Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-03

miral Walkers flagship, sailed from La
Guayra, Venezuela. on the 18th, for
St Thomas
RUMoRs were current in Lisbon, on
the 27th, that the cabinet would resign
and that Serpa Pimental will be pre-
mier.
The White Star steamer Teutonic
arrived at New York, on the 27th. after
one of the storrniest VOYAGES from Liv-
erpool she ever encountered. 1t was
reported that two of the cabin passen-
gers had become crazed by the terror
created by the supposed imminent dan
ger of the stanch ship laundering in
the heavy gale that blew for two days.
SINCE natural gas was first discov-
AIRED in Indiana $4,000 has been ex-
pended in Boone county in an unsuc-
cessful effort to find cheap fuel. On
the 27th luck changed, and a gusher
that sends water and sand IS feet high
was struck within the city limits of
lebanon. Real estate has already adj
vanced a notch in consequence of the
find.
JUDGE GILBERT of Porter county,
Ind. rendered a decision, on the 27th
upholding the constitutionality of the
Indiana tax law. The suit was one in
which the Louisville, New Albany &
Chicago Railroad Co. was resisting the
collection of taxes in sixty-fve counties.
The case will go to the supreme court.
A RUMoR is current at Apia, Samoa,
that the British government will annex
Samoa. or at least declare a protecto-
rate, though heretofore it was gener-
ally understood that when King George
of Tonga died England would ta''e that
island and GERMANY Samoa.
A MANITOBA Indian made a death-bed
confession that hs and a companion,
while accompanying Sir John Frank
lin Arctic relief expedition. discovered
one of Franklin's ships, but were afraid
to report it, fearing delay at time
when provisions were short.
Liquors will be sold at jackson park
during the Worlds fsir. After a long
discussion. on the 27th, the national
commission decided that it would not
interfere with the contracts made by
the Chicago directors for the sale of
light beverages and stimulants.
TIE biggest confia grafton in the his
tory of Milwaukee, swept over that city
on the evening of the 2sth, devastating
section of wholesale business houses,
small residences, freight houses, ele
vators and yards Il half mile wide and a
mile long. and entailing loss of fully
so. 00o. 900. Hundreds of poor families
are homeless and a number of lives
We're lost 1t was a duplicat ton, on a
somewhat smaller scale, of the great
Chicago fire of 1871.
SIMEON j. THOMPSON. editor of the
Shclbyville Und.) Repu blican, was as
sauited and badly beaten by Constable
John c. johnson, on the 2Sth, who was
aggrieved at some complimentary
item in the Republican.
IT was reported. on the 2Sth. that an
armed conflict had occurred in the Dia-
kova district of Old Servia, and that
two batta lions had been sent to the
scene to suppress the disturbance.
THE sixteenth annual convention of
the american Humane associa ton in
Philadelphia closed on the 2Sth. Chi
cago was chosen as the place for the
next meeting in 1893.
The ferryboat Sinfaen. while cross
ing the river Douro, in Portugal, on
the 2Sth, was capsized and seven school
children and four adult persons were
drowned.
FREDERICK VoeEL, aged 20, died sud-
denly from apoplexy, on the Esd, on
board the steamer Lain, en- route from
Europe to New York. He was one of
the largest tanners in the United
States. His body was taken to his
home in Milwaukee.
THE nitro glycerine factory two miles
south of Lima, o., exploded with ter
rife report on the 18th. Three persons
were killed and two probably fatally
injured.
Two FREIGHT trains met at the third
span of the Big Four bridge across tn.
Wabash river at Terre Haute, Ind, OF
the 2Sth, at the draw where the boats
go through. and the force of the COLI
sion was SO great that the bridge gave
way at that point, making a chasm of
ninety feet. Down this the two en-
gines and half a dozen coal and cattle
cars were preciptated into the river.
Engineer Allison went down and was
killed.