Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-02-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FEhSOuyA1 AMI SetN1o~~
EIGHTY Bohemian miners met instant
death by an explosion in the Fort
schritt mine at Dux, in Bohemia, on
the cath. and scores of others were IA
tally injured.
THE dwelling house of James Addi-
son at West Newbury, Mass, was
burned, on the 3tst, and Mr.. Addison,
aged 40, and his son William. aged 16,
are thought to have persisted in the
flames.
Gov. OSBORNE of Wyoming, on the
31st, denied the petition for the revoca-
ton of the requisition issued upon Gov.
Flower of New York for the surrender
of Charles A. White, who married Mrs.
Nagle. of Cheyenne. Wyo., for her
money and succeeded in getting SIS, 900
of it. Mrs. Maggie is attempting to
make White return the money, which
she claims was fraudulently obtained.
CA DISASTROUS coal gas explosion &C.
Cured in the Shalis pit near Crate, in
StHria, on the 31st- Five miners were
killed and ten were reported as injured.
The ponderous new battleship In
diana was launched at the ship yards
of William Cramp & Sons. of Philadel-
phia, on whose docks the keel was laid
May z, 1891. Now that the great vessel
is af1oat its equipment will follow as
rapidly as possible.
Mrs. LANGTRY's yacht arrived at
Marseilles, on the 31st, from Cowes
after tempestuous voyage. The deck
was swept almost constantly by heavy
seas Water poured into the cabin and
- 81, skrr,.
and carpets Mrs Langtry has post
poned her voyage until the damage can
be repaired.
THE will of the late Gen. Benjamin
F. Butler had been fled in the Middle
sex probate court at East Cambridge.
Mass. 1t bears the date of 1854, with a
codicil added in 1862. All his estate,
real and personal, is left to relatives,
including a wife and mother, since de-
ceased.
SENATOR MCMAHON, chairman of the
New York legislative committee which
has investigated the coal combination,
submitted the committees report to
| the legislature on the LIST. The report
| says that the railroads included in the
combine control about 20 per cent of
the entire tonnage of coal annually
| taken to tide water. The committee
| introduced a bill in the senate which is
| intended to prevent the combination
from carrying out its plans.
ONE robber held up the clerk in a
| jewelry store in Sacramento, Cal. on
the night of the 31st, with a revolver.
| while a confederate got away with %, :
600 worth of diamonds.
THE condemned United States steamer
Palos was recently put up at auction at
Nagasaki, Japan, but as only one-half
of her reserved price of $1,000 was of
fered, she was withdrawn.
The house of Ulysses S. Brunson, al
Anderson, Ind, was completely
wrecked, at midnight of the 31st, and
five persons were seriously hurt, by an
] explosion of gas.
! THE American Book Co.'S plant a,
Cincinnati was damaged by fire. shortly
after midnight on the S1st, to the ex
tent Of SIC, 900.
ABOUT 200 houses were recently de
stroyed by fire in the town of Shibushi
Japan, and many lives were lost Tive
hundred houses were also burned al
the japanese town of Mivamotcho.
Four prominent young men of Che
boygan, Mich, who went, on the 1st
to fish through the ice in the straits
had failed to return up to the I'd, and
were supposed to have frozen to death
ON the I'd. the president nominated
Howard E. jackson, of Tennessee, K
succeed the late L. Q. C. Lamar as as
sociate justice of the supreme court Of
the United States
The fast east-bound passenger trair
on the Fort Wayne & Chicago road rar
into n west-5ound freight near Lou
donville, o., on the I'd. while going at 9
very high rate of speed. Engineer
David Peppard of the limited was badly
hurt, and the fremen of both train.
were injured.
i SIR EDWARD GRAY, parliamentary
secretary of the British foreign OH &c
4 replying to an Interpolation in parlia
meut, on the I'd. said that ..the govern
ment considered thnk the lives and
i property of British subjects In Hawai-
were safe under American protection.