Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-09-26

$ro,l Conutg gegister
By ELL D. AXE.
fRONT0N. MISSOURI.
o., was, on the 18th, chosen president
OF the Prison congress in session al
Denver, Col
/ THE Junior Order of United Ameri.
can Mechanics of Pennsylvania held
its thirty-sixth annual state meeting
in McKeesport, beginning on the 18th.
THE British foreign Office. on the
nth. denied the report that the
sultan of Turkey had accepted the plar
of the powers for reforms in Armenia
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the
nth, said that seven of the prisoner
convicted of completely in the recent
massacres were executed at Ku Cheng
ON that day. in the presence of the for
eign consuls
THE family of j. L. Waller. ex
United States consul at Madagascar
now undergoing q term OF twenty
wears imprisonment in Clarvoix pris
on, arrived in Marseilles, on the Goth
from Mauritius.
THE funeral of Admiral Delgadc
lParejo, who was drowned by the sink
ane of the Spanish cruiser Sanchez
Barcaizetgui. of Moro castle, tool
place in Havana, on the Goth, with i'm
posing ceremonies.
The Paris journal says the report
Ands credence that Mr.. j. B. kustis
United States ambassador to France
will shortly change places with Mr.
Theodore Runyon, United States am
bassador to Germany.
FAILURES throughout the United
States, as reported by r 6. Dun & Co.
for the week ended the Goth, were 213
against 210 for the corresponding weel
of last year; for Canada the failures
were 81, against AZ last year.
THE ouarto centennial reunion o,
the Society of the Army of the Cumber
land, meeting in conjunction with the
dedication of the Chickamauga and
Chattanooga National park. was held
at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the 18th.
The Spanish transport steamer San
ia Barbara arrived at Havana, on the
18th, with additional troops from
Spain. She was enthusiastically
cheered upon her arrival by large
crowd of people who gathered to wei
come her.
A DISPATCH from Madrid. on the 18th,
said that Gen. Martinez Campos had
written to Senior Canovas del Castillo
the Spanish premier, declaring that
the Cuban rebellion is a great deal
more serious than it was at the time
of his last report
THE water in the bay at Alpena
Mich, receded suddenly, on the 18th
lowering the level about three feel
and leaving several vessels on the bot
tom. 1t came back gradually. The
same phenomenon occurred last yea
about the same time.
THE verdict of the coroner's jury In
vestigating the Osceola mine disaster
ut Houghton. Mich, in which thirty
persons lost their lives, made public
on the 18th, said that the cause OF thu
fire Is unknown, and exonerated TIT
s~I II
A pEFALcArIoN of SIS, 800 on the par
of the receiving and paying tellers o
the National Bank of Illinois at Chi
cago, was, on the 10th, admitted by thu
officers of that institution. The short
age had all been made good, and it il
understood there will be no prosecu
ton.
M. TURPIN, the French inventor o
the explosive melinite, asserts that thu
porte has asked him to apply his new
discovery in fortifying the Darda
nelles. "When my engines get t.
work." NJ. Turpin says, "the straits
will be impossible to the united feet
of the world"
THE Cotton States exposition at At
lanta. Ca, for which preparations hat
beenunceasingly making for two years
was formally opened, on the 18th
President Cleveland, at Gray Gables
near Buzzard's Bay. Mass, staring ri
the ponderous machinery by touching
an electric button.
FOLLOWING the example OF the jus
fices of the supreme court OF Pennsyl
vania. the judges of the common plea
court of Philadelphia have decided t
wear gowns while sitting on the bench
The gowns will be fashioned some
what after those worn by the judge
In the courts of England.
DIR PARKHURsr returned to Ne'
York city on the steamship Germanic
ON the Goth, after an absence OF thre
months in Europe. The great cruss
der spent bis vacation in Switzerland
and in his own words derived bot
health and mental profit from the cor
templation of nature liz her mos
rugged mood"
The Cincinnati Price Current. on tn
18th, summarized the crop condition
for the week as follows: Generally II
vorable for maturing corn. But
small proportion could now be serious
" injured by frost The yield indies
tions have been maintained. Autumn
wheat seeding is deficient, but may u
timately prove equal to last year.
ACCORDING to the independent