Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-11-15


A DISASTROUS fire. with q loss o. Ire
which ay reach between fl ~ and sixty,
occurred in the Rochester IN. W Steam
Gauge and Lantern Works on the 9th
MAYOR BABcocz Of Clevslan |, O., left
days. sojourn. spent in the vain endeavor
to interview the defaulting treasurer,
Axworthy.
THE council of the Imperial Federation
League in Canada. on the Sth. discussed
means for promoting reciprocal COM
merce between the various colonies OF
| the empire.
CALVIN s. BRIcE, chairman OF the DEM
ocratic National campaign committee, is
suffering all the vicissitudes of the van
pushed. Betting men are denouncing
| him because he raised false hopes after
he knew the election was against him.
MICHAEL KLoNN. the second victim of
the recent boiler explosion at the Lam
caster (Pa-) Chemical Works, died on the
9th.
MISS ANNA DICKINSON has sued the Re.
publican committee for 81, 25o. balance
of salary and expenses as campaign
lecturer.
CAROLINE ROSE, Storage passenger
on the National Line steamer Egypt
committed suicide by jumping overheard
at sea on the 9th ult.
AN UNKNOWN man jumped into the river
from Prospect Park at Niagara Falls,
on the 9th, and was carried over the falls
and lost.
BY the falling Of a mason's scaffold in
the Weed building, at Stamford, Conn.,,
on the 9th, four men were thrown to the
ground. two being killed and the others
severely injured.
A DECISION was rendered by United
States Circuit Judge Sawyer, of San
Francisco, on the 9th, in the cases of two
Cinnamon, in which he holds that mas
much as they wer9born in the United
States, they are citizens thereof and not
amenable to the act OF Congress exclud-
ing Chinese laborers.
A soUTH-BoUND St Paul & Duluth
freight train broke in two near White
Bear, Mimi, on the 9th, and the rear Sec
ton crashed into the forward PORTION.
The shock overturned the caboose stove.
and the car caught fire. Condu ctor
Burke of Mime apolis, was pinned in the
wreck, and burned to death.
GENERAL J. BOWMAN SwEITzER died in
Pittsburgh, Pa, ON the 9th, after a brief
illness.
IT is stated that the recent accident to
the Cars train was the work of Mill
lists in an attempt to assassinate their
ruler The many arrests which have
taken place since discredit the careful
promulgated theory of accident.
THE Italian Government wishes to take
part in the blockading of the Zanzibar
coast against the slave traders, and is
negotiating with that end in view.
The Spanish Government will not pro-
test against the seizure of the Spanish
schooner Gracia by United States
revenue cutter, admitting that the seizure
was justiiable.
THE latest returns indicate a majority
for Harrison in the Electoral College Of
seventy-seven.
HANSEN, the explorer. has accomplished
his perilous journey across Greenland
on the inland ice, and has arrived safely
at Godthaab, on the west coast of Green
land. The journey was made on snow
shoes and was for the purpose of explor-
ing the unknown interior of Greenland.
THE great Navarro flats, in New York,
said to be the largest in the world. which
were recently erected at cost of between
five and six million dollars, were sold
under foreclosure, on the 9th, for $780,
900.
In the Manitoba Legislature, on the
Sth. Premier Greenway moved for a royal
commission TO Investigate the charges of
corruption which have been freely made
against him and the Manitoban Govern
ment.
HENRI DEBAMBERGER, the noted Aus
trian physician, died in Vienna ON the
9th.
A FALL of slate at the Willow Grove
Coal Mines, near McDonalds, Pa, on the
9th, crushed to death a man named Jules
Leese and an unknown boy.
In a freight collision on tine Baltimore
g. OHIO railroad little west of Zanes-
vile, O.. on the Sth, Engineer Dennison
of the west-b bound train was killed, and
the engineer of the east-bound train
is reported fatally injured. One fireman
was also badly injured. The loss to the
company is heavy.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH of Austria
has officially intimated that it is his spe-
clal wish that on the occasion of the an
niversary OF his accession to the throne
he shall receive neither addresses nor
and that no fetes be held
that would involve expense.
STEVE BRoDIE, the champion jumper,
sprang from the bridge now being built
across the Hudson river at Pouhkeepsie,
aud was badly hurt.