Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-30
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


SEVEN men, almost dead from expo
sure after night spent in the rigging
OF the bark Johanne Maria, which sanl
off Dungeness, England. on the Goth
crew from Dover. Four members O
the briggs crew had fallen exhausted
from their places during the night ant
drowned.
FRANK FLOYD and VIM. Schieg, wht
are in custody in London, charged
with robbing the bank of Minneapolis
Mimi, of 800, 900. had their preliminary
examination, on the 21st, at the Bow
street police court and were remandet
for a week.
WIN. CoDRINGTON, an English bache
lor owning a ranch on Coal creek, neal
Ouray, COL, was found hanging to {
tree near his ranch on the 10th. NJ
other tracks but his being found in tn,
snow the coroner's jury brought in 1
verdict of suicide.
CHARLES MAPLEsoN died in London
on the Goth, of rheumatic govt. H,
was the son of Col. Henry Mapleson
the noted operate manager.
A PERMANENT headquarters Of tn,
republican national committee is to b,
esta blished in Washington.
BY the burning of the Merrill house
at the government dam, miles below
Beaver, Pa, on the morning of the 21st
seven lives are known to have been los
and several persons were badly burned
in making their escape from the build
lot Il l.
construction work.
LIKE some mighty engine, the black
stallion Directum, king of trotters
marched away from the western mare
Alix at Fleetwood park, New York, or
the 21st, winning the race in straight
heats for a purse of IS, 900 with such
ridiculous ease that it was really nc
contest. Alix, game and speedy as
she is, having taken a record of 2:O7A
in race during the past summer, was
outclassed.
A MOVEMENT has been started al
Sioux City, Ia, which, it is hoped by
its promoters, will terminate in the
passage by the legislature of bill au
thorizing the payment of a bounty OF
one and half cents for each pound OF
sugar produced in Iowa. 1t is intended
to encourage the manufacture of beet
sugar. Commercial organizations al
over the state are cooperating.
M. GRODET has been appointed gov
ernor of the French Soudan.
THE Brazilian cruiser Nictheroy, for.
merly called Ell Cid, started southwark
from her anchorage outside New York
harbor on the 21st.
JAMES NEwsON, colored, who is un.
der arrest at Algona, Ia, for taking
part in the Kessler Qnd. train 70 bbery,
has made confession. He was one OF
seven who participated in the rob.
berry, but did not get a cent of the pro.
ceeds, the others, who carried off the
swag, failing to show up at the ap.
pointed rendezvous. Officials of the
United States Express Co. state that
not single statement of Newson's is
true.
LA GRIPPE is rapidly becoming cpl
demic at Fort Dodge, Ia Three of the
teachers in the high school were pros
trated, on the 31st, and a number OF
pupils were suffering. All other de-
partments of the schools were affected
and school work seriously interfered
with. Physicians report cases scat
tered all over the city.
RUMORs are current in Washington
that Secretary Gresham realizes that
he has made blunder in advising the
president to the course pursued in the
Hawaiian matter, recent Developments
not bearing out the representations
made in the report to the president.
A REPORT was sent out from Wash
ington on the 21st to the effect that
of the Interior Hoke Smith
might be expected to resign shortly,
the president having intimated his dis
of the secretary's course in
regard to pensions.
JOHN C. MOORE, inventor of Moore's
patent canning machine, who, two
years ago, was unknown and poor, but
whose invention brought him promi-
hence and money, died at Columbus.
Ind, on the 21st, of typhoid fever. His
wealth is estimated at $4,000
The cholera in Russia is becoming
less virulent.p The official statistics
show that from May to September,
1892, there were throughout the empire
433, 643 cases of the disease and 215, 157
deaths, ard from January to Novem-
Der, 1898, IS, 1877 cases and 30, 2S4 deaths.
A CARRIAGE containing three young
ladies was struck by a train at a cross
ing in the suburbs of Xenia, o., on the
22d, and Miss Annie Kelso and Miss
Mary AcDll were instantly killed and
Miss Eva. Kelso was fatally injured.
Mr.. AND MRS. GLADSTONE visited the
queen at Windsor castle on the 23d.
They dined with her majesty. and
spent the night at the castle.
THE Princess Waldemere has started
a frssd for the relief of the families of
fishermen drowned. during
the recent storms.
THE French police seized an anarch-
list manifesto in Paris, on the 22d, and
arrested a number of anarchists.
GERMANY celebrated its first annual
fast day on the 2zd
DIRECTOR Preston of the United
States mint bureau has prepared a
showing that from the date
that the Sherman law took effect,
August 80, 1890, to the date of its re-
peal, November 3, 1890 the amount
was 16S, 674. $50. 4Hine ounces
of silver, costing s155, $3.50. 94O.s4, the
average cost per ounce being 1914.
The present market price is about 70
cents per ounce.
THE brotherhoods held meeting in
Buffalo, n. Y, on the 22d, and by a
vote decided to call out the
engineers and crews of any road which
a pound of Lehigh freight
the strike on that road.
Gov. FLOWER of New York has re-
fused to interfere in the case of Mrs
Annie Walden, who is dying in the
under life sentence for