Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-15

AT an early hour on the morning of
the eth, the residence of Charles Gill
man, at Black Rock, Conn, was de-
stroyed by fire, and the occupants mar
rowly escaped with their lives; loss,
$50, OOO
The speed trial of the torpedo boat
Ericsson, built in Iowa, which was to
have occurred at New London, Conn.,,
on the sth, was postponed to the first
fair day on account of the prevalence
OF fierce snow storm.
THE First ational bank of San
Bernardino, CAL. closed its doors on
the sth.
FOUR HUNDRED men employed at the
Canton copper works in Baltimore,
Md, were formally notified, on the
9th, that on next payday their wages
will be increased 10 per cent. The pro-
prietors say the new schedule has been
struck owing to the prospective in
crease in the profits Of the concern. A
reduction was made in the wages of
the employees in Novembr, 1892, i'm
mediately after the general election.
GEORGE w. BoGGs, ex-city treasurer
of Tocoma, Wash, is under arrest,
charged with the ENLIGHTENMENT of $685.
500. 81 public funds. He was released,
on the 9th, on s25, 900 bail.
THE Spanish coast steamer Fer
nando, foundered twenty miles north
of Bahia Honda, Cuba, on the 9th. Ten
of her passengers and crew were
| drowned.
THE failures during the week ended
on the 9th, were 261 in the United
States. against 35s last year, and 81 in
Canada, against 81 last year.
GILLAUME LOUIS FIGUIR, the French
chemist and scientific writer, died in
Paris. on the 9th, aged IS years.
On the occasion of the funeral of the
car %, 900 of ST. Petersburg's poor will
be provided with dinners.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
from Yokohama says that the two
Americans who were arrested at Kobe
are torpedo experts who had con.
tracted with China to employ their
own inventions to destroy the Japa-
nese fleet. China promised them ST..
600, 900 for each warship they de-
stroyed and a proportionate sum for
each merchantmen they succeeded in
blowing up.
RUMORs are once more afioat concern
ing the reported engagement of Odette
Tyler, the actress, to Mr.. Howard
Gould. Gossip has it that the engage
ment, which was declared off some
months ago, owing, it was said, to Miss
Tyler's resenting an objection on the
part of young Mr.. Gould's family, is
now on again.
AFTER half century of commercial
prosperity the SchulenburgBoecl1e
Lumber Co. of st. Louis made an as
signment, on the 9th. for the benefit of
all it's creditors, making Eugene c. Tit
man the assignee. The failing firm
places it's assets at 5000, 900, but no in
formation is given nor can be obtained
concerning its liabilities.
FIFTY pounds of dynamite exploded
on the Hallwood & Keffer sewer con-
tract at Huntington, Ind, on the 9th
John Hartman and Norton keffer were
killed and John Flynn was fatally in
jured. Residences in close proximity
were badly wrecked.
In several of the government depart
ments question has arisen as to when
the recent order of the president ex-
tending the civil service rules went into
effect, and it has been definitely de-
clueu IiidG Tie udS IL "dS sig ueO IL was
operative as law.
ERNEST HUM, superintendent of the
Eagle Bird mine at Maybert, Cal, fell
600 feet down the shaft, on the evening
of the 9th, and was instantly killed.
The body was horribly mangled. HUM
was a mining expert well known
throughout the country.
A COMMITTEE of twelve negro minis
tiers, appointed by 1000 colored mem
bers of the International Emigration
society to go to Africa to arrange for
the colonization of the negroes of the
south in that country. left Birming-
ham, Ala, on the 9th, for Monrovia.
Liberia, via New York and Liverpool.
Brighten. ALEXANDER MCDOWELL
MCCooK has been appointed major-gen-
eral of the United States army. vice
Gen. 0. o. Howard, retired, and Col
James W. Forsyth of the Seventh cav
airy has been promoted to briga3ier-
general to succeed McCook.