Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-28

THE weekly statement Of the Bank
of France, issued on the 21st, shows an
increase of 100000 francs gold and
pa, COO francs silver.
DURING severe storm at Faribault,
Mimi, on the Goth, the tent of Rey-
nolds' circus blew over, injuring fifteen
persons, one fatally.
JACOB HING, a well-known sign
painter and decorator, was instantly
killed, on the 21st, by the breaking of
a scaffold upon which he was working
in the Schultz opera house at Zanes-
vile, o. He fell 40 feet
On the 22d detachment of gen
darmes attempted to seize the belong
ings of some peasants near Ponte-
vedra, the capital of the French prov
ince of that name, in satisfaction OF
tax arrears. They were set upon by
a crowd of armed peasants, and in the
fight which ensued three peasants, one
boy of IL, were killed and several
were wounded.
A FEARFUL hail storm swept through
Monroe county, Ind, on the night of
the 21st. Standing grain was beaten
into the ground and farm stock killed.
Four horses were killed by stroke of
lightning. The loss to farmers is
enormous.
The bodies of Harry and Frank Rice,
1O-year-old twins, were found in HUI
ber's lake. near Lima, O., on the 22d.
The boys had run away from home tc
go swimming.
REV. ORLANDO WATKIN WELD For
ESTER, the fourth Baron Forester, died
at his residence in York, England, on
the ed. He was in his fifty-fourth
year.
FIRE of unknown origin destroyed
almost the entire city of Exeter, Neb.,
on the 22d. The losses will be far up
in the thousands.
SIXTY cases of cholera and fifteen
deaths at Jemoppe, a village of Bel
GUM near Liege, were reported on the
22d
On the 22d H. b. C. Foster, charged
with the murder of eX-Congressman
Morgan, whose trial had lasted week
at Water Valley, Miss, was declared not
guilty by the jury. The verdict was
received with manifest evidence of APP
proval by the spectators.
THE family of the late ex-senator
Bishop w. Perkins. of Kansas, will con-
lihuC w uldhS tllCil IlolIC III w
ton city. The remains of the dead
jurist and statesman were laid to rest
in Rock Creek cemetery on the 23d.
REV. CHARLES WARMKEssLE. of the
Evangelical denomination, committed
suicide at ShamoIin Pa, on the ed.
by hanging. His nephew, Eli Warm
kesSle. was killed near Port Carbon
on the Reading road about the same
time.
The torpedo boat Ericsson left Du-
buque, Ia. on the night of the 22d. The
construction will be completed in Rock
Island. when she will be manned by a
crew of Mississippi steamboat men,
who will take her to New York.
JOHN CoRRIGAN. 93 years old, was ia
tally shot at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
on the night of the I'D. by one of his
boarders. who mistOoll him for q bur-
glar. Corrigan's daughter gave the
alarm, pointing out her fathers form
In the darkness. and the boarder fired.
In the United States district court in
New York, on the I'D, Judge Beers, of
Bridgeport, Conn.,, was given decree
of 500 damages against the Hamburg
American Steamship Co. on account of
cholera scare in 1892. He took passage
on the Normannia, having been as
sured that no steerage passe myers
would be taken.
THE Minnesota street car vestibule
law was. on the 22d. declared constitu-
tional and valid by the supreme court.
1t was passed two years ago, and re-
quires that all street railway COM
paries shall build vestibules upon their
cars to protect motormen from storms
PETER LUHN, the first merchant that
settled in Newton. Kas., in the early
days, committed suicide. on the 22d, by
taking sixty grains of morphine. He
said that he had long contemplated the
act, believing that he was better dead
than alive.
GRIFFITH HUGHES, a stockman at
Vinton. Ia. who recently returned
from a trip Chicago, is said by his ply
sicians to have smallpox. A great
many have been exposed, and there is
great excitement there.