Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A DASTARDLY attempt was made at
Huron, O., at midnight of the 9th, to
wreck train No. s, the east-bound flyer,
on the Lake Shore road. BY the
merest accident the attempt was dis
covered in time to prevent what would
have proved rival of the grea: Ashta-
bula disaster.
THE second trial of Richard S.
Heath, charged with the murder of
Louis 3. McWhirter, a prominent poll
tician of Fresno, Cal, resulted. on the
18th, in another disagreement, the
jury, which had been out five days,
standing ten for conviction and two
for acquittal.
The United Mineworkers' conven-
tion at Columbus, O., on the 18th, or
dered general strike, to begin April
81.
THE snow at northumberland and
Bloomsbury, Pa, was two feet deep,
on the 18th, and still falling.
The Rock Island officials have COM
plimented Engineer j. d. Mckinney
and presented him with $3.50 gold
watch for ignoring the signal of train
robbers a few months ago and prevent
ing d HOlu-up. Ok VI GIC SuoGS uIcu
at the engineer struck the cab.
The town of Belview, Mimi, had n
narrow escape from being completely
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Eleva-
tors belonging to Milford Elevator Co.
and the Interstate Grain Co., of Min
neapolis, were burned, with 5000
bushels of grain; loss, $4,000.
MAJOR, the anarchist, who was ar
rested in Paris, on the 18th, on sus-
picion of having exploded bomb in
front of the house of Judge Pele, in
Argeuntel, was liberated on the 18th,
for want of evidence.
A NATURAL gas explosion wrecked
the home of William Malseed, of Nc
Keesport, Pa, on the 18th. Mrs. NAL
seed and her 12-year-old daughter Effie
were fatally burned by the explosion.
ALFRED ANDERSON, serving a life
term in the Anamosa Ua.) penitentiary
for the murder of a farmer near Fort
Madison last fall, escaped from the
prison on the night of the 18th, his
fight not being detected until the next
morning. The state offers reward of
$50 for his capture.
Two NOTORIOUS anarchists having a
loaded bomb in their possession were
arrested in Rome on the 18th.
The budget was approved by the
ministers at the British cabinet meet
ing on the 18th.
A FINE article of glass sand has been
discovered near Lapel, Ind. in sufficient
quantities to supply the gas belt for
twenty years. A stock company will
be organized at once and the quarry
developed. 1t will be boom to the
glass interests of Indiana, as all sand
has been shipped from Ohio and Illi-
nois heretofore.
In the British house of lords, on the
the second reading of the Behring sea
bill, reviewed the whole course of the
arbitration, and expressed approval of
the action of the marquis of Salisbury
in submitting the question to arbitra-
ton.
r. r. DARRELL. who went to Port
land, Ore, last fall without a cent, and
would have been working for the board
of charities since but for the kindness
of clearinghouse keeper, who gave
him a home, received word on the 18th
that he had fallen heir to over $500, 900
by the death of his uncle, j. P. Taylor,
at Holcomb, Mo.
FIRE, on the 18th, destroyed the
United States marine hospital at Post
Townsend, Wash. There were no fl
talities. The loss is $4,000. The fire
originated in an clubhouse used as an
oil room, and is supposed to have been
the work of an incendiary. The hos
x,;<ol xyoS br,i1f in 1872
AMONG the passengers who arrived
on board the Majestic from Liverpool.
on the 18th, were Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris and children and Capt Gran
field and crew of twenty of Lord Dur
ravens yacht Valkyrie.
PRINCE BISMARCK has decided to re-
main in Friedrichsruhe until June,
when he will go to Varzin and stay
there until August. Afterwards he
will perhaps go to Ringen and other
places in the Rhine country in response
to the urgent invitation of friends.
JUpGE DUNDY, of Omaha, Neb., de-
cided, on the 18th, that the Office men
and other monthly-paid employees of
the Union Pacific railroad may have
their salaries restored if, in the jndg-
ment Of the receivers it ought to be
done.