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

OFFICERS of the United States reve-
nue. cutter fleet in Behring sea report
the total absence of seals in northern
waters this season.
The keystone national bank of
West Superior, Wis, capital 5000, 900,
was closed. on the 30th, by order of
Bank Examiner Brush.
The barge Republic. loaded with
coal, and being towed from Cleveland,
O., to Detroit, Mich, foundered, on the
3Oth, off Lorain. o. The waves washed
the coverings from the matches and
she filed and sank in Is feet of water.
Her crew of five men got off in yawl
and were picked up.
THE courthouse at Fresno, CAL,
which cost the county S1sO,O0O. was
damaged by fire, on the night of the
Goth, to the extent of 50, 900. The fire
is supposed to have been of incendiary
origin; fully insured.
FIRE on the island of Steinwarder,
in the harbor of Hamburg. on the
Goth, destroyed several warehouses
and their contents, causing a loss of
over 1000, 900 marks.
Mrs. FANNIE FORD, wife of the jani-
tor who has charge of building until
recently used by the health officers of
the District of Columbia, recently
found two 81 900 bills in the attic of the
building. So far no one has claimed
the money.
WHILE a Pennsylvania passenger
train was rounding the bend at Scots
burg. Ind, on the evening of the 30th,
it struck a buggy containing a man,
woman and child. The man and wom-
an. whose names have not yet been
learned, were killed and the child in
jured- The horses were also killed.
THE London Daily News published
a dispatch from Berlin, on the 31st,
which said that the Tageblatt had
word from Constantinople that Turkey
had accepted in their entirety the re-
forms which the powers had demanded
in Armenia, after receiving firm note
from the Salisbury government.
On the 3Oth BroolSside, Ala, a mining
camp of the Sloss Iron and Steel Co.,
was the scene of one of the bloodiest
race riots in the history Of Alabama.
AS result two deputy sheriffs and
four negroes were killed and several
other negroes seriously, two probabl
fatally, wounded.
JAMES II. CocKRELL, aged Ga, a
farmer, near Lafayette, Ind, was, on
the 30th, blown to atoms by the ex-
plosion of twelve pounds of dynamite
cartridges, which he was carrying in
stumps in a field.
The monument erected in Louisville,
KY, in memory of the Kentucky con-
federates was unveiled. on the 3Oth, in
the presence of vast concourse of
people.
THIRTY horses were burned to death
in the destruction by fire of Danberg's
livery stable in Wells. Mimi. on the
3lst. The fire is charged to tramps;
loss, 10000, insurance, $4,000.
RICHARD n. HUNT, architect of the
Administration building at the Worlds
fair; of the new Vanderbilt villa at
Newport. R. l., and many other prom
inent buildings Of his class, died at
his snmmer residence at Newport or
the 3fst.
THE Spanish cabinet, at its meeting,
on the 31st, formally approved the
amount of the indemnity to be paid in
settlement of the Mora claim.
On the 31st the British admiralty
placed orders with the Messrs. Thomp-
son, shipbuilders of Glasgow, for the
construction of three torpedo destroy
ers capable of maintaining a speed OF
thirty-six land miles per hour. The
| intention is that these boats shall be
| the fastest vessels of their kind afioat.
DURING the "a hours ended at a. m.
of the 31st, the converting depart.
ment of the Carnegie-Edgar Thorn.
| son steel works at Braddock, Pa,
made the unprecedented run of 1. III
1 tons and 80 pounds. being seventy.
three heats of the two 15-ton convert
| ers.
| POLICE CAPTAIN MICHAEL J. MUIR
PLY, of New York, who was under sus
pension as a result of the Lexow com
mittee investigation, died at his resi-
dence in that city, on the 31st. o.
Brights disease and dropsy.
| A PORTION of the embanlSment OF
Geneva lake, near the village of Mon
treaux, Switzerland, gave way. on the
sOth, leaving a gap 100 meters long
and twenty meters deep. The pecuni
|
nately no one was injured.
GIN. ANsoN G. McCooK was, on the
31st, appointed city chamberlain o.
New York to succeed James j. ODon
oghue. The place is worth $4,000 {
year.
4 CABLE dispatch was received, on
the 31st, at the rooms of the Mission
airy Society of the Methodist Episcopa
church, in New York city, announcing
the death from cholera in India o
Rev. and Mrs. August Kullman, mis-
sionaries, in the town of Azanol, jim tn
Bengal-Burmah conference. Mr.. Kull
man went to India from Vineland, n
J., in 1892.
FRAUD orders have been issued b,
the post office department against ]
NJ. Balm, w. H. Griffith & Co.. TIL
GAINESVILLE Chemical Co. and the Blacl
. Diamond Manufacturing Co., OF New
Concord and GAINESVILLE. o., and agains
the Excelsior Poultry Co., of Decatur
Ill.
5 THE ordinance passed by the cit
council of Empo-ia, Kas-, which Tt
, quired bells and lamps on every bicv
1 Gle there. aud made it compulsory t
ring the bells at every street crossing
and alley, was, on the S1st. declare
by Judge j. F. Culver, unreasonable
in it's requirements, and therefore ur
| constitutional and void.
h WM PICKLER, who was awaitin
: trial for implication in the mint-bu
4 lion shortage, was found dead in be
: at Carson, New, on the morning of til
4 31st. A clot of blood in the heart wa