Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-08-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND eENERAL.

sued by the state department During
the months of June and July the pass
ports issued averaged more than 10O
per day, and they now average 30.
WHILE the guests invited to partake
of birthday dinner. given at Lexing-
ton, XIV, on the 18th, by d. Mucci,
were being photographed, tramps en-
tered the dining-room and carried
away the entire repast.
G. B. MoGLE, a young man of Cheney,
Kas., was thrown from his horse into
the Walnut river, on the 18th, while
the stream was swollen. He took hold
of the horses tail and the animal drag
ged him to the bank, then kicked him
in the forehead and killed him.
Gov. MATTHEWS of Indiana was re-
ported, on the 18th, as confined to his
home by illness. He suffered from a
congestive chill, brought on by expo
sure at Brookville, where he spoke for
two hours in the rain.
JOHN Z. CHAMBERLAIN, proprietor of
hotels bearing his name at Washington
and Old Point Comfort, was reported,
on the 18th, as dangerously i'll at the
Grand Union hotel, Saratoga, n. Y.
THREE men were instantly killed
and Is injured by the explosion of 25
pounds of dynamite at New Holland,
Pa, on the 18th. Several building
were badly wrecked.
THE elegant stone mansion of Fred
erick Faulkner, at Lowell, Mass, was
burned, on the 18th, while the family
were away at the beach. The con-
tents of the house are a total wreck,
L,
fire was undoubtedly the work of an
incendiary.
PRIVATE advices received in Phila-
delphia, on the 18th, stated that out
of the crew of 81 men on board the Brit
ish bark Flora P Stafford, which was
burned at sea on June s, while on a
voyage from Newcastle, n. S. W., for
Manila, the mate and five sailors are
unaccounted for, and the general i'm
preston is that they have persisted.
THE electric lighting companies of
St. Louis promise to have all lights re-
stored in the tornado district by the
25th.
FIRE at Lancaster, KY, on the 18th,
destroyed all the buildings on the east
side of the public square, including
the post Office. Loss, 10000, two
thirds of which is covered by insur-
ance.
A DISPATCH from Athens, on the
10Th, said that insurgents in Macedo-
mia had burned two villages in the
Kosoni district and massacred eighty
persons.
AMONG the passengers on the steamer
st. Paul, which sailed from New York,
on the 10Th, for Europe, were Senator
elect Joseph B. Foraker and Postmas-
Wilson.
THE democratic state convention as
sembled in Pueblo, Col, on the 10Th.
There was large attendance. George
Thomas, who had been looked upon as
the probable candidate for governor,
created a sensation by sending a
formal letter to the chairman posi-
lively declining to accept any nomina-
ton from the convention:
MAI MCKINLEY denied himself to
all callers, on the 10Th, and devoted
the hours to the work of reading the
proof of that part of his letter of &C
ceptance which had been put into type.
Almost one-half the letter had been
revised.
missioner posted a notice on the closed
doors of the Argentine (Kas-) bank,
that he had taken posses
sion and that application for receiver
would be made.
A TERRIFIC boiler explosion took
place in Roclland park, Rochester, N.
Y. on the 18th, where new sewer was
being constructed. Contractor VIM.
Fuller was blown 100 feet and prob
ably fatally injured. John Holiday
and John A. Metzger were terribly
hurt. and 20 others were slightly in
jured.
A FRAUD order was, on the Goth. is
sued by the post office department
against the Creditors Beneficial asso-
citation of Rockford, Ill.
THE treasury gold reserve declined,
on the Goth, to S1O5, 932, I'll. The days
were 1929, 700 and for the
month they aggregated S7,75O, 900.
FIRE of an unknown origin, on the
night of the 10Th, destroyed the resi-
dence of John Felbach in Watertown,
S. d. Mr.. Felbach and two daugh-
tiers, Tillie, aged 10. and Hattie, aged
Is, were burned to death. The mother
and another daughter escaped
THE Tomhicken Powder Co.'S mills
at Derringer, Pa, exploded, ON the
Goth, killing E. j. Whitebroad and in
juring Peter Shell, Oliver Ross and
John Kisbach. The mills were COM
pletely wrecked, and the country sur
was alarmed by the shock.
A HEAD-oN collision occurred, on the
Goth, on the Detroit, Lansing & North
ern railroad, near Fowlerville, Mich.
between two passenger trains. Both
engines were ditched and one fireman
was seriously injured. Several cars
wert derailed. The accident was
caused by the west-bound train fail
ing to make siding to let the east
bound train pass.
The funeral of Sir John Millais,
president of the Royal academy, who
died in London on August IL, took
place in st. Paul's cathedral on the
goth.
RAY SEwELL, who for a month had
been confined in the Meade county Jail
at Sturgis, S. D., on the charge of cat
tie rustling, made a desperate effort to
escape, on the goth, and was killed in
an encounter with Fred Willard, a
butcher of that town.
JACOB L. LUsE, well-known farmer.
committed suicide by hanging at his
home, near Marksboro, n. j.. ON the
GOTH The farm hands returning from
the field found him hanging from a
beam in the hay NOV. His mind was
probably unbalanced by the silver agi-