Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| IHE resignation of NJ. T.. Smith, as
sayer of the United States mint al
Denver, Col, has been accepted.
FIRE, on the 26th, destroyed the best
| business block in Sabetha, Kas., caus
ing a loss of $4,000.
CHOLERA has appeared at Rowley, q
village in Staffordshire, England.
PAID admissions to the Worlds fai1
on the Goth were 194,943
A HEAVY electric storm passed over
Cape May, n. j., on the night of the
25th. 1t was accompanied by ire.
mendous downpour of rain and hail.
Several fishing boats were wrecked
and the switch back at the steamboat
landing was blown down.
JOHN d. HYER, of Pennsylvania. and
William Bourke, of Wisconsin, princi.
pal examiners in the pension office,
have resigned.
THE formation of one of the most
gigantic trusts known in the CONNER.
cial history of the country has been
brought to light by the filing at Clin-
ton. Ia, of the articles of incorporation
of the Mississippi Lumber Co. with a
capital stock of s1,5OO.OOO. The new
concern embraces every lumber and
log magnate doing business on the
Mississippi and its tributaries between
st. Paul and st. Louis.
On the 25th solid cast-stee1 projec-
tile was fired through seventeen inches
of steel armor plate at the government
proving station at Indian Head, and
came out unharn.ed. It is considered
by the officials of the navy ordnance
bureau to be the most satisfactory test
yet made. The projectile was impeled
with velocity of 800 feet per second,
and with a striking energy of over
$4,000 tons.
THE French flagship Naiade and the
cruisers Nelly and Rigault are in New
York harbor. Rear-Admiral Lamornaix
flies his flag aboard the Naiade. The
men and officers will have few days
vacation and visit the Worlds fair.
The returns of the week Iended on
the Goth show that lightweight deaths
from diphtheria occurred in London
during the seven days. This is not
only three times as high as the average
rate of mortality for this disease. but
it is higher than has ever occurred be-
fore.
ury department shows the collections
from internal revenue for July and
August of this year to have been s25,
O92, 1874, as compared with receipts of
s2s,577, Gal during July and August of
1892.
1T is understood that President Cleve-
land intends to discontinue his recep-
tions to the public, which have hereto
fore occurred on three days of the
week, substituting special receptions
to visiting bodies whenever the occa-
sion justifies.
CHIEF SwENIE of the Chicago fire de-
partment was badly injured, on the
night of the Goth, while superintend-
ing the fight against a planning mill
fire. A heavy timber fell on him,
breaking his right leg and badly bruis-
ing him about the body. Chief Swenie
is one of the best-known firemen in the
country.
POSTMASTER POTTER of Giles City,
Ariz., and Robert Roberts were muir
dered there, on the 25th, their skulls
being beaten in by unknown persons
One body was found in the post office
and the other near it. The murderers
were mining near ella.
On the o7th the bodies of FIVE muir
dered men were found near camp in
the Arkansas valley, Cherokee strip.
The camp had been plundered of all
valuables, and every means of identi-
fication removed from the bodies.
EIGHTEEN new cases of yellow fever
were reported at Brunswick, Ga, on
the 27th. by physicians. A southeast
wind blowing from the rice fields
caused the large increase in cases.
SIXTY new cases of cholera and
twenty-three deaths from the disease
were reported in st. Petersburg on the
Goth.
Ex-PREsIDENT HARRISON was accord
ed an enthusiastic reception at the
Worlds fair, on the 27th, Indiana
day.
SIX new cases of cholera occurred in
Hamburg during the twenty-four hours
ended at neon of the 27th.
The paid admissions to the Worlds
fair on the s1th were 195, sol.
FRANCE is said to be preparing the
way to force further concessions from
Siam.
MANY striking miners in the Mons
and Liege districts of Belgium re-
sumed work on the 2sth.