Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-16

Grand Rapids, o., was instantly killed.
| on the eth, by bumble-bee singing
| him on the neck.
! THE Sioux City Qa.) Telephone Co.
| has applied for franchise. 1t is MAX
| ing a duplicate of the Bell instrument,
| which it sells outright. The company
| will not operate a central exchange
| for some time, but will put up wires
which will be leased to patrons.
| DAVE VAN LEW and c. c. Ames,
painters, fell 10 feet with a scaffolding,
on the sth, while painting sign on
the Duncombe house at Fort Dodge,
Ia. Van Lew was fatally injured, but
Ames may live.
THE pope received 40 pilgrims from
the United States on the eth. There
were no speeches. The Americans at
tended mass celebrated by his holt
ness.
IN speaking of the probabilities OF
the pending war between Japan and
China an official of the Japanese 1ega-
ton recalled the fact that the season
of the monsoon and the typhoon is rap
idly approaching. The presence of the
former is not regarded as a menace to
sea maneuvering, but fear is felt for
the latter.
LAST March A. H. Batliff killed An
drew Thompson at Sewell. w. Va. and
escaped. The authorities offered a re-
ward of 500 for his arrest and the citi-
zens added $50. On the sth the police
at Charleston. w. Va, received a tele
gram from the marshal of Pittsburg.
Kas., saving that Batliff was in jail
there.
hot III l. L.
father-in-law, Jas. Livingston. at the
latter's home in Lebanon, Ind. on the
night of the Sth. Wesner is a son of
by j. C. Brown in the courtroom at
Danville a year ago last May.
THREE HUNDRED miners at Mystic
Ia, went out on strike, on the Sth
because the company insisted on hold
ing back two or three days wages
when paying their men every two
weeks.
REPRESENTATIVE BRYAN. of Nebras-
ka, has petition bearing 10000 sigma
lures for an inve stigat ion of the course
taken by Atty.-Gen. Olney during the
recent strike looking to his impeach-
ment.
The police have discovered in Rome
a revolutionary band who correspond
regularly with foreign anarchists. So
ciety women have acted as go-betweens
for the correspondents in order that
the suspicious of the police might not
be aroused.
On the night of the 9th the east
bound Oklahoma and Texas express on
the Rock Island road plunged through
an overhead bridge, 80 feet high, j
miles south of Lincoln. Neb.. into a
creek. killing eight persons and wound
ing many others. Five of the victims
We're burned to death in the wreck
On July Il thirtyseven British ma
rines crossed the line of defense
adopted by the japanese commander
near Seoul. Corea. They were remon-
strated with. and there was a slight
collision. The marines forced their
way through, however. in order to &C
on duty to protect the British legation
IN Seoul. They were not subsequently
mOlested.
THE steamship City OF PeLing ar
rived at San Francisco. on the 10th.
from Hong Kong. via Yokohama. Wan
had not been declared when she
sailed.
On the 10th the employees at the South
Omaha (Neb.) packing houses resumed
work under protection of the militia.
at whose approach the strikers dis
persed.
WIN. +. LEE. cashier of the Canadian
Express Co, left Toronto, Ont, on the
10th, owing to the discovery of a short
age in his accounts of 1900.
THE American church at Shea-Lu-
Lung. China. was totally destroyed
during recent anti-missiOnary riots.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN arrived in Chi.
cago. on the 10 tn. from New York.
GEN" JENNINGS and his army O.
fifty. just returned from Washington.
took breakfast at an indianapolis lind,
restaurant. on the 10th. by invitation
of the populist state central commit
tee. As soon as the meal was over
they were driven out of the restaurant
and marched out of the city by big
squad of police.