Iron County register., 1893-09-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE elements made a plaything of
st. Paul, Mimi, for a time, on the 18th,
and the dry spell was effectually
broken by a steady downpour of rain.
A WEDDING on the diamond, the first
in the history of baseball, was held at
the home plate Oh the West End
grounds at Cincinnati on the 18th.
Louis Rapp, assistant ground-keeper,
and Rosa Smith were married in the
presence of 1900 spectators, who
cheered the pair Justify as soon as the
ceremony was over.
PHILLIP II. BoYNroN, the oldest and
best-known railroad engineer in the
railroading, died at Peru, Ind, on the
18th, aged 65 years. He began railroad
ing in 1850, and helped build the Wa
bash and other roads He has run an
engine continuously for forty years,
and never had serious accident nor
killed a person. His mileage equals
seventy times around the earth.
On the Pawnee reservation, I. T.,
on the 18th, a terrible prairie fire was
said to be raging and hundreds of set
tiers were compelled to abandon wagons,
tents and outfits and flee for their
lives on their horses 1t was feared
that many had perished in the fire.
A LARGE number of cotton gins in
Bienville parish, La, have been pla-
carded with notices to the owners to
discontinue all ginning until further
notice under penalty of having their
gins burned out. The notices further
state that if the merchants press the
farmers for not marketing their crop
they will be waited on by regulators.
. THOUSANDS of people thronged to the
capitol grounds at Washington on the
night of the 18th. to hear the ringing
of the chime of bells on the new library
building and to attend the open-air
concert by the Marine band and the
grand chorus of 1,5OO voices given in
honor of the capitol centennial.
Miss VIOLA DIETRICH, aged 20, of
Kokomo, Ind, headed a band of high
waymen who robbed four people in
one night. Her plan was to induce rep
utable citizens to protect her on the
plea that she feared to be on the
streets alone. She took her victims
down a dark street where her ac-
completes lay concealed.
HUNDREDS of covered wagons are re-
turning from the Cherokee strip. The
parties were unable to get claims and
are loud in denouncing the sooners,
who, they claim, got all the best lands.
There are a large number of people
leaving the strip on every train who
are in destitute circumstances.
REV. MERsFELDER, Methodist min
lister at Spencerville, O., was knocked
insensible and awfully beaten, on the
night of the 18th, by a hoodlum who
was offended by remarks made during
the delivery of his sermon.
The remains of man and four
women were found in the burned ruins
of a house in Whitechapel, London, on
the 10th.
The will of F. L. Ames, of Boston.
was filed for probate on the 10th. It
contains no public bequests. The real
estate and personal property in North
Easton is given to the widow, to-
pether with $500, 900 outright and an
annuity of $4,000. The residue is
given in trust for the benefit of the
widow and children.
AS result of the unsatisfactory ont
come of the experiment of settling
Scottish crofters in the Northwest ter
ritory, the British government has de-
cided to abandon all efforts at state
colonization.
THE paid admissions to the Worlds
fair on the 18th were liz, sos.
A TORNADO at Augusta, Wis, on the
18th, blew several frame buildings off
their foundations, took the roof off
Williams store, leveled barns and
fences and pulled trees up by the roots
THE Honduran congress has accepted
President Leva's resignation, and Gen.
Vasquez has been elected president of
the republic.
THE police of Amsterdam, Holland,
have arrested Henry De Jong and are
investigating series of disappearances
of wives that promises to develop a
case similar to that of Deeming in En-
gland.
AT meeting of the Highland Land
league in Glasgow. on the Goth, the
delegates strongly demanded home
rule measure for Scotland and con-
demned as grievous wrong the fact
that the Scotch crofters should be
hunted to Canada in order that sheep
might take their places.