Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
A FIRE, which did damage amount
ing to between $3.50. 600 and $500. 900,
started in the big five-story building
occupied by Brown & Bailey as paper
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in Philadelphia, on
the 18th, and before the flames were
gotten under control the big gas fix
ture establishment of Buck & Co, ad-
joining. and a dozen dwellings in the
vicinity were laid in ashes
SECURITIES and other property valued
at about 81, 600, 600 have been turned
over by the trustees of the Tilden
estate to Edward King, president of the
Union Trust Co., and treasurer of tn e
New York public library, under which
name the then big library funds OF
the city. the Aston. the Lenox and the
Tilden estates, were consolidated last
spring.
A STATEMENT prepared by the bureau
of statistics, treasury department,
gives the amounts of the principal ar
ticles of export during July as follows:
Mineral oils, "a, 992. 9O3, July last year.
81, 9s5, 1872; cotton, S1,91s. 179, July last
year. So, 121. $50: breadstuffs, $500. 913.
July last year, Ss,1ss, 59s; provisions.
los, 6ss, as against S14, 1851 last
year during July.
THE total value of the clay products
of the United States for 1894. excluding
pottery. was over SOS, 900. 600. The only
comparison that can be made is with
the census of 1890. which placed the
value at 100000 Fifty-three per
cent. of this value was in bricks, which
numbered 6, 900, 900. There were
enough of them to make a walk over
eleven feet wide all around the globe.
MINISTER RANSOM has asked the state
department for an extension of his
leave of absence. Under the regula-
tions of the state department he will
not be able to have his present leave
extended more than thirty days, or a
total of ninety days. His physical APP
pearance does not seem to indicate that
he will be able within the time of his
leave to go to Mexico.
ALBERT FISHER and Oscar Dawson.
two young men who had been robbing
post offices in West Virginia for months,
were captured, on the 18th. by United
States officers Their depredations
amount to thousands of dollars
Mr.. ROBERT E. PEARSON, director of
the mint, will leave Washington, on
the 21st. for Denver, Col. where he
will remain for week or more in
specting the several sites suggested
for a new mint at that point
AT Wellington, Kas., on the 18th, the
was Mortified by the chance
at her home, az miles north
of the town. of the decayed corpse of
Mrs. Benjamin Haynesworth. She was
over so years old, and lived alone. She
had been dead over a week.
Mr. RUDYARD KIPLING, the we'll
known author, and Mime. Modjeska,
the actress, sailed. on the 18th. on the
North German Lloyd steamer Havre,
from Southampton for New York.
Mrs. EMILINE ROACH, widow of John
Roach the ship builder, died at her
summer home. Larchmont Manor, n.
Y, on the 18th. Mrs. Roach, whose
maiden name was johnson, was 20
years old.
ROBERT HUDSON, ayoung and highly
educated man, who had run through
his own and his wife's fortunes, was
hanged at York. England, on the 18th,
for the murder of his wife and child
on Hemsly moor, Yorkshire, in June
last He decoyed his victims to the
moor, cut their Threats, shot them
with a revolver and buried them on
the moor.
Rev. DR. WIN. DEAN. distinguished as
the first Baptist missionary to China
and Siam, who gave fifty years to the
work, died at San Diego. Cal, on the
18th, aged 81 years
BOTH the old and the new police
boards of Omaha wired the supreme
court, on the 18th, asking for an imme-
date session to determine which is the
legal board, and received a prompt
answer that the court would meet on
the following day at Lincoln.
A DISPATCH from Tunis, on the 14th,
stated that some barges laden with
iron Orders, collided near Goletta
with a ferryboat crowded with passen-
gers. Some of the passengers were
killed and many drowned.
CONCESSIONS have been made to an
syndicate by the govern
ment of Venezuela with view to
settling the boundary question SO long
in dispute between Great Britain and
Venezuela
Ex-STATE TREASURER TAYLOR, of
South Dakota, was, on the 14th, SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary
ENLIGHTENMENT of state funds
By the breaking of the staging upon
which they were standing nine work.
men employed in the Germania dock
yards at Kiel fell into the harbor. on
the 18th. and were drowned.
A DISPATCH from Berlin, on the 18th.
said: "It is reported here from Katto-
witt that a detachment of Cossacks
have logged fourteen striking col
liers who were employed in the mines
at Zagorse, Russia, and by this means
compelled the strikers to return to
work"
AT a festival at Riley. Ind, on the
night of the 18th, stand upon which
the Cory band was playing gave way,
badly injuring many of the members,
one of them fatally.
The men of the Princess Marie
Christina de Monteda regiment, draft
ed for service in Cuba, embarked at
Cadiz. Spain, on the 18th, for their des-
tination.
BARON CHRISTIAN BERNHARD Won
TAUcHNIrz. the celebrated publisher
of Greek and Latin classics in Leipsic.
died on the 14th, aged 80 years
Ex-MAYoR VAN HORN, of Denver,
Col, fell from a window of the Grand
Central hote. in that city, on the 18th.
and was killed.
S. S. WALKER, late president of the
defunct Michigan Mortgage Co, was