Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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who, with the assistance of two white
men and the connivance of the express
messenger, robbed a wagon of the Pa
cific Express Co. at Wichita. Kas., of
q, 500 on the night of July 90, was
caught at Kansas City on the 18th, but
he had managed to get rid of his share
of the booty.
The training stable of John D.
Creighton at Lexington, KY, was
burned, on the 14th, and three head of
valuable horses were destroyed in the
flames. Those that persisted were
2-year-old filly by Chitwood, a yearling
by Jay Bird and a 2-year-old by Lord
Russell. About fifteen head of other
stock were saved.
MATILDA w., one of the most famous
Jersey cows in the world. owned by
Congressman Sibley and his partner,
Maj. Charles Miller, of Franklin, Pa,
died suddenly on the night of the 18th,
of milk fever. She had given in one
year over 16, 900 pounds of milk, which
yielded $50 pounds of butter. She was
valued at $4,000.
The peach crop in Washington coun-
ty, Nd, will be enormous. There are
three distinctive belts-the Blue noun
tain, the Keedysville and the Cherry
Run districts In each of these the
yield will be larger than ever before.
On the night of the 18th one of the
presidents deer escaped from the park
near the entrance to Gray Gables.
The animal was tracked down the
main road to Bourne, across the rail-
road track and into the woods about a
mile below Buzzard's Bay. The deer
was fine specimen. and was highly
priced, as it was a gift to the president
from an intimate friend in the west.
FRANK OLDs, who several months ago
knocked a man down at Marion, Ind,
and stamped him to death, and then
fed for parts unknown, was arrested
at his relatives home, 1 mile south of
Brazil. Ind, on the 14th.
JOHN BATES drew $500 from the bank
at Guthrie, Okla, on the 14th, because
he thought banks unsafe, and on his
way home lost the money.
FRAUDS found in the Cherokee al
lotments on the strip, will cause an
other delay in the issuing of the open
ing proclamation.
THE s. H. Taylor Paper Co., of San
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Co., of Taylorville, Marion county,
Cal, have suspended.
DIX. ROBERT w. BUCHANAN, the con-
demned wife-murderer of New York,
was taken to Sing Sing, on the 18th, to
await the day of his electrocution.
COAL beds, anthracite, bituminous
and camel, aggregating 10000 square
miles, and from three to twenty feet
thick, have been discovered in the
United States of Colombia
RICHARD BOND, of Toronto. Ont, the
well-known pioneer railroad builder,
died, on the 18th. aged 81 years
GOLD to the amount of s52, 900 was
withdrawn from the Bank of England
on the 18th for shipment to the United
States.
AT o'clock on the morning of the
18th, burglars awolse f. C. Sanger, a
storekeeper of Morriston, Wis, COW
cred him with revolvers and searching
his house, found $1,000, with which
they decamped.
CARL MUELLER. the well-known Ger
man painter and director of the Art
academy at Dusseldorf, died on the
18th, aged IS.
MICHAEL TIERNEY, of Palmer's Rap
ids. Ont, was killed and eight others
were injured by being struck by the
end of a boom carried away by the
breaking of a log jam at the mouth of
Vernillion river, ON the 10th.
A BEAUTIFUL boy baby two weeks
old was found on the tracks of the
Pennsylvania railroad, just after the
passing of an east-bound train near
Elida, O., on the 10th. 1t was fatally
injured and died soon after being
found.
GOLD to the amount of e250. 600 was
withdrawn from the bank of England,
ON the 95th, for shipment to the United
States.
JOHN TURNBULL's house was de-
stroyed and the hired girl and a baby
were killed by a tornado south of Paw
nee City, Neb., on the 10th.
PHILIP PErrrJoHN was killed by .
switch engine at Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the 18th. Evidence pointed to sui
eide, as he was twice pulled away from
the track, once by the gateman and
once by q friend. A trainman also At
tempted TO save him