Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SIX men were literally blown to
atoms, on the 18th, by the explosion of
a powder mill at the Servian village of
Krajgujevales. There was not trace
of the mill left.
CHIEF Khama, who is assisting the
British South Africa Co. IS forces against
the Matabeles, arrived at Tati, on the
nth, with 1,5OO followers.
THE treasury department has issued
an advance statement of the exports
for the nine months of the present
year. During that period the value of
imports was s625, Ss5, 623; of domestic
exports, s5s7, O41, 1862; of foreign exports,
SIC, 12a, 721, total of exports of $685.
1874, 1ss. The excess of imports over
exports for the nine months was $685.
221 ,44O.
On May last the well-known Wall
street New York; firm of Patton &
Co. failed, with liabilities of S7SS, 900
and assets of e11, ZOO. On the 18th Will
liam L. Patton, a member of the firm,
was lodged in Jail charged with the
hypothecation of $50, 900 worth of Sc
curities held by the firm and also
with appropriating to his own personal
account $3.50. 900 Of the actual $3.50, 900
lost to creditors.
IT is understood that the treasury
department will take steps to restrict
the payment of gold over the counters
of the sub-treasury at New York with
a view to building up the gold reserve.
which had been invaded, up to the
nth, to the extent of 5000, 900, leav-
ing it in round figures at So. 900, 600.
h.
18th, at her home in Utica, n. Y.
SENIOR DEL VALE, the new leader of
the radical party in Argentina, made
it a condition precedent to accepting
the leadership that the party should
abandon violent methods.
MRS. TIMOTHY DONOVAN, of Morris
River, Pa, died at jackson, Mich, on
the 18th. She is the thirteenth victim
of the recent wreck. 1t is believed her
spine was dislocated in the crash.
PRESIDENT DOLE of Hawaii returned
to Honolulu from his six weeks noun
tain trip, on the 18th, greatly recuper-
ated in health.
BENJAMIN DEITZ, a grocer of Dayton,
O., returned from the Worlds fair on
the 18th and discovered that nearly
a 900 in money and notes, which he
had drawn from the bank and hid in a
stove. had been stolen.
A BLUE book just issued in London
detailing the condition of farm labor
ers in thirteen counties of Ireland, says
that their position is better now than
at any former time.
ORA RICHARDS, of Galveston, Ind,
was arrested, on the 18th, charged
with attempting to wreck Panhandle
passenger train by throwing switch
at Galveston just before q fast passen-
ger train was due.
THERE were thirty-one new cases
and one death from yellow fever in
Brunswick, Ga, on the 10th. Twenty
six of these cases were colored and five
white.
THE battle monument at Trenton,
N. j., was dedicated, on the 10th, with
pomp and splendor.
THE great cotton mill in Shanghai
has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
$500, 900; no insurance.
THE paid admissions to the Worlds
fair on che 18th were 3O7, All.
ANDREW DURsK and John McManus
were smothered to death by a cavern
steel works at Homestead, Pa, on the
10Th.
A LARGE amount of gold coin, said to
be &, 600. 600, was received by the New
York subtreasury, on the 10th, from
San Francisco. 1t was carried by the
Wells Fargo Express Co. Unusual
care was taken to keep secret the fact
of the shipment and the express CON-
pany declined even to state by what
route the precious burden had been
borne.
MAJ. E. S. HosFoRD, a well-known
railroad man, formerly division super
of the Mobile & Ohio, but
lately with the freight department of
the Illinois Central, died suddenly at
Jackson, Tenn, on the 10th, from .
stroke of paralysis.
THREE masked men held up everyone
in Joseph Ausferder's saloon at La
Crosse. Wis, on the night Of the 18th,
shot two persons, one Of them perhaps IA
tally. cleaned out the money drawerand
made their escape before their victims
could give an alarm