Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-11-28
NEWS AND NOTES.
A summar. Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERA.

1t is true. as Admiral Walker says,
that we are not very well prepared for
war with a foreign nation; but it is
also true that no foreign nation cares
to tackle us and take the chances of
what we might do in this respect on
short notice.
BIZ way of preparation for the sea-
son of Wagnerian opera in St Louis
the first week in December, by the
Damrosch opera company, the people
have been given a series of lectures re-
Gently on Richard Wagner's music
dramas by Charles w. Seidenadel. who
ably demonstrated the plots of the
various works. It was an unique and
thoroughly educational method of
anticipating the musical feast
NJ. VLANGALI, the Russian ambassa-
dor, had long interview with Baron
Blanc, Italian minister of foreign af-
fairs, on the 18th, after which it was
reported that Russia had decided upon
independent action in the east
THREE-FoURrHs of the town of Pur-
cell, /. T., was burned early on the
morning of the 10th. Purcell was q
place of 1900 Inhabitants.
A STATEHOOD convention has been
called to meet at Shawnee, Okla, De-
cember 4, to name delegation to go
to Washington and lobby for the adj
mission of the territory. The Chicka-
saw nation will also send a delegation.
A TELEGRAM was received at the war
department.. on the 10th, from Indian
Agent Day of the Southern Ute agen-
cy, saying that the murder of the two
Indians in that section, supposed to
have been done by white men, had
been traced to an Indian, the son of
the once-famous renegade Hatch"
who was killed several years ago.
A DOUBTFUL report from Havana, on
the 10th, said the insurgent leaders
had expressed willingness to surrender
if granted autonomy.
THE sultan has made an appeal to
the pope for the Intervention of the
vatican in an effort for the pacifcation
of Armenia.
RUsTEM PAsHA, the Turkish ambas-
sador to Great Britain, died in London
at o'clock on the mosning of the Goth.
A SERIOUS rear-end collision between
trains occurred on Brooklyn bridge,
on the 10Th, owing to the dense fog.
Several cars were telescoped. and Con-
passengers were severely hurt. The
conductors legs were cut off, and he
cannot recover.
THE cruiser Boston. which was
placed in commission on the 18th, at
Mare Island, Cal, will be sent to the
China station to relieve the gunboat
Concord.
A GREAT NORTHERN train was held
up by eight or ten men three miles
west of St Cloud, Mimi. on the night
of the 18th. The robbers cut the train
in two and ordered the engineer to go
ahead. On its arrival in st. Cloud
posse was organized, and a special
train was made up and left for the
scene of the hold-up The amount
taken is not known.
FAST MAIL train No 6, east-bound,
on the New York Central railroad.
was ditcbed by train wrecxers near
Rome. n. Y, earlyon the morning of
the 10Th. There were about fifty pas
sengers in the three sleepers. and not
one of them was hurt. Engineer Hager
was killee. Three men were arrested
on suspicion, one of whom confessed.
On the Goth the supreme court of
Minnesota fled its decision in the
Hayward murder case, sustaining the
action of the lower court and refusing
q new trial.
On the Goth Secretary Herbert Or
dered the cruiser Minneapolis to take
on coal at Norfolk. and sail at once for
the European station, to assist the San
Francisco and Marblehead in looking
after American interests in the sui
tan's possessions
THE Bechuanaland chiefs, Khama,
Sebele and Bathen. who have been in
London for some time, seeing the
sights and being entertained by dis
tinguished persons, paid a visit to the
queen at Windsor, on the Goth, and de-
livered their presents to her majesty,
who presented the chiefs with suitable
gifts in return.
PETTINGILL, the wild man of the
River mountains, has been found dead
in his mountain retreat He went to
Montana in the early period o. the
war, and had ever since lived alone
among the wild animals of his mount
ain home.
IT is stated that Andrew Carnegie
has decided to give an organ to the
Bethel Evangelical Swedish Lutheran
church at Braddock, Pa. to cost about
S.. 600.
1t is stated that the squeeze" of the
salt combine in forcing up prices will
cost the leading packers of Chicago
S4O0. 600 or $500, 900 per year.
THE full crew of the battleship In
diana, placed in commission at the
League Island navy yard, on the Goth,
will number 4e0.
RECENT press dispatches announced
that anti-foreign, riots were appre-
hended in the Chinese province of
Shan-Hei.
The secretary of the interior, on the
Goth, issued a requisition on the treas
ury for SO. $4,000 for the quarterly
| pension payment. The amount is dis
tributed to agencies as follows: Bos-
ton, 81. 500. 900; Augusta. Me, $3.50, 600;
Washington. d. c., So, POS, 900; Column
bus, o.. $780, 900; Detroit, Mich,
ST. 500, 900; San Francisco. SITS, 900.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is spending
nearly all. his time at Woodley. Ha
rarely goes to the White House. He is
devoting himself to the preparation of
his message to congress, and in order
to prevent the possibility of interrupt
ton, he is working in his out-of-town
cottage
Col CHARLES HAYWOOD. command
ing the marine corps. in his annual re-
port to the secretary of the navy,
makes a strong appeal for an increase
in the enlisted strength of the corps.
to meet the additional duties imposed
upon it by the increase of the navy.