Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

as fleet a vessel as it was anticipated
she would be, having made a run OF
nineteen knots, and showing that il
need were she could do even better.
She is said to mind her helm readily
and to be very steady.
THE United Mine Workers of Amer
on the 18th, the chief purpose of the
convention being to discuss the scale
of wages.
DEATH-DEALING and destructive cy.
clones and hurricanes visited the states
of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and
Indiana, on the 18th, leaving ruin and
lamentation in their track at many
points.
JAPAN has seized the Pelew islands,
a group in the North Pacific, $50 miles
east of the PHILIPPINE islands, at the
western extremity of the Caroline
archipelago. The islands are claimed
by Spain by right of discovery.
Miss LIZZIE MILLER, aged %, high
ly-respected young lady of Spring
field, O., committed suicide, on the
18th. by shooting herself through the
heart She was engaged to wed Stew
md naval academy, and no cause for
the fell deed is known.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH gave an
audience to NJ. Stambouloff. the Bull
garian prime minister, on the 18th.
Ex-PREsIDENr MANUEL GONZALES, of
Mexico, died in the City of Mexico on
the 10th The members of his family,
President Ciaz and other friends were
present at his bedside. He admonished
his friends to obey and honor Diaz.
A DICHARGED cellar man named
Cholics in the palace of Cardinal Vas
zary, in Pesth, attempted to assassinate
his eminence, on the 10th, with a huge
knife, but was seized and held by Rev.
DIR. Kohl, the cardinals secretary, who
received five ugly wounds from the
knife of the enraged ex-cellar man.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsroR has bought
the splendid estate of Cliveden, on the
banks of the Thames, from the duke of
Westminster. The sum paid is stated
to be 81, $50, 900. Cliveden is one of the
ancestral estates of the duke.
A DISASTROUS fire in st. Mary's, O.. 4,
on the night of the 18th, destroyed
every business block between the city
building and the Fountain hotel.
JAMES DIVER, of Geneseo. N. Y,
aged IS years, proposes to make a trip
to the Worlds fair on his bicycle. He
is well-to-do and quite an athlete in
spite of his years
FRANCE had the honor, on the 12th,
Of being the second country whose rep
resentive, NJ. Patenotre, was formally
received by the United States in the
capacity of an ambassador.
AT Pocahontas, w. Va. on the 18th.
Ham Buffalow shot Fannie Taylor and
himself in the breast. Both will die.
Buffalow is brother of Charles Buffa-
low, who killed an Englishman at
Pocahontas last fall.
SrocKMEN at San Antonio. Tex. have
completely blockaded the Santa Fee
railroad It is estimated that, on the
18th, there were fully $4,000 head of
sheep and 5000 head of cattle being
held near that city awaiting cars for
shipment
A TORNADO wrought damage amount
ing to 500, 900 at Kokomo, Ind, at 4
o'clock on the morning of the 18th.
The American strawboard mill was de-
stroyed and Robert Douglass was
killed.
WARREN BLACKWELL, one OF the
wealthiest men in DeKalb county, was
shot and killed at Butler, Ind, on the
18th, by Thomas Revell, night police
man, while resisting arrest. Blackwell
drew his revolver and, saying he would
not be taken alive, shot at Revell three
times, all the shots missing. In return
Revell shot him through the heart
DAsrARDLY outrages upon native
Christians, in some cases resulting n
death, are reported from Toa Tusi,
China The matter has been brought
to the notice of the United States con-
sui at Ameri.
MRS. CLARK and two little children
were caught in a prairie fire in Rawlins
county, Kas, on the 12th. and received
fatal injuries
On the night of the 18th young King
Alexander ]. of Servia invited his re-
gents and ministers to a banquet, os-
tensibly to celebrate the completion of
his studies, and at midnight suddenly
declared himself of age and demanded
the designations of his former advisers.
These being refused. they were all
placed under arrest and new cabinet
appointed. The army was loyal to the
young king, and the people seemed
overioved at the change.