Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-08

the Parthenon at Athens was seriously
damaged by the earthquakes that oc-
CURED last spring. The structure is
reported to be in a dangerous condi-
ton. Measures to restore it will be
taken immediately.
A NOTICE was posted in the Lehigh
Valley shops, at West Chester, Pa, on
the 3lst, informing the men that, COM
meneing November 1, reduction of 90
per cent. in their wages would be made.
This is the third cut within year.
IT is said that the force now at
work on the Gulebra branch of the
Panama canal will soon be increased to
1000 men.
WILLIAM JONES and George Buck
land, miners, were drowned, on the
3lst, by rush of water from an old
working, while they were cleaning up
an old gangway, in the mines of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Co.,
near Manticoke. Pa.
THE Sioux Indian murderer Two
Sticks received his sentence at Dead
wood, S. D., on the 31st, and will be
hanged in that city on December %.
This will be the first time an Indian
has been legally executed in the state.
CHARLES WILKINSON, for five years
assistant cashier of the First national
bank at Huntington, w. Va, who was
to have been married to the daughter
of the cashier during the holidays, is
said to be defaulter to the amount of
$4,000.
COUNT ENDo SToLBERG has been ap-
pointed Prussian minister of agricul-
ture, domain and forests, to succeed
Herr Won Heiden-Cadow, whose resig-
nation was announced on the 31st.
LEONARD F. LECHAvALIER, one of
the pioneer residents of Ocean Grove,
n. j., and the owner of LeChavalier
hotel at that place, died on the LIST,
aged rs years.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND japanese SOL
diers were reported, on the 1st, to be
in China.
THE Japanese have placed three
bridges across the Yalu river.
TWENTY boys celebrating Halloween
halted in front of Mr.. Haywood S home
in independence, Mo-, at midnight of
the 3lst. Haywood raised a win
dow and fired both barrels of a shot
gun into the crowd, and five boys were
dangerously wounded.
CALLUs MUELLER, for twenty-five
years chief clerk of the Northern Hi
nois prison, and who introduced into
the prison the Bertillon system of
measurement of prisoners. shot him
self through the heart on the 1st.
THE funeral of the late Premier
MERCER took place at Montreal Can.
on the I'd. The attendance was enor-
nous, representatives being present
from all parts of the dominion.
On the I'd. President Cleveland re-
ceived a personal message from the
new emperor of Russia announcing the
death of his father and his succession
to the throne.
THE post office at PERTH Am boy. \.
J.. was robbed of S1.700 in stamps and
800 in money on the night of the 1st.
Tie safe was blown open and COM
pletely wrecked.
The weekly statement of the Bank
of France, issued on the 2d, shows an
increase of 100000 francs gold and a
decrease of 2.24O.O 900 francs silver.
THE japanese were reported, on the
Port Arthur. The general attack was
eXpecteu dlulOSC lIIlUleuldCelN.
TWELVE Russian war ships were at
Che-Foo on the ed. The English feet.
including more than twenty war ships,
was mobilizing at Shanghai.
THE French cabinet met, OF the Cd,
and framed message of sympathy to
be forwarded to Emperor Nicholas II.
of Russia.
SIX men were frightfully injured by
the fall of a scaffold in the Erie rail
road train-shed at Jersey City, n. j.,
on the I'd. They were painting the
iron trusses and fell distance of fifty
feet. One of the injured men died soon
after being taken to the hospital.
JOE AND PATSY BECK, two of the
Cook gang of outlaws terrorizing the
Indian territory, went into Okla
toma, on the I'd. to steal fresh mounts
and were captured by posse of citi-
zens of Cushing. Both were in the Red
Rock train robbery and Chandler bank
raid, and have been notorious despera-
does for years.