Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

) PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THE Improvement in the condition of
spring wheat brought by the recent
rains may bring the aggregate crop up
to ATS, DOC, 900 bushels The yield will
certainly be from $1,000, 900 to, sc. 900,
600 greater than anybody month ago
expected. Corn promises to go above
the 1000, 600. 600 mark-to very nearly
or quite reach the highest figures ever
touched.
Two BOMBS were exploded near the
police barracks at Monopoli. Italy, on
and very little damage was done.
THE first section of an excursion
train on the Grand Trunk railway
from Sherbrooke, Que, carrying pill
grims to the famous shrine of Ste.
Anne de Baupre. stopped at Craig's
road crossing. at 3:45 a. IN. on the 9th.
when it was run into by the second
section. causing frightful wreck in
which thirteen persons were killed
and twice that number injured.
On the sth the bodies of eight Chi
nese were found in the San Joaquin
river at MADEIRA, Cal. They had been
working in the mines situated in the
mountain. miles distant. Foul play
is suspected.
A TROLLEY car with thirty passen-
gers on board became unmanageable
at East Liverpool, O., on the sth. and
slid down the Franklin avenue hill on
the north side of the city, killing one
man and injurings eighteen other peo-
pie, two of whom will die,
DAVID MERCER, or J. West MERCER,
better known by his stage name, Ned
West" all over the country, was, on
the sth, adjudged insane by the coun-
ty court of Madison county. Ill. West
was at one time a famous minstrel,
and also an acrobat and aeronaut.
THE secret service of the post office
department has issued a circular offer
ing a reward of Sc, 600 for the capture
of Joseph Killoran, Harry Russell and
Charles Allen, who escaped from the
Ludlow Street Jail in New York city,
July 4. The men are wanted for post
Office robberies and other crimes. One
thousand dollars will be paid for the
return of any one of the trio to the
United States marshal in New York.
JoHN CASE, alias Mcdowell, was pos
itively identified at Riddles. Ore, on
the 9th, as the man who went through
the coaches and took the booty in the
hold-up of the Oregon express in Cow
Creek canyon, recently. He was held
in SO, bail. James Pool was also
held in $1,000 on suspicion of being
one of the robbers.
Two BURGLARS were shot at Poland,
Ind, On the night of the Sth. One
named Harry Jackson, noted Chica
go crook. was killed, and another,
named Arch Agar, was fatally wound
ed. He was from Terre Haute. A
third man, named Ed Barker, made his
escape.
A CAIssoN of a large bridge in course
of construction by a firm at Nasal
Hama. Egypt, sank. on the 9th, with
forty workmen, all of whom were
killed.
BY the collapse of platform upon
which 1000 persons had gathered to
participate in the Elk festivities in
the Inlet Casino at Atlantic City. n.
j., on the evening of the 10th, 100 of
their number were precipitated to the
floor below, a distance of 25 feet, all of
whom sustained more or less serious
injuries, while some, it was thought,
would die.
THE Cornell crew was hopelessly
beaten by the Trinity Hall eight at
Henley-on Thames, on thes10th. The
men were either overturned or, as the
London Times suggests, had been
tempered with before the race, as five
of the eight showed signs of physical
collapse.
THE San Francisco Examiner said,
on the 9th, that the stolen will of ex-
Senator Fair was in the possession of
a detective named John Curtain; that
he stole it from the clerks office jan
der it to the executors for SIS, 600, which
offer had been rejected on advice of
Judge Stock.
JUDGE GAYNoR, of the supreme court
of New York, on the 9th, admitted ex-
Police Inspector VIM. w. Mclaughlin,
who had been convicted of extortion,
to bail in the sum of $50, 900. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin was still under 5000 bail
on indictments which had not yet been
tried.
Mrs. GEORGE MONTGOMERY, of JEFF
fersonville, Ind, was taken suddenly
ill, on the 10th, with what the attend
ing physicians declared to be n well-de-
veloped and hopeless case of cholera.
SETH RICHARDS, Iowa's wealthiest
landowner and pioneer. died at Oak
land. CAL, on the 10th, aged 81. His
wealth is estimated at Sc, 600, 600.
TEN stores, comprising most of the
business portion of Wauwatosa, a sub
urb of Milwaukee. were burned on
the 10th; loss. $50, 900.
THE crops throughout Clinton coun-
ty, Ind, were badly damaged by a
heavy frost on the morning of the
10th. A thin coating of ice also formed
On water.
GEN. F. NJ. DRAKE received the re-
publican nomination as gubernatorial
candidate at Des Moines, Ia, on the
10th.
THE iaterna1 revenue bureau has be-
gun work in connection with the re-
funding of money paid as income tax.
NICOLAS PIERoLA, leader of the rev.
dictionary party in Peru, has been
elected president, and Mr.. Billing
hurst, vice-president The election
was quiet
SENATOR VEST, of Missouri, sailed
from New York on the Westernland
for Antwerp on the 10th. He will re-
main abroad for his health for several
months
THE committee of the city council of
Richmond, Va, which had been inves-
tigating the affairs of the gas works,
reported, on the 18th, that in the ad-