Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-29
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The French expedition that is
marching on Antananarivo. the capt.
tai of Madagascar, had reached Me-
vatanana on the 18th. The natives
had secured number of Maxim guns,
which had arrived at Antananarivo.
By the death of Daniel Polk. at Dem
yer. Col. on the 10th, a conspicuous
figure was removed from the SCOTLAND
business life of that city. He was
born in Shelby county, KY, in 1916.
He was one of the Polk family which
settled in Maryland two centuries ago,
and afterward scattered over Ken
lucky and other southern states.
THE oldest Iowan yet discovered by
the census bureau is Mrs Lucy Alex
ander, colored, living at Keokuk, whose
age is reported at 119 years She is a
native of Virginia, and lives with her
son, Thomas, himself 81 years old.
JAMES CooNEY, who was born in
December, 1892, in County Wexford,
Ireland, and who came to this country
about thirty years ago, died at Can
ton, Pa, on the 10th. Until within a
week of his death he was able to as
sist in farm work.
Ex-AssoCIATE JUSTICE WILLIAM
STRONG, of the United States supreme
court, died at Lake Minnewaska,
N. Y, on the 10th. aged 81 years He
was retired December 1. 1880. De-
ceased had long been a sufferer from a
catarrhal affection, but the immediate
cause of his death was stroke OF
paralysis.
THE p. m. Chicago & West Michi-
gan passenger train, east-bound from
Chicago, was held up by four highway
men just south of New Richmond,
Mich, on the evening of the Goth.
But little booty was secured A flag
man was shot in the right groin while
signaling and seriously injured.
THOMAS NJ. GRADY. former cashier
of the First national bank at Marietta,
Pa. was found guilty in the United
States district court, at Philadelphia,
on the Goth. of embezzling the funds
Of the institution and making false
entries in the banks books. He was
sentenced to seven years in the East
ern penitentiary and to pay fine of
500 andcosts.
FURNACE III" of the Edgar Thorn
son steel works (Carnegie's plant at
DcSScuCT, near DTduuOChs OK
ploded, on the Goth, killing six men
and badly burning eight others, not
one OF those employed about the fur
mace escaping injury.
FOUR carpenters who were trying
to save a Northern Pacific bridge near
Ceur d'Alene, Wash, on the 10Th,
were cut off by the flames and COM
PEELED to jump 136 feet to the bottom
of the chasm, where they were dashed
to pieces.
ADvICEs from Honolulu, Per steamer
Australia, arrived at San Francisco
on the 21st, stated that the Hawaiian
legislature had granted a contract and
exclusive franchise to q. S. Spalding
to lay and operate telegraphic ca BILE
from San Francisco to Honolulu, the
vote in both houses of the legislature
being practically unanimous.
THE business portion of st. KHAN, a
small town near West Bend. Wis, was
wiped out by fire on the Goth. The
total loss is S25, 900; insurance, SO, 600;
Many residences were burned and
eight business places destroyed.
By fire that broke out on the aft
ernoon of the 10th, the laboratory of
Johns Hopkins university. at Balti-
more, Md, was completely Quilted,
and the building otherwise badly dam
aged.
The preliminary trial of John
Walker, j. NJ. Rodan, NJ. D., w. b.
Padgett and Thomas Phillips, white
men. charged with lynching the negro
preacher Robert Bennett, on July 4.
took place at Lake City, Fla, on the
Goth. There was little evidence intro
duced against the accused, and they
were discharged.
IT was announced in Madrid. on the
22d. that $4,000 fresh troops will en-
bark for Cuba in November.
VICTOR r. BLENDoN, of Buffalo, n.
Y, was, on the 21st, appointed grand
receiver of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen for the state of New York
to succeed the late John Hodge, of
Lockport- The appointment was made
by DIR. ]. s. Armstrong, grand master
workman of this state.
THE temperature on Mount Wash
ington, N. H., went down to 90 de-
grees early on the afternoon of the
21st. Snow was falling and the noun
| tain SUBMITS were white, suggestive
| of midwinter.
LOUIS EEzEL's promising 4-year.old
sprinter Rap-a-Tap. dropped dead on
| the track at Saratoga, N. Y, on the
21st- Heart disease is believed to have
been the cause.
Miss MARY MANNING, youngest child
of the late ex-Secretary of the Treas
ury Manning, was married in Albany,
N. Y. on the 21st, to Mr.. Julius Cor
| nelius Won der Oudermeulon, of The
Hague. Holland.
AT the session of the supreme coun-
Gil of the American Legion, held in
Detroit, Mich, on the 21st, the ritual
committee reported that no drafts OF
rituals had been submitted and recon-
mended, and that it was inexpedient
at the present time to make any
changes in secret work.
THE big fly wheel in the 10-inch mill
at the Oliver iron and steel works in
Pittsburgh, Pa, burst with terrific
force on the 22d. The mill was in full
operation at the time, but the EN-
ployes miraculously escaped serious
injury. Pieces of the wheel were
hurled in all directions, wrecking the
rolls and engines and damaging the
| whole mill.
| On the 2Ist the president issued ar
order extending the civil-service rules
to include all printers and pressmen in
the executive departments.
The town of Coin, in the province o.
Malaga, Spain, was shaken by an
earthquake, on the 22d, which LASTED
twenty-five seconds. The damage
done to buildings is very serious