Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-04-25
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
WHILE Street Superintendent John
w. Beaver was grading on Market
street in Havre De Grace. Nd, recently,
he unearthed a portion of what was
known during the war of 1872 as the
''Old Millhoof" house, which was
burned by the British on May IA. 1914
Among the relics he found a cannon
ball, weighing eight pounds, besides
the charred remains of some of the tim
bers and masonry work, which was In
a fair state of preservation
A DISPATCH from Berlin says that a
singular rumor is current in that city
to the effect that Field Marshal Count
Yamagata, the japanese minister of
war, is the long-missing Archduke
John of Austria, who went abroad
some years ago under the name of
John Orth.
WHILE the Gillian ministers family
was at the theater in Washington, ON
the night of the 18th. Nine Gana's
room was entered and diamonds and
pearls said to be worth 5000 to Sc. 600
and $40 in money were stolen Jose
Brauer. the butler. was missing. and
the police were promptly notified
As A result of the advance in the
price of oil between 400 and 500 new
wells had been started in the Indiana
field in Blsckfork, Wells. Adams. Jay
and Randolph counties, mp to the 10th
OK the morning of the 18th the large
livery barn OF John G. Wilson at Tale
quah, /. T., was discovered to be ON
fire, and, before flames could be
checked eighteen business houses of
various kinds, four fine residences and
fourteen Offices were in ashes The city
is without waterworks or a fire COM
pany, and the fire was far-reaching in
its destructive work. owing to brisk
southeast wind.
The Vanderbilt-Iselin-Mo Morgan syn
dictate. which has undertaken to defend
the Americas cup. has decided to
name the new yacht now building at
Bristol the Defender"
OWING to a combination of untoward
circumstances, the absence of the Ma
rine band, a bleak day, turf damp
from recent and frequent showers, the
annual children's festival, known as
the Easter egg-rol1ing, in the White
House grounds at Washington. on the
18th, was not the usual success.
THE much-dreaded army worm has
made its appearance in Logan and
many surrounding counties of Ken
lucky. There are millions of them,
and they are making a clean sweep
of everyt thing green that lies in their
way.
THE new American loan opened in
London, on the 10th, at 121H and closed
unchanged
AS THE result of the bursting of a
water main the city of Pittsburgh,
Pa, suffered a practical water famine
on the 10th.
THE Ontario legislature was pro-
rogued, on the 10th, with the usual
ceremonies The lieutenant governor
in his closing address referred to the
electric railway act, and said it would
no doubt encourage the construction
of system of light railways and thus
furnish cheap transportation for the
growing demands of the agricultural
and internal commerce of the country.
ARTHUR, son of President L. C. Clark
Seelye, of Smith college, at Northamp-
ton, Mass, Harvard postgraduate
student, was found dead on the rocks
at the foot of steep bluff ON the south
end of Mount Tom on the 18th. Two
parties of $50 men were out searching
for him. He had started out two days
before to explore the mountain.
Miss MARY VANCE, aged "a. who
during the war was an assistant nurse
to Miss Dorothea Lynde Dix. sister to
Gen. Dix, was reported, on the 18th, to
be dying as dependent at the home OF
Mrs. Robert Williams, her niece. in
Pittsburgh, Pa She was one of the
most noted nurses in the Union
service.
THE st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Frankfurter Zeitung telegraphed,
on the 18th, that the French and Rus
sian governments were about to con-
woke a meeting of the powers for the
purpose of revising the terms of peace
agreed upon by the Chinese and
japanese representatives
AT the meeting of the stockholders
of the Distilling and Cattle Feeding
Co, held in Peoria, Ill, on the 18th. j..
b. Greenhut was -deposed from the
presidency and expelled from the di-
rectory. He refused to resign, and
when deposed threatened to take the
matter into the courts
THE Cunard liners Campania and
Lucania have been aGSled to the list OF
subsidized steamers agreed to be held
at the disposal of the British ad-
miralty In the event of war they
will be equipped with five-inch breech-
loading guns and Nordenfeldt machine
guns.
LAKE shipments from Chicago to the
seaboard began on the 18th, two
steamers leaving for Buffalo with
grain.
DISPATCHES from places in Bagot.
Stanstead. Shefford and other counties
east of Montreal, Can, state that a
severe shock of earthquake was felt
| about 1880 a. m. on the 18th. Nc
damage was reported.
NOTICES were posted in the mills In
New Bedford. Mass, on. the 18th, OF a
restoration of the former schedule OF
| wages, following the action of the
Fall River manufacturers.
THE bill recognizing the board OF
public education in the city of New
York, known as the compromise
bill," passed the assembly at Albany,
on the 18th, by a vote of n to 81.
THE sailors of the Spanish navy have
unanimously agreed to contribute a
| DAVIS nav fo the relief of the families