Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IHE German government has instruct
| ed the Hamburg chamber of commerce
| to inquire into the complaints which
have been made as to the inferior
quality of recent importations into
that country of petroleum by the
Standard Oil Co. of the United States.
It is charged that the Pennsylvania
| oil fields are exhausted, and that the
oil recently imported was from Indiana
and Ohio.
ALL the lawyers, constables and de-
tectives of Dawes county made raid
on Crawford. Neb., on the 10th, to find
the absconding bank president, Albert
Whipple. His friends insist that he will
return and explain everything. Others
who know the inside history of the
company say he will never return I'M
less compelled to do SO by law. The de-
falcation will reach $50, or more.
REPORTS to the treasury department
show that since December the amount
of gold taken out of the subtreasuries
in exchange for United States and
treasury notes is So, 341, s92, of which
SIS, or, 964 was in exchange for United
States notes and S26S, 92s in exchange
for treasury notes.
IF the possession of railroads and tel
egraphs is a gauge of civilization, then
the United States certainly stands far
ahead of any other nation. In rail-
roads America has 21s,S71 miles, or
81 900 miles more than all of the re-
naming countries of the world COM
bined.
ALL foreign diplomatic action at Con-
stantinople has been suspended in con-
sequence of the exchange of views
which on the initiative of Great Britain,
is proceeding between the Berlin treaty
signatory powers with the view of TAX
ing joint action on the Armenian ques-
ton.
THE building of the Consolidated
Coffee Co. at Omaha, Neb., was Quilted
by fire on the 10th. entailing loss of
about $4,000 on stock and structure.
Guests of several large hotels in the
same block were frightened from their
quarters. The damage was covered by
insurance.
THE senate, on the 18th, confirmed
the nomination of Gen. John C. Black
to be United States attorney for the
northern district of Illinois.
THE Ontario Malleable works at
Oshawa, Ont, were burned on the 18th.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, 500, 900. The
establishment was the oldest of it's
kind in Canada, and gave employment
to 800 men.
THE newly replenished gold reserve
is again steadily melting away.
JOHN BURNS, the English labor rep
resentative, spoke to the miners of
Georgetown, Col, on the night of the
18th.
Mrs. MARY ANDERSON NAVARRO, the
well-known American actress, was re-
Gently delivered of a son at her resi-
dence in Lexham Gardens, London.
The child died the same day.
BIRGE's wallpaper factory. covert ng
half square in Buffalo, n. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire, on the 18th, causing a
loss of $500, 200, and throwing from 500
to 700 employees out of work 1t was
the largest individual plant of its kind
in the United States and perhaps in the
world.
MILES KITCHEN of Okeene, Okla,
while repairing the cross on top of a
church steeple there, on the 10th, fell
to the ground, a distance of 60 feet, and
was intantly killed.
In q collision between cable cars in
the Washington street (Chicago) tun-
mel, on the evening of the 18th, one
man was fatally hurt, fifteen more ,
people were seriously injured. and .
score of others more or less bruised.
The cars were set on fire by the stoves, |
and for a time there was fearful panic |
around the wleck.
On the 18th Harry Stoner and Mary |
Rreuster, William ID. Casswell and |
Katie May Griffith. Charles s. McClel-
land and Sallie Eustis, G. l.. Markham
and Matte Middleton, George F. Cook
and Lottie B. Smith, of Louisville. and |
Alvin Fry and Winnie Narfield, of Gray
SON, were among those who eloped to
Jacksonville, Ind, from kentucky. !