Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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poral power of the pope.
A FIRE broke out in the Jerome hotel
atCape Vincent,N. Y. lat o'clock on the
morning of the 25th, and burned most
OF the business part of the village.
The Jerome hotel, the Hotel Angon-
quin, eight stores, the telegraph office
and the post Office were consumed.
A TERRIBLE waterspout visited the
village of Suchil. in the mountains of
Durango, in Mexico, ON the oath. The
deluge carried away a woodchoppers'
camp of ten families, and all are be-
lieved to have been drowned. A num-
Der of other cases of drowning are re-
ported.
THE president, on the 25th, appointed
Gen. William Ward Duffield. of Detroit,
Mich. superintendent of the coast and
geodetic survey, to succeed Prof. T. c.
Mendenhall, resigned. The position is
worth $4,000 per annum.
On the 25th the new battleship Maine
started from Brooklyn on her contrac
tors trial trip. She was provisioned for
two weeks trip, in case it was neces-
sary to extend the trial for so long a
period.
SEVERAL men and some valua BILE
stock in Pickaway county, o., have
been bitten by mad dogs. All show
dangerous symptoms.
A MURDER shrouded in mystery was
committed in the very heart of Cleve-
land, o.. some time during the night of
the 24th. James b. Caven, general
freight agent of the Valley railroad Oh.
e. n Il, Ill Nv
known assassin. Five bullets pierced
his body. and when found shortly after
he was dead.
THE charge of forgery against Caro-
line Ellsworth, daughter of the Mil
waukee millionaire. Isaac Ellsworth,
was nolle pressed in Chicago on the
25th. Miss Ellsworth was charged by
several Chicago merchants with OBJ
tanning goods by forged checks. The
case is said to have been settled out
side of court by the girls father
THE Brazilian government has given
notice that the reciprocity treaty be-
tween the United States and Brazil
will be abrogated by Brazil on Janu-
airy 1 next. 1t is expected that the ex-
ample of Brazil in withdrawing from
the reciprocity treaty with the United
States will be followed by all the other
countries having similar treaties.
SAMUEL +. MORSE, United States con-
sul-general at Paris, has sent to the
state department an abstract of the
official report on the wheat crop in
France for 1894. 1t is estimated by the
French statisticians, says Mr.. Morse.
that the crops of 1894 throughout the
world will be 81 per cent. in excess of
the worlds demands for consumption
and seed.
IT is reported from Tahiti that Count
Festich de TOlna, who, with his bride,
sailed from San Francisco in October,
last year, in a trading vessel bound for
the South seas. is dead. The countess
is the daughter of j. j. Haggin, of San
Francisco.
THE American Sugar Refining Co.
Sugar trust issued orders, on the 25th,
for the closing down of one-half of the
refneries under its control. 1t is said
the trust purposes to curtail produc-
ton and put up prices.
Mrs. REBEcCA A. CARNEY. widow of
Thomas Carney, second governor of
Kansas, died at her home in Leaven-
worth, on the 25th, of cancer. She was
&c years old and removed to Leaven-
worth from Ohio in 1860.
JUDGE GREEN, of Pekin. Ill, on the
Goth. overruled the motion for a change
of venue in the case Of the Little mine
rioters, and gave notice to the defense
to prepare for trial. These are the
cases in which John Geher. an OK
member of the Illinois legislature, led
a mob which committed the murder
and destroyed the coal mine near
Peoria.
THE steamer Ohio, down bound. col
lided with the schooner Ironton, up
bound, in tow of the steamer kershaw,
10 miles north of P-esque Isle, Lake
Huron, at 1890 a. M. on the Goth, and
both boats sank an half an hour. Seven
members of the crew of the Ironton
We're missing!
THE stable of Daniel Moody, in Phil
adelphia, was burned, on the Goth,
and twenty horses perished in the
flames. Five dwellings in the rear of
the stable were badly damaged, the
occupants escaping in their night
clothes.
THE store-room attached to Justice
Underwood's courtroom. at 12s Clark
street, Chicago. was broken into,
shortly before midnight of the 25th,
and load of condemned gambling
tools, obtained in raid on No IA
Quincy street a week before, was re-
moved.
HUGH ROANE, son of the late John
Seldom Roane, ex-governor of Arkan-
sas. a brakeman on the Cotton Belt
railroad, was run over by switch en-
CINE at Buckner, Ark. on the night of
the 25th, and fearfully mangled.
d. c. CALDWELL, n prominent lu IA Der
dealer of Frankfort, Ind, was arrest
ed, on the Goth, by Maj. Carter, of the
United States secret service, to answer
the charge of counterfeiting. The ar.
at Frankfort, where his standing has
been first class.
| WITHIN two months, when more
horses shall have been inoculated, the
Pasteur institute at Paris will send out
an anti-diphtheria serum to the prov
inces. This serum will also be sup
piled to druggists in the form of pow
der.
| FRED LAMoNrE, the well-known Cir
Gus clown travelling with Robinson's
show. is lying at the point of death in
the house of John Robinson, at Ter
race Park. near Cincinnati, from in
jnries received at the hands of a robbeI
on the night of the a5th.
Mrs. MINNIE UTZ, on the Goth, al
Fargo. n. D., secured n legal separa-