Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-06-20

LAhi-h III tnC HAOfAiHk VI thC 1olA
the dead body OF Blase Mcdonald, an
insane patient at the asylum, at To-
peka, Kas., was found hanging to a
tree in front ct the building where he
haa been confined McDcaald and
Sch after and Drus1er, two Other in
sane patients, escaped by removing q
" indow and letting themselves down
10 the ground by tying bed clothes to-
gether.
THE employees of the American iron
works in Oswego, n. z, one of the
most extensive boiler and engine
plants in the country, have received
notice EFF 10-per-cent. increase in
! wages.
THE federal jury at Duk1th, Mirn-,
on the 18th, in the 81 ESQ 900 damage
suit of Alfred Merritt VS.. John ID.
Rockefelie-. the Standard Oil king.
after having been out over four hours,
returned a verdict of -S94O, 900 for the
plaintiff
FIVE miners employed in the Jermyn
No. Q zrolliery, ed Forge township,
near Scranton, Pa, were badly burned,
ON the 14th, by tke,explosion of keg
Of powder around which they were
sitting. A spark from lamp carried
by "a driver boy, who was passing.
caused the explosion. One of the in
cured men died soon after.
THOMAS Don, the crank who was ar
rested on the Balmoral road, in Scot
land, recently, was, on the 14th, COM
united to lunatic asylum on n crown
warrant. When arrested Don was
| practicing with revolver, and in
| formed his captors that he was on his
way to Balmoral to obtain an inter-
| view with the queen.
THE motions for new trials in the
two cases against Lum Smith, pub
Usher of the Philadelphia Herald, con-
victed of improperly using the mails
and sentenced to a fine of $50 and
costs and five months imprisonment,
were overruIed, on the 14th, by Judge
Butler in the United States court.
The Howard Harrison Iron Co.. To-
Gated at Bessemer, Ala, and operating
the largest iron-pipe works in the
south, employing 1900 men, posted
notices, on the 14th, that the wages of
their employees would be increased 10
per cent, beginning on the 18th. The
advance is voluntary.
MARTIN GILLETT & Co., of Baltimore.
Md, received telegram from Annoy,
China, on the 14th, stating that the
latest advices from the island of For
,mosa were that business was entirely
suspended there, and that there was
much rioting in the reproducing dis
trictS.
CAPT. HOOPER, in command of the
cutter fleet in the Behring sea, has re-
ported to the treasury department
that mis- observations south of L nalaska
convince him that the seal herds NOV
ing north are far less numerous than
formerly. This scarcity. it is believed.
is entirely due to the indiscriminate
slaughter of the last two or three
years.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN years
ago the continental congress adopted
the Stars and Stripes as the emh,em of
the United States, and, on the 18th,
the anniversary of the event was cele
brated as Flag day at many places
throughout the country. In the pub
lie schools special exercises were OBJ
served, while on public and business
buildings the Stars and Stripes were
tunfurled to the breeze.
The steamer Dakar. from West Afri-
can ports. arrived at Liverpool on the
14th, and reports that the gunboat Bee
croft was lately wrecked at night near
Old Calabar by tornado. Sir Claud
MacDonald.a the Niger commissioner.
his wife and about forty others, who
were on board the gunboat, were res
cued.
HARRY ELDRED, Clay Willard and
Charles Cowie, aged Is. 20 and 81, re-
spectively, were drowned by the cap
sizing of sail boat on St Louis bay
off West Superior. Wis. on the night
of the 14th. VIII Pinkham, who was
also in the party, escaped by 'clInging
to the boat until help arrived.
Pos TMASTER TRIPPITO of Fishers
Station. Ind, narrowly escaped being
blown up by an internal machine, on
the 18th. He received the package
from Cincinnati. The box was filled
with powder, dynamite cartridges and
Illuminating caps.