Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-04-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THE Bridgeport Conn letter car
riers were notified. on the sth, that
they had been allowed most of the
money claimed under the eight-hour
law. Six of the number viii receive
500 each, and the remainder of the
thirty-four carriers are allowed sums
ranging from that amount down to $50.
BIZ the collapse of two fve-story
buildings in Wheeling, w. Va, on the
9th, six persons were killed and five
wounded, some of them very seriously.
and property. consisting of the build
inGs and their contents, to the amount
Of &20o, 600 was destroyed. Fire in the
debris added to the horror Of the
wreck and retarded the work of rescue.
The accident was caused by faulty
construction.
ITALIAN worl<men engaged in thaw-
ing dynamite at Middleton, Conn, on
the 9th, caused an explosion of three
or four boxes. Carroll Desanno was
blown to atoms and Mariana Galanta
was badly injured, but it is thought
he will recover. The explosion did NO
damage to property. The accident
was the result of carelessness.
THE jury in the $50. 900 damage suit
of George w. Coudrey. of Chicago.
against q. J. Schweinfurth, the al
legged Messiah, and his lieutenant, VIM.
Baldwin, for alternating the affections
of Mrs Coudrey by inducing her to en-
ter the Heaven" at Rockford, ILL.,. re-
turned q verdict. on the 9th, in favor
IF Cnrp6,-oxy I'D hin QSn n0n fh a
full amount asked.
AN explosion of gas occurred at Nan
ticoke, Pa, on the 9th, in No. slope,
operated by the Susquehanna Coal Co.
A number of men were at work in the
slope at the time, six of whom were
badly burned.
SHOCKS of earthquake were felt at
Reggie di Ca1abria, Italy, on the sth,
but no damage was done.
SIR THOMAS BUXTON has been APP
pointed governor of South Australia to
succeed the earl of Kintoor.
In battle between Italian troops
and brigands, in Sardinia, on the 9th,
two of the brigands were killed, sew
eral were wounded and a number cap
tured.
The International Navigation Co. s
steamship st. Paul was successfully
launched at Philadelphia, on the 10th,
Miss Frances c. Griscom, daughter of
the president of the company, did the
christening. A large crowd witnessed
the ceremony.
MISS EDNA MAY SHARPE, 20 years
old and as pretty as picture, who has
been living with her parents at Kan
sas City, Mo-, went across the state
line, ON the 9th, with Charlie Wing, a
well-to-do Chinaman, and was married
to him in Justice Belts court in Kan
sas City, Kas.
The London Times published, on
the 10th, a dispatch from its CORE
spondent at Shanghai, saying that a
japanese man-of-war had seized the
British steamer Yik-Sang, outside
Yaku, having on board zoe. 900 cart
ridges, shipped to Shanghai by a re-
spectacle German firm as "bamboo and
steel"
UNITED STATES CoNsUL-GENERAL KA-
REL at st. Petersburg reports to the
state department that the Russian gov
eminent is making strong efforts to
extend the cultivation of tea in the
empire.
An interesting bit of political news
is the report that ex-Recorder Freder-
ick Smyth is to be elected grand
sachem of the Tammany Hall organiza-
ton in New York city.n
JOHN II. KNOWLES. a sailor who made
himself famous during the naval en-
gagement in Mobile bay between the
Hartford and Tennessee by flashing
Admiral Farragut to the rigging of the
Hartford, died at Annapolis, Md. on
the 9th. He had been in the navy
forty-five years.
THE entire lower portion of the large
plant of the Susquehanna Iron Co. at
Columbia, Pa, was destroyed by fire
at an early hour on the 10th. Loss,
500, 900; covered by insurance. The
mill employed $50 men.
DURING practice firing at the Woo
Sung forts in China, on the 10th, a
magazine accidentally exploded kill
ing forty men and injuring mary more.
THE steamer Dean Richmond, which
went down off Dunkirk, N. Y, over a
year ago, with eighteen souls, drifted
ashore on the night of the 9th.
THE steamer Tartar Prince, with
Jabez Spencer Balfour aboard, sailed
from Buenos Ayres for London on the
10th.
A SPECIAL from Washington, on the
18th, said the Cuban revolutionists
would on that day formally announce
the independence of the island, estab-
lish a republic, proclaim a constitu-
ton, name their officers and ask recog-
ton, first of the United States, and
then of other nations.
STATE SENATOR GoEBEL shot and
killed Cashier John Sanford OF the
Farmers and Traders national bank
of Covington, KY, on the 18th. The
tragedy was the sequel OF long
standing feud between the men, and
was the immediate result OF an article
published by Goebel about Sanford.
Sanford fred the first shot. After the
shooting Goebel delivered himself up
to the police.
The Cripple Creek and Grassy ex-
press wagon was held mp, on the 18th,
by two men who had asked permission
to ride, and who, after beating him,
forced the driver to hold the horses
while they cut open the mail bag and
rifed it's contents. They secured one
package containing $4,000 and prob
| ably others and made their escape.
large posse of men were soon in pur-
suit.
| THE outbreak Of the plague in
Macao, in the Portuguese settlement
in China, was officially announced on
the l1th.
FUNERAL services over the remains
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