Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
NEWS AND NOTES.
"A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


THE steamer Scythia, which arrived
at Liverpool, on the ed, from Boston,
reported having passed the American
ship James j. Lower, derelict. Moth
ing was seen or heard of the crew.
WHILE Mr.. Clark, a charcoal burner
living twelve miles southeast of Des
Moines, Ia, was away from home, on
coal pit, leaving two children in the
house. The house caught fire, and the
children persisted the in flames.
THE Adventists of Virginia held an
all-day and all-night meeting at Spott-
sylvania on the ed, to watch for the
coming of the King of Kings. 1t was the
forty-ninth anniversary of the going out
of the church to meet the Lord in Octo-
Der, 1884. Delegations from Connecticut,
Massachusetts,, New York and Virginia
were in attendance.
THE Zanzibar Commission on the ed,
after a cordial interview with Prince
Bismarck, started from Berlin for Lon
don.
In the Superior Court at Boston, on
the Esd, in the case of Henry Reeb, Jr.,
VS.. DIR. William Thorton, to recover
about $4,000 alleged to have been lost
at game of roulette at the Savage
Club last January, the jury, after DELHI
Grating fifteen minutes, returned a YER
dict in favor of the defendant.
THE two vacancies in the Quartermas-
ter's Department were filled on the ed
by the appointment of First Lieutenant
Theo. E. True, Fourth Infantry, and
First Lieutenant John E. McHyde,
Eighth Infantry.
AT the Granger Qnd.) crossing of the
Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan and the
Grand Trunk railroads, on the 23d, a
Grand Trunk engine exploded, instantly
killing Engineer Thomas Callahan and
Fireman John Maddox. Low water in
the boiler caused the accident.
WHILE train of coal cars and a truck
were being hoisted up the Ashley plane
in Luzern County, Pa, on the ed, the
wire cable broke just as they had almost
reached the top of the mountain, and
the cars descended the plane at fright
full speed, and were smashed into frag
ments at the bottom. There were three
men on the truck, all of whom were bu-
ried in the debris, but strange to say
they were taken out alive, though very
badly injured.
THE jury in the case of William Fl.
Bartholomew at Easton, Pa, charged
with the murder of Aaron w. billiard,
a verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree on the 22d.
DIR. PHILIPPE RECORD, the celebrated
French surgeon, who was, for many
years known in Paris as 1.-THE Great
American Doctor" is dead. DR.. Ricord
was born in Baltimore, Md, December
10, 1900.
THE typhoid symptoms among the
Yale College students is causing much
showed symptoms of typhoid in mild
form and several suffering from typhoid
malaria have been sent to their homes
to recuperate.
A SUDDEN rise in the river Neva has
flooded the whole lower portion of the
city of st. Petersburg and large num-
Der of streets are under water from one
end to the other. No lives were re-
ported lost, but in many instances wom-
en- and children living near the river
bank were only saved from drowning
by rescuers who went out to them in
boats
A COLD day but warm reception met
the Pan-American delegates in the
Cream City on the Esd. After a day of
royal entertainments, spent in visiting
points of interest, they left at midnight
for Minneapolis, MINI.
MONsIGNoR GADD sailed, on the Esd,
on the steamer Adriatic, from Liver
pool for New York. to take part in the
connected with the coming
Baltimore centenary.
THE Hungarian patriot Kossuth is
about to become a naturalized citizen of
Italy, and is to be nominated as can
didate for the Italian Senate.
CHARLES MCILvAINE was found guilty
in Brooklyn, on the 23d, of murder in
the first degree for killing Grocer Luca
while committing a burglary on the
premises of the latter.
By the burning of barn at Tisenaich,
Saxe-Weimar. on the night of the 22d,
six boys who were asleep inside were
burned to death.
WHILE Cashier George C. Werner of
the German Savings Bank of Newark,
n. j., was counting his cash, on the ed,
two men entered the bank and told him
that lady who was seated in a carriGge
outside wanted to speak to him. Wer-.
ner went out, followed by one of the
men. When he returned he found that
81, 900 in bills had disappeared. The
thieves made good their escape.
COUNT OKUMA, Japanese Minister of
Foreign Affairs, upon whose life an at
tempt was made few days ago, was
more seriously wounded than was at
first supposed. The wound, which was
in the leg, assumed such a state that
became necessary.
THE will of the late Herr Tauchnitz,
head of the well-known publishing
house of Leipsic, whose reprints are to
be found in every library in America,
leaves his entire estate to the city of
Leipsic for various charitable and bene-
ficent purposes.
THE will of the late B. T. Babbitt
leaves the entire fortune of the testator
to his wife and two daughters, and di-
reefs that the soap business be con-
tinued.
THE city of Bradford, England, has
voted EOS, 900 to extend the city's cleo
trio lighting system.
THE subterranean river recently dis
covered in the Department of 10th.
France, has been traced distance of
seven miles to point where it takes an
abrupt lunge into the bowels of the
earth to depth impossible to fathom.
DURING the few moments that the New
York Worlds Fair guarantee fund was
open, on the oath, the following amounts