Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FIVE persons were killed and about
10 received injuries more or less severe
during the celebration of national in
dependence day in Chicago on the 5th.
A GENERAL strike of miners of the
United Mine Workers of America was
ordered for July by the national ex-
ecutive board, whose headquarters are
in Columbus, O., and also by the dis
trict presidents.
THE monument of the First Mime
sofa regiment was dedicated, on the
I'd, on the Gettysburg Pa-) battlefield,
in the presence of a number of distin-
guished Minnesotans. The monument
is one of the finest on the field, and was
erected at cost of $4,000.
AS A result of the investigation of the
recent collision on the Vandalia road
at Vandalia, Ill, all the crew of the
special Christian Endeavor California
train have been dismissed from the
service of the company.
BRADFORD LEONARD, of Taunton,
Mass, 20 years old, took paris green,
with suicidal intent, on the I'd, and
died. He was out of work and de-
spondent- He was the tallest man in
Massachusetts,, being seven feet in
height
Rev. Dr. HENRY HARMAN, professor
emeritus of Dickinson college, and one
of the foremost educators in the
Methodist Episcopal church, died. on
the I'd, at his home in Baltimore, Md,
at the age of IS years
THE illumination and fireworks dis
play on the river at Springfield, Mass,
on the night of the 5th, was married by
the drowning of the two men who
were handling the fireworks, w. Ma
Done, of Brooklyn, and John T. Nolan,
of New York. Malone fell into the
river, and when Nolan attempted to
rescue him the drowning ma seized
him and both sank.
BERTRAM HILL, the six-year-old son of
Chauncey Hill, a San Francisco archi-
tecI, was carried up, at Oakland, Cal,
on the 5th, clinging to a guy rope of a
balloon from which an Rronaut was to
descend by a parachute. When 1, 600
feet high the little fellows hold gave
way and his body, falling to the earth.
was crushed out of shape.
THOMAS MORGAN and his wife met a
horrible death at Youngstown, o.,
on the 5th. They were driving near a
cliff when the horse backed the buggy
over the bank, and Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
gan fell 60 feet and both were killed.
THE senate, ON the 5th, confirmed
the nomination of r. Weldeman, of
California, to be consul at Hong Kong,
China
On the 9Th a disturbance was Gre
ated in Monterey, Cal, over the display
of Portuguese flag beside the Amer
lean ensign instead of below it over
Ortin'S grocery store. Patriotic citi-
zens took down the Portuguese flag,
but finding it again flying removed it
and burned il. Ortin complained to
the Portuguese consul.
THE new town of Lincoln, n. J., cell
ebrated Independence day by electing
a municipal government in which
women share equally with men.
q. V. n. LoTHRUP, ex-minister to
Russia, who was badly Frustrated by
the heat in Detroit, Mich, on the 5th,
was reported much better on the 9Th.
The list of persons who died in that
city from sunstroke and heat prostra-
ton. on the 9th, reached Is.
SENATOR HARRIS, of Tennessee, who
is i'll in Washington, was, on the 9th,
considered to be in a serious condi-
ton.
In speaking of the great miners
strike, on the 9Th Secretary of State
Sherman said that such disturbances
were always serious, and threatened
to become.injurious to business inter
ests.
JOHN HENRY BARKER. colored, was
electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. Y, on
the 9th, for wife murder committed on
August so. 1895, just outside the town
of White Plains
A TERRIFIC thunderstorm which
passed over the Lake st. john district,
in Canada, on the 9Th, caused some loss
of life and considerable damage to
property.
THE tariff bill passed the senate, on
the 9TH, by a vote of IS to IS.
THE Japan Herald, commenting on
She Hawaiian situation. naively gives
away the intentions of Japan, which
are of by-no-means peaceful charae-
ter towards either Hawaii or the United
States-