Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-14

Baptist church of Abilene, kas., died,
on the eth, aged so. He had one of the
largest families in Kansas. His house
hold, to the third generation, has num-
bered lat, of whom 121 are living, di-
vided as follows: Children, 16; grand
children, 50; great-grandchildren %.
On the 18th cable dispatch from the
seat of the China-Japan war announced
the sinking, in the harbor of Wei-Hai-
Wei, on the 5th, after heavy fighting,
OF the Chinese iron-clads Chen uen
and her sister ship. the Ting Yuen, and
stated that the other ships of the Chi
nese fleet were almost within the grasp
OF the japanese.
ALL the sugar refineries in Philadel-
phia cut the price of refined sugars
one-sixteenth of a cent on the eth. The
reduction is said to have been caused
by Moelenhauer, the independent re-
finer of New York, and subsequent
reduction by Havemeyer.
ALEXANDER C. JONES, the United
States consul at Chin-Kiang, China,
denies that there has been any trouble
involving the officers of the United
States gunboat Concord or any other
Americans temporarily residing there.
On the sth Ex-Empress Frederick of
Germany invited Miss Anna Blocker,
the only woman saved from the wreck
of the Elbe, to visit Osborne, on the
18th. to meet the queen and herself.
The British brig Nelson Price went
ashore, on the Sth, near Douglas, Isle
of Man. 1t was thought she would go
to pieces and all her crew be drowned
before help could reach her.
Hon. JOHN L. STEVENS, ex-minister
to Hawaii, died at his home in Angus
ia. Me-, at o'clock on the morning of
the sth, of valvular disease of the
heart
A PULLMAN car was wrecked and, to-
gether with another coach, burned,
and number of persons were injured
by a rear-end collision on a Grand
Trunk train about mile west of
Weston, Ont, on the Sth.
AN explosion occurred in a foundry
at Joinville, in the department of
Haute-Marne, France, on the sth, kill
ing three men and injuring fourteen.
ONE HUNDRED houses and bushes SIS
buildings We're swept away at Cape
Breton, island, on the sth, by an aw-
full tidal wave. 1t is believed that
many lives were lost.
The storm that ragged all over the
United States on the sth did more
damage to life and property than any
other in the last fifty years. not even
excepting the storm CT March, 1888. 1t
spread over four times as much terri
tory, and there came with it an extra
ordinary accompaniment of death and
wreck and fire. 1t impeded travel in
all directions and paralyzed railway
traffic in nearly every city in the coun-
try.
No WORD had been received of the
French liner La Gascogne, seven days
overdue, up to the morning of the 9th,
and the gravest fears We're entertained
for her safety. The marine under
writer's had raised the rate of insurance
on the ships cargo to 20 and % per
cent, indicating palmer than words
can tell that these experienced men
were alarmed.
On the Sth the vacant rank of ma or-
general. caused by the promoti On of
Maj Gen Schofield to the grade of lieu
tenant-general of the army, was filed
by the nomina ton of Brig. Zen. Thomas
IL. oCA. ASOSCA ID Ia HI
of the department of the Missouri, with
headquarters in Chicago.
A TIDAL wave swept up the coasts of
Rhode Island. Massachusetts and
Maine, on the sth, doing an immense
amount of damage to coasting craft
and inundating many of the coast
towns and villages. Among the yes
sells broken up was the presidents boat
Ruth, at Buzzard's Bay.
DISPATCHES of the sth announced
that the japanese. having captured
everything in sight at Wei-Hai-Wei,
and destroyed the Chinese feet there,
Immediately turned their attention to
Che-Foo, with the apparent intention
OF adding that place to the list of their
conquests.
MOToEMAS JOHN FLATLEY was fear
fully and probably fatally injured at
St. Louis. On the sth. by being caught
between two cars and rolled their en-
tire length, the space being only eight
or ten inches.