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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
A DECISIVE BATTLE.

The Matabeles Cornered by British Troop.
and Five Hundred of Them Killed and
as Many More Wounded-The British
Loss observation-disclosures Excitement
Causedat Cape Town-KInE Lobenguls
In a Box.
patch of the Reuter- Telegram Co. re.
ceived here yesterday. states that a de.
cisive battle has taken place between
the British troops and the followers of
King Lobengula, and that the latter
sustained decisive defeat.
Over 500 of the Matabeles were killed
outright and as many more wounded.
The British forces lost two co1onists
killed and six wounded.
After the battle the British buried
the dead and resumed their march to
the Matabele capital unmolested, the
natives seeming too disheartened to
offer further resistance.
Details of the battle are as yet rather
meager, but what has been learned
has created the greatest excitement
here.
The events leading up to the fight
are becoming known here and are full
of excitement and interest.
tie showed that King Lobengula was
flying northward, and was trying to
rally his troops in the vicinity of the
Shangale river and the Kwelo.
The king has been located about 100
miles east of Buluawayo and about 140
miles west of Fort Carter.
In doing this Lobengula seems to
have fallen into a complete trap, as his
further fight northward towards the
Zambesi river is blocked and impossi-
BILE, while the Tsetse Fly country is in
his rear and Port Salisbury on his right
flank. On his left flank the British
columns are advancing, and thus it is
expected that the king will be COM
peeled to surrender within a few days.
During the march towards Kwelo
river the British columns saw numer-
Gus bodies of Matabeles. but the latter
always retreated upon seeing the
British troops advancing.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
Won nv the "Wets ;"

The special local-option election held
in Lewis county the other day resulted
in a victory for the s'wets.' Their ma
iority was fifty.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09

FRED L. MATTHIAS, superintendent
of construction of the new build
ing of the Postal Telegraph Co. at
Broadway and Murray streets, New
York, was shot in the abdomen, on the
s0tn, and probably fatally wounded, by
a crank laborer named Francis Brad
lev.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09

A CRANK entered the Office of Edwin
Gould, in New York, on the 3Oth, and
demanded, instantly, $1,000. Mr..
Gould stepped into another room, tele-
phoned for assistance and then enter
tanned his visitor until officers arrived
and took him into custody.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09

ALL that was mortal of Carter III. Har-
rison, late mayor of Chicago, was laid to
rest, with imposing ceremonies and at
tended by the largest funeral pageant
ever witnessed in the west, in Grace
land cemetery on the 1st-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09

PATRICK EUGENE JOSEPH PRENDER-
CAST, the murderer of Mayor Harrison
of Chicago, was arraigned in court on
the I'd and pleaded not guilty. The as
sassin was so nervous when led to the
bar of justic that he almost collapsed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09

The Bigelow carpet mills of Boston,
employing 1,l00 hands, shut down, on
the Sd, for an indefinite period because
of lack of orders.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
Wants the Kansas city Coll.

Wants the Kansas City Collectorship.
J. Scott Harrison, a brother of the
ex-president, who is strong democrat,
is after the customs collectorship at
Kansas City
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
Visited st. Louis Schools.

Quite number of distinguished for
eign educators visited the st. Louis
public schools the other day. and ex-
pressed themselves as greatly pleased.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
Burned About the Head.

w. B. Mackey, of Sedalia, while test
ing a new oil burner in his furnace,
was badly burned about the head. but
his eyes escaped.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09

PRINCE ALFRED WINDIscH-GRATZ,
whom Emperor Francis Joseph desired
to succeed Coun. Taafe as Austrian
prime minister. has announced that,
owing to important family considera-
tions, he is unable to accept the Office.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
Missouri state Banks.

Secretary of State Lesueur has made
a report of the condition of the state
banks of Missouri September 16, show
ing that they were in good condition.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
Death Did Not Part Them.

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Farrah, of Mex
leo, are dead-Mr. Farrah died in the
afternoon and Mrs. Farrah died the fol-
lowing morning.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
He Smoked Cigarettes.

Pearl Hall, of Macon, 10 years old,
fell over on his desk at school and died
before a doctor could reach him. He
had been an habitual smoker o. cigar
cites.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
A Farmers Loss.

Near Sedal;a sparks from locomo-
tive, it is said, set fire to eleven stacks
of millet belonging to Judge Baker, and
sixty tons were burned
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
STEAMSHIP BURNED.

The Steamer City Alexandria, Kum Laden
Burned On the Cuban Coast rs the re-
suit Of an plosi0n-Thirty-Five Lives
| Reported Lost by Drowning Nhne
Abandoning Ship-The Survivors Land
ed ON Cuban Soil.
HAVANA, Nov. s.-The steamship City
of Alexandria. belonging to the New
York & Cuba Steamship Co., from Hav-
| ana and Matanzas fer New York, has
been burned off Cojumara. The news
was brought to this city early yester-
day morning, when a small boat In
which were the second officer and
eleven other persons from the City OF
| Alexandria entered the harbor and re-
ported the loss of the steamer. They
say that an explosion occurred Wednes-
day afternoon on board the steamer.
and that shortly after she was
burning fercely. The cause of the ex-
plosion is unknown. The fire gained
such Roadway that Capt. Hoffman saw
| it would be impossible to save the YES
sci, and orders were given to abandon
the ship. The steamer had 400 hogs
heads of rum on board, and this, when
1t caught fire, caused immense masses
of fame to ascend from the hatch
| ways, the matches having been blown
off.
The Fire Alarm Sounded.
There was great excitement on
board. but the officers soon succeeded
in restoring order. AS soon as the
fire alarm was sounded, the crew went
to their fire stations, and the stewards
began to carry provisions to the boats.
There was comparatively little sea
running, and but slight difficulty was
experienced in lowering away the
Loats, when the bell forward tolled the
signal abandon the ship" The scene
of the burning of the steamer was
only twenty-five miles from Havana,
and the officer in command of the boat
had little fear of not reaching that
port or some other place along the
coast.
Jumped Into the;Sea and Drowned.
In the first moment of the fire sew
eral men are said to have jumped into
the sea. Those who arrived in the
small boat, yesterday morning. said
that sixty had been drowned, many OF
them through the upsetting of boat.
Later reports, however, show that
none of the small boats upset. and that
many of those at first reported as lost
reached Bacurana in safety. The mum.
Der of persons drowned is now believed
to be thirty four or thirty-ive. Among
them were Herr Libenger. cabin pas
senger, and several Cuban stevedores.
When the news of the disaster reached
here a number of tugs were sent to the
burning steamer to render what as
sistance they could. Two of these tugs
returned yesterday afternoon, bring
ing nineteen survivors from the vessel.
The Burned Steamer.
The City of Alexandria was one OF
the fastest and largest of the American
ships employed in the West India trade.
She was an iron. screw steamer, of 2, 4sO
tons burden. She was 307 feet long, SO
feet beam and 36 feet depth of hold.
She was built in 1879 by John Roach &
Sons, of Chester, Pa. Her engines
were of the compound type, the cylin-
ders measuring Axis and 42x54.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
Assaulted His Father.

Joseph Meyers, of near Sedalia, is re-
ported to have assaulted and fatally in
jured his father, who is over 80 years
of age, few days ago.
The father made an ante-mortem statement
to County Attorney Hoffman. The prisoner has
maintained from the hrst that he acted in self
defense. as his father was about to assault him
with knife. This is denied by the dying man.
who sets forth that his son followed him quite
a distance in order that he might make the as
SAINT.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
BY Hanging.

John Olson, prominent and infiu-
entail citizen of Cass county, COM
mitted suicide by hanging while his
wife and daughter We're attending
prayer meeting.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
Raided by burglars.

The town of Browning. Linn county,
was visited by burglars the other night,
and six stores were entered and money
and goods taken.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
A Minister Drops Dead.

Rev. John Hendrickson. aged e., who
resided near Ell Dorado Springs,
dropped dead on his farm near Har-
wood. Vernon counnv,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.



Farmers Institutes will be held un.
der the auspices of the Missouri state
board of agriculture at the following
named points:
Elsberry, Lincoln county Nov. 1914.
New London. Rails county, Nov H-1a
Shelbyville, Shelby county. Nov. 1916.
k1rksville. Adair county, Nov. 16 IA.
Bucklin, Linn county, Nov. 17-1S.
Chillicothe, Livingston county. Nov. 20-22.
Avalon. Livingston county. Nov. DBL
Cameron. Clinton county, Nov. 2s-25
Polo, Caldwell county. Nov. 1875.
Oregon, Holt county, Nov. 21-28.
Weston. Platte county. Nov. % %
Independence. jackson county Nov 20 SO
-. Lafayette county, Nov. 30Dec. l.
Rockville. Bates county, Dec 1-o.
Sheldon, Vernon county, Dec. IS
Greenfield. Dade county, Dec. Sc
Newtonia, Newton county. Dec. 81.
-. Christian county. Dec. rs
Willow Springs, Howell county, Dec. 80.
Jackson, Cape Girardeau county, Dec. 11-12.
-, Perry county, Dec. 1918.
Frederickstown, Madison county, Dec 1914.
Cuba, Crawford county, Dec. 14-15.
Washington, Franklin county. Dec. Isle
Eldon, Miller county, Dec. 1870
Fayette. Howard county, Dec. 1921.
At these meetings Hon. T. B. Terry. Of Ohio;
Prof. G. w. Waters, of Canton, Mo-. and John
eral farming dairying. ETC.; Dr. E. D. Porter,
agricultural college and experimental station;
w. H. Harmon, the weather service; DR.. T. j.
Turner and his deputies, the veterinary service;
Professors j. G. Evans and N F. Murray, A.
Nelson and L. A Goodman will represent the
state horticultural society.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09

There was sad end to an e1opement
in SedaIia the other day.
Dovie Blackburn. the 16year-old daughter OF
Alexander Blackburn, a wellto-do farmer and
Charles Adkins. q young farmer, aged 81. drove
across the country to Lamonte. and then went
to Sedalia at l o'clock in the morning with a
view to getting married The girls father was
given pointer, however by lady friend OF
his daughter. and took the first train for Sc
dalia. which arrived two hours in advance of
the clipping couple. He met them when they
alighted from the train and stormy scene en-
sued. the result being that the father took
forcibie possession of Miss DOvie and returned
home with her, leaving the disc onsolate lover
on the depot platform weeping.
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What German noys Drink.

German boys who work in the open
air all day long, every day in the year
except school days, get very thirsty,
of course, and must drink great
deal. The German mothers to keep
their boys we'll and hardy, are very
expert in making nourishing drinks
for them, to take the place of water,
which is not nourishing at all If taken
in large quantities. Honeyade is the
favorite outdoor drink for German
boys. 1t is made in this way. An
ounce of ginger is boiled for an hour
in two quarts of water. Then two
quarts of cold water, pound of
sugar, an ounce of lime juice and two
ounces OF clear, sweet cider are added.
When all is cold, the white of an egg
is whipped in and lemon is squeezed
over tho honeyade jar. Tho sturdy
little Germans are allowed to drink
their weight, as the saying is, of this.
The Bessemer indicator., 1893-03-04
A NEW VERSION,
Tho BOY and His Essay on tho DIscov
ery of Ap,erIcu

cry of America.
The Columbian times have recalled
to memory tho biography of Christie
pher Columbus as it was written by Il
schoolboy in the AIidlands, England,
twenty years ago. Tho master told
the boys to write each short essay
on the great navigator, and the fol-
lowing is the only one that has with
stood the ravages of the tooth of
time. We give it complete:
columbus was man who could
make an egg stand on end without
breaking it. Tho king OF Spain said
to Columbus:
Can you discover American
Yes said Columbus, if you givo
me ship
"He had ship and sailed over the
sea in the direction where he thought
America ought to be found. The
sailors quarreled, and said they be-
lieved there was no such place, but
after many days tho pilot called to
him and said:
Columbus, l see land
".Then that is America said
Columbus.
when the ship got near the land
was full OF black men. Columbus
said:
=" is this American
Yes, it is said they.
"I suppose you arc the niggers?'
"'Yes,' they said, I'VE arc,' and tho
chief said, i suppose you are Colum-
busp'
You're right said he.
Then the chief turned to his men
and said There is no help for It.
We are discovered at lnst.'
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UNFORTUNATE oLEnNon.
Money and Health Went. and no On,
Would Give Him Shelter.

Money and Health Went. and NO One
| Would Give Him Shelter.
Patrick Glennon was most un-
fortunate man. Hs inherited some
money from his father. and about the
samn time discovered that he was an
incurablo consumptive. For two
years, though he looked well. his
| health was wretched. He lost his
money, too, having intrusted it to .
relative, and he and his sister disa-
greed, so that he had no home. He
lived in Jersey City and Mayor Glove
lind befriended him. The mayor
made him clerk in his Office at
small salary. He lived in cheap
room at Symes' hotel.
Several times he had to go to tho
hospital. In that way ne lost his
place. For several months he did
nothing at all. He was too sick.
He had plenty Of friends among the
Jersey officials and they made up $50
for him a feonth ago. On this hn
lived for time.
One day they put him out Of Symcs'
because the other boardcrs obieated
to his presence. They did not like
consumptives. So he went down TO
Meshutt's hotel on Montgomery
street, There the proprietor put
him out for the same reason. He
went back to Symcs' then, but Symes
told him one day that he could not
stay any longer. Glennon was in dis
pair.
In the Afternoon he came over to
New York ard called on Amos Pike,
fruit merchant he knew in Wash
ington street. says the New York
Sun. He wanted commission to go
to Florida and send up consignments
Of fruit. Perhaps the warm climate
might cure his disease. But Mr..
Pike didn't wan: to send n man South,
and neither did Nolan & Shute, a
fruit firm to which he applied. So
he sadly went back to Jersey City.
He hunted up John d. German. .hc
president of the tax board, who had
often befriended him. Mr.. German
said he would try to get him into St.
Joseph's Home next day. Mr..
German then went to the hotel keep
er and induced him to let Glennon
sleep in the house that night. But
Glennon did not know this.
About midnight, the unfortunate
man, who had spent the evening in
the warm corners OF several saloons
on Newark avenue, started for New
York II he could not find bed in
Jersey City perhaps he could across
the river. He had S1.33 left Of the
$50 his friends had given him, and
this would suffice until morning.
when Mr.. German would get him into
the home. He went to Smith e. Mo
Nells, on Washington street; but by
the time he got there he was very i'll.
Tho hotel Office is upstairs. He was
unable to mount the steps, so two
customers in the restaurant below
helped him. They led him tottering
to chair in the office and seated
him there. Then they left.
well, do you want roomP" asked
the night clerk from behind the desk,
But Patrick Glennon was dead.
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cssvsla.a q . y,sAsrns..

William H. Crane, the comedian, is some
what Of = fisherman himself, but he yields the
palm, 10 Grover. Cleveland. 81 never saw
han," says Mr.. Crane, "who hid the passion
for angling and tho patience AZ It that Cleve-
land has. He doesn't seem TO care whether
he catches any fish or not; he'll sit for hours
under broiling sun watching his bob 20
dancing In the water and never utter a com
plant II he doesn't get nibble. 1 went out
feyerAl times with him last summcr-Joc JEFF
ferson tookps out Joe isn't any sort of
dsherman-e's great actor aud a, great
painter ah \ell that kind of thing, but he
can't Dab 4Re bit. Joe can't bali hook;
scems to be afraid of tho worms; so Cleveland
and took turns at putting bait on his hook.
Joe got restless before VIC had been out half an
hour; he kept wanting to move nround-was
sure that 1t was better fishing on the other
side Of the pond.' Perhaps you've been fish
ing with that sort OF man 1t worried Cleye-
land good deal, and by and by says he:
..Joe,' says he, when was n small boy went
fishing with my Uncle Ellhu, and remember
he told me that one OF the secrets OF success
IN life was to stick to the place where you'd
thrown your. anchor out. "Too many folks"
said Uncle Elihu, "spcnd all their time pull
ing up anchors and rowing around; they don't
catch the fish," As for me- says Cleveland,
when start in to fish,, says he, Il sit right
there and fish until either the pond runs dry
or the horn blows for support n-Bos,on Jour
nal.
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= A WAR AGAINST SMOKE.
St. Louis Grnpplins With tho Smoke
Nuisance-A New Bridge Across
MIsslREipDI,

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2i.-In group of
business men smoking cigars after din
ner at the Mercantile club the other
afternoon, the statement was made by
manufacturer that the city would
spend fully quarter of million dol
lars in testing smolc-preventing de-
vices this year. He meant, of course,
the manufacturers of the city who have
joined the club which intends to clear
the air of the smoke. This club got up
the bills organizing the city crusade
against the smoke nuisance, which the
Mayor has just signed. The laws es
tablish "A bureau with inspectors, whose
duty it is to prosecute those who will
not use smoke preventing devices on
their furnaces. A popularity of the
law that distinguishes it from those
proposed in other cities is that any in
vcntor can have his device tested and
its merit decided upon by board of
experts paid by the city. The club
hopes to rid the city of half of its smoke
cloud by the beginning of summer.
Ever since the Merchants bridge
was completed it has been seen that
St. Louis would have to have another
one to cross the Mississippi for the
special use of foot passengers and
vehicles. The Eads bridge built up
East st. Louis, and the Merchants
bridge made Madison and Venice grow
into flourishing tows. The people of
these two towns cannot get to st.
Louis on foot or by vehicles. They
must use the regular trains of the Mcr-
chants Terminal Company, or wait for
slow ferryboats. They want bridge
over which electric cars can run, and
people can walk. The bill now before
Congress provides for this kind of
bridge, which is to be built by st.
Louis men at II cost of about 100000.
Mayor Noonan has just signed bill
that will give st. Louis another cleo
tric street railway before the crowds
begin to fill the city for the
Fall Festivities. The road will
run along Grand Avenue, one
of the widest and most important resi-
dence throughfarcs of the city. 1t will
enable one to ride from the cemeteries,
to the Grand Avenue viaduct and
across that to Tower Grove Park. The
road will cost half million dollars.
and will be built entirely by st. Louis
capital.
The st. Louis Turner societies are
noted all over the United States for ther
gymnasts. There are six turn halls in
the city, and the membership of the
societies is over 10000. About five
hundred of the best of these gymnasts
are being drilled for exhibitions at the
Worlds Fair The corns will include
all the young athletes who participate
in the events on the Turner nights at
the st. Louis exposition, and there will
be besides, II specially drilled body of
hundred men or so who are known
among the Turner's everywhere
as prize-winners in the national
competitions. The corps will go to the
Worlds Fair prepared to issue and re-
ceive challenges for all sorts of feats of
strength and skill, and they hope to
engage in competition with Turner's
from Germany. :.
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Gems Made to Order.

A Glasgow chemist claims to have
succeeded by simple method in OBJ
tanning precious stones that approach,
in all their characteristics, 5, the noblest
products of nature. The details of
the process Gre, of course. kept secret
Working on II laboratory scale and
using small vessels, stones have been
obtained over one-sixtecnth of an
inch in diameter, and very large
numbers have been formed approach
ing that size. These are hard, infus-
ible at all ordinarily nttainable tenn
peratures, and insoluble in any acid.
The bulk of the gems are white
or, rather, colorless - sapphires.
They are compact and trans
parent crystals, and many specimens
have splendid luster. BY subse-
quent treatment some of them have
taken on the sapphire blue. Apart
from the possibilities of the process
in the direction of producing the
diamond, the chief point already es-
tablished is that of having found an
easy method Of chrystalizing alumni.
The oriental ruby, oriental amethyst
and other gems coming under the
heading oriental arc all of them only
variously colorcd sapphires and
alumina forms the chief constituent of
the series. There appears to be little
doubt that the new process will yield
the ruby and other varieties. Apart
from ornamentation their hardness
will fit them for mechanical purposes
and their cutting power is remarka-
ble.
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August
!. Flower

lam ready to testify under oath
that if it had not been for August
Flower should have died before
this. Eight years ago I was taken
sick, and suffered as no one but
a dysHptic can. employed three
OF our best doctors and received
no benefit. They told me that had
heart, kidney, and liver trouble.
Everything I ate distressed me SO
that I had to throw it up. August
Flower cured me. There is no med
icine equal to it." LORENZO F.
SLERpER, Appleton, Maine. O
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Swinging Around tn. Circle.

OF the diseases to which It Ia adapted with the
best results, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. q
family medicine, comprehensive In its scope,
the guise of = universal panAcea for bodily ills.
This claim, daily arrogated in the columns OF
far inferior 10 1t ns specifics. hns in q thousand
instances disgusted tn, public in advance BY
It's absurdity. and tho prospects of othor rene
dies OF superior qualities have been hAndi-
capped by tho pretentions Of their worthless
predecessors. But the American people know,
because they have verified tho fact by the most
tues Of real specific in cases OF mAlArial aud
liver disorder, CONS stipation, nervous rhcumAu Tic
stomach and kidney trouble. What II does II
does thoroughly. and mainly for this reason II
is fndorsed and recommended by hosts oi
respectable medical men.