Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-20
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


RUssIA's movements in the far east
are daily growing in interest. A pow
erful squadron is at anchor in the
neighborhood of the disputed ports-a
navy great enough to master the situa-
ton in single battle. 1t has been an
nounced unoffic;ally that the purpose
OF having such a force at hand is to see
that Russia's interests are fully pro-
tected, but it is nonsense to suppose
that the government of the car be-
lieves that all of the Pacific feet is nee
essary to that end.
THE report of the Spanish provin-
| cial elections which took place on the
10th is, SO far as ascertained up to the
18th, as follows: The supporters of
| the government elected 3l1; conserva-
| tives, 120; republicans, 80; Carlists, -;
| independents, IL; doubtful, &c.
The Keystone Glass Co. s plant at
Meadville, Pa, was entirely destroyed
| by fire shortly after midnight on the
18th. 1t had not been operated for
over five years, and it is supposed the
fire was caused by tramps. The loss
will be heavy.
THE German garrison at Kilwa, Fan
natives on the eth. After two hours
| fighting the natives were repulsed with
a loss of 100 killed and wounded. The
Germans lost only two men.
| OK the 18th the directors of the New
| York, New Haven & Boston railroad
declared quarterly dividend of 2 per
cent, which is at the same rate as the
June quarterly, when a reduction from
| 10 per cent. was made.
| GEORGE WATSON MILLS, first earl OF
Sondes, died at Faversham, Kent, En-
gland, on the 10th. He was 20 years of
age.
| KILLING frosts visited northwestern
Nebraska and western Iowa on the
night of the 10th.
| CAPT. ADOLPH FREITsCH, the Finnish
sailor who left New York August in
the schooner-rigged sl>iff Nina without
any companion. arrived at Queenstown.
on the 18th. at 1890 p. IN. His boat
had lost her rudder and was leaking.
| Two MEMBERS of the family of E. o.
Myers, of Anderson, Ind, were fatally
hurt. on the 18th, by an explosion of
natural gas which completely wrecked
| two blocks of buildings, causing a loss
of $4,000.
A BABE in the arms of its mother
| was killed and the latter severely in
| jured by the falling of a center pole of
John Robinson's circus at GAINESVILLE
o., on the 18th.
POSTMASTER HARRY MARIETTA and
others, of Connellsville. Pa, were con-
victed. on the 18th, of unlawful assem-
blage in connection with the col1e-re-
giOn riots.
A PERRY (Okla.) paper publishes an
interview between a reputable Perry
man and the noted outlaw. Bill Doolan,
who is now leader of the Dalton gang,
| in which Doolan says that Bill Dalton.
who was reported killed at Guthrie,
Okla, some time ago, is not dead, but is
living a quiet life in a distant state.
Mrs. CATHARINE ROBBINS HOWE. the
confidence woman who was arrested for
fleeing Yale college graduates, was,
on the 18th, sentenced to two years in
| jail by Judge Hammerley, of Hartford,
Conn.
ALFRED APPEL, a sergeant in PETER
Post, 131, of Meadville, Pa. dropped
dead in Pittsburgh on the 18th. Appel
| was about 55 years old, and was seem
ingly in the best of health when he re-
| tired the night before.
On the 18th a robber entered the Citi-
zen's bank at Rossville, ILL.,, while the
officials were at dinner and robbed the
cash drawer of $4,000. A reward of
the man.
THERE arrived in Philadelphia, on the
night of the 18th, on the steamer For
buna, Capt. Christophersen, from Java,
Arthur Vincent, New York boy, who
has circled the globe without a cent of
money. He left New York two years
ago at the age of IA, and bears with
him testimonials which prove that he
if a traveller.
News reached New York, on the 18th,
that $4,000 cartridges, which had been
shipped from New York, had been
seized by the officials of the port of
Havana, Cuba. The seizure caused
great excitement among the natives,
and rumors were circulated that an
other revolution was about to be be-
gun. The cartridges were billed as tai
low in casks.
SECRETARY CARLISLE, although he
had not yet written a formal letter to
that effect, authorized, on the 18th, the
| official announcement that he would
not pay any sugar bounty earned but
unpaid when the new tariff bill went
| into effect, August 30.
| ZELLA NICoLAUs and her companion.
AL Ruhman. are having a hard time
| getting hotel accommodations in Chi
cago. They were elected from a prom
inent Michigan avenue hosiery, on the
18th, as soon as their identity was es-
tablished.
| LOUISVILLE, KY. was chosen as the
place for the holding of the national
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic in 1895. Henry Watterson
presented the invitation in his happiest
| vein.
| On the 12th all that was mortal of the
late compte de Paris was deposited,
after impressive funeral ceremonies, in
a vault in the old church at Weybridge,
England, where repose the remains OF
deceased prince.
PRESIDENT HIPPOLYTE of Hayti is
said to be suffering from dangerous
heart trouble and is extremely nervous,
and it is thought that any unexpected
shock will precipitate his death.
THE steamer Reindeer, returning
from Plattsburgh to Burlington, VT,
on the 18th, with 500 passengers, ran
over the rock reef near Colchester
light in Lake Champlain. nearly upset
ting the vessel. Apanic ensued among
the passengers who rushed upon the
deck, tramplinG women aud children
| beneath them and MANY attemDted tn