Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-06-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


a wagon belonging to the Howe Great
London circus at Fifty-ninth street
and Center avenue. Chicago. at 2:3O a.
M, of the Goth, smashing the wagon
and injuring it's five occupants, three
of them probably fatally.
A NEW oil field has been discovered a
few miles north of Moundsvil1e, w. Va.
1t is thought that it underlies the en-
tire Panhandle and the southwest cor
ner of Pennsylvania.
On the 10th, a hurricane and cloud
burst struck Cairo, Ill. Eleven lives
are known to have been lost by the
sinking of the steam ferryboat Kath-
crime, near the Illinois shore, about a
mile below the city.
An electric car containing more than
eighty passengers en- route from Vic
toria, B. c., to MacAuley Point to wit
ness sham battle in honor of the
queens birthday, left the rail while
passing over Point Ellice bridge,
crashed through the ratings and
plunged into the waters of the bay, IS
feet below. A few of those on the
outside of the car were able to swim
to the shore. but over sixty are known
to have persisted.
On the goth, the New York court of
appeals unanimously decided the
Raines liquor-tax law constitutional.
Chiet-Justice Andrews wrote the opin-
ion. which was in the case of Eisnfeld
against the New York city excise
board.
On the 26th, Charles Cardwen Nc
Cabe, Earl Cranston and Joseph Crane
Hartzell were consecrated as bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal church ct
Cleveland. o.
EDWARD BETHEL, an actor and mem
Der of the Boston grand opera stock
company, died at the Jail in Hartford,
Conn.,, on the Goth, of cerebro-spinal
meningitis. On April 20, Bethel, while
in a drunken frenzy, fred four shots at
his wife. Dallas Tyler, a member of w.
II. Cranes company, at the Hotel
held for trial in June, and sent to Jail
in default of $1,000 bail.
NORTH PRoNT. a cataleptic at Beth
Israel hospital, in New York city,
reached the thirteenth day of a pro-
tracted sleep on the Goth. He opened
his eyes on the 25th, but when
the doctors began to experiment upon
him. he dropped off to sleep again,
having been awake but a minute and
a half.
THE employees of the Smell Cycle
Fitting Co., of Toledo. o., to the num-
Der of 600, went on strike, on the Goth,
because the company refused to dis
charge an Objectionable superintend-
ent. The factory, which had been
working day and night, was closed.
AT Campbell, a small place about six
miles southwest of San Jose, Cal. on
the night of the Goth, Col. R. p. Nc
Glincy and wife, their daughter, Mrs.
James Durham; James Wells, son of
Mrs. Mckinney; hired woman, Minnie
Shesler, and hired man. James Bris-
coe, were killed by James Durham. IL
son-in law of Col. McGlincy, who made
his escape.
JUDGE COLE, of Washington, on the
27th, sentenced Irving Ford, colored, to
be hanged at the district Jail on June
16 next for the murder of Elsie kreglo.
On the 27th. the Sherman statue
commission selected the design sub
mitted by Carl Rohlsmith. of Chicago.
and awarded him the contract for
completing the statue.
A CIRCUS that was exhibiting in
South St Louis, on the eth, was
struck by the cyclone and destroyed.
Canvas, wagons, animals. everything
vanished. A few of the performers
found refuge in the vicinity, bnt the
show itself was annihilated-