Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-21


Illinois against the Pullman company
was ended at Chicago. on the 18th,
with the exception of the fling Of
printed brief by the attorneys for the
company. and Judge Baker took the
case under advisement.
On the 18th the house of representa-
tives refused, by a vote of I67 nays to
120 yeas, to order the Wilson joint res
olution, authorizing the issue of $685.
0OO,00O 3-per-cent. gold bonds to substi-
tute for the 4-per-cent. thirty-year coin
bonds sold by Secretary Carlisle under
contract with the acknowledgment
syndicate, to a third reading, and thus
disposed of the measure adversely.
A NATURAL gas explosion wrecked
the city building at Elwood. Ind. on
the 18th, and caused several thousand
dollars damage besides seriously injur
ing three persons.
On the 18th the mayor of New York
officially announced the appointment
of William Bookfield as commissioner
of public works; Lee Phillips as secre-
tary of the civil service board and it's
executive officer, and Francis NJ. Scott,
aqueduct commissioner, as corportion
counsel. to succeed VIM. S. Clark.
SOME of the striking glassworkers at
the Buckeye works at Martins Ferry,
O., threw a dynamite bomb, loaded
with slugs, into the Office of the plant,
on the 18th, wrecking that portion of
the building. The works, which gave
employment to 800 men, will be perma-
nently abandoned.
Rev. FRANKLIN SPAULDING, head of
BILE military school for boys in Denver
Col. was arrested, on the 14th, for cruel
ly beating two pupils. Spaulding is
the son of Bishop Spaulding, under
whose immediate control the Jarvis
hall is.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the
14th, said that the japanese troops
were reported to have arrived at
point five miles southeast of Che Foo.
On the 14th the president signed the
bill for a new 100000 post Office
building at Chicago.
JOSEPH ELLIOTT, who had been con-
nected with the New York Herald
since it was founded in 1885, died. on
the night of the 18th. from pneumonia.
He was the first sporting editor of the
Herald, and pioneer in the reporting
of sporting news.
The Chinese emperor has recon
ferred upon Ii Hung Chang the yellow
jacket, the peacock feather and all the
other honors of which he had been de-
prived. His ma esty has ordered Ii
Hung Chang to proceed Immediately
to Pekin, where he will be given an
audience by the emperor. Thence he
will proceed with all haste to Japan to
arrange terms of peace.
IT is reported that Admiral Ting,
the Chinese naval commander, and the
general commanding the Chinese
forces on the island of Liu-kung-Tao.
in the harbor of Wei-Hai-Wei. have
committed suicide. Chagrin over the
repeated reverses of the Chinese forces
is supposed to have prompted the two
men to kill themselves.
PRIVATE PATRICK V. PAGAN. of Troop
X, Sixth cavalry, Fort Leavenworth.
met with instant death in Leaven-
worth, Kas., on the 14th, by falling
down the Home coal shaft, distance
of $50 feet. The man had been drink
ing, and it is not known whether his
death is due to accident or suicide.
SINCE making his declaration of alb
solutism, the car has received almost
daily nihilist proclamations and threat
ening letters. 1t is rumored that pal
ace official has been arrested for plac-
ing in his majesty's study printed pic
lures of the assassination of A1exan-
der II.
THREE men met death recently on a
strip of land added to Burt county.
Neb., by accretions from the Missouri
river. and the murderers cannot be
punished, since neither Nebraska nor
Iowa claim jurisdiction over the terri
tory.
The public-school building of La
mont, Ia. was totally destroyed by fire,
on the 18th, while school was in session.
Alfred Brown, one of the pupils, was
fatally injured.
AN explosion of fire damp occurred
in the Queen Louise mine at Sealerize,
Austrian Silesia, on the night of the
14th, killing fourteen persons and in.
juring eight.