Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-11

j. ScoTro, a restaurant proprietor Of
Los Angeles, Cal, received word, OF
I'd, that he had fallen heir to 1000. COX
francs in Italy.
THE report that yellow fever had
broken out in Tampa, Fla, was, or
the 5th, discredited by the Marine hos
pital authorities in Washington
THE United States cruiser Marble
head. which unexpectedly arrived al
st. Petersburg, on the 4th, anchored
near the Nicolai bridge, where crowds
of people docked to see her.
On the I'd Judge McComas, of Wash
ington, sentenced w. w. Howpate te
eight years in the Albany On. W pen
itentiary, four years on each charge OF
forgery and ENLIGHTENMENT.
IT is said upon the highest author
ity that Mrs. Leland Stanford will
soon go to Europe to sell her jewels,
valued at $1,000, 600, to carry on the
Leland Stanford, Jr., university al
Palo Alto, Cal
IN q speech at Wick, Scotland on
the 4th, Ambassador Bayard said that
the secret of his mission to Great Brit
ain was that the war of 1872 should be
the last war between the United
States and Great Britain.
ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE UHL
left Washington, on the I'd, for six
weeks tour of Europe. During his abb
sence, Mr.. Adee. second assistant sec
rotary, will act as secretary of state in
Secretary Olney's absence.
BEGINNING on the 5th, the wages Of
the employees of the Diamond State
Iron Co., of Wilmington, Del, We're
advanced 10 per cent. About 700 men
are affected by the increase. The
works are now buster than they have
been for years
Mrs. MARY BROWN, a monogamian
pensioner, died, on the 10th, at her
home 5 miles from Knoxville, Tenn.
She was the widow of Joe Brown, a
soldier in the revolutionary war, and
was born in 1904. Her husband died
6fty-one years ago.
Ex-CcNGREssMAN WILLIAM F. PAR
RErr fell down stairs at his residence
in Evansville, Ind, at o'clock on the
morning of the 3Oth. and died of his
injuries at a. m. He was 20 years of
age. He leaves two daughters. De
eased was a leader of the bar Of Evans
vile.
AREPoKr was current in Montreal,
Can, on the 4th, that the Blackfoot
Indians near Gleichen. Northwest Ter
ritory, are in a very ugly mood and
threaten to kill all the whites on the
reservation. The English church mis-
sionary has been compelled to fee for
his life.
AUGUST DAHNER, who was sent to
the Ionia (Mich.) prison for brutality
whipping a man who refused to pay
him his wages, was released On the LIST.
When he stepped out of prison he was
met at the door by an attorney, who
informed him that fortune of $685.
900 was awaiting him
DR. ROBERT w. BUCHANAN, the wife
poisoner, was electrocuted in the Sing
Sing IN. " prison. on the LIST, after
every legal expedient had been ex-
hausted to save his life, or at least to
secure for him another respite The
execution was the quickest and most
successful ever witnessed in the prison.
PRESIDENT HILL of the Great North
ern Railroad Co.. has for some time
been preparing plans for line OF Pa
cific steamships to be established in
connection with that road and to be
run in opposition to the Canadian Pa
cific steamship line. 1t is said that
the new scheme will be announced at
an early day.
AMONG the passengers on the steam
ship Empress of China, which arrived
from the orient at Vancouver. B. c.,
on the I'd, was Hon. John w. Foster,
ex-secretary of state He declined to
speak of his mission to China further
than to say it had been successful and
was concluded. He started immedi-
ately for Washington.
THE records of the immigration
bureau show the number of immi-
grants who arrived in this country
during the fiscal year ended on the
30th to be approximately 255. 325. de-
crease for the year of 3O,304. OF the
whole number of arrivals about 500
were debarred from landing and de-
ported to the coasts from whence
they came.
THE reports of the operations of the
1ife-saving service, made public on the
LIST. show that during the past year
the total number of disasters to YES
sells at sea and on the great lakes was
about 551. OF these about 35s were on
the Atlantic and gulf coasts, 10 on the
lakes and 10 on the Pacific coast.
Property loss. 81, o54. 900; lives lost, %.
against 6s last year.
d. c. BALL. president of the st.
Louis cotton exchange, concluded ne
rotiations, on the 4th. with the Bes-
sonette Compress Co. of Waco, Tex.
for the transfer of that company's pat
ents and new process of COMPRISING
cotton to a company of St Louis and
New York capitalists, who will pro-
coed to put the new system into opera
ton on an extensive scale.
Ok the LIST Rev. Jehn A. Brooks
severed his connection with the large
and influential Christian church of
Memphis, Tenn, to go to Kentucky to
,engage in evangelistic work. 1t is
said that in a fight against progress
,sive euchre he was worsted by the
leading society ladies of his flock, as q