Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AT New StraitSville, o., on the 18th,
eight cars of coal standing on the sid
ing at mine No. 3 were let loose by I'M
known persons and ran half a mile
down grade through a switch, making
a complete wreck. The Columbus &
Hooking Coal and Iron Co., who owns
the mine, have offered reward of S.
900 for the arrest of the guilty parties.
WILLIAM DUFFY, a linotype operator
employed in the composing-room of the
Philadelphia Enquirer, set in six days
the enormous amount of 469, 800 ems of
nonpariel type. His average an hour
was 1892 ems. He worked off the hook,
ordinary run of daily copy.
THE big steel bridge uniting Supe-
rior, Wis, and Duluth, Mimi, was
opened for traffic, on the 18th, with ap-
propriate ceremonies.
For more than a month farmers of
Oklahoma have been harvesting nearly
day and night, Sunday included. Wheat
is about all in stack and hundreds of
threshers are running. The wheat
yield for the territory will be far
greater than first expected.
CAPT. Gel, of the Italian Bersaglieri,
has invented rife from which so shots
a minute may be fred without remov-
ing the weapon from the shoulder.
Tests of the new arm are being made
by the Italian government.
JOSEPH MORRISON, farm laborer, has
been arrested at Bridgeton. N. j., on
the charge of attempting to kill Mrs.
Abbie Meyers, aged 20, for whom he
worked. Morrison says that he was
hired to kill Mrs. Meyers by her rela-
tives.
BY reason of the breaking of the con-
Meeting rod attached to the governor,
the Acton hy-wheel of a pair of Corliss
compound engines of the Tacoma
(Wash.) Railway Co., went to pieces, on
the 18th, completely wrecking the
plant and building and causing dam
age to the extent of $50, 900.
A TERRIBLE railway disaster occurred
at Gjentofte, Denmark, about midnight
of the 18th. The express from Belsin-
goer ran into a passenger train stand
ing at the station, wrecked eight car
riages, killed 20 persons and injured
60 others, most of them of the artisan
class.
Mrs. E ]. IsBELL was instantly
killed, on the 18th, by falling down an
elevator shaft in the dry goods store of
Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney in st.
Louis.
OAKLAND. Cal, on the 18th, royalty
entertained Is, 900 delegates who atten =
ded the International Christian En-
deavor convention just closed in San
Francisco.
FAILING to get a formal invitation,
the king of Siam, who is touring the
world, refuses to visit America.
AT Springfield. Mass, on the 18th,
between 11:20 a m. and $50 p. m. 4. "a.
inches of rain fell.
AT Danville, Ill, on the 18th, about
400 foreign coal mine strikers attacked
cageful of celored miners as they
reached the top of the shaft with
knives and slaves, but were bested and
driven to the woods Later the strik-
ers attacked a train on the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois carrying miners to the
city. The miners inside the coaches
opened fire, and about so shots were
exchanged. 1t is reported that one
miner was killed.
The Minnesota board of pardons, on
the 18th, decided unanimously not to
recommend the pardon of the Younger
brothers from the Saltwater peniten-
tiary, where they are serving life
sentence for the Mortified bank rob
berry and attendant murder of Cashier
Haywood.
REPRESENTATIVE SIMPSON, of Kan
sas, on the 14th, introduced in the
house a resolution directing the speak
er to appoint committee of five to in
vestigate the Sugar trust
THE California mine, one of the most
famous of the lost mines of southwest
California, has been re-discovered after
untold hardships and sufferings, by
two proSpectors-
Two LARGE reservoirs in the Fishkin
mountains, which supplied water to
the towns Of Matteawan and Fishkill,
burst their walls, at two o'clock on the
morning of the 14th, and the water that
was released swept through the
Duchess valley, causing the death of
several persons and destruction of
much property.
Ex-CoRoNER JAMES McHALE, for
years q prominent figure in Chicago
and Illinois state politics, died in Chica-
go, on the 14th, of dropsy. he was 50
years old.