Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-18
By ELI D. AXE.

By ELI d. AXE.
THE United States steamer Monica:
arrived at San Francisco, on the sth
from Behring sea.
BUFFALO COUNTY national bank o
Kearney, Neb., failed to open it's door
on the 18th. The officers refused t,
make a statement.
TwENTY-sIx of the nest of thirt,
boilers at the Henry Clay colliery. Sha
mokin, Pa, blew up, ON the 18th, ant
three men were reported killed.
A DISPATCH received from Shanghai
on the sth, says rebellion had broker
out at Jehol, the seat of a celebrated
imperial palace, 100 miles from Pekin
On the 10th detachment of Japan
csc cavalry and infantry made an at
tack upon and routed force of 200
Chinese at Wei-Ju and captured tn
place.
LII
ing the week ended the 18th were 231
against 293 for the correspondent!
week of last year, and As in Canada
against AZ last year.
HENRY, Earl Grey, X. g.. G. c. M
c., died in London on the 9th. He wa
born in 1902 and succeeded to the peer
age in 1915. His successor is Albert II
G. Grey, born in 1851.
On account of prior engagements
Gov Mckinley will not be able to &C
cept the invitation of the sugar plant
ers of Louisiana to speak in that stat
during the present campaign.
THE returns to the statistical division
of the department of agriculture TO
the month of October make cotton SHOW
a decline of So points from the Septem
Der condition, which was $50.
BANDITS held up a Southern Paciti
overland train a few miles west o
Sacramento, CAL, on the night of thu
11th, and looted the Wells-Fargo CO..
express car, securing over $500
THE agricultural department has re
ceived from Joseph Mates, Jr., one o
its representatives in Europe, lettel
showing a satisfactory increase in thu
use of American corn in Germany.
The Cologne Gazette of the 18th as
serts that the European powers have
agreed upon a Corean policy, and de
cided not to take any action hinderine
tie japanese advance upon Pekin.
A NoRTH-BoUND passenger train OF
the Richmond, fredericksburg & Poto
mac railroad was held up near Quin
tico, Va, on the 18th, by seven masked
men, who robbed the EXPRESS car o.
s15o.0oO.
THE Ohio Presbyterian synod, in ses
sion at Columbus, on the 18th, adopted
, resolution urging congress to pass the
Hoar bill prohibiting express compa
nies from handling the business of lot
terry companies.
THE Mule Spinners' association a.
Fall River. Mass, voted, on the 12th
to accept the manufacturers PROPOSE
ton, and, this. it was believed. woulo
break the strike of the o1,O00 opera
tives in that city.
CAPT. ROBERT C. ANDREWS, one of the
most noted pedestrians in the country
lied at the age of 1O2 in Sumter, S. c..
on the night of the 10th. He was sol
der in the Mexican war and in the
war of the rebellion.
THE convention of the Brotherhood
of st. Andrew commenced in Washing
ton city, on the 18th, with a mass
meeting. Every state in the Union
and Canada and Scotland were repre-,
sented. Chief Justice Fuller presided
In accordance with general orders
from national guard headquarters,
seventeen guns were fred at the state
arsenal in Harrisburg, Pa, on the 10th
as mark of respect to the memory OF
ex-Gov. Curtin, and flags on public
buildings were hung at half-staff.
THE birthday anniversary of the
great temperance agitator, Father
Matthew, occurred on the 10th, and the
occasion was celebrated in Chicago by
a grand parade composed of Catholic
and Protestant temperance organlza
lions and Catholic and public schoo
children.
For a month or more from one to thre,
residents of Oklahoma territory hav'
been arrested daily on the charge o
perjury in land cases. On the It'll
fully 200 indictments were pending il
the United States court, and about lift.
persons had been sentenced to the pen
itentiary, all for the same crime.
THE japanese government has de
cided to raise an internal war loan o
100000, 600, which, together with tn
new taxation for war purposes, vii
bring the resources of the government
up to e26. OOO, 900. A minority in tn
cabinet favored foreign loan. OWN,
to the lateness of the last interna
loan.
Irwas reported in st. Petersburg, OF
the 9th, that if the car decided, as i
was fully expected he would, upon
form of regency during his absence
from Russia, the czarowitz will not b
appointed regent. but will be intrust
ed, by a special declaration OF tn,
car, with the direction of state at
fairs
The largest score ever made by
United States cavalryman was record
ed, on the 18th, in the army shoot a
Fort Sheridan. Sergt. Charles Kars
ten, 3D. troop, First cavalry, made thu
remarkable score of ~ points out of {
r,oSS;ble s0 On the 5OO-yardS range