Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-19

CAPT. VALENTINE r. GuRNEY, one OF
the four remaining survivors of the IA
nous "Six Hundred" who made the
charge at Balaklava, died at the Pres
byterian hospital, New York city, on
the night of the 10th. He was suffer
er from Bright's disease for years.
PAID admissions to the Worlds faiI
on the 18th were 27s.S7S.
THE infanta Eulalie of Spain, who
recently visited the United States, is
now visiting incognito in London. Her
husband, Prince Antoine d'Orleans, &C
companies her.
A VERDICT for $751; for personal
damages was awarded in the Wayne
county court at Detroit, Mich. on the
18th, in favor of William Luck}in. 2
years old, of Detroit. both of whose
legs were cut off by Michigan Cen
tral train about a year ago.
THE paid admissions to the Worlds
fair, on the 18th. were gel ,607.
Two BATrALIoNs Of the Brazilian ma
tional guard have revolted AMI de-
clared for the rebels.
AMONG the Worlds fair visitors on
the 18th was ex-President Harrison.
He went quietly as an individual citi-
zen with several members of his fam
lily, and he carefully avoided the 1ndi-
ana building for fear that some fuss
would be made over his presence. His
familiar features, however. were easily
recognized by many visitors who
passed him in his progress to the build
mos with his family
THE orange crop in the eastern por-
ton of Florida about which alarm has
been felt on account of the advanced
stage of the fruit. was considerably in
jured in many places by the storm of
the 18th, and in a number of groves the
ground is covered with oranges, lemons
and lines. The loss thus sustained
will probably reach into the hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
JOHN HINsEN. one of the paid patrol
men of the San Francisco Sailors union,
was arrested. on the 18th, as the man
who placed dynamite on board of tho
tug Ethel and Marion. and as the prin-
cipal of the plot which eliminated in
destruction of Curtin's boarding house
and the death of four men.
A STRANGER giving his home as Kan
kakee, ILL.,, while out with the boys at
Lebanon, Ind, on the 18th, displayed q
large roll of money. He landed in Jail
and made complaint he had been robbed
of $1,000. An effort is being made to
locate the the thief.
Miss IDA DUssEAU. beautiful young
lady residing in the Manhattan suburb
of Toledo. O., was fatally burned. on
ha 49,
with which she was cleaning clothes.
The flesh dropped from her bones in
several places. Her father was also
badly burned while endeavoring to eX-
tinguish the flames.
ATS o'clock on the morning of the
18th fire broke out in the Norwegian
Lutheran orphans home at Madison,
Wis. The inmates were all removed
without casualty, although scantily
clothed. Loss. $4,000; insured. Fire
man Ledwith fell from ladder and re-
ceived dangerous injuries.
THE mystery surrounding the re-
peated attempts made to burn out Rev.
E. Gruenstein, pastor of the German
Reformed church at Monticello, Ia.
and the anonymous letters received
by him threatening him with violence,
has at last been cleared up. Rev. Mr..
Gruenstein's Io-year-old son has con-
fessed he set all the fires himself, but
why he did it he does not know.
The business failures for the seven
days ended on the 18th numbered 1914 in
the United States against 1879 last year,
and AZ in Canada against 26 last year.
Eighteen failures were in magnitude
exceeding 100000, and 81 were over
1000 each but less than 100000.
AT o'clock on the afternoon of the
18th collector for the Adams Express
Co. in Chicago was sandbagged on
Franklin and Adams streets and robbed
of IS. 900. The robbery occurred when
the streets were crowded. and was one
of the boldest ever perpetrated. The
robbers escaped.
PRESIDENT DARRAGH and Cashier Sat
tiey of the failed Kansas City safe de-
post and savings bank were indicted
again, on the 18th, by the grand jury.
Twenty-Five counts were returned
against each bank officer, charging
grand larceny.