Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-11-14

The secretary Of the interior has
approved the school indemnity selec-
tion by the state of Oregon Of 26, 500
acres of land in the Oregon City land
district.
A CAREFUL estimate places the total
damage by marsh and forest fires in
the five counties Of Lake, Porter. La
porte, ST. Joseph and Pulaski, Indiana.
ut $50, 900.
FARMER HENRY DAyENPoRr's 500
acres of land were sold at Knoxville,
Tenn, on the sth, because he mort
gagged it to get money with which to
buy bogus gold bricks.
IT now appears that the ram Katah-
din may not be rejected by the navy
department., as her failure was due to
her model, with which the Bath Iron
Co. had nothing to do.
THE $4,000 white roses and 1900
pink roses used in decorating the
church for the Marlborough-Vander-
bilt wedding were, distributed among
the hospitals of New York city.
FAILURES for the week ended on the
9th were: For the United States, 2S0.
as compared with 261 for the CORE
spending week last year. For Canada
the failures were 20, against AZ last
year.
WITH due ceremony the new Car
negie library, music hall, art gallery
and museum, in Pittsburgh, Pa, an
institution that has no known parallel
in the world. was opened to the public
on the 9th.
ADVANCE sheets issued by the
Orange Judd Farmer, on the 9th, state
that the potato crop in the United
States will be the largest ever known.
The Farmer places the crop at 2s2,
14S, 900 bushels.
AMOS G.. HESTER, one of the proprie
tors of the San Francisco Daily Report
died at his home in that city. on the
9TH, of Bright's disease. He was a ma
tive of Germantown, O.. and came of {
distinguished family.
THE city of Rome was again visited
by an earthquake at $3.50 o'clock or
the morning of the 6tn. though the
shock was not by any means as severe
as that of the 1st- No damage of any
material character was done.
ALL the business houses in Slater,
Mo-, were closed, on the 18th, while
thanksgiving services were held for q
bountiful rain on the previous night,
which succeeded public prayers offered
for the ending of the drought which
had prevailed since July.
Ri. HON. JAMES LowTHER, conserva
tive member of parliament, presided
over a meeting of the associated cham
bers of agriculture in London, on the
5th, and in the course of the proceed
ings declared that protection was the
only practical relief for the existing
depression.
HERR LuErGENAU, socialist, who was
on the 9th, elected to membership IL
the German reichstag for Dortmund
was. on the 18th, sentenced to five
months Imprisonment for publishing
an article insulting the emperor in the
Dortmund Arbeiter Zeitung, of which
he is editor.
The strike situation on the Grea
Northern took a new turn, on the 9th
when United States Judge Hanford
sitting at Walla Walla, issued an in
junction restraining the strikers from
interfering in any manner with thu
property of the company or the run
ming of the trains.
The phyloxera, or vine pest, ha
struck twenty-six provinces in Italy
devastating vineyards aggregatini
2s5, s45 acres, and other vineyards. ag
rreQating 1876, 345 acres, are on the wa,
to destruction. Sicily has suffered
most. The damage done amounts t.
millions of dollars and the infection i
spreading.
Or the Sth, the secretary of the in
terror forwarded to the president TO
his approval the draft of a proclama
ton opening tor settlement a portion
of the Nez Perces Indian reservation
in Idaho, and suggested that the dat
of the opening of the lands be name'
three days later than the date o.
which the president signs the procla
nation.
AT the annual roll call. on the 6tf
of men enrolled in the reserves of tn
lardwehr, but who are engaged i
civilian pursuits, an order was read a
the command of the German empero
declaring that the possession or dis
tribution of revolutionary literatur
was forbidden to them, and also tina
barraclmen who disobeyed the orde
would be punished just as severely q
active soldiers would be for the SAM
ofHense.
FORTY persons were killed. many {
them by burning, and twenty more Q
less seriously injured, on the 9Th, b
the collapse of five-story buildin
occupied by the Detroit Mich )Evenin
Journal. caused by the explosion OF
battery of boilers in the basemen
The scenes of horror at the wreck. @
superhuman efforts were being mad
TO rescue the pinioned, and in man
cases, doomed victims of the acciden
were indescribablc
THE great collection of paintings
the galleries of the new Carneg
library building at Pittsburgh, Pa
was opened, on the 4th, and will r.
main on exhibition for one montl
(,onnoisseurs from all over the coui
try pronounced the exhibit to be OF
Of the most remarkable ever seen
AIT, .c.,rtrv Mr. Carnegie has in.