Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-07

The steamer Alameda arrived at Sar
Francisco from sydney, via Honolulu,
on the 31st, bringing news from the
latter place Of q conspiracy of royal.
lists torestore the queen by firing the
city, dynamiting the buildings and
then in the panic rushing in and cap.
| turing the government building. The
plot becoming known, however, to the
authorities, was abandoned or post
poned.
FIVE cars of the 1:50 p. m. train on
the Bost G Albany railroad from
Pittsfeld went through the bridge at
Chester. Mass, on the Both. Fifteen
persons were killed and twenty-seven
injured.
NINE fresh cases of choier. and five
deaths were reported in Leerdam, Hol-
land, on the 3Oth.
OWING to the light summer traffic.
the lost steamer City of Savannah was
but half filed with freight when it
sailed from Boston Angst "a. The
cargo was made up Of barrels of pork,
ham and bacon, boots and shoes, chairs
gunny cloth and other general merchan-
disc. It was insured by the company
for $500 The vessel was valued at
$500, 0o0
AUGUST 81 being the anniversary Of
the birthday of the young queen of Hol-
land, the Royal Netherlands commits
sion, Hollanders and American-Hol-
landers generally united in a celebra-
ton at the Worlds fair. 1t is estimat-
ed that fully 10000 Hollanders and
those of Dutch-American birth and par
entage honored the occasion by their
attendance.
LIEUT.. SAMUEL. C. ROBERTSON, of the
First United States inf antry. was found
dead in his room at the Mansion hotel
at Fort Worth, Tex, on the 31st. He
had been in the city since the Goth. and
had been drinking heavily. A ply
stefan prescribed bromidia and choral
to quiet his nerves, and he took several
overdoses. Whether it was taken with
suicidal intent is not known.
Two FRENCHMEN who were arrested
at Kiel, Germany, recently, on suspi-
cion OF being spies, and in whose pos
session were found sketches and photo
graphs of the ,defenses of Kiel and other
ports, have been lodged in prison,
where they will be held pending their
trial by the Imperial courts.
HENRY HILTON, of New York city, on
the s1st placed a mortgage for $780,
900 on the Stewart building, including
his interest in the lease of 81 Chambers
street. The mortgage is in favor of
the Title Guarantee and Trust Co., to
run until September 1, 1898, at per
cent. 1t is said that Mrs. Hettie Green
is the real MORTGAGE.
NJ. DE VILLERs, Frances special en-
vOy to Siam, tried in the hardest man
ner at recent meeting with Prince
Devawongse, Siamese minister of for
eign affairs, to force upon Siam an
agreement quite different from the
French ultimatum. Prince Devawongse
declined to sign it. Since the meeting,
it is understood that NJ. de Villers has
retreated from his aggressive attitude.
A BOLD robbery was committed on.
the Cunard steamer Campana on her
last trip to New York, in which $4,000
in diamonds and jewelry and a letter
Of credit for $40, 900 were taken. Mrs.
ton, who arrived by that steamer, is
The victim.
MRS. VIRGINIA MCLEAN, widow of
bAC 1dtc MAI w IL UtT N1Ckcdu, III whose
house Generals Grant and Lee signed
The articles of surrender at Appomat-
OK Court House, Va, died at the resi-
lence of her son-in-law, Fl. F. Spill
nan, at Spillman. w. Va, on the 31st.
LUCY NJ. HOOPER, wife of Mr.. Robert
Hooper, ex-vice-consul-genera Of the
United States at Paris, died at her late
residence, No. rs Rue des Petit Champs,
IN the S1st. The remains will be Gre
mated and returned to America for in
erment-
WHILE playing with a revolver, on
he LIST, that he did not know was load
ID, Leo Stafford, of East Liverpool, O.,
hot and fatally wounded his wife.
they had been married but six weeks
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, accompanied
~ Mrs. Cleveland, their daughter
Ruth, her nurse and q maid, arrived in |
ON the LIST, from Buzzard's |
Bay, Mass.
the Nicaraguan frontier is threat
ned from Honduras.
The 4th was New York day at the
fair.