Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-17
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.

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A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THE bodies of VIM. Jones, VIM. Ca
hill. Llewellyn Owens and Daniel Da-
sion at the Dorrance colliery at Wilkes.
| barre, Pa, were recovered and brought
to the surface on the 9Th.
Two PERSONS were fatally and two
seriously injured by the fall of an ele.
vator in Chicago on the sth. The &C.
cident was caused by the breaking OF
the cable. the elevator falling 100 feet.
NEWS was received in Moscow, on
the sth, of the capsizing of a raft on
the River Okla near Ozery. resulting in
the drowning of 100 persons.
A GANG of five armed and masked
| men held up an electric car near the
Berwin-avenue crossing of Evanston
| avenue on the outskirts of Chicago. on
the evening of the 18th, and robbed the
sixteen male passengers, one of whom
was shot through the leg by his own
| revolver which was discharged when
| one of the robbers struck his arm with
his pistol The robbers calamity re-
Trained from molesting the two lady
passengers
THE will of Harry Wright, the base
ball manager. was admitted to probate
in Philadelphia on the 10th. He left
an estate valued at SIS, 500.
SIX MEN were seriously injured by
the explosion of boiler in the Whar-
50, ~ y~ - 7
on the sth. The town was shaken as
by an earthquake, and scarcely win
| dow in any of the frame houses re-
| manned unbroken.
ABAND of robbers attempted to hold
up the Grand Rapids & Indiana north
bound train near Kalamazoo, Mich.
on the 9TH, but the engineer opened
the throttle and did not heed the sig
nal to stop. dashing through a fu-
sillade of bullets. The headlight was
shot out and the cab riddled.
j. Don FARDEN, treasurer of the
Adams Express Co.. who absconded
from Terre Haute, Ind. three weeks
ago with a large sum of money, and
who was arrested in Baltimore, Md,
pleaded guilty befor the United States
commissioner at Indianapolis on. the
sth, and was placed under S., 900 bonds.
HINDA FINK, aged 103, died in De-
troit, Mich. on the sth. She was born
in Schwendt, Poland, in 1892, and came
to this country fourteen years ago.
She had been a widow for forty-four
years. and was remarkably active up
to within three months, when she be-
gan to fail.
To AVOID arrest and conviction for
being the head of the transfer gang
of thieves, whose populations had re-
Gently been uncovered by the police of
Kansas City. Mo-, Il. C. Litchfeld,
manager of the railroad transfer COM
pany in that city, committed suicide
on the 9th.
by subterranean noises, were felt at
Trieste, at midnight, and repeated
tremors of the earth were again felt
toward the morning of the 9th.
EIGHTEEN hours after her apparent
death from paralysis, Mary Kunze,
wife of farmer living near Logans-
port. Ind, arose in her coffin. on the
9th, and asked for a drink of water.
She is now rapidly recovering.
EARLY on the morning Of the 9Th
thirty houses were destroyed by fire
and many poor families were rendered
homeless in the town of Bayard, w.
Va.
Gov. CLoUaH of Minnesota issued a
proclamation, on the 9th, forbidding
the fight which had been announced
to take place between Needham and
Moore on the night of the 18th.
A COSTLY rear-end collision occurred
on the Pittsburgh : Lake Erie rail-
road at Beaver Falls, Pa. on the 9th.
due to an unusually dense fog. Fiji
teen freight cars and one engine were
wrecked. causing loss of $50, 900.
ANDREW j. STERLING, a swindler and
confidence man, was arrested in Buff
falo, N. Y, on the leth, for swindling
girls by promising them positions in a
Pasadena Call hotel, and requiring a
deposit from them.
NEAR East Haven, Conn, on the 10th,
Dominick Braun and Robert Cirillo,
while out cunning attempted to crawl
through hedge. Braun's gun was dis
charged, seriously wounding him and
killing Cirillo.
AT Snider station, 80 miles north
of Tweed, Ont, the dwelling-house
occupied by Thomas Lindsay and fam
| lily was destroyed by fire, on the 10th.
| and six of the occupants were Gre
| mated.
PART of a large building used as a
| spinning mill in Hocholt, Westphalia,
collapsed, on the 10th, burying twenty
| workmen in the ruins. Several dead
! bodies were taken out.
| As HE was returninp home on the
| 10th, farmer named Eruba was held
up miles from Cedar Rapids, Ia, and
robbed of s44 and gold watch. The
robbers climbed into the wagon before
| they were observed, and while one
held a revolver to the farmers head
the other went throughhi clothes
The Oar ling hotel, the largest hos.
telry in Lorain. O., was burned early
on the morning OF the sth. Forty
guests escaped in their nightclothes,
losing all their effects Nothing was
saved from the burning building but q
piano and one chest
IT became known on the 10th that
the Turkish government had finally
presented to the ENJOYS of the six
powers reply to their collective note
on the subject of the recent disturb
ances in Constantinople. This reply.
bassadora
A DISPATCH from Coolgardie. South
Australia, the center of the new gold
fields, on the 10th, announced that q
whole block of buildings there had
been burned by fire which was start
ed through the upsetting Of . lamp.