Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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PERSONAL AND GENERAL
A CAR on the Consolidated tramway
of Denver, Col, was held up near Riv-
erside cemetery, at 11:30 o'clock on the
night of the cath, by three robbers.
One covered the conductor, another
the gripman, while the third relieved
the conductor of about SIS. The pas
sengers were not molested.
THE Ohio Democratic State central
committee met in Columbus, on the
25th, and selected Springfield as the
place and August 20 and 81 as the dates
vention. United States Senator Brice
was chosen as temporary chairman, re-
ceiving Is out of 81 votes
The johnson Steel Co. of Lorraine,
O., posted notices. on the 25th. of Is
percent increase in wages to the men
in the converting mill, dry house and
machine shops, in all about 200. The
men employed in the shape mill had
their wages increased few days be-
fore.
Hon. HERBERT GLADSTONE, on the
25th, in conversation with represent
alive of the United Press, definitely
stated that his father would take no
further part in public life
The treasury gold reserve became
intact, on the 25th, for the first time
since December IA, 1894, standing at
500, $50. $685.
THE Cologne Gazette urges the pow
ers party to the tripartite protest
against the Turkish administration in
Armenia to insist that the reforms de-
manded for Armenia be also applied
to Macedonia.
SnAs WATSON FORD. aged As years,
an eminent geologist and paleontolo
gist, died at Saratoga. n. Y, on the
25th, of general debility.
On the 25th Prince Emanuel FIJI iberto,
duke of Aosta, nephew of King Hum
bert of Italy, was married at the church
of st. Raphael, Kingston-on-Thames
his bride being Princess Helene of Or
leans. second daughter of the countess
of Paris and sister of the duke of Or
leans.
WooD SPRINGFIELD, the veteran turf
man, known from ocean to ocean as
distinguished jockey, trainer and own
er, and in late years turf writer, died
at his home in Lexington, KY, on the
25th, at the age of "a. Some years ago
he was injured in a runaway. and had
since been unable to leave the city.
Gov. MATTHEWS of Indiana has ap-
pointed Benjamin Harrison, ex-presi
dent of the United States, trustee for
Purdue university for a term of six
years Six other trustees were also
named by the governor.
The London Times, ON the 25th, pub
lished dispatch from Tien-Tsin say
ing that alarming rumors were being
circulated there to the effect that the
Japanese were fortifying the Lao
Tung frontier.
THE suit begun in New York short
time ago by Mary Irene Hoyt against
Hetty Green to recover 500, 900 dam
ages for SANDER has been compro-
missed out of court by the parties in
terested.
BIDS were opened at the treasury de-
partment, on the Goth, for the con-
struction of two revenue marine cut
tiers. one to be used on the great lakes
and one on the Atlantic coast, the cost
of each being $4,000. For the lake
vessel the bid of the Globe iron works
of Cleveland, O., at S147. 800, was the
only one received.
The leading Russian financiers are
said to be furiously angry at the ac-
ton of Germany in supporting En-
gland in inducing China to refuse to
accept Russia's loan proposals in their
present form.
A CYCLONE hit Anderson, Ind, on
the 26th, unroofing houses and tearing
up trees. Lightning struck the high
school building, burned two barns and
set on fire a big and dangerous gas
! well.
IT is claimed that an examination of
| the books and records of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen shows a
deficiency of s75,sss OF this def
| cheney $685. was incurred previous
| to September 1, 1898. and $47, 647 rep
| resents the deficiency incurred from
| September to December 81. 1894.
PUBLIC memorial services were held
| at South Bend, Ind. on the evening of
the 26th, in honor of the late ex-Gov.
Ira j. Chase. A liberal contribution
was added to the subscription being
i raised for the relief of Mrs. Chase.
r. w. PATTERSON, register of the
/ United States land office at South Enid,
Okla, and City Marshal Williams were
killed, while j. L. Isenberg, editor of
the Daily Wave, was badly wounded,
the result of a sensational street fight
| that occurred there on the evening of
the Goth. isenberg will recover.
| MARY SNYDER, a member of the class
of 1895. of the keystone State normal
school at Kutztown, Pa, who would
have been graduated on that day with
high honors. died suddenly. on the
26th, the result, undoubtedly, of over
| study.
| HON. EMILY JANE MERCER, dowager
marchioness of Lansdowne, and in her
own right Baroness Marine, mother of
the present marquis of Lansdowne,
who was formerly governor general of
Canada and later governor general of
India, died in England on the e6th.
She was born in 1919.
On board the steamship Berlin, which
sailed, on the Goth. for Southampton,
was a company of 100 Presbyterian
clergymen and laymen, who will spend
eight weeks in visiting the scenes of
interest in the old world connected
with the early history of their church
MAGGIE TURPIE, aged %, forewoman
in the Office of the Riverside Printing
Co., ST. Louis, fell through the eie-
vator shaft from the third floor to the
basement, on the evening of the Goth,
and received injuries from which she
died en- route to the city hospital.
A RICH stream of petroleum has been
discovered near the Narrows of Har-
peth river, in Cheatham county, Tenn.
An explosion occurred in a bluff there
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