Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-25

HE mOhbIer gas WE'LL near Alien
andria, ind, which has been belchins
forth over 1000, 900 cubic feet of nat
tural gas daily the past month, is at
last under control. By means of ma.
chinery and = large force of workmen
it has been attached to one of the gas
mains of the town, and its almost ir-
resistible power has thus been dis
tributed over large area.
SIX PERSONS lost their lives, on the
18th, by the capsizing of their boat at
Ormsby broad. near Yarmouth, En-
gland.
WHILE workmen were engaged in
work on sewer excavation at Harri-
son, n. j., on the 18th, 400 feet of earth
caved in. Two men, Dennis Ryan and
George Villaude, were killed outright.
Five others were buried under the
avalanche and frightfully hurt.
A sPEcI Al cable dispatch from Quay
aquil, Ecuador, on the 10Th, said: The
first and second divisions of the pa
triots' army have left for Quito. Gen.
Alfaro, with his staff, was to leave. on
the 22d, prepared to meet all emergen-
cies. A general civil war is probable.
j. S. RYDER was killed and Pass
more Collins, William Murphy, Daniel
O'Connel1 and John McGinn were Sc
verely injured by the upsetting of their
hose cart while running to q fire in
Philadelphia. on the 10th.
ALLEN JAQUA. a brother-in-law of the
late Isaac p Gray, of Indiana, late
minister to Mexico. died in Washing
ton city, on the 10th, after an illness
of nine months. He had a position in
the pension office.
THE Western Packing Co.'S horse
meat canning establishment at Linn
ton, Ore, the only one of the kind in
existence in this country, began opera
tions on the 10Th.
CLARENCE SEDGw1CK, of New York,
committed suicide in a hotel in Paris
on the 10Th.
GEN. SCHOFIELD reached st. Paul.
Mimi, on the 10Th, on his long tour of
inspection.
JAMES L. TRAvERs, colored, was
hanged in the United States Jail in
Washington, on the 10th, for the MUIR
der of Lena Gross, his colored mistress,
in November last. He was about %
years of age, and his mental capacity
was extremely limited. He was exc
cuted upon the scaffold that launched
Guiteau into eternity.
A SYNDICATE of wealthy New York
ers, it is learned from state department
sources. has been formed and is await
ing the proper crisis in Cuban affairs
to advance again the proposition for
the practical purchase of Cuba. The
hn modified &c
agree with the scheme once considered
by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish
during President Grants admins ira.
ton.
CAPT. w. c. HARRINGTON died at
Indianapolis, Ind, on the 10th, at the
age of 80 years He was born at Vim
cennes. and was representative and
then senator in the state legislature
from the counties of Brown and Mon
roe. He resigned the Office of senator
to enter the Union army, and served
on the stats of Gen. Shields and Gen.
Lander and Gen. Reynolds.
IN a pension appeal case denied. on
the 10th. Assistant Secretary Reynolds
holds that claimant who filed his
claim while a deserter had no status tc
apply, duu tudt his pcuSiOu Couiu only
date from the filing of another applica.
ton, subsequent to his discharge.
Mr.. AND Mrs. WILLIAM B. SHIELDS,
who live on South Eighth street, Will
n. ", are the parents of a
2O-pound baby girl, born a few days
ago. The newcomer has been named
Lillian Russell Shields. and the actress
has sent a check of $50 to the little
ones parents.
A SERIOUS fight was reported, on the
10th, as having occurred on the Turlo-
frontier between force
of insurgents, stated to have num-
bered 5000, and a body of Turkish
troops. 1t is reported that the latter
were defeated with loss of 600 men.
THE principal point of the develop
ments in the Pitezel horror at Toron
to, Ont, on the 10Th. was the identifi-
cation of the remains of the two girls
found in the cellar of the st. Vincent
street house by their mother.