Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IT is generally supposed that mining
is the most hazardous of all pursuits.
but recent statistics go to show that
it is really safer than railroading.
These figures are to the effect that in
1892 there was but one fatal accident
to every 37S employees and one nOn-fatal
one to every 1913 in the coal mines,
whereas there was one man killed for
every 800 men employed and one man
INJURED to every % in the railroad
service.
HEREAFTER, for the first time in the
history of the country, the Stars and
Stripes will float over the national cap
itol every day. whether congress is in
session or not, provision to that effect
having been inserted in the sundry
civil appropriations bill. The credit
for this new departure is due to Sena-
tor Hale.
CHANCELLOR CANFIELD of the Univer
sity of Nebraska has declined the pres
idency of the Ohio State university,
to which he was recently elected by a
unanimous vote of the board of truS-
tees.
II is expected that Glasgows ex-
ports to the United States will increase
some sGOO. 900 in value owing to the pas
sage of the German bill.
THE supreme grove of the United
Ancient Order of Druids began a two
days session at Columbus, O., on the
14th. Fourteen states We're repre-
scented.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, a descendant of
President Adams and grandson of
no Ill n IioG Af
plexy at Quincy, Mass, on the 14th,
aged 81.
THERE is reason to believe that the
the governments claim against the es-
tate of ex-senator Leland Stanford will
be tested in the courts before there has
been any actual default in the pay
ments. Acknowledgement Olney's no.
tice to the executrix of the governments
claim has interfered somewhat with
the closing up of the estate. and may
result in the closing up of the univer-
sity.
FREDERICK NAGLE, lately the mayor
of Leoptschafen. village in Baden,
Germany, was arrested at New York. on
the 14th. on the steamer Westernland.
on the charge of forgery. The arrest
was made on complaint from the act
ing German consul. The prisoner is
charged with forging the name of his
brother for something like $1,000
THE cyclone which swept over the
province of Cuidad Real, Spain, on the
| 18th, was accompanied by terrific
storm of hail. Over 200 persons were
injured, and several thousand domestic
animals were killed. The damage to
IL -. 4
100000
JOHN MCDONALD, employed in the
ginroom of the Galveston TEX cotton
seed oil mill. in attempting to prevent
the seed from clogging in the gin, on
| the evening of the 18th. got his right
| arm caught in the gearing and was al
most instantly killed. His arm, chest
and side were horribly lacerated, and
his neck was broken.
| Hon. CLIFTON r. BRECKINRIDGE. of
| Arkansas. qualified as minister to Rus
STA on the 14th. Mr.. Creckinridge ex-
poets to leave the United State in
about a month and will make several
stops en- route.
| On the 18th Dennis Norton. a promi-
! nent Irish-American citizen, dropped
dead on the street in Burlington, Ia.
of heart disease. He was aged 90 years.
| THE police of Rome say that three of
the anarchists arrested in the suburbs
of that city, on the 14th, We're in plot
| to assassinate Premier Crispi. The
bomb to be used by the assassins had
been prepared, and Giganti- one of
those arrested, had been chosen to
throw it at the premier.
On the night of the 18th, Frank
Proteous, farmer living seven miles
from Kalamazoo. Mich, mistook his
young wife, who had arisen to close a
window, for a burglar, and shot her
through the heart