Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-23
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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A BOILER in the Carnegie steel works
ut the Homestead pa 33-inch mill ex-
ploded, on the 18th. wrecking portion
of the building and fatally scalding
Theodore McHenry. visitor. James
Anderson, a machinist, was struck on
the head with a flying brick and badly
cut. He is also terribly scalded, and
his recovery is doubtful.
FUENTEs, the New York newspaper
correspondent who was arrested in
Santiago de Cuba, and Richelieu, the
American sailor, who was imprisoned
for time on suspicion of being impli-
Gated in the insurrection, sailed from
Santiago de Cuba on the Niaja, on the
18th, for New York.
Ex-SEcRErARY HUGH McCULLocH
was reported. on the 18th. as very i'll
at his country home, Holly Hill Farm,
fering from debility, due to old age,
and from kidney trouble. Mr.. McCul-
loch is nearly 90 years Of age.
THE Hungarian house of magnates,
on the 18th, for the third time, re-
jected, by a vote of 119sto lis. the sec
ton of the ecclesiastical bill granting
equal right to persons who do not pro-
fess religion.
THE trial of Messiah" Schweinfurth
at Rockford, ILL.,, was, on the 18th,
postponed until the next term of court.
SHORTLY after midnight, on the 14th,
an explosion occurred in the new S24,-
600 school building at oSleepy Eye,
Mimi, and in an instant the structure
was in flames from foundation to tower.
In the basement was the village cleo
trio plant. The total loss is $32. 500;
insurance, goa, 500. The cause of the
explosion is mystery.
Gov. EVANS of South Carolina has
issued a lengthy address to the citi-
zens of the state in which he deals
very harshly with the recent decisions
in the dispensary and registration
cases. He refers to the political his
tory of the state and argues that the
state can conduct it's business without
| national interference.
CHARLES SIMMONS, aged 45, was de-
| capitated in the Gagnon mine at Butte.
Mout., on the 14th. The engineer mis-
took signal and hoisted before Sim
| mons was in the skip. His head caught
| between the skip and the shaft timber
| and was torn almost completely from
| the body.
THE president is said to be deter
mined to punish Admiral Meade for
| his alleged attack on the administra-
| ton, but hesitates to order his trial by
| court-martial because of the difficulties
that might be found in proving that
Admiral Meade made use of the re-
marks attributed to him.
| IaEoit Id ho
| 600, 900 mark on the 18th, the exact
amount of the excess of expenditures
| over the receipt since July 1, 1894, be-
| ing $50, 4O4, ss7. This is the second
year since 1865 that the expenditures
of the government have exceeded its
! revenues.
copied the resignation of Freiherr Won
Der Goltz, the admiral commander-in-
chief of the German navy. Admiral
Won Knors succeeds Admiral Won Der
Goltz as commander-in-chief.
A CABINET rumor is floating about
| Washington to the effect that Secre-
tary Lamont is to resign and ex-Con-
gresham Cultivate is to be put at the
head of the war department..
| CHARLES BAYARD, a wealthy cattle
man of Arizona, was in Los Angeles,
Cal, on the 18th, and said he looked
for big uprising of the Apache In
dams in the territory. He thinks the
Kid has rallied all the Apaches, and
the absence of the troops gives them a
chance to do great damage before they
can be reached.
The Spanish government having no
more soldiers to press into service, is
taking convicts from the prisons and
enrolling them for active military
service. This is being done not only
| in Spain, but also in Cuba. A soldier
who enlisted with patriotic motives
may have to fight side by side with an
assassin, burglar or common thief.
THE La Fama cotton mills, situated
near Monterey, Mexico, were destroyed
by fire recently. They were the
largest in northern Mexico, and the
loss is placed at S125, ZOO. A company
of Monterey capitalists owned the
mills.
THE railways of Mexico have not
been troubled during the last decade
with many robberies. but a provision
in the new constitutional amendment
authorizes the shooting on the spot OF
train robbers, if murder has been com
mitted.
The senate of the Breslau university
declined, ON the 18th, to accede to the
request of the German government
that disciplinary measures be taker
against the students of that institution
who signed the protest against the
anti-revolution bill.
d Honolulu advices by the steamer
Australia, which arrived at San Fran
cisco on the 18th, state that the Ha
waiian foreign Office had made reply
to the note of Secretary Gresham OF
the recall of Mr.. Thurston, who's
course it upholds-
Four mills of the Schaghticoke On
W Powder Co. blew up on the 18th
} The shock was terrific. Chaunce,
Loanes, unmarried, was killed, ant
Charles Ctum, who had wife ant
: three children, was fatally injured.
: SIR CHARLES III. UPPER Canadian
minister of justice, having been per
emptorily ordered by his physicians t.
take rest, went to Lakewood, n. j.
on the 18th, for couple of weeks
|, THE kerosene factory of the Roths
childs at Baku, Russia, was destroyed
by fire, on the 18th, together with
number of oil reservoirs and othe
property. The loss was very heavy.
!, THE Madrid government has decides
!. to send no more troops at present t
I Cuba
The National Woman Suffrage con
vention at Salt Lake City, Utah. cam
, to a sudden end. on the 18th, by Mis-
!, Anthony's being called to return home
!, ADMIRAL NORM, Italian minister o