Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-23

FIRE broke out in the general ware
houses at Fiume, Austria, on the 18th,
causing loss of 81 100000.
THE tariff bill was delivered to Pri-
vate Secretary Thurber at the execu-
tive mansion at. ITO p. m. of the 18th
by Representative Pearson, chairman
of the house committee on enrolled
bills.
IT has developed that the Ninth dis
trict delegates at the democratic state
convention at Indianapolis, Ind, on
the 18th, had prepared long and
highly eulogistic resolution indoors
ing Gov. Matthews for the presidency
in 1896, but the governor demanded
that it be suppressed as embarrassing.
JOHN EIsMINGER. the convicted muir
derer of Samuel Mccoy, who had been
confined in the county Jail at Waynes-
burg. Pa, since his sentence to death,
escaped, on the night of the 18th, leav-
ing no trace of his going.
SCHOOL INSPECTORS WALSH, Lichten-
berg, Davis and Liphart, of Detroit.
Mich, under arrest charged with re-
ceiving brides. were released on $1,000
bail each on the 10th.
THE strike at the Chicago stock yards
was, on the 10th, declared off. The
men agreed to return to work at the
former wages. Out of 1000 men who
applied for work only fifty were EN-
ployed.
Mr.. CLIFFORD SMITH, consul of the
United States at Cartagena, Colon
bia, has informed the department. of
state of the completion and formal
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Magdalena railroad.
A PARTY of mOonshiners in Russell
county, Va, attempted to lynch Deputy
Marshal c. Z. Clapp, but he escaped.
and, returning with a force of officers.
succeeded in arresting and failing some
of his prosecutors.
TIE failures for the week ended OF
the 18th were 226 in the United States.
against 40 last year, and A. in Canada.
against - last year.
BANK EXAMINER MILLER, of Mercer.
Pa, shot himself through the temple
at Altoona, on the 18th, and instantly
expired.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND arrived al
Gray Gables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass, or
the 18th, in the lighthouse tender
John Rogers.
PRINCE EMANUEL OF ORLEANS was ar
rested at Bordeaux, on the nth, while
on his way to visit Emperor Franz josef
of Austria.
BY an order issued by the secretary
of war, on the 18th. the three great
army recruiting depots at David's
island. New York harbor. Column bus.
o., jefferson Barracks, Mo-, are wiped
out, and in their places will stand
three large, regularly-garriso mill
tary posts.
THE Japanese Patriotic society is the
name of a new organize ton which has
already branches established in the
principal cities of the Pacific coast.
The object of the society is to collect
funds from willing Japanese contribu
tors to be used in the war now in prog
ress between China and Japan.
THE report that the king of Siam Is
dead is denied by Siamese officials in
London. The legation received word
from Bangkok on the 18th that the
king was recovering from a recent i'll
ness. His death had been announced
in the Japanese newspapers, but the
announcement was withdrawn.
INEfD. lIlt I!istI
for numbering Daniel Henderson, the
farm hand whose body was found in a
cornfield near Terre Haute, Ind. con-
fessed, on the 18th, and according to
his own story, the murder was as cruel
and unprovOked as ever occurred in In
diana. 1t was committed for S6.25.
THE senate committee on the judiciary
has made an adverse report to the SEN
ate on the nomination of Hon. James
ID. Porter to be United States judge of
the eastern and middle districts Of Ten
nessce. 1t is understood that the oppo-
sition is based on the ground that Mr..
Porter lives outside the district.
THE Cunard line steamer Campania.
which arrived on the evening of the
nth, left Daunt's Rock at 12:45 p. N. On
August II and arrived at the Sandy
Hook lightship at 5:45 p. IN. of the 18th.
Her time of passage was days, 9hOTrs
and 30 minutes, which beats all previ-
Gus records by about hours and 10
minutes.