Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-03-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PROBABLY the country will hear n
more extra session talk this year. Al
the appropriation bills were passed ant
signed and the president has gone OF
on his vacation.
If France follows the example o
Germany in excluding American driet
apples, the supply of foreign cham
pagnes in this country may be con
siderably disturbed.
AT Hawks Nest, W. Va. John Rus
sell put out into the New river in Z;
frail skiff on the 4th. He was swep
over the falls and drowned in sight O.
hundreds of Mortified spectators on thu
bank. AS the skiff went over he waved
farewell to the watchers.
THOMAS JONES, who helped J. Wilke.
Booth to escape to Virginia after the
assassination of President Lincoln, dice
at La Plate, Md, on the 4th. aged q
years.
A TERRIFIC explosion of natural gas
at Anderson, Ind, at 4 o'clock on the
morning of the 5th destroyed the bust
ness block containing the When cloth
ing store, Prather's shoe store, Had
ley's drug store. and large number
of business offices, and demolished the
fronts of all the stores in the vicinity
The street was ripped up and tele
phone cables torn down. Loss, fully
100000.
The German reichstag, on the 9th,
by vote of 167 to 81, rejected the bill
to restrict Jewish emigration.
CRAWFORD NJ. KENDRICK and his
brother Charles, who have stood high
in st. Louis business circles, and who
have had the entree to the best society
of the city for twenty years, have sud.
denly disappeared, leaving an alleged
Indebtedness of 100000, with very
small assets They are supposed to
have gone to Mexico.
Ii Hume CHANG and suite started for
Japan, on the 5th, armed with full
powers to treat for peace. All of his
rivals have been dispersed, and the old
diplomat is once more on the top rung
of popularity at the Chinese court.
JOHN NUFFER, The engineer whose
recklessness is believed to have caused
the Interoceanic railway disaster in
Mexico, by which SO many lives were
lost, is said to have eluded the Mexican
authorities and escaped into Texas.
IT was reported in Wall street, New
York, on the 5th, that the Union Pa
cific reorganization committee would
dissolve on account of the impossibili-
ty of accomplishing any results until
after the next congress cohvenes.
THE Chinese war-ships captured at
Wei.Hai-Wei have arrived at Yoko-
hama, Japan, in charge of japanese
crews The Japanese government will
make every effort to raise and secure
as prizes the Chinese warships sunk at
Wei-Hai-Wei.
THE treasury statement of circula-
ton for February, issued on the 5th,
shows a decrease for the month of
February of $50. 122, 95s, reducing the
aggregate circulation of all kinds of
money to S1,574, 534, 557, a decrease for
the year ending March l of SIG, 00O,-
900. The circulation per capita, based
on 69,3s1. 600 of population, has been
reduced to S22.6O
The last measure signed by the
president, on the 4th, was the anti
lottery bill, in which a great deal of
has been manifested.
PRINCE ALEXANDER Won HOHENLoE,
youngest son of the German chancel-
lOr, has been betrothed to Princess
of Salm-Spraunfels.
STATISTICS from the immigration bu-
reau show a falling off of 40 per cent.
in arrivals during the past seven
months.
THE president left Washington, on
A. IL,
let for an outing of week or ten days
for duck shooting in the North Carroll
ma sounds.
News from Havana, on the 9th,
stated that the Guantanamo troops
had attacked and dispersed the insur-
gent band under Berez Brooks at LuZo.
Several of the band were wounded. The
troops captured all their arms, ammu-
uition, etc. The provinces of Puerto
Matanzas, Pinar, Rio and
Havana were quiet.
SOUTH-BOUND steamers arriving at
New Orleans, on the 5th, reported the
burning of the little steamer Laura
Banks in the Tennessee river with the
loss of several lives, the victims all be-
ing negroes, excepting a lad named
N L.
tain of the boat, who was in the boiler
room when the fire started and could
not es cape.
A PERCEPTIBLE shock of earthquake
was felt at Wytheville, Va. at 9:45 a.
M. of the 5th. The disturbance lasted
half a minute, and manifested itself
by shaking houses and causing win
dows and furniture to rattle.
THE city of Port-of-Spain. Trinidad,
suffered from a 100000 confiagra-
ton, on the 9th, and but for the as
sistance rendered by sailors landed
from American and British ships in
the harbor. the whole place would
doubtless have succumbed to the
flames.
OTIs r. JOHNSON. the Wisconsin lum-
herman and capitalist, died in Racine,
on the 9th, aged so years, leaving an
estate estimated as high as SlO,OOO,-
600. He was partner of the late Sen
ator Stock bridge, of Michigan; Gen.
Russell A. Alger and ex-senator Saw
yer, of Wisconsin. He owned millions
Of dollars worth of property in the
California redwood country.
AN imperial edict has been issued
abolishing the knout in the infection
of punishment in Russia. Hitherto
the peasantry have been completely at
the mercy of the local judges The is
suance of this edict is due to the fact
that statistics were submitted to the
car, which showed that within the
last ten years 5000 persons convicted
of petty thefts have died from the eff
fects of the knout-
On the 9th the French government
received information by cable from
Zanzibar that the French had seized
the island of Nossivey, lying south