Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


JUDGE JOHNSON, at Milwaukee, OF
the 9th, decided that the Indictment.
found by the late grand jury againsr
Eugene 5. Elliott and F. w. Moves, di
rectors of the Plankinton bank, wer.
invalia. because the grand jury re
! turned them at the October term of thu
municipal court, whereas the grant
jury's term had expired with the Sep
TENDER term, for which it was called.
THE report that the steamer Costa
RIGA was fired upon by the Honduras
authorities was confirmed at the state
department on the nth. A dispatch
was received from Minister Baker in
which the details of the outrage were
briefly given. The department is no,
likely to take action in the matter un
! til more detailed report is made by
Mr.. Fuller.
The treasury department., on the
9th, had an actual working balance
not to exceed 81, ZOO. If this be-
comes exhausted the department will
have to meet current obligations from
the gold reserve. The treasury officials
however, hope for better times, and
L
On the sth Judge Morrow, of San
Francisco, took under Amusement a
motion to 1iberate fourteen Chinese
confined in the county Jail and await.
ing deportation as provided for by the
Geary act.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR SMITH
has appointed William v. Reppert, OF
Liberty, KY, member of the board OF
pension appeals. The other members
of the board are: Orson III. Gilmore, OF
Illinois: John A. Lacey, of Missouri;
John S. Payne, of Tennessee; John c.
McAllister, of Pennsylvania; Robert L.
Hill, of Michigan; P. J. Rogers, of New
York, and Herbert /. Bracket, of Wis
consin.
WIN. n. MoFF, of Bloomington, Ind
has been appointed supervisor of In
dian schools
GEN. RUGGLEs, the newly-appointed
Acknowledgement of the army, has been
an assistant acknowledgement for the
past eighteen months, having accom-
panied Gen. Williams, just retired, from
New York. He is a graduate of the
class of 1855, West Point, and before the
war saw frontier duty in Minnesota
and Montana.
Mrs. OLLIE NYE, wife of carpenter,
of Terre Haute, Ind. on the 9th, by "A
passenger train on the Logansport di-
vision of the Vandalia. She did not
heed the whistle or bell and seemed to
be unconscious of her danger.
julius FRoEBEL, the well-known
Swiss writer and statesman, died in
Zurich on the 9TH. He was a nephew
OF DR.. Froebel, the founder of the kim
dergarten system.
DITTMAR's dynamite factory at Bay
chester, n. Y, blew up on the nth.
The building, large, low, frame
structure. was completely demolished.
If the struggle in Morocco is pro-
1onged Spain will declare war on the
sultan and make the affair on the Riff
fan coast secondary consideration.
THE latest details concerning the
terrible disaster at Santander show
that the number of dead, missing and
wounded is fully 1000.
BY a collision in a dense fog between
the Western Transit Co.'S steamer
Albany and the Anchor Line steamer
Philadelphia, off Point Aux Barques,
-
18th, twenty-four lives We're lost and
both steamers were sunk in 200 feet of
water.
By rear-end collision on the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad at
Seventy-frst street, Chicago, on the
sth, between the Blue Island accom-
mediation and limited vestibuled eX-
press, five persons were killed and
eleven injured, many of them being
badly scalded by escaping steam from
the disa bled locomotive of the express.
The accident occurred in dense fog.
Mrs. U. S. GRANT, accompanied by
her son Ulysses s. Grant, arrived at
San Francisco, on the sth, from Santa
Barbara. She will remain there
week, and return to Santa Barbara for
q two years residence.
COMMANDER w. H. WHITING, late of
the United States'steamer Alliance, ar
rived at San Francisco, on the Sth,
from Guatemala, en- route to Honolulu.
where he will be married to Miss All
Fong.
On the sth Emperor Francis Joseph
formally accepted the civic marriage
law, which has caused much clerical
and other opposition in Hungary, to
which country the bill applies.
SIGNoR FRANCISCO GENELA, Italian
minister for public works, was stricken
with apoplexy on the Sth. 1t was eX-
pected that the stroke would prove
fatal.
A MEETING of liberal Presbyterians,
called to consider affairs in what they
believe to be crisis in the church's
history, began in Cleveland, O., on the
sth.
THE county high school building at
bingham, the first of the kind in Kan
sas. was destroyed by fire on the night
of the eth. Loss. 10000; no insurance.
The United States cruiser Olympia,
under command of Capt. Goodall, put
to sea from San Francisco, on the Sth,
for her contractors trial trip.
JOSHUA JUMP, of Terre Haute, has
been appointed by the president to be
collector of internal revenue for the
Seventh district in Indiana.
A STEAMER in the harbor at Kiel
rammed the steam pinnace belonging
to the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, on
the Sth, cutting it in halves and send
ing it to the bottom. The crew were
rescued.
THE steamer Burlington. with two
barges. bound up, light, sprung leak
when 10 miles off Sand Beach, Mich,
on the sth. She was picked up imme-
diately by the steam barge Tempest,
which started to tow her into Sand
Beach, but she sank just as she got in
e;do tho nierS Sho WAS huilt in 1877