Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


the administration. through Secretary
| Gresham, has sent an official cal BILE dis
patch to the Japanese government ex-
pressing the dissatisfaction of the
United States with the policy which
Japan has adopted towards Corea, and
closing with these significant words:
THE United States views with regret
the levying of an unjust war by Japan
upon weak and defenseless nation
like Corea."
In the international field sports con-
test at Queens club. West Kensington,
London, on the 10th, between teams
representing Yale and Oxford UNIVERSE
ties, the latter won the odd event and
the match. While the Oxonians treated
their competitors in the most manly
fashion, the immense crowd present
was almost disgusting in it's jealous
partisanship.
The American yacht Vigilant suf-
fered its seventh defeat by the Britain
mia, on the 18th, in a race under the
auspices of the Royal Ulster Yacht
club, off the Irish coast. The wind
wouldn't hold out strong enough for the
Yankee craft.
EIGHT miners were killed and their
bodies blown to atoms by the explo-
sion of 200 sticks of giant powder at
Stockton colliery No. 8 at Hazleton,
Pa, on the 18th.
$. CHRIsTY CHURCH. 32 years of age, a
scion of one of st. Louis most prora-
inent and wealthy families. shot him
self in room of the Southern hotel,
on the afternoon of the 10th. and died
shortly after midnight. A fit of des-
pondency brought on by the knowl-
edge that he was the victim of an I'M
controllab BILE appetite for stimulants, is
the supposed cause of the sad act.
A CHICAGO & GRAND Trunk passenger
train was wrecked at Battle Creek.
Mich, on the morning of the 10th.
The fireman, Thomas Crow, was killed
and several persons injured. The
wreck was caused by the removal of
fish-plates from the rails by train
wreckcrs.
EDWARD HOLLOWAY, aged 30, of Cravv-
louisville, Ind. the prisoner under ar
rest at Terre Haute for wrecking the
New York express on the Big Four at
Fontanet on the night of the 18th, re-
sulting in the instant killing of Engi-
Fireman Fleck, of Mattoon, has con-
fessed.
A CRAZY st. Louisan named Zappert
tried to buy the city of Paris from a
resident priest of that CITY. and. his
overtures being ignored. threatened to
blow up the entire city in seven days.
He was adjudged insane on the 18th.
and sent to lunatic asylum.
I'll
known and most expert printers in the
United States, was killed and cut to
pieces by falling between two cars near
Emporia, Kas., on the nth.
THE shoe factory at Marblehead.
Mass. owned by John F. Harris was
burned on the 18th; loss, $50
SUIT. FILLMORE reopened the rail-
road shops at Sacramento. Cal, on the
18th. with a force of about 300 men. The
shops were strongly guarded and strik-
ers made no demonstration.
On the 10th Representative Clifton
r. breckenridge, who has represented
the Second district of Arkansas in con-
gress for twelve years. was nominated
to be minister to Russia to succeed An
drew ID. White. resigned.
THE bullion in the bank of England
increased e60s,251 during the week
ended on the 10TH
THE republic of Hawaii was pro
claimed on the Fourth of July, with
Sanford Il. Dole as president.
NELLIE KENNE, a 9-year-old child,
hung herself at Bradshaw, w. Va. on
the 18th, because she had been kept
home from school by her mother to
care for two children. She was dead
when found.
POWDER explosion occurred on
board British government vessel en-
gagged in blowing up an old wreck in
the Solent, on the 10Th, killing four
men and inJuring several. others, three
Of whom died soon after