Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29


home on II leave OF absence from Sgd.
ney, Australia, died in Louisville, Ky.
on the night of the 21st, of Bright's dis
ease. Mr.. Griffin was born in Louis
Vile, March 6, 1910. He has served as
consul at Copenhagen, Samoan islands,
New Zealand and Sydney. He has been
in the public service almost continuous
~ since 1871.
FIVE companies of United States
troops, infantry and cavalry, are on the
march from Fort Russell and Sidney,
Wyo., to the scene of the Ute outbreak,
that occurred four years ago, in the
northern part of Routt county, Col,
where trouble is app rehended.
Posi- OFFICE INSPECTOR FosNEs re-
ports eighteen lottery indictments
found at Sioux Falls. S. d.
THE night agent of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad at West Side.
Ia, was held up by a burglar at :.
o'clock on the morning of the 21st,
who compelled him, at the point of n
revolver, to surrender the codnpany's
funds in his Office.
ADvICEs from Assumption, capital of
the republic of Paraguay, report an
attempt to overthrow President Juan
G. Gonzales. which was promptly sup
pressed by the troops The insurgents
were compelled to fly, and sought refuge
in the Argentine Republic.
NEWS comes from Granada, Spain, OF
fresh and disastrous floods in that prov
ince. Many houses have been wrecked
and a great number of cattle lost
Railway travel in the province is at a
standstill.
JOHN E. REDMOND said, on the 22d, in
replying to an address of welcome tc
Cork, that he spoke as the elected
leader of the parliamentary party"
THE three men who robbed the En-
terprise (Ore.) national bank some
weeks ago of SO, 500, were arrested at
Kamela. Ore, on the 22d.
GILBERT VENDOR, president of the
e old Queen mine of Colorado, has been
arrested In London on the charge of
misappropriating funds with which he
was intrusted.
THE Minneatta hotel at Hot Springs,
S. D., was burned on the night of the
,21st; loss, $4,000.
AT meeting of the directors of the
American Tln-plate Co. held at Ander
son, Ind, on the Esd. contracts for the
erection Of the buildings and furnish
ing machinery for the new factory at
Elwood were let. Work on the eXca-
walton has begun, and the contracts re-
quire the factory, which will employ
1000 men, to be ready to run by March
1 next
THE longboat belonging to the
French training ship Austerlitz, ano
manned by twelve boys and two quar-
termasters of that vessel, was capsized
when in dangerous spot at the en-
trance of the harbor of Brest, on the
Esd, and all hands narrowly escaped
drowning. They We're found later
clinging to the overturned boat.
THE steamship Wisconsin, of the
Guion line, which left New York for
Liverpool, on the 18th, and about whose
safety there was some uneasiness, az
rived at Queenstown on the Esd.
ACTING SECRETARY SPAULDING has
directed the collector of customs at San
Francisco to commence both criminal
and civil proceedings against Bernard
Reiss for opium smuggling.
THE number of cases of diphtheria in
Mansfield, O., is estimated at over $50.
There are also great number of cases
of scarlet fever. A great many deaths
have occurred.
THE name of John T. Glenn, ex-
mayor of Atlanta, Ga, has been pre-
scented to the president for appointment
to one of the vacancies in the interstate
commission.
THE Cork McCarthyites have selected
Martin Flavin, a merchant, to contest
the seat made vacant by Parnells
death.
A FIRE in the stables at the Council
Bluffs Qa.) driving park, on the Esd,
resulted disastrously. several of the
horses being burned to death. Heavy
losers are. Ii. Sweet, 1913, 600; Searls &
Ellsworth, SIS, 900, and Chamberlain, of
Denver, So, 900. The driving park asso-
citation is also a heavy loser.
THE verdict of the coroner's jury in
the case of the negro, Smith, taken
from the Omaha (Neb.) Jail and hanged
by mob, is that Smith was fright
ened to death by unknown persons.