Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Z. e. MITCHELL, merchant of Rich.
mond, KY, and a local consul of the
L. A. W., arrived in Seattle, Wash, on
the 21st, on safety, having travelled
8. 100 miles on his wheel since May II.
Col. AUGUSTUS G. PAINE, a promi-
nent manufacturer of New York city,
has sent his check for 81 900 to a news.
paper there, to be used in relieving the
destitute unemployed.
The imperial board Of health, on the
22d, announced that there had been SO
far this summer only four cases OF
cholera in Germany. Three of the per-
sons attacked died.
w. w. OGILvIE, the milling million
aire of Canada, estimates the yield OF
wheat in Manitoba and the northwest
this year at about twenty bushels per
acre, or total yield of about 10000.
600 bushels. The quality of the crop,
he says, is the best ever grown in the
northwest.
ROBERT lNGLEs, marine superinten-
dent in Liverpool for the Cunard
Steamship Co., and eight friends were
returning, ON the 22d, in a sailboat
from a fishing excursion up the Mersey,
when a sudden squan upset the boat
and all nine men sank before help
could reach them.
A NUMBER of Cherokee strip boomers
camped in the Arkansas valley flats
were driven out, on the 22d, by the sud-
den rise of the river, losing their
wagons, teams, tents, ETC.. and it is
feared that several of them were
drowned. A family who attempted to
ford the Salt Fork are reported to have
been swept away.
ORDERS from Washington were re-
ceived at Guthrie, Okla, on the 23d, to
discontinue all work on the land Office
buildings and town surveys in the
strip until new locations were secured.
This will delay matters SO that the
land offices cannot be completed by
September 16, neither can a supply of
water be secured at the towns, and
much suffering will ensue.
MINISTER BLoUNT arrived at Wash
ington ON the ED and had a pro-
tracted interview with Secretary
Gresham.
ABOUT 1000 idle Polish workmen
gathered at Lincoln park, Milwaukee,
on the esd. and for short time it
looked as though the outcome would
be another lnbor riot such as startled
the country six years ago. The police
arrived Just in time to prevent blood
.shed.s The various factions had split
and engaged in a war with sticks and
stones as weapons.
CLARK's thread mills. at Newark, N.
J., which had been shut down for three
weeks, resumed operations, on the
29d, on three-quarters time.
The Iowa state democratic conven-
ton met in Des Moines on the esd.
Gov. Boies was; unanimously nomi-
mated for reelection.
LEADING land lawyers Of Guthrie,
Okla. say that Secretary Smiths reg
istration requirements for strip set
tiers are illegal, and advise settlers to
pay no attention to them, but enter the
strip on the opening day and settle
upon land in the usual way.
SOUTH CHICAGO was visited, on the
oath, with an extensive confiagration
which destroyed 200 houses and rem
dered 5000 people homeless. So
rapid was the spread of the flames
that many persons narrowly escaped
from their burning homes, and scenes
of panic and confusion rivaling those
of the great fire of 1871 were wit
messed.
A MOB Of 500 men surrounded the
lumber mills of II. NJ. Loud & Sons
Lumber Co. at Oscoda, Mich, on the
s4th, and forced the employees, who
were working at a reduction to quit
work. The mob then marched to the
company's cedar yards and stopped
operations there.
AT crossing between Lexington and
West Alexandria, O., ON the Cincinnati,
jackson 4 Mackinac railroad, Mrs.
VIM. Hapner and daughter, aged II,
were struck by train, on the s6th, and
instantly killed. A little girl aged 8
years was also seriously injured.
R w. PARKER, who was under ar
rest in San Francisco for embezzle-
ment in Chicago. shot himself. on the
2Sd, when he learned that extradition
papers were on the way for his re-
moval 30 the east. His wife was. with
him at the time.
THERE were two new cases Of yellow
fever at Brunswick. Ga, on the 25th,
and one case reported among the
Brunswick refugees 1t Helena. in that
state.