Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

farm near Pottstown. Pa, on the 25th,
gathering ripe fruit, the farmer came
running towards the tree, accompanied
by several dogs, which SO frightened
the trespasser that he let go his hold
and fell to the ground. He was picked
up Unconscious and conveyed to the hos
were pronounced fatal.
CHARLES and ANNA. twin children of
Charles Buck, were killed while play
ing on the tracks of the West Jersey
road, near Vineland, n. j., on the 25th.
The engineer of on east-bound passen-
ger train saw them on the track, but
he says he thought they were bundles of
paper, and did not discover his mistake
until the train was on them.
A DISPATCH from Pont-y-Pridd, Wales.
on the 25th, said that 172 bodies had
been recovered from the Albion col
liery, near Cilfind, the scene of the fire.
damp explosion on the 23d.
The steamers Crosshill and Norah
collided in the British channel on the
Goth. The Norah sank, and several of
her crew were drowned. The Crosshill
was beached.
SECRETARY CARLISLE resumed his
duties at the treasury department, on
the Goth, looking much refreshed from
his weeks cruise on Chesapeake bay.
THE president sent to the senate, on
the Goth, the nomination of Charles De
Kay, of New York, to be consul-gen7
eral of the United States at Berlin.
THE seventh annual convention of
the National Republican league met in
Denver, Col, on the Goth.
THE khedive of Egypt arrived in Conf
stantinople on the Goth.
Hon. WIZ. NJ. SPRINGER was renom-
mated for congress by reclamation, on
the Goth, by the democrats of the Sey-
enteenth Illinois congressional dis
trict.
COLORED people in Philadelphia are
eagerly watching for the arrival at that
port of the steamship Capulet, from
Hamburg, which has been chartered by
the International Migration society to
sail July for the infant negro repu blic
Liberia, carrying $50 colonists and Il
large general cargo. OF those taking
passage for Africa only ITO are from
Philadelphia, the others having been
collected throughout the south.
SUPERsTITIOUs people of Peru, Ind.
and surrounding country, are worried
over the discovery made that the letter
''B" is being found plainly impressed
upon leaves of growing oats, and it is
put down as a prediction of disaster.
The letter is taken as an indication of
"bloodshed," and it is said in proof of
this that the mysterious circumstance
was noticed preceding the civil war
and the war of 1912.
THE feeling against Italians in par
ticular, and foreigners in general,
aroused by the assassination of the
president, has caused several factories
in the suburbs of Paris to discharge all
the foreigners in their employ, and it is
expected that the same course will be
adopted by other factories.
SIX Spaniards were arrested in List
| bon, on the Goth, charged with posting
red placards in the leading thorohg-
fares. The placards were inscribed.
''Ravachol, valiant and Henri are
| avenged. Santos arm has rendered
them Justice"
E. +. Fabric, of Philadelphia, for,
merly a member of the Drexel banking
firm, who retired in 1885 with fortune
of $4,000, 900, died in Florence, Italy,
on the 27th.
AMONG the provisions of William
| Walter Phelps will is one leaving $780,
600. to be added to like sum left by
Mr.. Phelps father, to Yale university
the whole to be used for the erection
of building on the campus.
| ATLANTIC & PACIFIC trains have
killed so many grasshoppers in New
| Mexioo that IL iS uaceSSary IN Sapd fba
track thus made slippery.
| j. c. SMITH, for nearly forty years
connected with the Big Four system
and known among railway men as
''Uncle Johnny" hanged himself at In.
dianapolis, on the 27th. He was 81
years old and for fifteen years ran the
train from Chicago to indianapolis.
| AS THE result of the elections held In
the Dominion of Canada, on the 26th,
| the goernment will have clear ma
/ jority of Is.
| FRANCIS Z. BALDWIN was nominated
for governor of New York by the pro.
hibition state convention at Syracuse
on the eth.
| WILLIAM NJ. SINCERELY, of Philadel-
phia, was nominated for governor OF
| Pennsylvania by reclamation by the
democratic convention at Harrisburg
on the 27th.
On the night of the 2Tth, as Mrs.
| North Manchester. Ind, was walk.
ing in her door yard, she uttered q
scream and sank to the ground dead.
Heart disease was the cause. She was
54Years of age.