Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22

storms that ever visited that section
passed over Chickamauga National
park and did immense damage. The
wind blew gale and tore mp hundreds
of the finest and largest trees in the
park. Torrents of rain accompanied
the wind, followed by furious hail
storm, after which it turned bitterly
cold.
ACTING SECRETARY McADoo was, on
the 18th, informed of the successful
opening of the dry dock at Port Royal.
S. C. Lieut. Rockwell. in charge of
the works there, telegraphed that the
Amphitrite had been locked and that
everything was satisfactory.
IT was reported in Sofia. on the 10th,
that 100 villagers were killed in the
attack. on the 9th, by Bulgarians on
the village of Janakli, in the Kird-
jail district The insurgents lost ten
men. No women or children were
killed.
THE steamer Mascotte arrived at
Tampa, Fla, from Cuba, on the night
of the 18th. the passengers bringing
news of the destruction of train
bearing soldiers and engineers of Ha-
vaua and some volunteers on the 18th.
The insurgents placed dynamite on the
railroad track at Bolandron bridge.
The entire train was destroyed, and
only few volunteers escaped death.
The committee appointed by the
Rosebery government to consider and
report on the subject, issued a report,
on the 10th, recommending that the
metric system of weights and meas
ures be Immediately legalized in En-
gland. and that the use of the system
be made compulsory after two years.
A FARM hand named Wilhelm was
assisting in feeding a thresher, near
East Prospect, Pa, on the 10th, when
he fell feet foremost into the machine.
the lower portion of his body being
literally ground to pieces.
RECORDER GoFF of New York city,
on the 10th, sentenced Dennis Null
Inns, the owner of four saloons, to
thirty days in the city prison and to
pay a fine of $3.50 for violating the ex-
else law.
AT Upton, Ind, on the 10th, Mrs.
Jesse Hamler gave birth to a female
child with two perfectly-formed heads.
The child was healthy. and cried just
as easily with one head as with the
other.
On the 10Th the ST. Petersburg Novoe
Vremya published advices from Vladi-
vostock, showing that the outbreak of
cholera in China, Corea and Formosa
was becoming serious.
REV. FATHER WILSON, of Terre Haute,
Ind, docs not approve of the bicycle
boomers. He said that they were not
becoming to a young woman, according
to his ideas: that the members of his
congregation who wear that bicycle
costume would not be recognized by
him on the street. and that those who
spoke to him would be ignored.
Miss MARY MANNING, daughter of
the late Secretary of the Treasury
Daniel Manning, is to be married to
Mr.. Jules Cornelius Won der Ouder
meulan of The Hague. Holland, son of
the private secretary of Queen Wilhel-
nina
AT the war department charges have
been placed on file against Maj. Enoch
H. Crowder. judge advocate general of
the department of the Platte, charging
him with a fragrant violation of army
regulations. The charges are filed by
Gen. Coppinger.
THE state of Iowa has decided to re-
turn bronze statue which George M.
Pullman presented to it about year
ago. The statue represents a scene in
the massacre at Old Fort Dearborn.
The authorities have decided that it is
too large for its purpose.
The notorious Bederly brothers, who
have long been a terror to cattlemen
on account of their bold and whole
sale thefts of cattle, are reported to
have been lynched by vigilance COM
mittee in Buffalo county. S. d.
EIGHT men were killed and ten seri-
ously hurt, on the night of the 10th,
by the premature explosion of a blast
near Mahaffey. Pa, on the Pittsburgh
& Eastern railway.
The London Daily Telegraph an
nounced, on the 10th. that Gen. Lord
Wolseley had been chosen to succeed
the duke of Cambridge as commander
in-chief of the British army.