Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-22
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

American, alias "Hoie," and Cameron,
a Scotchman, alias Browne who
were arrested on board the French
steamship Sidney, from Marseilles for
Yokohama and Hong-Kong, charged
with conspiracy to destroy the Japan
csc fleet by the use of terpedoes, have
been released from custody by the Jap
panese, after taking oaths not to re-
sort to any action tending to assist
China during the war.
THIRTEEN cases OF smallpox were
discovered in New York city, on the
18th, in the vicinity of West Thirty
ninth street. The contagion arose
from case of smallpox recently found
at 439 West Thirtp-ninth street.
THE first of the two steamships built
ia this country for the International
Navigation Co. was launched from the
Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia, on
the 18th, in the presence of President
Cleveland, mem ers of the cabinet and
a large throng of people. Mrs. Cleve-
land stood sponsor for the vessel, and
christened it the st. Louis, after the
metropolis of Missouri.
CIRCULAR inviting bids for $50, oO0,-
900 ten-year per cent. government
bonds was issued by the treasury de-
partment On the 18th.
On the 12th dispatch from Shang-
hal to the Central News, London, said
it was reported there that Port Arthur
was taken by the japanese, ON the 18th,
without resistance. The japanese,
after bombarding the place for short
time, made land assault upon the
enemy's works, when the Chinese sur
rendered.
THE Japanese legation at Washing
ton had not, up to the 12th, received
official confirmation of the capture of
Port Arthur. The legation people say,
however, that if Port Arthur has in
truth fallen, it will be the most disas-
trous blow that China could have re-
ceived.
ELECTRICIANS doubt the success of
the attempts which will be made at
Auburn q. " prison to resuscitate
Murderer Wilson after his electrocu-
ton. Gov. Flower has declared his in
tention to permit the experiment,
which will be made by experts in the
execution room.
A SPECIAL to the Bee from Neigh,
Neb., says: Barrett Scott, the default
ing treasurer of Holt county, Neb.,
who stole 100000, was sentenced at
Neigh, ON the 18th, to the penitentiary
for five years.
THE academy building at Rush
vile, Ind, a handsome brick, together
with its contents was completely de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. The
building was occupied by the Rush
vile business college, whose loss on
fixtures is 800. Loss on the build
ing, $4,000; insurance small. Sup
posed to be the work of an incendiary.
WILLIAM S. STURGIs, aged 20 years,
the Chicago millionaire whose suit for
millions against Charles Z. Farwell, of
Chicago, has made such stir in legal
circles, and who was adjudged insane
by a commission of lunacy, on the 5th,
died at the Glenmary home in Oswego,
n. Y. of senile dementia on the 18th.
A COLD wave spread over Pensacola,
Fla, and vicinity, on the 18th, the
thermometer going to %. Ice was
plentiful. Many of the older inhabit-
ants do not remember frost SO early.
THE ear has appointed the prince
of Wales honorary colonel of the KieH
regiment of Dragons.
and republican postmaster at Jackson,
Miss, was sentenced in the federal
court, on the 18th, to three years in the
Kings county On. " penitentiary for
embeZZling, as postmaster, 81, 900.
On the 18th the London court of
chancery granted Sir Augustus Har-
ris, the theatrical manager, an interim
injunction preventing Col. Mapleson
from circulating prospectus connect
ing Harris with the IuI,erial opera
company, which is about to be fioated
as stock enterprise.
ONE HUNDRED persons were killed by
the late seismic disturbances within a
radius of 40 miles from the city of
La Paz, Bolivia.
THE train on the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad, which was held up by
the Cook gang on the night of the 18th,
was heavily guarded by United States
marshals, but Bill Cook and Cherokee
Bill, with their fifteen men, forced
them to surrender all their guns,
money and watches.
A BOMB found by London police
man in a niche between the pillars of
| the court of justice, on the 18th, was
found on examination to contain moth
| ing explosive.
The Italian deputy, Agnini, was, on
the 14th, sentenced to six months inn
prisonment at Modena for taking part
in the organization of societies, de-
signed to subvert the government.
| A BoARDINGHoUsE in Elberfeld, Rhen-
ish Prussia, was destroyed by fire, on
/ the night of the 18th, and seven of its
occupants were burned to death. Sew
eral others are missing.
| HENRY BINDER, a wealthy and we'll
known German resident of Ann Arbor,
Mich, was burned to death in his barn
on the night of the 18th.
THE Trowbridge Touring mill at
South Haven, Mich, was destroyed by
fire on the night of the 18th. Loss,
$40. 600; partly insured.
| GOVERNMENT soldiers captured by the
Brazilian insurgents are given the
choice of death or enlisting in the
rebel army. They enlist.
| The United States revenue cutter
Bear arrived at San Francisco from
Behring sea on the 18th.
THE resignation of DIR. Hermann
Won Schelling, Prussian minister OF
Justice, was accepted by Emperor Will
liam, on the 14th, and DIR. Shonstedt,
formerly president of the celle court
of appeals, was appointed to succeed
him.
The British ship Culmere, Capt.
Read, last reported at Hamburg, Octo-
Der 1, from Iquique, foundered, on the
14th, in a gale 80 miles off Spurn Head,