Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-09-26
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.

A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The treasury gold reserve stood
1T the close of business on the 10th
at SOS. PAS. 642, the lowest point reached
since the last bond issue raised the re-
serve above the 500, 600, 900 mark.
IT is said that English capitalists
will import several hundred thousand
head of Mexican cattle into Texas,
fatten them on cottonseed meal and
ship them alive to England.
The supreme court of Nebraska met.
on the 18th. for the usual September
term. Among the first decisions
handed down was that in the Omaha
fire and police board muddle. The de-
cision was rendered by Justice Post,
and was unanimous in favor of the
new board.
A DISPATCH from Stockholm, on
the 18th. said the Norwegian bark Clio
dian, Capt A. Johannsen had been
wrecked off Umea, Sweden, and her
entire crew lost. She was owned by
o. A. Johannsen. of Frederikstadt
A MAN. giving his name as Frank
Smith broke into Joseph Emmons'
house at Elwood, Ind, on the night OF
the 10th, and became engaged in q
desperate conflict with Emmons A
sick child was frightened to death, and
Emmons presented q sickening sight
when rescued by officers Smith was
placed in jail. feigning insanity. The
coroner held him as the murderer.
ANorABLE reunion was held at Indi-
annapolis. Ind, on the 18th. 1t was
that of the One Hundred and Twenty
third Indiana regiment, known to his
tory as ''Hovey's Babies" They were
recruited by Gen. Alvin P. Hovey,
afterward governor of the state, and
they got their name from the fact that
the average age was the lowest of any
regiment that participated in the war.
OF the 1000 men enlisted 700 at the
time of enlistment were under 25 years
of age, and many were but Is years
old. The regiment made great fight
ing record.
In con nection with the celebrations
commemorative of the entry of the
Italian army into Rome, King Hum
bert issued a decree, on the 18th, lib
Grating all prisoners except four OF
the leaders of the Sicilian riots
The rumor that one of the steamers
of the North German Lloyd Steamship
Co. had foundered was. on the 18th.
emphatically denied by the officers of
that company.
The ceremonies in connection with
the dedication of the Chattanooga
and Chickamauga National Military
park began on the 18th with the
dedication of state monuments.
THE free silver forces of the United
States will be consolidated and head
quarters will be established in Chica.
go. Gen. A. j. Warner, president OF
the National Bimetallic league, will
be the president of the consolidated
body. and Secretary Edward B. Light
of the American Bimetallic union will
occupy a similar position in the new
body.
ROBERT CooMBEs, the boy who stabbed
his mother to death in London. a few
months ago. has been adjudged guilty,
but declared insane, and will be con.
fined in an asylum at the pleasure Of
the queen.
AT Dubuque. Ia, on the 18th, cred
itors. libeled the revenue cutter William
Window in the federal court for $500
This is expected to precipitate actor
by other creditors of the Iowa iron
works, whose experience in the con
struction OF the Window and the tor
pedo boat Ericsson has been very dis
astrous.
81 Oyrt
by fire on the 18th. Forty business
houses were burned, with contents
and also many residences. The dam
age is over 100000. Fremont. Serb
ner and other towns sent special trains
with fire apparatus, which arrived toe
late to be of service.
OSHKOSH, Wis. was visited by a de
structive conaagration on the 18th.
Property, including millions of feet OF
lumber, was destroyed to the amount
of $500 Only after the city fire
department was reinforced by engines
and men from Neenah, Menasha, APP
pleton and Fond du Lac, were the
flames checked and the fire extin
guished.
JAKE GAUDAUR, the oarsman, said
gagements he can not accept Harding:
challenge to race in England, but he
| will row the Englishman in Texas, ons
| week after the regatta at Austin, 70,
s., 500 a side, and will allow him $50
expenses from England.
THE national encampment OF Som
| of Veterans at Knoxville, Tenn. came
| to an end on the 18th. On that da,
the encampment elected officers ant
at night a display of fireworks wa.
provided near Fort Saunders
| OK the 18th Chicago customhouse in
spectors arrested Raphael Cordina. 1
Mexican youth aged II. in whose pos
session 81 900 worth of struggled dia
monds were found
Four persons were injured, one prob
ably fatally, by a collision between
trolley car and an ice wagon in or
Scott, Kas., on the 18th
FIRE in Indianapolis, Ind. on tn
18th, destroyed property variously es
| timated at from S40O, 900 to $500, 600.
RUSSIAN agents have gone to Peki
/ to negotiate for the establishment @
a Russo Chinese bank in that city.
IT was reported, on the 18th, that
second Chinese loan, guaranteed b
Russia and France, will be conclude
in November. France undertaking t
find the money. German fnanciers r.
fuse to take any part of the loan
SECRETARY LANNON'S bashfulnes
held him absent from the Chickamaug
rostrum, with his maiden speech ye
undelivered. .In spite OF the wide ae