Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| GAINESVILLE, o. There was no rain and
the sky was almost clear. The chin.
ney on the east end of the building
was knocked down, and the water con-
ductor at the other end of the build
ing was unsoldered. 1t left the con.
ductor and shivered to atoms a post in
the picket fence adjoining. making a
large hole in the ground. Several
people were considerably stunned.
Mr. LOUIS STERN. of New York city.
was sentenced at Kissengen, Germany.
on the 5th, to two weeks Imprisonment
for insulting a public official: and to
pay a fine of 600 marks for resistance
to the authority of the state. The de-
Tense pleaded not guilty to the charge
of resistance, and asked that Mr.. Stern
be found guilty on the charge of in
sulting a public official.
JUDGE C. D. MARSHALL, of Chippewa
Falls, Wis, was, on the 5th, appointed
to the position on the supreme bench
of Wisconsin made vacant by the death
of Judge Gordon.
News that the Cuban expedition
| which recently sailed from bahama,
reached the southern coast of Cuba in
safety, was received at the Cuban head
quarters in New York city on the 9th.
The stock barn on r. T. McDonald's
noted Riverside farm near Fort Wayne,
| Ind, was burned on the night of the
| 5th. 1t was valued at S12, 900. The
$4,000 California stallion Truman,
| with a mile record of 2:12. and five colts
of Electric King fast stock, valued at
$40, ZOO, were burned.
BANK EXAMINER CowDRY, on the 5th,
closed the Citizens State bank at South
Sioux City, Neb. Liabilities are about
$50, 900; assets, 500, 900. with affairs in
bad condition. This bank was the
county depository, and over SIS, 900 was
on deposit.
The steamship Topeka arrived at
Port Townsend. Wash, on the 5th,
having on board the survivors of the
crew of the sealing schooner c. G.
White. which was wrecked on Wood
island, Alaska, early in the spring.
The party consisted of seven men, all
that remains of a crew of twenty
seven.
In a fight between officers and riot
ing farm laborers in Argentina, re-
six wounded. The buildings upon the
estate where the riot occurred were
entirely destroyed, and all the horses
and cattle were burned to death.
The total of the patent
Office for the last fiscal year were ST.
1875, 557; the balance of receipts over
expenditures was S157,391. The total
balance of receipts over expenditures
now in the treasury to the credit of
the patent Office is 81, $50, 755. All but
one of the thirty-four divisions had
their work within one month of date,
and this one was less than two months
behind. At the close of the fiscal
year 4, 927 applications were awaiting
action.
WHILE John J. O'Brien, a drainage
canal foreman, was on his way home,
near Lamont, ILL.,, on the 4th, he was
attacked by two colored men. He
shot Grip Gillet in the leg and threw
the other man into the canal, where
he sank like lead, and was drowned.
On the 9th someone detected among
the new decorations of the Pension
building in Washington a representa-
ton of 1.-The Little Red Schoolhouse"
well up on one of the pillars. 1t is
very distinct. and the smoke curls out
of the chimney. Objection was made
to it, and it is rumored that high
pension Office official directed the artist
to efface it. He refused to do SO.
The state department distinctly
approves United States Minister
Terrills demand upon the porte for
the punishment of the three Kurds
who murdered young Lentz. the BIZ
cyclist, who was making a tour of the
world.
AT a meeting of the high court Of
Foresters at Brighton, England, on
the 18th, the American subsidiary ex-
ton for a new ritual, affirming that
the future success of the order in
America depended on the question of a
ritual. The sanction was granted.
The last dispatches from the Ban
mock country show that there was no
cause for the cutlery raised by the
Wyoming settlers against the Indians
The Bannocks have returned quietly
to their reservation, and have begun
the making of hay, leaving their griev-
ances to the Justice of the white man.
Mr.. PRESTON, the director of the
mint, in explanation of the recent ship
ment of $40, OOo, 600 in gold bullion from
New York to Philadelphia, said that it
was the present purpose of the govern
ment to coin with reasonable rapidity
all of its $50, 600, 900 stock of gold bull
lion.
1T was reported in Washington, on
the eth. that there is probability of
| a combination being formed by which
the Chinese empire will be dismen-
| bered and parceled between Russia,
England and France, Germany mean
while being appeased by concessions
| in Africa.
The report from London that Sir
Julian Pauncefote, British ambassador
to Washington, is about to succeed Sir
Edward Baldwin Malet as ambassador
to Berlin is discredited at the state de-
partment at Washington. 1t would be
an unusual promotion.
In company with her father Miss
Elizabeth Flagler appeared before
Judge Cole of the criminal court in
Washington city, on the eth. and gave
bond for her appearance before the
grand jury in September to answer the
charge of killing young Ernest Green,
the colored boy whom she shot re-
| Gently while stealing apples in her ia
theirs yard.
THE United States civil-service COM
mission will hold another special ex-
animation, on the 2Sth, to secure eli-
gibles for positions as cornpositor,
pressman, book binder. stereotyper and
electrotyper in the government print
inc Office.