Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-07-20
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Emperor William of Germany has Sc.
lected his brother-in-law. Duke Ernst
Guenther, to represent the crown at the
I Columbian exposition. The duke will
need a powerful memory to enable him
to give his royal relative anything like
complete account of what he sees in
America. 1t would be the part of wis.
dom to bring stenographer and a
| kodak. or, better still, for William to
| come himself.
| JUDGE CHRISTIAN in his charge to the
| grand jury at jackson. Miss, on the
10th. gave the big gamblers something
to think about. He charged the jury
that it should carefully investigate
the gambling evil in the city, and that
instead of throwing it's time away on
negro crap-shooters it should confine
its attention to the class of gamblers
, who termed themselves reputa BILE
| that they We're a nuisance an entitled
to no sympathy.
FIRE started in a boarding house at
Eureka, one of the largest mining
camps of Utah, on the 10th. The
boarding house loss is $4,000. A dozen
dwelling houses and several business
| will reach to nearly $40, 900. A hundred
persons are left homeless.
ENLISTED men in the navy will now
have the privilege of purchasing their
discharge. Secretary Herbert has is
sued an order establishing rules and
regulations for the purchase of dis
| charges as authorized by the last naval
appropria ton bill. No man is to be
allowed to purchase his discharge while
in debt to the government or until he
has served three months.
ABOUT 5000 strangers visited the To-
cality of the Iowa storms path on the
9th. All went prepared to see misery
and devastation. but none expected to
witness the woeful scenes that met
their sight upon their arrival there.
The list of dead number ninety-five,
two more of the wounded having passed
away. The MANNED mum Der los. The
physicians say ten of them can not
live.
The Coraopolis Oil Refining Co. s
works at Coraopolis, Pa. together with
several tanks of crude and refined Oil,
were completely destroyed by fire on
the 10th. The loss is about $50, 5000.
on which there is but $4,000 insurance.
AN explosion of fire damp took place,
on the 18th, in mine No. 1 of the West
Virginia Central railroad property at
Cum berland, Md. Ninety miners were
at work in the various drifts at the
time. They made a wild dash for the
shaft, and all succeeded in escaping
but two, who are supposed to have
been burned to death.
NJ
kietf and northeast Hungary. In Mos
COW the outbreak is most serious
There were thirty-two cases and eleven
deaths in the convict forwarding prison
at that city between the LIST and 18th
THE trustees of Lane seminary. near
Cincinnati, requested Prof. Henry p.
Smith to continue his relations with
the seminary for. one year, but to sus-
pend his work rs teacher pending the
hearing OF hisappealttO the general as
sembly. Prof. Smith rendered his res
ignation. The trustees at first refused
to accept it, but he insisted, and it was
then accepted.
For the third time within "a few
years, the village of Fairville, a>suburb
of st. John, n. B.. was, on the 10th, al
most destroyed by fire.
THREE cases of typhus fever have
been discovered N Philadelphia, and the
persons suffering from the disease have
been sent to the municipal hospital.
All three of the unfortunates are immi-
grants, recently arrived from Europe.
THE German navy department has
sent dispatch to the China station or
dering the war ship Wolf to proceed at
once to Bangkok to protect German
subjects and interests in the Siamese
capital in the event of an outbreak of
hostilities between the French and the
Siamese.
FHE South Dakota building at the
Worlds fair was dedicated on the 18th.
Many members of the national COM
upon invitation of Gov. Shell
don. were present.
THE business portion of the town of
Maxwell, Cal, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th. Loss, 500, OO0: with one-third
A MEETING of the executive commit
tee of the supreme sitting of the Iron
Hall was held in Indianapolis, on the
18th, at which it was determined to re-
sumo business as soon as possible.
THE gold reserve in the United States
treasury was increased, on the 18th,
S199 SOS, the total amount being s97.-
ss6.575. The currency balance re-
manned at about the same figure, S27.-
353. ISL.
Dr.. J. r. HUBBELL, of the American
National Red Cross, passed through
Chicago. on the 18th, with corps of
trained nurses and a supply of surgical
dressings for the wounded of the Pom
eroy Ua.) tornado.
AT a meeting of the Boston chamber
of commerce, on the 18th. it was unani-
mously resolved to petition congress
for an immediate and unconditional re-
peal of the silver-purchasing clause of
the Sherman act.
OCTAvIA ALLEN, aged SIS. once-fa-
nous actress who at different times
was leading lady for Booth. Barrett
and Keene. died at Fort Lee, n. j., on
the 18th, of heart trouble.
EIGHTY-FIvE cases of cholera were
reported in the hospital at Alexandria.
Egypt, on the 18th. Forty deaths from
the disease had occurred.
CHARLES E. BRUCE. book-keeper at
the First national bank. of Kansas
City, Mo-, died at his clearinghouse
early on the morning of the 18th, from
the effects of whisky and morphine.
The later was probably taken to induce
sleep after a prolonged debauch.
Bruce was IS years old. He was a ma
tive of Milton, s. c., where his father
and mother now live.
RI. Hon. Mr.. KNILL, lord mayor of
London, has been made q baronet by
tie queen. 1t is customary to confer
kAiphthoOd upon the lord MAYORS of