Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Cuuhly VI AmpO1tout oScutos
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THE schooner John A. Dixon, loaded
with lumber. was found drifting about
near Cedar Point on the Potomac by
a river steamer, on the morning of the
23d, with the murdered body of the
skipper on board. It is believed that
he was murdered and robbed by his
crew. who took the yawlboat. which
was missing, and escaped.
In the ring built for the bull fights
at Atlanta, Ga. . fierce duel with
swords took place, on the cath, be-
tween two Mexican bull fighters, Gen.
ero Zetuicko and Don Carlos Garcia,
rival aspirants for the smiles of pretty
American girl. who acts as cashier at
the Mexican village on the exposition
grounds Garcia received several Sc
we're but not dangerous wounds.
THERE is demand from all parts of
western Kansas for laborers to harvest
the immense crop of broom-corn. In
Morton county the schools have been
dismissed and the children sent to the
fields to assist in saving the crop. At
least fifty young ladies, daughters of
farmers, have donned old gloves and
sun-bonnets and gone into the fields
with their fathers and brothers.
HEAVY frost prevailed at Denver,
Col. on the morning of the 23d. the
Thermometer falling to 80 degrees,
which was fatal to all truck gardens.
DURING the last fiscal year there
were 2,24O arrests for ofenses against
the postal laws, of which number IT'S
were postmasters, 40 assistant postmas-
tiers, so clerks in post Offices, IL rail-
way post office clerks, 81 letter carriers,
SO mail carriers and % were employed
in minor positions in the postal serv-
ice.
WILLIAM MILTON GLENN, ST. Louis
representative of the Associated Press,
has accepted the offer of Hip Sing Lee,
a wealthy San Jose (Cal) Chinaman. to
marry his daughter. Moi Lee, in con-
sideration of SIS, 600 cash bonus and
an interest in the old celestial's bust
ness
PRESIDENT PROCTOR of the civil serv-
ice commission was very much de-
lighted. on the esd, with the receipt of
an order from President Cleveland
placing all consular offices paying
salaries between 81 900 and So, 500 with
in the civil service rules.
Rev. T. DE WITT TALMAGE said, on
the oath, with reference to the call ex-
tended to him by the First Presby-
terian church at Washington, that he
had received two or three other calls
of a like character. The call from
Washington, however, was important
and presented an inviting field, but he
wanted little more time to consider
and weigh the matter.
EVIDENCE developed, on the oath, at
the inquest of little Paul Trenary, at
Indianapolis, that presents a serious
problem to the health authorities.
The Trenary child died of diphtheria
without medical attention, the parents
relying upon Christian science methods
to effect cure.
FoR the first time in history Uncle
Sans publications are on the market.
They are advertised for sale at speci-
fed prices, and anybody who. wants
them can buy them. The new bureau
of documents will issue a catalogue
every month, giving a list of whatever
has been printed by the government
during the previous thirty days.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH is response
BILE for the announcement that Presi-
dent Cleveland will shortly set at rest
all talk of his ambition for a third
term. According to this story, the sec
rotary gives it out that Mr.. Cleveland
has no aspirations for another term,
and that he will soon publicly announce
his position.
THE widow of Gen. George Crook, the
famous Indian fighter, died at Oakland,
Md, at her country place, Crook
Crest" on the oath. Mrs Crook was
Miss Mary Daily before her marriage
to Gen. Crook. The latter died in Chi
cago four years ago.
GEORGE BROWN, the defaulting treas
urer of Springfield township. Muskin-
gum county, o., has disappeared, and
The deficit. it is thought, will amount
to nearly $40, 900.
THE king of Corea has granted ex-
elusive mining rights in the provinces
of Pyong and Do for twenty-five years
to an American trading company. The
company is to pay one-fourrh of its
profits into the royal treasury.
THE marked growth of Americas
silk purchases from Japan during the
past ten years is quite a feature in the
japanese trade. These purchases in
creased from Is, 500, 900 yen in 1885 to
2s, SOC. 600 yen in 1894.
A DISPATCH from Kingston, Jamaica,
on the 25th, said that Capt Williams,
commander Of the British ship Lady
Blake, had been arrested by the au.
thorities at Cape Hayti for alleged
smuggling. The officers who arrested
him handled him so roughly as to en-.
danger his life; and in fact, he came
very near being murdered
Mr.. MYoDo YuGIRo, Japanese jour
nalist, has shown that celebrated
Chinese poem, written several hum
dred years ago by Liu Ting Che,
bears a really striking resemblance &c
1.-THE Last Leaf" by Oliver Wendell
Holmes. It is scarcely conceivable
that the American poet could have had
any idea of the Chinese poets work.
SIR MCKENZIE BOWEL, Dominion
premier, went to Winnipeg recently t.
| offer a compromise to Mr.. Greenway
| the Manitoba premier, on the paro
chial schoo, question, but the Mani
| toba government refused to consider
| any compromise measure
/ A DISPATCH from Constantinople, OF
the 25th, said the town of Huyeda, il
the province of Yemen, had been over
whelmed by landslide from a noun
tain near by which killed 100 persons
THE steamer Sylvia. with the PearJ
Arctic expedition party on board