Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-11

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the bus company at dubuque, Ia. re-
turned home on the morning of the Sd
TO find his wife lying dead on the floor.
She was dressed Just as he had left her
the evening before. Heart trouble was
the supposed cause.
Mrs JOHN CHRISTIAN, wife of we'll
known Wabash Qnd.) merchant, and
lady prominent in Women's Relief corps
and Eastern Star work, died very sud-
denly of heart disease, on the Sd, aged
SIS.
THE British steamer Bellona. bound
from Hiogo for Hamburg, was wrecked
on the Paracels isles, in the China
sea. All on board succeeded in reach.
ing the land in safety, but the vessel
was total loss.
On the 4th the steamer Gaelic arrived
at San Francisco from the orient, bring
ing Hong Kong advices up to Septem-
Der 12 and Yokohama to September p.
On the Sd a furry of snow fell at Ell
gin. Ill.
On the 4th the boiler connected with
the pile driver on the Louisville and
Jeffersonville bridge exploded, and five
persons were badly injured. among
them two engineers, who were thought
to be fatally hurt.
On the night of the Sd three Chinese
gambling houses on 1.-The levee" in Chi
cago We're raided and over fifty Chinese
arrested. Do Chow, laundryman, is
supposed to have betrayed them in re-
yenge.
On the 4th the Elwood lind. window
glass factory. the last in that city to re-
SfarfnI with fy,11 fn1aa IF
hands.
On the Sd Mrs. Mary Strickler. as
sistant principal in the Osceola public
school in Pittsburgh, Pa, committed
suicide by hanging. while temporarily
insane, the result of sickness.
On the 5th the territorial supreme
court of New Mexico ordered the re-
ceivers for the Atlantic & Pacific road
to reinstate Conductor S. d. Heady.
who was discharged for being a mem
Der of the American Railway union.
TIE campaign in the Twenty-first
Ohio congressional district is to be en-
livened by a joint debate between the
opposing candidates, Tom l.. Johnson
and T. 7. f. Burton.
PROF. HUTCHINS. of the Cornell law
school. has accepted call to the dean
ship OF the law school of the univer-
sity of Michigan. of which he is a grad
uate.
TWENTY houses were destroyed by
an incendiary fire in BuckhannOr, w.
Va. early on the morning of the 5th.
Loss. $4,000: insurance. less than half.
FAILURES in the United States for
the week ended the 5th were 219.
against 800 last year. and So in Canada.
against - last year.
PE0F. NINCENZO BOTTA. we'll known
in New York educational and literary
circles. died. on the morning of the 4th,
from the effects of a fall from a win
dow on the I'd.
AT meeting Of members of the ST.
Louis merchants exchange. on the 5th.
it was determined that a suita BILE testi-
monial .be presented to the new trans
atlantic steamship bearing the name
of the city. for which $4,000 should be
raised. 1t was the sense of the meet
ing that the vessel be named st.
Louis" and not Saint Louis as in
tended.
On the 9Th Lyman Brown. the New
York millionaire, was arrested at Mon
treal, Can. on a charge of conspiracy
preferred by his daughter-ln-law. Some
weeks ago Browns son was arrested
for failing to provide Tor his wife, and
it is alleged that he was spirited away
by his father.
FIRE Quilted Keenan, & Jahn's furni-
ture store in Detroit, Mich, on the
morning of the 5th, entailing loss of
$50, 600 on stock and So, 900 on building.
Six men were killed and ten injured ny
falling walls, all but two of the victims
being firemen.
FIRE at an early hour on the morning
of the 5th destroyed the Y. NJ. c. A.
building in Nashville, Tenn. valued at
500 900; insured for $4,000. The edito-
rial department of the Banner, Temporal
rily occupying the fourth story, was
burned with the library and files of the
paper.
JOHN De HAvEN's brick warehouse at
Honey brook. Pa, with 600 cases of leaf
tobacco, was burned on the 5th; loss,
$4,000.