Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-15

THE British steamer Primrose struck
on a rock in the fog off the coast of
Cornwall, on the 9th, and was wrecked.
Her crew was saved in small boats
THERE has been q Troublesome of
cholera at Warsaw, Russia, and many
deaths have occurred.
WILLIAM ZIMMERMAN, aged "A, and
his son George, aged Is, were horribly
burned by an explosion of gas in the
Nottingham mine of the Dodson Coal
Co. at Plymouth, Pa, on the 9th.
THE German steamer Adolph Woer-
mann, of 1901 tons burden. which sailed
from Hamburg on January II for
African ports, has been wrecked at
Nifu. Liberia. Everybody on board
landed safely, but her cargo is lost
CHAIRMAN CUMMINGS OF the house
committee on naval affairs has report
ed for the committee adversely the
resolution introduced by Representa-
tive Holman, of Indiana, asking that
an investigation be made of the grant
ing of premiums to the constructors of
naval vessels for the increased speed.
The secretary of the treasury has
sent to congress estimates of appropri-
ations required by the departments to
complete the service of the fiscal year
amounting to 50, SCI, $50. There is a de-
ficiency appropriation of s1.057,9 52 re-
quired for the postal service, which is
payable from postal revenues
THE failures for the week ended the
9th were $50 in the United States,
against 222 last year, and go in Canada,
against II last year. several being of
more than ordinary Importance. Out
of 2,1SS commercial failures reported
by telegraph in January, against 1,409
for the same period last year, liabili-
ties have reported for 2,006, amounting
to $40, 81 ;, O2S, of which s11, $50, Ills were
of manufacturing and S17,2;54,5S7 OF
trading concerns.
THE Phillips Glass Co. at Pittsburgh,
Pa, with factory estimated as worth
saoo,Ooo and employing about SOC
hands, has made a proposition to run
it's establishment in cooperation with
its skilled employees until September 1,
1894
AT the Lynn schoolhouse. a large
brick building near Wabash, Ind, dur
ing the wind storm on the 9th. all of
the gable end above the front door was
blown in, scattering the bricks promis-
cuously over teacher and pupils.
Strange to say not a single one was
hurt in any way, although they were
panic-stric1en from fright. The storm
was accompanied by a heavy rainfall.
THE democratic congressional cam
paign committee held a meeting in
Washington on the 9th. Senator
Faulkner, of Virginia. was elected
president; Hon. Lawrence Gardiner, of
Washington, secretary, and John L.
Norris, of Washington, treasurer.
THE National Farmers Alliance adj
journed it's session in Topeka, Kas., on
the 9th. The officers elected are as
follows: President, Marion Butler, of
North Carolina; vice president, j. l..
Gilbert, of CALIFORNIA;; secretary and
treasurer. ID. L. Duncan, of South Caro-
lima. Executive committee. E.
Dean, OF New York; Mann Page, OF
Virginia.: IL. c. Demming, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Ii. L. Louclss, of South Da
kota.
PHYSICIANS report great many eases
of mumps, especially among students.
both at the state no, NAL and the public
school, in Emporia, Kas. Out of a class
of twenty-four at the state normal, on
the 9th, only tN Give were present, the
others being confined to their homes
with the prevalent epidemic. Among
those on the sick list were the orator
and the alternate who are to represent
the school ut the state oratorical con-
test at Topeka.
j. j. MCBRIDE, an electrician who at
tempted about year ago to throw his
wife out of a fifth-story window in the
Boston hotel. Chicago, after he had
been through her efforts pardoned out
of the penitentiary, where he was
serving term for forgery, committed
suicide in Denver, Col, on the 9th. He
left a letter to his former wife, now
Mrs. E. V. Meyers, telling her he could
not live without her.
A REQUIsITIoN was issued, on the 9th,
by Gov. Matthews of Indiana ON the
governor of Kansas for II. A. Sackett,
who is wanted at Elkhart, Ind, on ac-
count of the part he took in an elope-
ment with Frances Davenport.