Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-02

L 4AOA0 IOM- SAAAkE0 SobCu ~
her home in Washington city, on the
25th, in her ffty-sixth year. She was
Q native of Indiana, having been born
and reared at Lafayette, in that state.
She was writer of much force and q
poet of no little merit. She wrote all
most exclusively under the nom de
plume Of Emily Hawthorne.
JOHN PERKPILE, shot and killed his
wife at Sydney, O., on the Goth. Mrs
Perkpile had been arrested. in COM
pany with several men. and sentenced
to fifteen days imprisonment. Perk-
pile went to the Jail to pay her fine,
and calling his wife to the bars drew
a revolver and shot her dead.
A WAGON load OF nitro-glycerine, con-
tanning 700 quarts, exploded miles
from Button, O., ON the Goth, with a
shock that was felt for forty miles.
Will Elmer, the driver, was blown to
atoms, and of the team only part of
one horses neck could be found.
DURING the week ended the Goth
failures in the United States. as re-
ported by R G. Dun & Co., were gao,
against 179 for the corresponding week
last year. For Canada the failures
numbered 81. against % last year.
AN explosion of fire damp took place
in colliery at Denny, Clustering,
Scotland, ON the 26th, while TT men
were working in the pit. Thirteen of
the number were killed and several
were injured.
An attempt was made to wreck a
Santa Fe east-bound passenger train
near Pasadena, Cal, on the night of
the 25th. A bowlder and plank placed
across the track were discovered by a
young lady named Wilson, who dashed
into her house, seized a lamp from the
table and succeeded in tagging the
train just in time to avert a catas-
trophe.
Ex-CoNsUL JOHN L. WALLER has been
placed in the French civil prison OF st.
Pierre, the military authorities refus-
ing to keep him any longer in Fort ST.
Nicholas, where he had been detained
since his arrival. Mr.. Waller is now
awaiting his transfer to some fortified
place, probably to the island of Mar
guerite, where the late Marshall Ba-
zane was interned.
A DISPATCH from Berlin says the
National Zeitung declares that ia
pan must not be allowed to drive Ger
man trade out of China, nor to acquire
a permanent military footing in China,
such as would enable her to shut the
door in Germany's face, perhaps in
agreement with the United States
The insurgents in the Manzanillo
district of Cuba have adopted tactics
followed in previous risings and are
lnx he hi Of ,1op to
tions of money and arms Threats are
made by the insurgents that if their
demands are not complied with the
torch will be applied to the fields of
standing cane and the plantation
buildings.
WORLDS FAIR diplomas awarded to
exhibitors whose exhibits were favora
bly, mentioned by the judges are being
prepared in Washington, at the bureau
of engraving and printing, and will be
sent out in about sixty days, together
with the medals now being struck at
the Philadelphia mint The diplomas
will be deliberately, engraved and
printed on Japan paper.
q "A NUMBER of American cattle dealers
are negotiating for the purchase of the
large herds which are held in the
Huasteca district, in the state of Vera
Cruz, Mexico, and which range over
portions of the states of Puebla and
Hidalgo.
On the Goth Rev. DR.. w. F. Dinger, a
well-known preacher of the Methodist
Episcopal church, died at Baltimore,
Md. He was IS years old. and was born
IL Aarau, Switzerland. He was widely
known as writer of religious sub
jects-
Four towns in Hungary,-Mosrin.
Kutoz, Villova and Rudolfsgrade-were
almost destroyed by the recent floods.
The damage amounts to $1,000, 600.
On the 26th Sloan Hurst. colored,
who shot and killed Lamly Rapley on
December 3, 1894, was hanged at Abbey
vile. s. C. He died exclaiming that he
would be in Heaven by dinner time.
ANOTHER battalion of infantry en-
banks at Cadiz on May in order to re-
enforce the Spanish troops on the
island of Cuba.