Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
In recent engagements with the
Tauregs in the French possessions in
Senegambia the French troops met
with series of reverses. In one fight
three companies were completely cut
to pieces.
By the accidental upsetting of a can
die in a wooden dwelling in Santa Mo-
Mica, Cal. on the 10Th, the 5-year- old
| son of Mrs. 5. Grimms and the 3-year-
old daughter of Mrs. Dimonguez were
burned to death. The mothers of the
children were out walking at the time.
+. w. MAY, an American horse train
er, was arrested in Vienna, on the 29th.
at his wife's instigation, who charged
! that he fired three shots at her from a
revolver.
| MAJ.-GEN. RI. HON. SIR JOHN CLAY
TON COwELL. X. c. B., master of the
| queens household. died suddenly at
| Cowes. Isle of Wight. on the Goth.
| FOREST fires in the vicinity of New
WhatcOm, Wash. have destroyed sew
eral bridges and buildings. The
flames were thought, on the 18th, to be
under control.
FIRE, on the 10Th. wiped out the bus
mess portion of Elliston, Mont. rail-
road and logging camp on the Northern
| Pacific. But one store was left stand
t ing. The post office is in it. Total loss,
$4,000: insurance, not over 81. 600.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. the
| .AutOcrat of the Breakfast Table" en-
| tered upon his eighty-sixth year on the
10Th. To say that he is in the enjoy
ment of good health is no exaggeration.
1t is rare day that he does not walk a
mile or more, and still rarer one that
he does not drive from to 10 miles.
THIRTY-TwO deaths from cholera and
siXty-eight fresh cases were reported
| throughout Germany for the week end
| ed the 27th.
THE steamer Tom Spurlock, belong
ing to the Little Kanawha Lumber Co..
was burned to the waters edge at Van
celburg. KY, on the Goth, from an ex-
ploded lamp. Capt. johnson and the
crew narrowly escaped, SO rapid was
the progress of the flames. The steam
er is total loss, with light insurance.
MADISON CHEADLE, farmer in Nor
gan county. o., was taken from his
the 29th, beaten almost to insensibility
and then hanged to the limb of tree.
A tramp in neighboring barn cut him
down in time to save his life The Of
Tense charged against Cheadle was
theft.
FIRE originated in Brooks Bros lum-
Der yard. Union Park, st. Paul. Mimi,
on the goth. There were 10, 900, 900 feet
L.;
about $4,000 fully insured.
THE secretary of the treasury has de-
cided that under the terms of the new
tariff bill payments of sugar bounties
on claims already filed can not be legal
~ made.
FIRE destroyed the largest creamery
in Hamilton county, Ia, at Stratford.
on the 29th. 1t was supposed to have
been of incendiary origin. The loss
was total.
A MAMMOTH powder-house at Miller's
Station Ind, was wrecked by an eX-
plosion on the goth. Two men were in
stantly killed and three other employees
were seriously burned. The force of
the explosion demoralized a number of
buildings.
THE veteran railroad official, John
c. Gault, died in Chicago on the 29th.
He never recovered consciousness since
he was first stricken.
RECEIVER MCNEIL of the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Co. has mott
! fed engineers and fremen that the
proposed reduction in wages will go
into effect September l.
I THE challenge of Miss Tillie Ashley,
of Hartford, Conn. to row single
/ scull race against any female sculler
in America has been formally accepted
| by a. J. Bromley, manager of the
Central Rowing club of st. Louis. on
| the part of Miss Rose Mosenthein. the
belle of Little Oklahoma
NEARLY all the members of the cab;-
net are preparing to take advantage of
the adjournment of congress to secure
vacations. 1t is proba BILE that within
a very short time Washington will be
the government.
| JAMES FOSTER, colored. an employe
of the American wire nail works, at
Anderson. Ind. announces that he is
rightful owner of Prices Hill addition
| to the city of Cincinnati. He says his
| father was a free negro and owned it..
/ but was eucnreU out Oh II Dy lrduuulent
| deeds.
| AMBROSE LEKLrDER and Robert Tuchs
| left Huron. O.. on the Goth, for Havana,
O., with two casks of ammonia in a
wagon. Later the casks exploded with
| terrific force and both men were in
stantly killed.
| Able BRUNEAU was executed at La
vail. France on the morning of the
| both The Able was vicar OF In
! trammes and was convicted at the as
size court at Magenne on July 13 last
on the charge of murder, arson and
robbery. Thousands of peasants wit
messed the execution
| o. ]. SACKMAN's general store at
Burdick, Ind. was burned, on the Goth,
together with his residence and gra-
nary. He lost over 500 bushels of wheat
| in the warehouse. The residence and
barn of Mr.. Reynolds were also de-
stroyed. Total loss estimated at over
S14, 900; insurance small
The handful of recruits now at JEFF
ferson Barracks, st. Louis, will soon
be replaced by the Third cavalry, four
troops of which will be sent thither.
1t is also said that the Sixth cavalry,
two troops of which are now at Fort
Niobrara, Neb.. and four at Fort Sheri-
dan, will be ordered to Fort Ethan AL
len. near Burlington, VT