Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE British bark CISCO was wrecked
on the breakwater at Holyhead, En-
gland, on the 30th, and all hands, TWEEN
ty-four in number, were drowned.
THE Delevan house at Albany, N.
Y, was burned on the night of the
3Oth. One life was reported lost, and
several guests were injured in their eff
forts to escape from the building.
A DISPATCH from Pekin of the 3Oth
announced that Ii Hung Chang had
been superseded in the supreme COM
mand of the Chinese armies by Kun vi,
ex-viceroy of Nankin.
MILO LEES barber-shop and lodging
house at Elwood, Ind, was wrecked by
an explosion of natural gas on the
3Oth. and six persons were badly in
jured.
JOHN FITZGERALD, ex-president of the
Irish National League of America, and
one of the most extensive railroad con-
tractors in the country, died at Lin
coin, Neb., on the SOth.
In the burning of his residence at
Newaygo, Mich, on the morning of the
Goth, Charles White lost his life in a
vain effort to save that of his 6-year-
old son.
TERRIBLE restitution exists in Per-
kins, Chase, Dundy, Lincoln, Hayes.
Hitchcock and Frontier counties, Neb. :,
and the worst feature is the people
in several localities are afflicted with
scurvy for want of wholesome food.
THE city building at Biddeford, Me-,
was damaged to the extent of $4,000
by fire on the morning of the sOth.
Besides the city offices. the post Office
and police station, the building con-
tanned the drug store of DIR. Warren,
McKenny & Meards hardware stores.
Mrs. Wards millinery parlors and the
York County savings bank, all of
which were damaged by smoke and
water.
WILLIAM L. STRONG was indicted
into Office as mayor of the city of New
York, on the 1st, his election repre-
senting very much the same conditions
and social elements that asserted them
selves, in 1872, in the choice of Villa m
Havemeyer for mayor: the main pur-
pose in the earlier case being the over
throw of the Tweed regime, and in the
present case to correct abuses known
or suspected in the police and other
departments of the city government.
A Mrs. REINECKE, wanted in New
York for embezzling $4,000 worth of
diamonds, which she had struggled
into the country for several New York
firms, was arrested in Santa Rosa, Cal,
on the 1st. The arrest was made by
Mrs. NJ. E. Darragh, searcher in the
New York customs service, who had
followed Mrs. Reinecke across the con-
tinent.
UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR EUsTIs
and Consul-General Morse held New
Years receptions at their respective
residences in Paris.
MORE than 10000 prisoners will be
benefited by the cars decree of am
nesty. Many of them have been al
ready liberated.
THE Prince knitting works at Chica-
go. employing $50 girls, were burned
on the I'd. Thirty of the young ladies
were rescued from the third-story win
dows by the firemen. Cause, sponta-
neous com bustion; loss, $40, 5000, partly
insured.
JOHN B. BERGAMINI, 30 years of age,
and his wife Kate, 20 years old, were
found dead, on the morning of the Cd,
at their home in New York. They
had been suffocated by escaping gas.
THE recount in the mayoralty con-
test in Winnipeg, Man., was completed
on the I'd. AS a result McMicken was
unseated and Gilroy was declared
mayor by majority.
Two STREET CARS in Indianapolis,
Ind, collided, on the I'd, in binding
snowstorm. About twenty persons
were injured more or less seriously by
the accident.
On the I'd, Gov. Morton of New York
nominated Alva II. Doty to be health
officer of the port of New York, and he
was promptly confirmed by the senate.
AN emery wheel burst in the Pope
Knitting Co.'S factory at Bucyrus, O.,
Greenwich, 17-year-old employee.
THE principal part of the village of
Sherman, n. Y, was burned at o'clock
on the morning of the Cd; aggregate
losses, $50, 900.
EIGHT business places, including the
leading stores and post Office at Per-
rysville, O., were burned on the I'd;
loss, 1000.
FRANCIS II, the last king of Naples.
was buried, on the Sd, from the parish
church in Arco, the Tyrol, Austria
The decoration of Count Won Wal
dersee with the order of the Black
Eagle was officially gazetted in Berlin
on the I'd.
THE president, on the I'd, awarded a
medal of honor, for distinguished gal
lantry. to Brevet Brig. Gen VIM II.
Wilmington, u. S. ", of jackson,
Mich, in voluntarily remaining on the
field, under heavy fire, at Bull Run,
July, 1861, to aid his wounded superior
officer Gen. (then coloneD Orlando b.
Wilcox, resulting in the capture OF
both officers.
! A STORY was telegaaphed from Wash
ington, on the night of the I'd. that the
New York financiers, through Mr.. j.
Pierpont Morgan, had demanded the
retirement of Secretary of the Treas
ury Carlisle, and that the president
would stand by Mr.. Carlisle. A New
York dispatch. however. stated that
Mr.. Morgan characterized the story as
absurd.
EDWARD MCMULLIN. lineman in
the employ of the Western Union Tel
eoraph Co, was awarded q verdict at
Newark, n. J., on the Sd, against the
company of $4,000 for injuries re-
ceived while working among the wires
ON q pole in jersey City in June. 1898