Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Eventa
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

James a. Mckenzie, vice-chairman OF
the executive committee, will be denied
q salary of equal amount and George
Mills, chief clerk to director-General
Davis, will have to forego a salary OF
So, 600. Retrenchment will also be made
in other directions.
THE small steam barge jerks, loaded
with stone for Lake Erie ports, was
run into by the steam barge G.. w.
Morley, near Billiards. reef, Detroit
river, on the 1st, and sent to the bot
tom. The wife of the captain of the
jerks and the engineer and fireman
We're killed in the collision.
a LANDSLIDE which is settling
across the Lienzer gorge in the valley
of the brave in Austria, is forming a
great lake, which threatens to divert
able damage.
ALL the hospitals in Valparaiso are
full of wounded soldiers, and private
houses are being used temporarily. 1t
is estimated that there are 1900
wounded men now ia that city.
Miss ELIZABETH HANEY, a young
woman of Washington tcity, committed
suicide, on the 1st, by jumping into the
Patomac river while suffering from de-
lirium brought on by illness
THE monthly debt statement, issued
from the treasury department on the
1st, shows a reduction in the debt dur
ing the month of August amounting to
SIS, 5S1, S95
A BILL, which will undoubtedly pass,
has been introduced in the Georgia
legislature pensioning all INDECENT con-
federates to the amount of 500 per
year.
THE property of the Balmacedists
will be confiscated to pay off the paper
issue of the late Gillian dictator. The
banks have been temporarily closed for
the inspection of their books in order
to ascertain the amounts held to the
credit of Balmaceda and his satellites.
A PASSENGER train was derailed at
Swingless station, Cal, on the 1st. by
the spreading of the rails The engine
and four cars were wrecked, and Postal
Clerk Quinby was killed and several
others We're severely injured.
THE ninth international congress of
orientalists was opened in London, on
the list, by DIR. Taylor, of st. Johns
college, Cambridge. Owing to illness,
the marquis of Dufferin, to whom the
duty had been assigned, was unable to
be present
EDWARD LINN, a member of the New
York produce exchange, committed
suicide in his room in Jersey City On.
j. hotel, on the I'd, by shooting him
self in the ear. The effects found upon
his person indicated that his financial
affairs We're all right, and no cause can
be assigned for the deed.
AN attempt was made by an unknown
person to wreck Il crowded passenger
train, on the Flint & Pere Marquette
railroad in Michigan, on the I'd. A great
heap of stumps and rails were piled on
the track at a point where there is n
high mbanl1ment, but the obstruction
was discovered IN time to prevent a
serious accident.
THE Denver & Rio Grande express
train, No. 4, bound from Salt Lake
City to Denver, was held up by seven
masked men near Texas Creek, Col, at
o'clock a. m. of the 1St, and the con-
tents of the safe-about s., 900 in all
taken. The engineer and fireman
were also robbed of their Watches but
the robbers did not modest the passen-
gers.
Miss BETTE WERwooD died at her
home in Sconondoa, Oneida county, \.
V, on the I'd, at the age of 100 years,
months and days. She was a little
woman, about four feet four inches
tall, and weighed about eighty pounds.
THE twenty-first anniversary of the
battle of Sedan and the overthrow of
Louis Napoleon occurred on the I'd.
THE German government will sell
the royal timbe cheap to the poor for
fuel.
ELEVEN boarders in Visalia Cali
clearinghouse were taken suddenly
i'll, recently, from eating ice cream,
found, upon investigation. to contain
croton oil, which it is supposed an ex-
boarder, who had beenturned away for
drunkenness. had miXed.with the cream
before it was frozen.
THE first 100 pounds of sugar made
under the sugar bounty clause of the
Mckinley tariff bill, was shipped. on
August "a, from Chino, Cal, to Hon.
j ohm w. Mason, commissioner of inter-
nal revenue at Washington.
RICHARD NASH, of Philadelphia, en-
gineer on the fast Reading express,
while on the lookout, on the Cd, was
struck by some obstruction near Ore
vile station, Pa, by which his head was
severed from his body. The mangled
remains hung out of the cab window
for some minutes before the fireman
discovered the accident
SECRETARY RUsK is confident that
he will soon be able to extend our mar
ket for corn by introducing it into Ger
many for use as an article of food in
the place of rye. the crop of which, in
Germany, is this year exceedingly
short To this end, he has instructed
his corn agent, Col. c. j. Murphy, now
in Europe, to proceed at once to Ber-
lin. and lay the matter before the Ger
man government
THE schooner PANAMA, from Mar
shall islands for San Francisco, has
been wrecked on the Hawaiian reefs.
All on board We're drowned, including
the crew of seven men. Capt. George
ID. Livedale, of San Diego, Mrs. Live
dale and the captains three children
THE treasury department has ordered
the immediate erection of fog signal
on Seal Island rock. California
THE steamer W. w. Corcoran, for
many wears the only means of travel
between Washington city and Mount
Vernon, was burned o the waters edge
on the Sd. She was valued at $4,000
and was insured for $4,000. A colored
boy, cut off from escape, jumped over
board and was drowned.
The congressional iunta of Chilli ar
rived at Valparaiso from Iquique on the
steamer AreouiDa on the evening of