Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Chinese troops in Manchuria are
robbing the natives and committing
horrible atrocities wherever they pass.
The japanese, on the other hand, are
treating the Chinese well, and are, con.
sequently, received with open arms by
the natives. who are furnishing them
with supplies of various kinds.
Mr. GLADsToNE's ''Horace's Odes'
were published on the 9Th.
EDITH MASTERS, of Auburn, Ind,
and Clara Diebold, of Fort WAYNE,
were fatally burned, on the 9th, by
flames caused by an explosion in the
basement of the Westminster female
seminary at Fort Wayne, Ind. Lille
Ander, of Logan, Ind, was also severe
ly burned.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, dated
the 9Th, says: "All the foreigners re-
siding in Port Arthur have arrived at
Che-Foo. An attack is now being
made on Port Arthur by the japanese
torpedo boats, and it is expected that
Talien Wan will be attacked during
the day."
THE origin of the fire in the box fac
tory of the Hammond packing house at
cred. Emory Coulson, a night watch
man, was arrested, on the 5th, and
confessed that he set fire to the build
ing that he might see a fire, he never
before having seen large one.
THE trial at Charleston, w. Va, of
Benjamin Clendenin, charged with kill
ing DIR. j. g. Davis, near Montgomery,
w. Va, August 8. ended, on the 9th, in
his conviction of murder in the first de-
gree.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has instructed
the collector of customs at Port Town
send, Wash, that certificates of regis
tration issued to Chinese should be
taken up by the collector when such
Chinese leave this country. This is
necessary to prevent the certificates
from being turned over to Chinese I'M
lawfully entering the United States.
A DISPATCH from Tamatave, NADIA
gascar, dated November 3, says that
the Hova government has refused to
grant the demands of the government
of France. NJ. Lempre de Villers, the
special French envoy to Madagascar,
and all the French residents of An
tenanarivo, have arrived at Tamatave
HERMAN SCHUHBACKER, of Hobart,
Ind, while hunting, on the 9th, shot
himself. His dogs We're fighting, and
he struck at them with his loaded gun
Both barrels were discharged into his
abdomen and he died in few minutes
Mrs. JULIE WRIGHT, of Annapolis,
Md, aged rs, was burned to death in
the flames which destroyed her home
early on the morning of the 9th.
THE Rex flour mill, at Kansas City,
Mo-. was completely destroyed by fire
on the night of the 9th. Loss, $3.50, 900:
about two-thirds covered by insurance.
The mill was owned by J. 3. NJ. Koch
Ter. of ST. Louis.
THE tug Crusader was destroyed by
fire at her dock at Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich, early on the morning of the
9Th. Firemen Henry Billings, of that
city, and Charles Williams, of Port
Huron. who were sleeping on the tug,
were burned to death.
NEAR Curtiss, in the Cherokee strip,
the bodies of James McGuin and Fred
Ward were found, on the 9th, one shot,
the other stabbed to death. It is be-
lieved they were murdered by parties
who wanted to secure their claims. o.
P. Jewell, farmer, has been arrested
charged with the murder, and warrants
issued for several other men.
For years the granting of special
passports to persons going abroad has
been abused to such an extent, and so
many people have procured them, that
the state department has issued per-
emptory orders to refuse them here
after, except upon the special order of
the secretary.
ANOTHER smallpox case was reported
on the 9th. The victim is schoolboy,
Herbert Burger, son of a war depart
ment clerk. Two of the patients at
the smallpox hospital died on the 9Th.
They were James Brown and Samuel
Mundel, both colOred domestics.
NEWS comes of the 1ynching, near
Blackford, Crittenden county, KY, by
whitecaps, of Gabe Nolla and his son
Ulysses. They were charged with burn
ing houses, together with Berry Rich,
who was lynched recently, and also for
other crimes
JOHN F. O'MALLEY, an Illinois state
senator from Chicago, who was de-
feated for reelection, was drinking
with two companions in North Clark
street saloon, on the 9TH, when the bar
tender entered their private room to
collect for drinks. O'Malley took this
for an insult and fired bullet through
the bartender's arm. Charles Shepard,
the driver of the cab in which the SEN
ator was taken home, was shot through
the knee and hand by O'Malley be-
cause payment of fare was asked.
A PEDDLER of American Protective
association tickets at Vallejo, Cal,
was pursued by crowd of hoodlums,
on the night of the 9Th, and severely
beaten.
KATIE GILLESPIE, an 1s-year-old sales
woman in the employ of Hilton,
Hughes &, Co., of New York, while
stepping from the elevator in the es-
Enlistment, on the 18th, was caught
between the elevator and partition
and instantly killed. The accident
was caused by the poor girl, who was
in a playful mood, skylarking with the
elevator boy.
A DISASTROUS collision between a
passenger and freight train, result
ing in the loss of six lives, occurred,
on the eth, at Rosen Steel siding, los
miles east of Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
THE 7-year-old daughter of Column
bus Livingston, living at Logansport,
ILL.,, was accidentally burned to death,
on the eth, while visiting relatives near
Dahlgren.
On the sth the car and czarlna,
| through the court minister, Count
vorontsoff- Dachkoi, thanked the jew