Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-14


THE steam tug Rambler was blown
to atoms at New Haven, Conn, on the
9th. killing Frederick Weller, the cook,
and badly injuring Engineer Frederick
Wyner, and a man named Wilson.
AT Beavertown, Ala, few days ago
| the 2-year-old child of Milligan Weeks
fell into dry well IS feet deep. An
hour attcrward the child's parents
found him sitting on the graveled bot.
tom of the well playing with the
pebbles. A few insignificant scratches
were his only injuries.
MARY P. THOMPSON, of Durham, N
H., the historian and author, died on
| the 9Th. She was born November IA,
| 1925.
THE seventeenth session of the su.
began its session in Detroit, Mich, on
the 9th.
IT was reported, on the 9th, that
Ruby City, WASH, had been wrecked
by the prevailing floods.
A HEAVY frost was visible at Tiffin,
O., on the morning of the 9Th, and ice
formed as thick as window glass.
Corn and garden truck were killed and
other crops injured.
DIR. j. +. STONE, of Newport News,
Va, was attacked by masked men, on
the 9Th, and given coat of tar and
feathers. He was then warned to
leave or be hanged.
THE destiny which Lord Rosebery
mapped out for himself when at college
has been fulfilled. He married the
richest girl in England, Miss Han
nah de Rothschild; he is prime minis
ter of England. and he has won the
Derby with his bay colt Ladas, the win
ner of the Two Thousand Guineas on
May o. and the winner of the Newman
ket stakes on May %.
The Brawley bill to repeal the state
bank tax law was defeated in the
house of representative, on the 9th, by
a vote of yeas, 1O2; nays, 172. Seventy
democrats and all the populists voted
with the republicans against the bill.
CITIZENS of Round Pond, Okla, in
dignant at the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Co. for its refusal to grant them
any facilities, got together, on the 9Th,
and tore up the company's tracks in
that town.
A MOVEMENT has been set on foot in
New York city to bring Rev. DR.. Park
hurst forward as an independent anti
Tammany candidate for mayor.
THE Kansas republicans in conven-
ton at Topeka, on the 9th, nominated
Maj. E. n. Morrill, for governor on the
first ballot by an almost unanimous
vote.
THE Scotch-Irish national congress
met in Y. NJ. c. A. auditorium in Des
MoinoS T., Lo
ance at the opening session was uneX-
pectedly large, the auditorium being
filled with distinguished Ulster men
and women from all parts of the CONT
nent.
On the nth the Centralia Ull.) mine
operators offered the strikers one dol
lar ton for mining coal, but without
success.
In the Clerkenwel police court. Lon
don, Gen. John Hueston, the Ameri-
can, was, on the eth, committed for
trial for causing the death of George
Burton by thrusting the ferrule of an
umbrella into his eye.
IT was learned, on the Sth, beyond
doubt that William A. Sims
rott, the missing secretary and treas
urer of the Switchmen's union of Chi
cago had been located in Boston. He
was thought to be insane.
A GOOD piece of detective work led tc
the discovery of the notorious bank
and train robber, Bill Dalton, near
Ardmore, I. T., on the Sth. In endeav-
ering to escape arrest he was shot and
killed by the deputies.
Mrs. CLEVELAND arrived at Gray
Gables. Buzzard's Bay, Mass, on the
sth, after an exceedingly pleasant and
sail on e. c. Benedict's
steam yacht Oneida.
DIR. MEYER. convicted in New York
city of poisoning Ludwig Brandt, was,
on the sth, sentenced to life imprison-
ment at Sing Sing.
THE mayor of Limerick conferred the
freedom of the city upon the countess
of Aberdeen on the Sth.
FIFTEEN of the Coxeyites who set
sail from Denver, Col, in boats, were
reported, on the sth, to be missing
as a result of their boats upsetting.
1t was thought that the whole number
were drowned.