Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PREMIER CRIsPI announced the resig-
nation of the ministry in the Italian
| chamber of deputies on the 5th.
THE steamer City of Sydney arrived
| at San Francisco, on the 5th, from the
orient, bringing news of the wreck, on
the southern coast of Japan, of the
British bark Drumeltan, from Shang-
hal for Tacoma.
BARON Won KETTELER, chancellor of
the German embassy at Washington,
the embassy.
JUDGE WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, ex-
minister to Germany, was reported Sc
riously ill at his home near Englewood,
n. j., on the 4th. Mr.. Phelps has been
in poor health since his return from
Germany, and few weeks ago we went
south, hoping that the change would
be beneficial, but his condition was
not improved in the least when he re-
turned.
GEN. CHARLES II. GRosvENoR was re-
nominated for congress, on the 4th, by
the republicans of the Eleventh CO.,
district.
On the 5th the state department re-
ceived further advices from United
States Minister Baker corroborating the
press dispatches concerning the over
throw of the government in Salvador
and the flight of President Ezeta on
board German steamer.
G. w. WILSON, the capitalist and in
ventor of the Wilson sewing machine,
of his son-in-law in San Jose, Cal, on
the 5th.
AN explosion of gasoline occurred,
on the 5th, at the Troy steam laundry
in Portland, Ore. Five Chinese were
burned to death and four others seri-
ously injured, one probably fatally. j.
Il. Henderson, one of the proprietors of
the laundry, was badly burned about
the face and body, and is seriously in
jured. The building, with all its con-
tents, was burned. entailing a property
loss of about 100000.
ALEXANDER MCINTOSH, state organi-
ger for the Miners union of Colorado,
read the arbitration agreement to the
assembled miners at Cripple Creek, on
the 5th, and Immediately all the men on
Bull Hill laid down their arms, the
pickets were called in and the fortifi-
cations abandoned. The town was
decorated with flags, and the rejoicing
over the settlement of the strike was
general.
DR.. A. w. TRACEY, president of the
Connecticut state board of charities,
made public letter, on the 5th, strong
ly condemning the new hanging ma
chine now being set up in the state
prison. His principal objection to it is
that it compels the criminal to become
suicide. The new device is run by wa
ter-power. and the prisoner springs the
trap himself.
SEvENTY-oNE members of the Ander-
son Qnd.) high school, left that city, on
the 4th, in chartered cars for a two
weeks excursion to the national CAPT.
tai.
A. B. SMITH, a visitor from Portland,
Ore, committed suicide at Hot Springs,
Ark, on the 5th, by shooting himself
through the head. Three shots were
fired in rapid succession from a revolver,
all of which penetrated the forehead.
Death was instantaneous.
DURING a storm at Absecon, n. J., on
the night of the 4th. lightning struck
the barn of Edward Wilson, seriously
injuring John Alexander, farm hand,
and killing the 1000 trotting horse,
Split the Wind, record, 2:15.
The coroner's jury in London, on the
5th, returned u verdict holding Gen.
John Huston. the American, guilty of
manslaughter, in causing the death of
the musician, Burton, and added
rider saying that the jury did not be-
lieve that the wound which caused
Burton's death was inflicted willfully.
Mrs. CAROLINA ANDERSON, an aged
widow, who resided with her SON at
Hanna, Ind, committed suicide, on the
5th, by hanging. She made a rope of
strips torn from q bed sheet.
The supreme court of Connecticut
has decided that pension money depos-
tied in . savings bank by a pensioner
cannot be attached.
IT was reported from Rome, on the
9Th, that the pope had been losing
strength for several days. r