Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-09-12

THE Paris Matin says the supple
mentary credits which will be voted
for the prosecution of the French cam
paign in Madagascar will amount to
so. O00. 900 francs.
A BOLD attempt was made, on the
5th, to explode a bomb in Rothschilds'
bank in the Rue Laf1tte, Paris. While
the business of the day was at its
height a man walked into the bank
carrying under his arm a bomb. to
which was attached lighted fuse.
One of the detectives employed in the
bank, who was standing near. sprang
upon the man. seized the bomb and
extinguished the fuse in time to pre-
vent an explosion.
The treasury gold reserve, with all
the Withdrawals and deposits &C
counted for, stood, ON the 5th, at $780,
927. 567, or S73, 600 below the reserve
limit.
AN immense landslide near the town
of BRAY. 12 miles southeast of Dublin,
menaces the destruction of the great
main conveying the water supply to
that city.
JAMES OMALLEY, who, it is said, has
robbed various railroads of thousands
of dollars, was arrested by the police
in Chicago on the night of the 5th.
O'Malley was employed as conductor
on the Minneapolis, st. Paul & Saulte
Ste. Marie railroad, and for nearly five
years is believed to have been the
leader of a gang of conspirators which
Systematically robbed the cars of the
company.
By the arrest of Robert Ritson, of
Philadelphia, on the 5th, the police
think they have unearthed gigantic
system of swindling by bogus drafts
printed in the names of eleven differ
emit national banks and drawn to the
correspondents of those banks in
Louisville. Boston, Milwaukee. Indian
in New York city.
NUNS ship and dry dock ware
house at Port Dalhousie, Ont. was
destroyed by fire on the 5th. The
steamer ST. Magnus, lying in dry
dock for repairs, was burned to the
waters edge. and Capt Becker. of
Cleveland, one of the oldest captains
on the upper lakes, who was asleep on
the boat. was SO badly burned that he
died in the hospital few hours later.
AFTER many years of service as a re-
ceiving ship at New York. lying at
anchorage in the North river, the old
United States steamship Minnesota is
to be put out OF commission and the
boys ordered to be transferred to the
Vermont, lying at the Brooklyn navy
yard.
BILL WILLIAMS, alias Lloyd Mayre.
alias John Mcmahon, one of the most
noted desperadoes in the west, and
who has always sworn that he would
not be taken alive. was arrested by
officers. on the 5th. and lies in Jail ar
Leadville, Col. Williams murdered
James Blount in Leadville in 1887. II.
was leader of the Cripple Creek gang
that robbed the Wells-Fargo expires
of $4,000
ADvICEs from Moscow and St
Petersburg, on the 9th, stated that 9O(
persons known or suspected to be
nihilists had been arrested by the
police of those cities, and large guam
titles of bombs, firearms and dyna-
mite seized in their lodgings and
haunts.
A SHARP earthquake shock. lasting
six seconds. was felt at Helena, Butte
and Great Falls, Mont, at 1870 o'clock
on the morning of the 9th. 1t was
most severe at Helena. lasting fully
six seconds there, and slightly less at
the other places named.
THE Dominion Trades and Labor
council, in session in London, Ont,
decided, on the 9th, by majority of
one, to admit representatives of The
socialist labor party to membership.
WESTMINSTER church, in Minneapo-
lis. Mimi, was damaged $4,000 by fire
on the 9th.
DRIVEN from Cow Island and refused
admittance to either Mississippi or
Arkansas, Caleb Norman, smallpox
patient, attempted to run the gaunt-
let at Walls. Miss. and was shot and
killed. on the 5th, by Quarantine Off
Ger Turner.
DURING a heavy electrical storm at
Des Moines, Ia, ON the 9Th, several
buildings were struck by lightning.
aI> l4-year-old Eddie Caldwell was
killed while asleep.