Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-09-05

JAMES T. JOY. 81 years old, and the
oldest member of the Detroit (dich.l
bar, in some way lost his footing on
the gang PLANK of = pleasure yacht. on
the 10Th. and stepped off into the river.
Mr.. Joy would probably have drowned
had 1t not been for the promptness and
bravery of Judge Dickinson, of Ten
nessee, who calamity leaped into the
water and supported Mr.. Joy until the
officers and crew of the yacht came to
his assistance.
On the goth terrible explosion was
reported from Lafayette township. in
the extreme western portion OF Allen
county, Ind, in which two men were
killed John Flaugh was at work in
his fathers sawmill with another en-
plove, named Phaial, when the boiler
exploded and hurled the men across
the building into the yard. Both were
killed.
THE drug with which Howard Pite-
eel is believed to have been killed be-
fore his body was burned in the big
stove in the Irvington cottage, Indian
apolis, was found on the Goth. A part
of a bottle of cyanide of potassium was
found buried in the barn.
OFFICIAL reports show that there
were 10000 deaths from cholera in
Pekin during the month of August. :,
WIN. A. HARPER, of Butler county.
confined in the Allegheny county jail
in Pittsburgh, Pa, on a charge OF as
sault and battery preferred by his
wife. committed suicide, on the S0th,
by jumping from the top tier of cells
to the stone floor As feet below. He
struck squarely upon his head, and
death was almost instantaneous
ADv1CEs from Behring sea by the
steamer Bertha, arrived at San Fran
cisco on the 3Oth, report the whaling
Rosario, 4; Jesse 81. Freeman, 1; VIM.
Baylies, I; Mary D. Hume, 5; Wander
er. l. and Triton =.
THE keeper of the Brough light
house. Orkney islands. telegraphed. on
the 30th, that the Norwegian steamer
Ansgarius had been lost on Lowther
rock. Six of her crew were saved, and
seven were missing.
The Americas cup committee an
nounced. on the night of the 3Oth.
that it had selected the yacht De-
fender as the representative of the
New York Yacht club in the contest
with Valkyrie III. The committee de-
cided without dissent that Defender
had too clearly demonstrat ted her SUI
periority over Vigilant to leave the
choice in doubt
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR are said to be
planning the establishment of a great
national university for both sexes, to
be controlled by and in the interest of
all masons. with a permanent endow-
ment of $50. coo, 900. The scheme con-
templates the erection of a sufficient
number of fire-proof university build
ings to accommodate 10000 students.
The treasury department, on the
30tI, received telegram from the col
lecsor of customs at Cedar Keys, Fla.
saying that at the instigation of the
Spanish consul at Tampa he had seized,
at point 90 miles from Cedar Keys,
$50 Remington rifles, a quantity OF
cartridges and eleven kegs of powder.
which were to have been shipped to
Cuba.
CHOLERA is said to be spreading rap
idly and has appeared in almost every
village in the government of Volhynia,
Russia. The peasants are taking refuge
in the woods and the burial of the
dead is made in common graves with
out funeral rites.
ALoNzoJ. WHITMAN, formerly mayor
of Duluth, Mimi, ex-member of the
Minnesota legislature. ex-banker and
millionaire, who dissipated fortune
in 4 few years, was sentenced at San
Francisco, on the 30th, TO nine years
imprisonment for forgery.
THE steamer Monowai, which ar
rived at San Francisco, on the night
of the 3Oth, did not stop at Honolulu.
as usual When off that port the
steamer was hailed by the American
consul in small boat, who announced
that cholera had broken out in Homo
lulu among the natives and Chinese.
OFFICIAL advices received in Paris
on the 30th, were to the effect that
the Chinese government had granted
the French missions in the province of
Sze-Chuen an indemnity of 1000 O0G