Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-29
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Lansford and Tamagua, Pa, caught
fire, on the Goth, and the entire mine
will have to be flooded before the flames
can be extinguished.
PAUL CONRAD, president of the Lou
isiana lottery and the head of the con-
Germ since it moved away from New
Orleans, died in that city on the Goth.
His name was well known throughout
the country.
THE steamship Corsica, which was
sunk in recent gale at the entrance
| to the Havre harbor, forming a block
| ade which prevented vessels from en-
tering or leaving that port, was raised
on the Goth.
BY the introduction of electrical ap-
| planes at the Carnegie steel mill at
Braddock, Pa, one man can now do
the work formerly done by twenty
| five.
A JAPANESE transport on it's way
across Talien Wan bay with GOO in
| fantry and 500 coolies on board, caught
fire and was abandoned. The infantry
and all of the collies except five, who
were burned to death, were saved.
THE official Kentucky vote makes the
democratic plurality 2,173, as against
| 52,7O1 in 1892, and an increase in the
| total vote of nearly 10000.
SEVERE fighting is reported to have
| taken place at Port Arthur, on the 18th,
| the japanese having massed their
troops there.
THE session of the Knights of Labor
convention at New Orleans, on the 21st,
was taken up with favorable report
| Of oil Low nd
| barkeepers to become members of the
order. The proposition was voted
down, but motion was made to re-
consider, and without any definite ac-
| ton being taken the assembly took a
| recess.
| THE steamer Empress of China ar
rived at Vancouver, Il. c., on the Goth,
from the orient. Her cargo was the
| largest ever brought across, and con-
tanned a large amount of silk for Bos-
ton consignees.
GEN. ANTONIO EZETA, who arrived at
San Francisco from Mexico, on the
Goth, denies the statement that he is
there as an agent of Mexico to pur-
! chase arms and ammunition in case OF
war.
| On the 21st the Vermont senate
passed the bill Incorporating the Mica
ragua Canal Co.
| A CASE of Asiatic leprosy has been
discovered in the western part of Grand
Forks county, n. d.
| Miss MARY l.. STEVENSON, daughter
of the vice-president, confined to her
bed at Asheville, y. c., with pneumo
MIA. was no better on the 21st. Hope
of her ultimate recovery had been
about given up.
THE jury in the Jim Cook case a,
Tehlequah, /. T., returned verdict
on the 21st, of guilty of manslaughtel
for killing Sequoyah Houston, and sen
fenced him to eight years in the Chero
kee penitentiary.
| FRIENDS and connections of the Bar
| ings have taken over from the Bank OF
England the entire amount of the re
naming Barring assets. All guarantors
are thus released from further respon
sibility.
SIX students and the dean of the med
| zeal faculty of Cottner university, a
Lincoln, Neb., were under arrest at the
police station on the night of the 21st
charged with grave robbery.
JUDGE COOPER, at Memphis, Tenn.
| took the bull by the horns in the Mil
1ington 1ynching case, on the 21st, anC
forced Butch McCarver, the destroyer
Gus witness, to testify. Ex-Attorney
General Peters created a sensation ir
court by denouncing the sheriff fol
working in the interests of the lynch
ers and trying to cheat justice.
THE grand jury at Leander. Wyo., or
the 21st, created a sensation by indict
ing Capt. Patrick Henry Ray, of the
| Eighth infantry, acting Indian agent
Shoshone agency, for branding cattle
belonging to stockman named Boyd
JOSEPH K. EMMETT, the actor, ant
Mrs. May Haggins Stevens, known t.
the dramatic profession as Emily Lyt
ton Stevens. were married at Grace
cathedral in Davenport, Ia, on the 21st
Mrs. Stevens is the leading lady of Mr.
Emmett's company.
| COMMANDER-IN-CHI LAWYER of the
G. A. r. and his adjutant-general,C c. c
Jones, arrived in Washington, on thu
21st, to present to the president tn,
resolution adopted by the national en-
campment at Pittsburgh, protesting
against the discharge of veterans o
the late war from government posi-
tons
A RAPPROACHMENT is said to hav,
taken place between Russia and En-
gland, which renders it possible tina
the straits of the Dardanelles, which
have been closed to Russian and othe
men-of-war since the signing of thu
treaty of 1S4l, which was confirmed b,
the Paris treaty of 1856, will shortly b'
opened to men-of-war of all nations
FRANK PAYsoN and George Brill, tw'
American prospectors, have just dis
covered an old Spanish gold mine, sit
mated about sixty miles northeast O
Sierra Mojada, Mexico, and from sam
plies of the ore, which they have hal
assayed, it is believed the mine is on
of fabulous richness.
FRANK E. GODFREY, acting assistan
superintendent of the gymnasium o
the Boston Y. NJ. C. A., fell and brok
his neck on the night of the 21st, Will
working in the gymnasium. He wa
standing on the shoulders of com
panion and trying to turn a somersaul
in the air from that position, when h
slipped and fell.
The grand jury of McLennon coun
. ty, Tex, on the 21st, returned indict
ments against a number of the official
of the Standard Oil Co. Among tn
number are some of the most prom
nent officers of the company. They ar
charged with conspiracy in restrain
of trade and violation of the Texa
, antitrust law.
. IT is probab BILE that among the earlies
. communications to be sent by Pres
: dent Cleveland to congress when it as