Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-20


the southwest coast of Spain, ON the
18th, wrecking many small vessels
The town of Gaia was partly destroyed
! by the storm.
THE country around the city of Luck
now, India, and a portion of that city
was submerged, on the 18th, by floods
| in the river Goomty.
BERNARD TOKER, a German farmer
living near Connellsville, Pa, was shot
dead and his wife was mortally wound
ed, on the 18th, by Frank Morris, 16-
year-old son of the man from whom
Toker purchased his little farm.
BREAKING all previous records, in be
| ginning and ending its business within
two days, the twenty-eighth national
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic in session at Pittsburgh. Pa.,
| adjourned sine die on the 18th.
WIN. LAW, observation-disclosures en-
ploye of the West Pennsylvania rail
road, was arrested, on the t4th,
charged with an attempt to wreck the
| Freeport accommodation train at a
| sharp curve between Butler Junction
and Sligo station, Pa, by rolling a
| large rock on the track directly in
front of the approaching train.
EARLE UPTON committed suicide at
Marshalltown, Ia, on the 14th, by TAX
| ing poison. He was the husband of
the well-known physician, Rosa Up
ton, who left him last spring and went
to Milwaukee, Dependency, due to
domestic troubles, is supposed to nave
| been the cause.
| FRANK NORRIS, who, on the I2th,
| killed Bernard Loler and fatally shot
Mrs Loker at Connellsville, Pa. and
later wounded Joseph Halfhill, near
| Rich Hill, was arrested, on the 18th,
and fully identified.
FOREIGN missionaries in the Shin
King province are fleeing to New
| Chang, fearing violence at the hands
| of Chinese soldiers, who. it is reported,
are burning the Christian chapels.
JOSEPH HARE, postmaster at Hill
City, ). d., was arrested, on the 18th,
| charged with ENLIGHTENMENT.
| BARRETT SCOTT, the embezzling treas
urer of Holt county, Neb., was found
| guilty on the 14th.
PROF. e. F. WRIGHT, of Oberlin co.
college, the noted geologist, who ac-
| companied the Cook Greenland excur-
y
| Oberlin. He says that on the morning
| the Miranda sunk nearly the entire
crew of sailors were SO intoxicated that
| they had to be helped from the vessel
when she went down.
SEVERAL new cases of smallpox
| We're discovered at Leavenworth, Kas.,
| on the 18th, and there was one death
| from the disease. The disease prevails
| mostly among coal-miners in the south
| ern part of the city. A quarantine has
| been ordered at the Soldiers home. and
no one is allowed to leave or visit there.
ROBERT j., Pa" Hamlin's phenome-
nal PAGER, created a sensation at Ter re
Haute, Ind, on the 18th. by going a
mile in 2:ol19 without apparent serious
effort. Hamlin is confident his horse
| will yet pace in two minutes.
FRED MILLER, a German, at Kenton,
o., aged 20, in fit of jealousy. fatally
| stabbed his aged wife four times and
cut her head open with Ratchet. Then
| he jumped into a 3O-foot well and was
| killed instantly. Both We're well-re-
| spected German pioneers.
a HORRIBLE murder was reported at
| Atchison. Kas., on the 14th, J. Stong
and daughter being the victims. They
lived on lonesome farm in Jackson
county, and he was supposed to be a
| miser. Both the father and daughter
! were killed and their ca bin burned.
GEN. Francisco DE BOURBON, of the
| Spanish army. who recently issued a
manifesto claiming heritage to the
throne of France, will be kept under
| military arrest for two months in Mad
| rid as punishment for issuing the mani
| feStO.
CAPT. w. S. BRIDGEMAN, late COM
| mander of the cruiser Baltimore, who
| arrived at Tacoma, Wash, a few weeks
| ago on leave of absence, is danger
! ously ill with Asiatic fever, contracted
in Corea, and is not expected to live.
FIRE, early on the morning of the
14th. partly destroyed the big barn of
| the National soldiers home, north of
the city of Washington. causing loss
of about $4,000. The fire is believed to
have been the work of incendiaries.