Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

On the 23d the Canadian revenue cut
ter Petrol seized the American steamer
Louise on the east side of Point Pelee.
The Louise was engaged in the fishing
trade, and is charged with trespassing
in Canadian waters.
On the 24th the British charge DAT
flares at Toxic wired the British con-
sui at Shanghai that Japan had agreed
to treat Shanghai as outside the sphere
of operations in any warfare that
Japan may engage in with Corea.
Ten houses We're destroyed by fire on
Van Horn street, between Oakley and
Leavitt streets. Chicago. on the esd.
Four children were killed and num-
Der of persons injured.
THREE bogus checks, agg-egating
$50, 900, drawn on the Columbia ma
tional bank of Washington, have been
passed in New York city. The Lincoln
national bank was victimized to the
extent of Sol 600, and the Fourteeth
Street national bank for SEQ. 500. The
checks were signed David Coleman"
and were Endorsed ''E. o. Rice, paying
teller" Mr.. Rice is the teller of the
Washington bank.
The republican convention of the
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met in Biddeford. on the cath. and re-
nominated Hon. Thomas Il. Reed for
congress.
On the 25th, Judge Baker, of Chi
cago, held Mrs. Warren Springer tc
the grand jury on the charge of at
tempting to bride Jurors Marman and
Slider in the INSTRUMENTATION suit
of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated
Railroad Co. VS.. Warren Springer She
was released on s.. 900 bonds.
THE 6OO-foot bridge of the Northern
Pacific railroad across the Aminicon
river in Wisconsin was entirely de-
stroyed by forest fires on the oath. 1t
will take crew working night and
day at least week to replace it.
THE seconds respectively of Deputy
Denoux and Jean Drault, of the social
list journal La Libre Parole, of Paris,
agreed. on the 25th, that there was no
ground for a duel between the two
gentlemen
REPORTS from central and western
Kansas are very discouraging. The
corn crop will be a failure in more
than half of the state. In the western
third of the state the crop is totally
ruined, while in the central third a
fair crop will be raised only in sections
where local rains have fallen. The
corn in many fields has burned up.
DETECTIVES from Denver arrested
John Mullins, Herman Rubballe and c.
c. Mckimme at Colorado Springs, Col,
on the 25th, for completely in tarring
and feath ering Adjt.-Gen. Tarsney.
They were held in bonds of 5000. 1t
is said that enough evidence has been
secured toconvict the suspected parties.
a SHARK nine feet long, captured in
the sound off Oyster Bay, Long Island,
| was lowed ashore on the 25th. When
| the shark was cut open its stomach was
found to contain child's finger, which
| had been badly lacerated.
| On the oath the French chamber of
deputies passed the second. third and
| fourth articles of the anti-anarchist
| bill.
SIR JOHN ARSoTr. a wealthy mer-
| chant of Cork, has offered a cup valued
at 100 guineas to be competed for in an
| ocean race between the Vigilant. the
Britannia and, if possible. the Satanita,
| the date to be determined upon by the
owners of the three yachts mentioned.
In the United States court in Chica-
go on the 25th, Judge Woods over
ruled the motion to quash the in
| formation against Debs ct al, and
! postponed the further hearing of the
case until September 5. The defend
ants will now give bonds.
| OTTO G. KIRsCHBAUM. merchant, real
estate dealer and manager of a nillio-.
dollars worth of st. Louis property
owned by the Burnes estate. of St Jo-
| seph, Mo-. has mysteriously disappeared
from st. Louis, and no clew to his
whereabouts can be learned.
THE house. on the 25th, passed Dele
gate Flynn's bill empowering fourth
class postmasters 10 administer oaths
| in pension cases. The object is to avoid
the inconvenience experienced by
those who live in sparsely -settled
| places