Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-02

CHARLES WILSON was hanged IN the
ST. Louis Jail. on the morning OF the
Goth, for the murder of Nose Hodges,
November 5, 1892.
AN exploring party of prominent
men was descending mine in West
Pittston, Pa, on the Goth, when the
cage fell to the bottom. Col. A. G.
Mason, superintendent of the Lehigh
Valley CO., was instantly killed. and
three others are believed to be fatally
injured.
THE Bennington sailed from La Lib
ertad, on the 26th. for San Francis co,
via Acapulco, with Gen. Ezeta and three
other Salvadorean refugees ON board.
PROF. FALB, the Vienna earthquake
expert, prophecies that New York city
will be destroyed by seismic disturb
ance August 16.
CoXEY has abandoned his deluded
followers and gone back to Ohio. where
his private affairs imperatively dema nd
his attention.
Three men were arrested in Denver,
and three at Colorado Springs, Col, on
the 25th, for completely in the tarring
and feathering of Adjt.-Gen. Tarsney
at Colorado Springs.
AN attempt was made to wreck the
midnight express. west-bound, on the
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee
railroad at Nunica, ten miles from
Grand Haven. Mich. on the night OF
the Goth. Rails had been laid across
the track, but were discovered by the
engineer just in time to stop his train.
Discharged employees are suspected.
By the explosion of the boiler of
traction engine, which went through
bridge near Reedsburg, O., on the 27th,
Henry Garnes was instantly killed.
In a similar accident near Lodi, O., on
the Goth. George Hart was killed.
IN the general term of the New York
supreme court, on the 9th. Justices
Brown, Cullen and Dykman denied the
motion for a new trial for John y.
McKane. the eX-boss of Gravesend, n.
V, thereby affirming the decision of
the lower court.
MAYOR HOPKINS of Chicago said, on
the 27th. that if the Pullman works
We're not started within few days he
would withdraw the militia.
OK the 21th the house labor commit
tee adopted a favora bic report on the
Springer bill creating national board
of arbitration for the settlement of al
labor troub les. strikes. etc.
HOLDERS of New York's municipal
bonds received a shock, an the 2.th,
when they read in the newspapers the
story of Maj. Matthew j. O'Rourle to
the effect that the city had been pay
ing interest on S15.OC0.O0 fraudulent
bonds for a quarter of a century. and
that the bonds We're held by people in
the city ignorant of their worthless
character.
ONE of the most disastrous effects of
the great strike to Chicago, it is feared.
will be the disintegration of the great
plants at the Union stock yards. On
account of the la Dor unions which exist
there it is said that the intention is TO
scatter the packing-houses.
Mrs. TRUxToN BEALE. daughter OF
the late James G. Blaine. while bath
ing at Santa Monica Beach. Cal. on
the 25th, narrowly escaped drowning.
She ventured beyond her depth. and
was only saved from death by the eff
forts of Proprietor Jones.
THE venera bic Ellen L. Bowman Vail,
widow of the late Bishop Vail, the first
bishop of the Episcopal church in Kan
sas, and daughter of the late Samuel
Bowman. of Pennsylvania, died at To-
peka. Has. on the 27th. Mrs. Vail was
for fifteen years totally blind.
FOREST fires have been producing
great suffering and loss throughout
Wisconsin. and railroad companies have
never before experienced such damage
from fires. On the Wisconsin Central
road. for several days, it was impossi-
BILE to move trains.
RUMoR has it that there has been a
second fight at sea between japanese
and Chinese warships. \ japanese
cruiser is said to have engaged Chi
nese cruiser, on the 25th, while the lat
ter was conveying a transport, sinking
the cruiser.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt IN
Macedonia, Old Servia and Eastern
Bulgaria on the 27th. Many houses at
Varna, Bulgaria, We're damaged and
number of people killed as result OF
the shocks.