Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

tice of Montana, died in San Francis
co, on the 31st, aged IS. He was born
in Henderson, n. Y. After being ad-
mitted to the bar he went to Ohio,
edited the Toledo Blade, of which he
was one of the proprietors, and started
the daily paper of that name. In 1864
he was appointed by President Lincoln
chief justice of Montana.
On the 31st Postmaster-General Bis
sell transmitted to the secretary of the
treasury the estimates for the post Office
department for the fiscal year ending
June so, 1895. The total amount is $780,
500, 4s5, as against sS4, O04,314 for the
present year.
MINOR C. KEITH'c clipper fruit steamer
Foxhall from Port Limon, Costa Rica,
arrived at New Orleans on the night of
the 31st. Among her passengers was
Francis II. Weeks, the New York en-
bezzler, in charge of Detectives Reilly
and Won Gerichten.
A SERIOUS railroad collision occurred
on the Lambert Point branch of the
Norfolk & Western railway in Nor
folk, Va, on the 51st, resulting in the
death of two men and the dangerous
THE Chicago City Railway Co. trans
ported 7S,00O.000 passengers between
May / and October 81. This estimate
is based upon the returns of cash fares
for the time, excluding all transfers,
policemen, firemen, employees and
others who rode free.
HARRIET ANN, daughter of Thurlow
Weed, died in New York. after lin
gering illness. of pleurisy, on the LIST,
aged "a.
THE public debt increased during
October IS. 141, 05e.O1.
THE Elwood lind window-glass fac
tory, employing 600 hands, was discov-
cred to be burning on the morning
of the list. The immense plant was
situated outside the limits of water
works lines and could not be reached
by the department. In twenty minutes
the whole building was ablaze. The
plant is a total wreck, and its employees
are thrown out of work at the begin
ming of winter. Loss. $50, coo; insur-
ance, $4,000.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed a net increase in the
debt during October of 1914, o5s.o Oh.
Cash in the treasury. $7a9, 447,014.
Il CHAIRMAN PECK reports the Worlds
fair treasury in a healthy condition.
All obligations have been met and
there is cash balance ON hand of s2,-
500, 600. The gate receipts from now
on and the salvage, it is figured, will
pay the current expenses until the
end. SO that the stockholders,w who have
holdings representing $1,000, 600. upon
which they scarcely expected to realize
anything. will be paid fifty cents on
the dollar.
SHORTLY after o'clock on the morn
ing of the I'd fire broke out in the
house at No. 19Third street, New York.
A second alarm was sent out shortly
after the fremen reached the scene.
Six firemen were overcome by gas ard
dragged out of the place by their COM
panionS-
A FIGURING mill boiler exploded, on
the LIST, at Windfall, Ind, instantly
killing Lewis Mill. Everything was
wrecked.
The silver repeal bill was entered
upon the records at the White House,
on the I'd, and the official parchment
copy was sent to the state departm mt
for filing with the archives of the gov
eminent.
AT a congress of revolutionary So
c:alists held in Brussels, on the LIST. it
was resolved to carry on an active prop
uganda to bring abouta strike among
the soldiers of Belgium and elsewhere.
The Viking started from Chicago,
on the I'd, for st. Paul, Mimi, to which
city it was presented before the close
of the Worlds fair.
Snow fell for an hour at st. Paul,
Mimi, on the morning of the I'd, with
the thermometer at the freezing point.
The paid admissions to the Worlds
fair on the I'd were S.642
On the Sd the London admiralty
court awarded s1.25O salvage against
the Dutch steamer Maasdam in favor
of the British steamer Winchester and
her crew. the latter to receive $3.50 of
the award.