Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SMALLPOX is epidemic in Victoria, B.
c., there being over forty cases reported
up to the 18th. and there is a general
panic The disease first broke out
three weeks previous. The Driard
house, the leading hotel, was closed
voluntarily, and the health officers
closed the Clarence, Balmoral, and
Western hotels and a number of board
lighthouses.
KATE CAsTLETON, the well-known
soubrette, died at Providence, r. l., on
the night of the 10th. Death. it was
said by Manager Murray of the ''Daz-
zler" company, was the result of heart
disease.
YELLOW fever is raging in Vera Cruz,
Mexico, and many deaths from the
| dread scourge are daily reported. 1t is
feared that this year, owing to the ex-
| ceptional heat and dryness of the sea-
son, the plague will make greater raw
ages than ever
A LARGE number of persons were
| drowned. on the night of the 18th, by
the capsiZing of the excursion steamer
frankie Folsom, by a sudden cyclone
on Lake Peoria, at Peoria, Ill In addi-
ton to the score or more lost on the
Folsom, numerous small craft were on
the lake and river, and it was feared
that the loss of life from these would
be enormous.
RAvACHoL, the French anarchist and
murderer, was guillotined, on the 18th,
at Montbrison, in the presence of a large
but apathetic crowd. The notorious
dynamiter preserved his defiant de-
meanor to the last
THE election in Mexico. on the 18th,
resulted in the reelection of President
Diaz. According to the returns the
senate and cham Der of deputies will be
composed of a superior element, intro
ducing new and young blood.
The senate, on the 18th. on motion of
Mr.. Washburn, of Minnesota, decided,
by a vote of 80 to Is. to take up the
Hatch anti-option bill, and to make it
the unfinished business at p. m, each
day till concluded 1t was afterwards
| relegated to the foot of the calendar.
The house, on the 18th, adopted a
conference report allowing 800, 600 for
entertainment of the G. A. r. encamp-
ment. to be taken out of the regular
District of Columbia appropriation
THE 400 employees of the Eureka Iron
| and Steel Co. at Wyandotte, Mich,
struck on the 18th. They are members
of the Amalgamated association. No
out break occurred, but trouble is feared
if the company should attempt to in
troduce non-union employees
IN a quarrel at CHARTERS, Pa, on the
12tn. David Hughes, lad of IS, MUIR
dered Thomas Corners, aged 16, with a
common penknifess the victim dying in
eight minutes after receiving the cash
in his throat
Up to p. M, on the. 18th. the Brit
ish election returns showed the choice
of $50 tories, 21l liberals, s35 unionists,
AZ nationalists and 8 Parne- llites. The
net liberal gain is 4s,
Mr. GLADSTONE was reelected as a
member of parliament from Midi, ,thian.
on the 18th. receiving 5, $50 votes a gainst
SOFT for Col. Wauchope, the liberal
unionist candidate.
The president signed the pension ap-
propriat ion bill on the 18th.
Gov PATTIsoN- accompanied by AS =
sistant Adjt- Gen. Volkmar, of the
United States army, went to Mount
Gretna, on the 18th, to inspect the First
brigade of Pennsylvania troops con-
eehIidteu at thaL point, awaiting or
ders-
REPORTS from recent heavy hail
storms in various parts of Minnesota
show considerable damage done to |
growing crops as we'll as some loss of |
life.
A HAIR-DREssER at the Bath in ST. |
Gervais, France, whose presence of
mind enabled him to save the lives of |
many persons during the recent food |
and landslide, was offered large sums
OF money by those whom he removed
to place of safety. but the only re-
ward he would accept was a suit of
Clothes his own clothing having been
lost in the wreck, while the suit he
wore was torn to pieces in his success
full efforts to save the lives of the
guests