Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-09-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

. DR. SNERDscHER and two guides fell
over a precipice while ascending Mont
Blanc, in the Swiss Alps, on the Goth,
and all three were killed.
THE convent of Ribordaine, village
in the province of Turin, Italy, was
partially destroyed by fire on the eth.
Eight women persisted and four others
were severely injured.
THE yield from general taxation in
Spain for July shows decrease of
3,529, 500 pesetas, as compared with the
month of July, 1894.
QUEEN VICTORIA, accompanied by
Princess Beatrice, left Osborne house,
on the eth. for BalmoraL
THE American Bar association con-
vened in eighteenth annual session at
Detroit, Mich. on the eth.
THE coroner and the police of In
dianapolis, Ind, went to Irvington, on
the 2sth, to get together all the re-
mains of the body of Howard Pietzel,
and to collect the mass of evidence
developing there against II. 81. Holmes.
Later the coroner began the taking of
testimony in the case.
HIPPoLYTE RAMMAN, the dramatist,
committed suicide in Paris. on the
27th, by shooting himself with a re-
volver.
A PARTY of hunters have found in
Harlan county, KY, a lot of skeletons,
guns and cartridges, which are believed
to throw some light upon a missing
party of soldiers belonging to John
Morgan's famous command, which
went into the mountains of Kentucky
to cope with Union bushwhackers.
ARTHUR MASTER, son of Col. Chester
Master, of Cirencestor, Worcestershire.
and a cousin of the marquis of Sails
bury, fell from second-story window
at Middlesborough, KY, on the 2sth,
and was fatally injured. He had been
in Middlesborough five years, having
come to Kentucky with number of
other English capitalists when the
famous Middlesborough boom began.
LIGHTNING entered the telegraph Of
fee of the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul Railway Co. at Whitewater.
Wis. on the night of the 9th, and in
stantly killed the operator, Joseph
O'Malley.
NM. BENEDITTI and Alessandri, rival
candidates for the canton of Pedicroce,
Corsica, fought a duel with pistols, on
the 2sth. and Alessandri was killed.
AN important order giving full pro
lection to foreign consumers of Ameri
can meat products was issued on the
2Sth. 1t will prevent the expectation
of any beef that is not inspected, and
will cause the exporters of horse meat
SO to mark the packages that the ma
ture of the contents shall be apparent.
GEORGE WALTERS. a lineman en-
ployed by the Connellsville pa Elec-
trio Light Co., was instantly killed,
on the 10th, while making repairs to
an arc light. The wire had been
crossed with another during storm.
THE duke of Orleans, who, upon the
death, last year, of his father, the
count of Paris, became the head of the
royalist party in France, and claimant
to the throne, has become convinced
of the futility of further fighting the
republic. He has, therefore, decided
to abandon the royalist propaganda
and save the money spent in its main
tenance.
The factional fight that has been
going on for some time in Chinatown.
San Francisco. between the See Yup
and the Sam Yup families. has culmi-
mated in the disruption of the Six
zation ever instituted by the Chinese
in this country.
Ex-PoLIcE JUSTICE PATRICK GAvAN
DUFFY, of New York city, who was
stricken with paralysis two weeks
previous at Forked River, n. j.. died
there on the 2Sth. He was one of the
most popular with Tammany) justices
that ever sat on the bench in New York
city.
WILLIAM GAILLARD, of Palestine
Commandery, No. 8, Knights Templar,
of New London, Conn, dropped dead
from apoplexy on Washington street,
Roxbnrv, Mass, on .the 2sth. He was
returning to headquarters after pa
rade. apparently as we'll as usual,
when the fatal attack seized him.
The next triennial conclave of tb e
grand encampment of Knights Tenn
plar of the United States will be held
in Pittsburgh, Pa, in 1898.
The Paris Matin advises that Great
Britain and Brazil submit the question
of possession of the island of Trinidad
to arbitration.
On the goth the Belmont-Morgan
syndicate deposited 81, SOC, 600 in gold
in the New York sub-treasury in ex-
change for greenbacks. which raised
the treasury gold reserve to SOL, 7OO.-
OOO
A ROLLING rock struck q Colorado
Midland passenger train near Fisher,
Col , on the 2sth, wrecking the bag
gage car and smoking car. One per-
SON was killed and two injured.
A DISPATCH from Moscow, on the
goth. said that half the town of Yukh-
noff, in the province of Smolensk, had
been burned.
A GERMAN torpedo boat capsized
and sank in the North sea on the
2Sth. Thirteen of her crew were
drown ed.
LIBRARIAN SPoFFoRD, on the goth,
forwarded to the treasury department
a statement of has accounts covering a
period of several years The report
specifies moneys received and dis
bursed for library and copyright pur-
poses up to August il, last The figure
will not be given out pending the
action OF the department on the report.
The coroner's jury in the case of the
Gumry hotel disaster at Denver, Col,
say that the testimony was SO conflict
ing that it was impossible to fix the
responsibility for the disaster upon
any one person, but that the owners,
Peter Gumry and R. c. Greiner, were
blamable for requiring their engineer
to work sixteen hours out of twenty