Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-25
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

ALEXANDRIA,, on the 18th. for COnStan.
tinople.
SHORTLY before 1 o'clock on the
morning of the 18th the handsome
steamer Cibola, of the Niagara River
line, which piled between Lewistown,
n. Y, and Toronto. Ont, was burned tc
the waters edge, having taken fire al
the dock at Lewistown and drifted to
sand bar in the river, the dock and
an adjoining hotel were burned.
HE nallers at Ellis & Lessig's iron
and steel plant at Pottstown, Pa, have
been notified that on and after August
they will receive an increase of 90 s-IC
per cent in wages. On the same date
the men employed in the plate mill
will be put back to the scale of 1898,
which is decided advance over pres.
emit rates.
A TELEGRAM from Senator Dubois at
Washington, on the 10th, said that by
August the Nez Perces Indians will
receive the money from the govern
ment for their lands This means
that within about six weeks the great
Nez Perces reservation, the garden
spot of Idaho, will be opened for set
Element
The treasury department, on the 10th,
resumed the issue of gold certificates,
suspended during the period when the
gold reserve was below 500, 900, 900.
THE Collins wool mills in Dracut,
Mass. posted notices, on the 10th, an
nouncing an increase of 10 per cent in
the wages of operatives.
MARY FROST ORMsBY, of New York,
who was appointed delegate for the
fifth time to the international peace
conference which was to have been
held al Brussels August 16. has re-
celved a cable dispatch stating that
the meeting has been postponed until
next spring.
FOUR robbers. one masked, burst
open the door Of John Mitbims house
at Orange, O., with a fence rail, at /
o'clock on the night of the 18th. bound
and gagged him and his wife with bed
clothes and tortured them with fire at
their feet. The robbers secured SIS.
Mitbim is blind and Mrs. Mitbim near
ly So
DISTRICT ATTORNEY GRAHAM, of
Philadelphia, stated, on the 10th, that
III. Fl. Holmes would not be surren-
dered to the Toronto authorities, suffi-
cient evidence having been gathered
to prove that the body found in the
Callow Hill-street house in Philadel-
phia was that of Pitezel. He had no
doubt that Holmes would be con-
victed of murder.
BARON voN HAMMERsTEIN, formerly
editor-in-chief of the Kruz Zeitung,
has fed from Berlin. taking his effects
with him. and official seals have been
placed upon his dwelling.
THREE persons were killed and
twenty injured, on the 18th. by the
collapse of a bridge just south of
Monument, Col, precipitating south
bound freight train on the Santa Fe
to the bottom of the creek so
feet below.
The jury in the case of Woodruff
on trial at Traverse City,
Julia Curtis. after being out twenty
hours. returned a verdict, on the
18th. of murder in the first degree.
TWENTY-FIVE firemen were buried
under falling walls during a fire on
Front and Walnut streets, in Cincin-
natl, on the 18th. OF these two were
taken out dead and all of the others
more or less injured.
On the 18th the president appointed
Lieut.. w. L. r. King, corps of engi-
neers, q. S A, member of the Mis-
souri, River commission, and Hiram
second assistant engineer.
The Cuban junta in New York city
has negotiated for 1000 pounds of
dynamite to be used by the insurgents
in Cuba next winter in their campaign
against the Spaniards-
Mr. JOHN MORLEY, formerly chief
for Ireland. who was de-
feated for reelection in Newcastle.
left that city, on the 18th, to join his
family in Scotland Crowds of his adj
mirers went to the station to bid him
and sang the song: will Ye
No Come Back Again?" many of those
present shedding tears
REPRESENTATIVES of all the wooden
and worsted concerns in the city of
R. l., agreed, on the
were reduced in 1898, small increase
to take effect August LIST.
THE Niagara Falls & Lewistown Elec-
trio railroad, one of the most marvel
ous pieces of engineering and road
in the country, was formally
opened at Niagara Falls, N. Y, on the
18th.
A CABLE dispatch from Calcutta, on
the 18th, announced the death at that
place of Rev. James Liddell Phillips.
the widely-known Baptist missionary.
No details of the event were given.
SENTENCE of death bv electricity was
passed. in New York city, on the 18th,
upon Maria Barberie, who, on April 26,
cut the throat of Dominica Cataldo,
with whom she had been liv-
ing. and who had cast her off. The
was set for the week begin
ming August 10.
A DISPATCH from Santiago de Cuba,
On the 18th, said: 1.-The report circu-
lated that the insurgent leader An
tonic Maceo had been wounded and
captured by Spanish troops is I'M
true"
HENRY IRVING, the actor; Walter Be-
SAINT, the novelist, and Lewis Morris,
went to Windsor, on the 18th, and
we're formally invested with the rank
Of knighthood by the queen.
A TRUSTED messenger neatly robbed
The New York Herald of SIC, 900 on the
18th. He was sent late in the day to
The Chemical bank with a check for
$40, 600, signed by G. G. Rowland. bust
ness manager. 1t was for the weekly
paw roll. The check was cashed and
The money slowed away in the valise
carried by the messenger, who then