Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

deputies passed the first clause of the
anti-anarchist bill by a vote of 81 to IA.
THREE HUNDRED men and 100 teams
were placed at work by Contractor
Richardson upon the excavation of 1OO,-
600 yards of earth on the site of the new
Monon shops at Lafayette, Ind, on the
3Oth. The city gave bonus of forty
four acres of land, and 500, 900 in cash
to secure these shops.
Two HUMAN heads were found at the
New Castle pa dumping grounds on
the Goth. They were wrapped in pieces
of oil-cloth, and inclosed in a small
wooden box. The flesh was in an adj
vanced state of decomposition. On the
oil-cloth were the names d. A. Metz
ger and Cell Elliott, also the figures
1884. The skulls were taken as an
evidence of a horrible crime, and a
full investigation was ordered.
A PASSENGER train on the Wisconsin
Central railway ran through an open
switch at Marshfield, Wis, early on the
morning of the 3Oth, several cars being
completely wrecked and burned. Many
of the passengers and trainmen We're
pinioned in the wreck and cremated
injured, many of whom were rescued
by survivors FROM a horrible death by
fire.
The miners held meeting at Grip
pie Creek, Col, on the 2sth, and decided
to stand for eight hours for days
work, leaving the question of wages,
as between S2.75 and So, to a board of
arbitration.
IMPERIAL, Canadian and South Afri-
can delegates are soon to assemble at
Ottawa, Ont, to consider the question
of trade, and that of Pacific cable,
which it is desired shall be entirely I'M
der British control.
IT is said that English capitalists
have offered S7,OOO.OOO for the plant of
the Elgin OIL watch works, and that
the sale is practically completed.
MAY 80 being the anniversary of the
death of Joan of Arc, Populations from
several masonic lodges in Paris placed
a large floral wreath upon the statue of
the Maid of Orleans in the Rue DIES
Pyramids. The wreath was inscribed:
.''To Joan of Arc; Abandoned by Royal
ty, Burned by the Church.
AS AN excursion train on the Column
railroad was carrying the excursionists
to the Andersonville Decoration day eX-
ercises the rear car jumped the track,
rolled down an embankment and pulled
part of the train with it. and more than
fifty persons who left their homes in
high spirits in the morning were car
ried back in ambulances.
THE unwilling and dedication of the
monument to the memory of the pri-
vate soldiers and sailors of the confe6-
eracy was the occasion of n great cele-
bration in Richmond, Va, on the 3Oth.
with impressive ceremonies and an i'm
posing parade. AS preliminary there
was a cavalry reunion attended by sew
eral of the confederate comma nders.
On the Goth Horace Greeley's memory
was honored by Typographical union
No. 6, when the statue by Alexander
Sixth avenue and Thirty-third street,
New York city, was unveiled. There
was an Grafton by Congressman Amos
J. Cummings, and President Keller of
the New York Press club spoke on
Horace Greeley's influence on the news
paper men of the day."
THE earl of Hopetoun, governor of
the colony of Victoria, Australia in
orenirg the Victorian parliament, on
the Goth, congratulated the people on
the gradual return of the country to
prosperity.
DECORATION Day was very generally
observed throughout the country, and
from all the principal cities and many
of the smaller ones came reports of
elaborate and loving tributes to the
soldier dead.
Gov PATTIsoN of Pennsylvania issued
a proclamation, on the 3Oth, command
ing the peace in the disturbed coke re-
gion, intimating that if it was found
necessary he would invoke the entire
military force of the state in order to
secure the much-desired end.
ISAAC ADLER, volunteer aeronaut
who made an ascension with a balloon
at Manhattan Beach, near Cincinnati,
on the 3Oth, in dropping with the para
chute landed among some barges in the
Ohio river, and before assistance could
reach him he was drowned.
The monument erected in Cation
cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland. to the
memory of the Scottish soldiers who
were killed during the civil war in the
United States was decorated with floral
wreaths on the 30th.
On the 31st Gov. Matthews of In
diana issued proclamation command
ing the striking miners who were OBJ
structing the passage of trains in the
counties of Clay, Parke. Vigo, Sullivan
and Vermillion to disband, and calling
upon the sherihs Of those counties to