooms over the country shall not re-
ceive news from the track.
DANIEL LORD. JR,. of New York, who
was visiting Mr.. and Mrs. I'll. r. Nc
Cormiclx. of Chicago, while asleep, on
the night of the 10Th, walked through
fourth-story window, and, falling to
the stone court below, received such
severe injuries that he died in short
time.
THE Bunnell building in Duluth,
Mimi, a five-story frame structure and
regular fire-trap, was destroyed by
fire shortly after midnight on the 21st-
In the building were four stores, two
saloons and two newspaper plants
The fire started from an unknown
cause. The total loss is about $40, 600,
with a total insurance which will not
exceed Sc, 900. Four lives are supposed
to have been lost.
One HUNDRED AND FORTY persons
were killed in a panic in the Church of
Romano, at Berisoglebski, Russia, on
the Volga, on the 21st, caused by thieves
who raised a false alarm of FIRE in
order to facilitate their operations.
FIRE in the drug house of c. A. Deitz
& Co., 66 Gold street, New York, on the
21st, caused loss estimated at $50, 900.
REPORTS from Mecca, on the 21st,
show that from June 16 to June 20
there were $50 deaths from cholera.
SECRETARY CARLISLE awarded silver
1ife-saving medals, on the 21st, to Ed
ward F. Weise, of Milwaukee, and
Martin aKundsen, keeper of the pilot
Island lighthouse, Wisconsin,
THE conference between the iron and
steel sheet manufacturers of Pitts
burgh, Pa, and the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION committee, has proved fruit
less, and there is strong probability
of trouble.
HENRY B. ALTMAN, Senator Warren
and a number of other public-spirited
men closed a contract, on the 21st, with
Frank Melbourne, the rain king, I'M
der which he agreed to furnish one
half inch of rain within five days over
all of Laramie county, Wyo., south of
the forty-second parallel of latitude,
for which he is to receive $3.50. On July
S he is to furnish half an inch more for
the same sum
DAVE KENDALL and Frank Temple
man, while working in q well near
Morehead, KY, were overcome by gas
and both were killed.
C. C. CRANE s. Co., lumber dealers of
Cincinnati, O., made an assignment on
the a1st. The assets are given as $3.50,
600 and liabilities s150. 900.
DURING severe thunder storm on
the afternoon of the 2lstat River Falls,
Wis, lightning struck the first center
pole in the menagerie of Ringing
Bros circus Seven persons were
killed instantly and quite a number in
jured, none of the latter fatally.
WASHINGTON LAcKEY, a wealthy
farmer of Lawrence county, I'LL, met
with a terrible death on the 21st.
While cutting wheat his team ran
away, and he was thrown from his seat
and fell before the sickle-bar. One leg
was cut off and his body almost cut in
two. He died in the field.
HEREAFTER Col. Davis will be direc-
tor general of the Worlds fair in fact
as well as in name. The local direc-
torv, at its meeting on the 21st, award
ed to Col. Davis the full powers OF his
position. and will also elect Director OF
Works Burnham as Col Davis execu-
tive officer.
HARRY MORGAN, . young man IL years
of age, son of prominent and wealthy
parents. took his own life at Ottumwa,
| Ia, on the 21st, because his sweetheart
| did not ,,oc;procafe his love. He was