Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Santa Fe road, near CORN. Mo-, at 3
o'clock on the morning of the 18th.
Their movements had been known to
the officers of the road, and they were
met and repulse2 by an armed guard,
two of their number being subsequent
ly captured Is miles from the scene of
the hold-up. One of the captives was
severely wounded.
TWENTY persons were killed and a
large number seriously injured at
Minsk, Russia, on the 18th, by the col
lapse of a large naptha warehouse.
FOURTEEN FIVE HUNDRED
Chinese prisoners were marched
through Ping Yang, on the 18th, and
hundreds of other prisoners We're com
ing in every hour. None of these men
were wounded. Transports had been
ordered to Ping Yang inlet to convey
the prisoners to Japan.
THE Chinese who We're taken prison
ers at Ping Yang are being fairly well
treated. They will be sent to Japan
in patches of 1000 each.
LEVI p. MORTON, ex-vice-president,
was nominated on the first ballot for
governor of New York by the repub-
lican state convention at Syracuse on
the 18th.
THE fifth annual convention of the
National Letter Carriers associa ton
met in Cleveland, o., on the 18th. The
appearance of Mrs. S. S. Cox, widow of
the late Congressman Sunset Cox,
was greeted with applause. and she
was escorted to the stage amid deafen-
ing cheers.
The Nivison & Wikoff bottle factory.
at Elwood, Ind. resumed operations,
on the 18th, with 200 hands at re-
duction of II per cent. in wages. The
plant will run at full capacity in all
departments.
Mr.. T.. a. TATLOCK, of Salt Lake
City. republican member of the Utah
commission, was at the interior de-
partment, on the 18th. in connection
with the forthcoming annual report of
the commission.
Gov. FLOWER. of New York author
lied the announcement, on the 18th,
that he is not a candidate for renomi-
nation, and will not allow his name to
be presented to the coming democratic
convention.
CHARLES p. PHILLIPS. a Wall-street
banker, was arrested, on the 18th, on
warrant from Philadelphia charging
him with having embezzled and appro-
priat to his own use a large sum of
money in Philadelphia seven years ago,
when Phillips was president of the Co
lumbia savings bank there.
THE third member of a dangerous
gang of counterfeiters who have been
flooding southern Oregon and northern
California with spurious coin, was ar
rested, on the 10th, at Scott Valley,
Cal, by Detective Harris. There were
fifteen members of the gang, and they
dealt in quarters, halves and dollars.
THE cavalry troop at Fort Bowie,
Ariz., which has been ordered to Fort
Logan, near Denver, will march the en-
tire distance, 72O miles. About forty
days will be allowed for the march,
which will be the longest made by
cavalrymen since the opening of rail-
roads.
On the 10Th Supervising Architect
O'Rourl<e of the treasury department
rendered his resignation to Secretary
Carlisle, as requested by the latter. 1t
was promptly accepted.
THE Ohio democratic state conven
ton adopted platform declaring pro-
lection fraud, favoring the coinage
of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, denounc
ing Gov. McKinley's administration
and ''McKinleyism," declared in favor
of the election of United States sena-
tors by the people, favoring liberal pen
sions and denouncing the A. p. A. No
candidate for senator was nominated.
LOUISIANA sugar planters have ap-
piled for a mandamus to compel Secre
tary of the Treasury Carlisle to con-
tinue inspection as under the bounty
law.
PERRY Cook, the notorious crook,
who was captured near Lincoln, Okla.
on the 18th, with several stolen horses
in his possession, was lynched, on the
10Th, by committee of farmers.
THE eighth annual convention of the
United Typothete met in Philadelphia
on the 18th. One hundred delegates
were in attendance.
BLAKELY DURANT. Familiarity known
as ''Old Shady" died at Grand Forks,
n D., on the 10Th. He was the body
servant of Gen. Sherman during the
rebellion and was feelingly mentioned
in the latters memoirs. He was the
''Old Shady" of the familiar war
melody.
Maj. PHIPPs. in charge of expert
ments with dynamite guns, has re-
ported to the government that the
dynamite gun is success.
LAFE PRINCE, a farmer, living two
miles from Nottingham Center, O., al
most chopped his wife to pieces on the
10th, and then cut his own throat with
Tho 1inI IN
minutes. and the man cannot live.
MATTHIAS BRowNER, JR, and Hippen
Drake, wood-sawyers of Valparaiso.
Ind, have received 100000 each as a
settlement for claims against a S14,-
600, 900 estate.
MANY casualties are reported in a
| fight between 100 police and 5000
miners near Matherwell, Scotland, on
| the 10th.
A LARGE number of women clerks
| have been dismissed from the treasury
| department lately. 1t is said to mark
new policy in treasury appointments
| in the future.
EDWARD T. BARTLETT, justice of the
New York court of appeals, who de-
feated Isaac III. Maynard last fall, was
married, on the 10Th, at the home of
the brides mother in New York city,
daughter of the late Banker William
| II. Platt.
| DIR. NETTLEsHIP, the oculist, has re-
| Gently made another examination, at
Hawarden, of Mr.. Gladstone's eyes,
anG expressed himself as well satisfied
with the condition of the ex-prime