Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-06-22
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
On the 18th, during the electric storm
IN ST. Louis, lightning struck the saloon
OF Peter Morrissey. The bolt cut e
queer prank. 1t took a piece out of the
front window pane, about sx1O inches,
almost circular in shape, without leav-
ing = crack on the surface.
DURING the eleven months ended MAY
81, 1898, the values of the exports of
ing the corresponding period of the
preceding year $272, At, 023, decrease
of s99, 406, .62. OF this decrease So, 674,-
76s was in wheat, SCI, OILS, 317 corn, s1O,-
OBS, 134 rye, s., 943, SIS oats and s737. 81
barley, corn meal, oatmeal and wheat
-four.
Two lives were lost, on the night of
the 18th, by the bursting of huge
boiler of the Peru Qnd. basket factory.
NJ. J. Pratt and his S-year-old son were
in front of the boiler. and both were in
stantly killed. Pratt was extra night
Waterman. The boiler had been known
to be unsafe, and was blown 500 feet
away.
CONVICT FRANK ADAMS escaped from
Sing Sing(N. prison on the 18th. He
was serving term of two years and
six months, and would have been dis
charged on the 18th. He will forfeit
six months Communication if caught
The Preservers' trust controlling q
majority of the canning interests in
Washington. Boston, New York, Chi
cago, Detroit and St Louis, in a case
brought against withdrawing mem
Der to replevin his property, was de-
clared by Judge Mcconnell, of Chicago,
to be an illegal body, and, as such,
having no standing before the law.
On the 18th the dining car attached
to the special train bearing the Massa-
chusetts delegation to the Worlds fair
was observed to be on fire just before
reaching Rotterdam Junction, n Y.
Not until considerable damage had been
done was the fire put out by the use of
patent extinguishers on hand. An
other dining car had to be substituted.
THE embarkation of Russian emf
grants from Hamburg for the United
States having been forbidden, Schar-
Liverpool steamship lines, have char
send on her from Bremen to New York
500 Storage passengers, most of whom
are Russian Jews.
THE papers destroyed in the wreck
of Ford's old theater in Washington
were nearly all, if not all. records of
the soldiers of the state Illinois; those
of all the other states having previously
passed through the hands of the 600
clerks engaged in arranging the rec
ords of the war.
CUCINIELLO, the manager of the Rome
bra nch of the bank of Naples, charged
with the ENLIGHTENMENT of 1000, 900 lire
of the banks funds, was, on the 18th,
sentenced to two years imprisonment.
THREE persons were killed, three IA
tally wounded and four less seriously
injured by fire in a New York sweat
ing-shop tenement on the 18th.
w. j. ELLIOTT, serving term in the
Ohio state prison for the murder of
jured, on the 18th, by w. w. Varney,
Cincinnati thief, throwing quantity
of vitriol in his face, which will prob
ably cause the loss of one eye and per-
haps of both
ARKANSAS and Indiana dedicated
their state buildings at the Worlds
fair on the 18th
THE Cunard line steamer Servia,
Capt. Dutton, arrived at Queenstown,
on the 18th, reports that on the 18th,
she ran down and sunk the ship A. p.
Capt. O'Brien, from Lon
don, April %, for New York The
Servia stood by and rescued twenty
four of those on board of the sailing
vessel. One man was drowned.
THE Dexter CO., wagon works were
destroyed, on the night of the 18th,
by fire supposed to have been of in
cendiary origin. Loss, Sc, 1000; insur-
ance, $40, 900. The plant had been on
fire three times during the month.
THE annual convention of the Christ
ian Endeavor society of Ohio will be
held in Cincinnati on the 26th, 27th,
2Sth and goth.
Ms. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, of New
York, accompanied by his family, left
London, on the 18th, for Paris, by way
of the Dover route
On the 18th Col. AiHsworth addressed
a letter to Coroner Patterson, conduct
ing the, inquiry rinto the cause of
the collapse of the old Ford thea
ter in Washington, complaining that
the jury were prejudicedagainst him
by the testimony of disatected
clerks and the riotous proceedings
of the previous illegal inquiry, and
urging his right to be present by ceun-
sci and to cross-examine the witnesses.
Coroner Patterson refused the request
RELIABLE reports from Wichita,
Kas., state that field after field of
wheat, prematurely ripened by the
ravages of the chinch bug, will yield
less than three bushels to the acre.
Where the wheat is cut the bugs have
gone to the corn, and promise to play
havoc with that crop.
EASTERN advices announce another
terrible earthquake and volcanic erup-
ton in the interior of Japan. Many
lives were lost and much damage was
done. The exact particulars are not
yet known.
A CABLE from Managua. Nicaragua,
states that United States Minister
Baker and Senior Castillo, the Mica
raguan minister of war, deny the re-
port that the marines have been landed
from the cruiser Atlanta at Greytown
to protect the interests of citizens of
the United States
SHERIFF b. A. DENNIS, of Culbertson,
Neb.. in attendance at the interstate
sheriffs' convention, was found dead in