Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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of the Travellers Protective association
of the United States, died suddenly in
Fort Wayne, Ind, on the 10th, of heart
disease, aged 40 years.
The United States steamship Alert,
just returned from Behring sea, has
been taken out of commission at Mare
Island, Cal. to undergo repairs.
THE fourth race in the contest be-
tween the champion English and
American yachts. the Valkyrie and the
Vigilant, for the Americas cup, sailed
on the 18th, over a sO-mile course off
Sandy Hook, N. j., Is miles to wind
ward or leeward and return. failed for
want of wind. The Valkyrie led at the
start, but was soon overhauled by the
Yankee craft, which was well in the
lead when the race was abandoned.
HENRY WHITE, secretary of the
United States embassy In London.
sailed for New York, on the 18th, on
the steamer Teutonic, on a leave of
absence for, several weeks. Many
friends were at the Euston station to
say good-by to him and his family.
Miss CLARA BARTON, president of the
National Red Cross association, has is
sued second appeal in behalf of the
sufferers from the great storm on the
southeastern coast. She says there
will be 10000 people to feed daily and
clothe for eight months, and 5000 cab
ms to rebuild, else the world will ring
with the humiliating announcement
that famine exists in America.
JULIUS FALk, a naval cadet at the
Annapolis academy, has resigned and
returned to his home in New York
city, preferring to enter business life
to submitting to the degrading hazing
practiced on young cadets at the
academy.
j. WILLIS MENARD, the first colored
man to run for congress, died in Wash
ington city, on the 10th, aged about 81
years.
A CENSORSHIP of all photographic mat
ter sent out from Hamburg concerning
the cholera has been declared by the
municipal authorities in order to pre-
vent the dissemination of false and
sensational reports, the director of
kilograms is empowered to demand
from anybody who sends dispatch as
to the epidemic verification of all the
statements contained in it.
PosrMAsTER-GENERAL BIssELL has
authorized standing rewards for the
arrest and conviction of mail robb ers
committing offenses during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1894, ranging from
81, 900 to $3.50.
LOUISVILLE, a coal-mining town of
700 inhabitants, and situated twenty
five miles north of Denver, Col, is sink
ing. The town is built over the Welsh
coal mines, and its destruction is being
caused by the sinking of the surface
above the mine.
On the 18th Edward Blake, Yale 's4,
died of consumption at New Haven,
Conn. He was the first invalid in this
country to try Koch's lymph for con-
sumption. He was son of Prof. Henry
L. Blake, of New Haven.
In compliance with Senator Teller's
resolution of inquiry, the secretary of
the treasury, on the 18th, sent to the
senate a statement which shows that,
in order to relieve monetary strin-
gency, since July 1, 1880, interest to the
amount of s66, 767. 1888 has been add
vanced from time to time before due
and without deducting interest, except
to the amount of 50, 76S.
A TRAIN on the Transcaucasian rail
road in Russia. on which was being
carried a large sum of money to pay
the soldiers of the garrison at Batoum.
was attacked at Nigoitas on the night
of the 10th by briganda, who succeeded
in securing the money after desper-
ate fight with the gendarmes in charge,
in which four of the robbers and three
of the gendarmes were killed.
THE schooners Corinthian and Al
bion collided off the town of Albion,
Cal, on the 18th. The captain of the
latter vessel was drowned. The Cor
inthian was badly damaged and was
run ashore.
The British bark Peter Iredale,
heavily laden with wheat, was driven
ashore at Astoria, Ore. during gale
ON the 18th.