Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-24


lightning, on the 18th, while standing
in the door of his well-house at Spring
City, Tenn, during a severe thunder
! storm. and his life was despaired of.
A colored boy, who stood near. was
also struck, falling dead by the doc
| tors side.
A DEFALcATIoN which is officially
| sta ted at $40, 200, and may increase to
$4,000 or $50, 900, has been discovered
in the accounts of the defunct Harlem
River bank of New York city, and a
warrant for the officer accused of the
embezzlement was issued on the 18TH
A MAN and woman who registered at
| the Dellone hotel, Omaha, on the 18th,
| as Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Sheerar, Allie
| gheny City, Pa, quarreled at night,
| and the man shot the woman and him
self, intiicting probably fatal wounds.
The woman's name proved to be Miss
Aurora McClintock.
A BALTIMORE & ONO SOUTHWESTERN
railway passenger train ran over a COW
| at Belpre, O.. on the 18th, and was de-
rallied. The train rolled down a high
bank, and six persons were severely in
jured.
THE celebration at Breeze Cottage,
Garden City, Long Island, on the 18th.
by the Society of Colonial Danes, of the
two hundred and first anniversary of
the esta blishment of the first.post Office
in America, was notable affair.
A DAMAGE suit was filed by A. L..
Snider, plumber, in the district
court at Topeka, Kas., claiming $685.
coo from the Individual and corporate
members of the Master Plumbers as
ISOLATION of the state of Kansas on the
ground that the association is a COM
bine, and that by reason of a con-
spiracy to freeze out all nonmem bers
of the association the defendants broke
up the plaintiffs business and ruined
him.
THE soundness of the commercial
world is shown in the diminished inn
portance of failures, the liabilities re-
ported for the second week of May
amounting to only sl.937. 53s, of which
81, 400. 932 were of trading and 1892. COG
of manufacturing concerns The TAIL
ures for the week were go in the
United States, against 247 last year,
and "a in Canada, against IA last year,
AT Tower, Mimi, on the 18th, Harry
Nee, one of the most prominent land
attorneys of Duluth: W. l.. Morrison,
an explorer, and w. FL. Cook We're run
out of town by large mob of men
who are claimants to land. They al
lege that for year Nee and his men
have been jumping claims and contest
ing men who enter in good faith.
JAREs BENSON, one of Minnesota's
first settlers, and one Of the republican
leaders of the state, died in st. Paul on
the 18th. Mr.. Benson was 72 years old.
He was the clerk of the first house of
representatives in territorial days, and
for three successive terms, from 1s62 to
1866, was speaker of the house.
AN echo of the Carlyle w. Harris
trial was heard in Syracuse, n. Y, on
the 18th, when the news leaked out
that Charles w. Harris, the father of
the murderer who was put to death by
electricity at Sing Sing on May s, 1898,
for poisoning his wife, had been quiet
ly taken to the state hospital for the
insane at Ogdensburg.
THE boiler of F. C. Ross planning
mill at Bay City, Mich, exploded, on
the 18th, killing engineer George C.
Chosen, fatally injuring John Clegg
and wounding John Scarth, Henry
Neal and Stephen Alyea and his son.
The force of the conclusion broke
plate glass in windows three blocks
away.
SIX people, five men and a woman,
persisted and two were perhaps fatally
injured by the wrecl1ing of the schooner
NJ. J. Cummings. which foundered in
the storm off Milwaukee on the 18th.
going down in 90 feet of water just
south of the harbor piers.
The main building of the Hillsboro
(O.) female college was burned on the
18th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000
SHERIFF burgess. of Topeka, Kas.,
obtained requisition at Denver, Col,
on the 18th, for George Woods, arrest
ed at Colorado Springs, who is said to
be a member of a gang that commit
ted numerous robberies in Kansas, the
most daring of which was the robbery
of the Missouri Pacific express office at
Topeka Il few weeks ago.
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