Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Indiana State Federation of
Trade and Labor unions met in South
Bend, on the sth, Thos. NJ. Gruelle, of
Indianapolis, presiding. Seventy-five
delegates were present.
COMMISSIONER JOHN TwOMBLY and
Hon. Isaac n. Stevens, of Denver. Col,
consulted, on the Sth, with the Provi-
dence Or. Il witnesses in the case of
L. Thatcher Graves for the murder of
Mrs. Barnaby. The witnesses have
agreed to attend the second trial. which
will be held about the middle of Octo-
Der.
THE 800 employees of the Lalance-
Grosjean works, at Harrisburg, Pa,
who We're locked out because of the eff
fort to form a branch of the Amalga-
mated association, decided to abandon
the attempt. The result was COM
municated to the management, on the
Sth, and operations were resumed.
THE British wheat crop, says the
Mark Lane Express of the sth. is now
estimated at 7,OOO,O 900 quarters. This
leaves 21.OOO, 900 to be imported. De-
Quoting the stock left over from 1892,
there will be needed 10000, 600 quar-
tiers. 1t is not easy to see where this
supply is to come from. 1t will absorb
all the good crops of Russia, India and
southern Europe to fill the require
ments.
The directors of the Lehigh Valley
railroad, in view of the default of the
Reading railroad on bills due, have dis
solved the lease of the road to that
corporation.
The Hungarian minister of agricul-
ture has issued a statement showing
that there will be decrease of about
$500, 900 meter centers in the wheat
yield, 100000 in rye and 100000 in
barley, as compared with the crop of
those cereals last year. The quality of
the grain crops this year is much above
the average.
JOHN PLoTNER, of Cherry Run, w.
Va, met with horrible death on the
Sth. He drove two oxen to a pasture
and was attacked by one of the ami
mails. He was gored and his body
mutilated almost beyond recognition.
The ground for 100 yards around was
torn up in the struggle with the mad
beast.
On the Sth Howard w. Grear, ex-tel-
egraph operator from Ell Dorado; Ar
thur Hanseher. express messenger, and
Jack Beck. clerk at the Occidental hotel.
were arrested at Wichita, Kas., for the
robbery of the United States express
wagon on the streets of that city on the
night of July 20, and s., 900 of the stolen
money was recovered.
THE Cadwallader Milling Co.'S boiler
at Fostoria. o., exploded, on the Sth,
instantly killing G. c. Davis, secretary
of the company, and fatally injuring
Fred G. Meredith, book-keeper, Calvin
Robbins, James Long and James A.
Minnicl, the engineer; loss, $50, coo.
On the sth Fred A. Hoffman jumped
from the roof of his uncle's house in
Pittsburgh, Pa, and died almost in
stantly. He was q native Of Butler. and
had just left Dixmont insane asylum.
after eight months treatment He
leaves a widow and two children.
The gold in the national treasury.
on the 9th, was IS, 1854 above the
500, OO0, 900 gold reserve.
THE Linden Steel Co., one of the
largest manufacturing concerns in
Pittsburgh, Pa, suspended operations
on the 9Th. All the employees, about
500. were discharged.
A HEAVY earthquake shock was felt
in San Francisco shortly after o'clock
on the morning of the eth. Two shocks
were experienced at San Diego on the
sth.
SECRETARY CARLISLE is credited with
advising the anti-silver men to insist
on the unconditional repeal of the pur-
chase clause of the Sherman law, and
to reach a vote on the subject as soon
as possible.
THE convicts in the kentucky state
prison at Frankfort another made at
tempt to blow up the penitentiary with
on thenight of the th,
but were foiled by the timely discovery
of their plan by Warden Norman. The
principals were the Reeves brothers |
and man named Willard, serving |
terms of thirty-one years each. From !
the quantity of dynamite, nitro-glycer-
inc, and other combustibles found ia |
their possession they evidently intend |
ed to make q death struggle for liberty |
after blowing up the prison walls.
WM. BowERs, one of the best-known |
men in Boston, died, on the |
eth, aged IS.
A HEAVY rain. iuuring full crop of |
corn, fell all over the eastern part of |
Kansas and western Missouri on the !
10th.