Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The bureau of statistics, in its state
ment of foreign commerce for March,
1898, shows the excess of imports over
exports to be as follows; For the
month of March 500, O75, 900 for the three
months ended March 81, s61, 916, 600; for
the nine months ended March 81, Sat-
$4,000, and for the twelve months
ended March 81. $50, 626, 900.
The coroner's jury impaneled to in
quire into the Laurel Hill (Pa.) disas-
ter by which three miners were
drowned rendered the following YER
dict on the 18th: That the said William
Trebath, Richard J. Williams and
Thomas Hodgson came to their deaths
through the gross carelessness of the
operators, A. Pardee & Co.
DURING the night of the 18th bur
glars entered the store of George NJ.
Wilkinson, the leading jeweler of
Mansfield, O., and completely Quilted it.
They cracked the safe and secured $50
gold watches, a large quantity of dia-
monds and other valuable jewelry, to-
gether with a considerable amount of
money.
AN explosion occurred in the Ruslz
Ivanhoe mine at Leadville, Col, on the
18th, in which four men were killed
and four injured. The identified dead
are George Young, Collins E. Roley and
P. McGovern.
MANY priceless works of art were de-
stroyed by FIRE, on the night of the
18th, in the eastern wing of the Ho-
henzollern palace at Sigmaringen,
which did an immense amount of dam
age before the flames were extin-
guished. The palace stands on rock
rising abruptly from the Danube, and
it was extremely difficult to get water
with which to fight the flames.
JOHN JOHNSON, a negro prisoner in
Auburn On. W prison, ran amuck in
the broom shop, on the nth, armed with
a sharp knife. He killed one prisoner
and fatally wounded another before he
was shot by guard.
EDMUND PICARD, barrister of Brus-
sells, was arrested, on the 18th, for max
ing speech in the course of which he
used threatening language against the
burgomaster.
THE upper branch of the Minnesota
lCS ioIdtuIC ouJouAuCo SiuC VIC oC uOOu
on the 10th.
THE village of Jaszladany, Hungary,
was visited by most disastrous con-
flagration on the 18th. One hundred
and twenty houses were destroyed and
two persons were killed.
BARON Open, of Berlin, has fed to
this country to avoid his creditors, who
have seized upon his houses and goods.
His wife has entered the Westphalia in
stitute as a sister of mercy, the Baron
ess Witch, her sister-in-law, having
adopted the five children of the couple.
On the afternoon of the 10th fire de-
stroyed the boiler house and brew
house, a brick building three stories
high, of the Peninsular brewery, gen.
orally known as Kings brewery, at
Detroit, Mich.
On the night of the 18th James Burr
tinett, of Monongahela City, Pa, shot
and killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Let
tie Troy, installing her for burglar.
FIRE destroyed the great structure of
the Clinton Wire Cloth Co.'S works at
Clinton, Mass, on the morning of the
10th. Loss, $3.50, 900; fully insured.
THOMAS NJ. BARR & Co.. of New York,
of coffee, assigned. on the
18th, to Frederick T. L. Sherman, with
out preferences
FORTY houses at S1ivno. village of
were destroyed by fire on the
10Th. Four persons were killed and
forty injured.
CAPT. JAMES MARSHALL, of Laurel,
Del, was found murdered, presumably
by oyster pirates near Norfolk on the
18th.
The supreme court of the United
States will not attend the naval rendeZ-
vous at Hampton roads, the review in
New York harbor nor the opening of
the Worlds fair.
Two persons were killed and sixteen
injured in the cyclone at Usage City,
Kas.. on the 18th.
On the 10th John Addington Sim
monds, the well-known English ittera-
teur, died at Rome.
FOURTEEN workmen lost their lives
in the fierce storm which dashed Lake
at Milwaukee on the Goth.
They were employed in the construc-
ton of the new waterworks intake
tunnel, being engaged in bricking up a
shaft, 1000 feet from the shore. The
hurricane swept away the frail struc-
ture which had been built upon the top
of the cut to shelter the men and dashed
them into the seething lake. The fif-
teenth man was taken off in a precari-
Gus condition by ife-saving crew.
On the 10Th Attorney-General Olney
appointed Edwin Corr, of Bloomington,
Ind, assistant United States district
attorney for the district of Indiana.
A HUNTINGTON & BIG SANDY passen-
ger train which runs between Hunting
ton, w. Va. land Creeds, Va, fell through
a trestle, on the Goth. and landed in
Four-Pole creek, forty feet below.
James McCreery, formerly conductor
on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, was
instantly killed, and several persons
were injured.
A DELINQUENCY aggregating s65, 1000
to SO, 900 has been discovered in the
books of ex-City Treasurer Refs, of st.
Paul, Mimi, the books showing no evil
dence of the receipt of a large amount
of taxes.
The town of Water Valley, KY, is
reported to have been wiped out by
Gre on the night of the Goth.
GEN. ScHoFIELD received a telegram
ON the goth from Capt. Guthrie, at Ant
lers, I. T., stating that the trouble with
the Indians was about ended. The
Locke men and the Jones party were
for peace
GOVERNMENT officers fought furious
" with officers of the Northern Pacific
Mogul at Tacoma, Wash, on
the Gath. Guns were drawn and Gus
toms Inspector Coblentz forced the