Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-08-27

coal oil, met with another accident
some days ago. While lying under q
load of hay he fell asleep and failed to
awake when the wagon moved. As a
result he was run over, and both oil
the legs on the left side of his body
were broken. He in some way man.
ages to hop along by balancing him
self on the two legs on the right side
of his body. 1t is curious kind oflo-
comotion. and how he does it is hard
to understand; but he gets along all
right.
We saw letter from Charlie Tual
louisville, Idaho, where he has been
engaged in mining for gold and silver
for some time past. He is in a fair
way to do we'll with his mines and has
good prospects of both gold and silver.
Although his gold prospect looks bet
ter than the others, he says he is ''a
free silverite, every inch of him, and
will give Bryan his hearty support. :"
Wherever he may be, and no mat
ter what political faith he may es-
pouse, he has the good wishes of every
one that knows him here. We hope
he may become a Silver King before
he gets back.
The temperature for the month of
August for the present year shows that
the highest mark has been reached
since 1881. From July &c to August
Is, the highest temperature recorded
each day at the U. S. observers Office
at this point did not fall below go de-
grees. August 7th it reached 101 b.
August 9Th the same temperature was
recorded; on August 10th it reached
102 degrees. Six days of the period
the temperature reached 80 degrees.
All these records are made by a Their
mometer placed in the shade and pro-
tected from reflection. This month
will be known as the shot August. "
ANY one interested in meteorology can
H. Delano.
H. Bradley, aged about 40, is dying
on cot in the st. Louis City Hospital.
The bones on the right side of his
head are broken and his skull is badly
fractured. The doctors say there is
y
Bradley was unconscious when he was
received and little IS known of him..
He was walking along the Iron Mouh
tain track a few miles south of Bis
marck, Mo-, Tuesday night. VIXEN a
freight train overlook him, and the en-
gineer, thinking the pedestrian would
step aside, made no effort to stop his
engine until it was almost on him. He
then sounded his whistle. Bradley
stepped aside. but not out of range of
the engine. The cylinder struck him
on the head and hurled him twenty
feet. He was picked up unconscious,
and was sent to St. Louis. Bradley
was poorly dressed, and his identity
was established by letters found on his
person.
An unknown pobt gets in a Maud
on a summers day, raked the meadow
sweet with hay. The mule with which
he raked the hay was muckle dun with
spots of gray. Jake's shirt was hick-
DRY, his pants were brown, with a
patch on the place where Jack sat
down. Jake cussed in way that was
sad to see when the mule went "haw"
when he said ''gee." A humble bees
home in the stubble lay, where Jake
and the mule raked the clover hay.
A rake tooth ran through that humble
home and the bees came out and began
to roam. in search of the man on the
summers day, who raked the meadow
of clover hay. They swarmed inside
Jake's shirt and quickened the mule
to a mighty squirt. 1t was tough on
the mule; it was worse on Jake, and
worser still on that sulky rake: for
the mule turned loose in a promiscu-
Gus way and scattered that rake all
DER the hay.
II any one doubt the Wetness of the
rainstorm OF last Saturday evening,
we refer him to VIM. H. Thomson, Esq,
of St. Louis. That afternoon, with the
''hoodlum" full of happy humanity,
he went up to GraniteviIle, and for
several hours the party enjoyed the
famed hospitality of Manager Smith.
When the time for return arrived a
rather threatening cloud was observed
to be extending its sable folds from
the horizon toward the zenith, but all
agreed the "hoodlum" could outrun
the approaching war of elements, ard,
like the man who was refused admis-
sion into the ark, at worst it wouldn't
be much of shower, anyway. New
ertheless, when the occupants of the
vehicle disbarked at the valley
Home" the 'hoodlum" was awash like
a skiff In stormy sea, the ladies hats
and dresses were ruined, and Mr.. 7. g
fine new duck suit-void of starch, set
or shape-was sight to behold! But
once home, changes of raiment were
quickly made, and it soon became evil
dent that the storm had not damped
the spirits nor quelled the happiness of
the party.
The editor of the Poplar Bluff Re
publican says: when we were publish
ing a paper in 1872, in Mt. Vernon,
H., on the second floor. a store was
opened in the room under our Office.
The senior proprietor came up stairs
and contracted for three columns of
space, for II months, locals each issue,
and $500 dodgers every week. He
remarked that it was a snap to get into
a town where the other business men
did not advertise. This firm started
on borrowed capital. In less than
three years it had money enough to
start two stores, one in Sedalia and