Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-08-20
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

THE government report on the cottor
situation, on the 10th, cutting pros
poets more than ten per cent, caused
a rise in speculative prices.
CHOLERA again shows an increase In
Egypt, and anxiety is felt on account
of the absence ofreports from the camp
of the Egyptian forces on the Nile. II
Is feared that serious condition pre-
walls there.
| WINFIELD SCOTT, the Santa Fe rail
road official who had been missing fol-
several weeks, appeared at his home in
Chicago on the 18th. He was in a
dazed condition and unable to tell
where he had been except to say that
he had been overcome by the heat
while in Turkish bath house.
GEORGE WALTERS, a well-known cit.
izen of Columbus, o., was thrown from
his sulky. on the 18th, by his horse
running away. His foot caught and
he was dragged five blocks and ia
tally injured.
S. P. POND, train dispatcher, and R.
C. Friesner, operator for the Toledo &
Ohio Railway Co., who are held re,
sponsible for the terrible collision at
Columbus, o., on the night of the 10th,
have been placed under arrest, charged
with manslaughter.
A HAsTILY-CoNvENED British cabinet
meeting was held at the foreign office
in Downing street, London, on the L tn,
in which the situation in Crete was
under discussion for two hours.
THE Murray Hill Bank of New York
was closed, on the 18th, by inspectors
pending an investigation of its books.
FIRE at Anamosa Qa.) penitentiary
started in the cellar of the prison din
ing-room, on the 18th, and in a short
time was beyond control, and the en-
tire entire building was destroyed, in
Guiding large library of 5000 vol
umes- The loss will be $4,000.
QUEEN VICTORIA has issued mes
sage to the nations thanking them for
their expressions of loyalty and affec-
ton as the period approaches when the
length of her reign will have exceeded
that of any other English monarch.
A CONFEDERATION at Norfolk, Va,
on the 18th, destroyed the Atlantic saw
mills, the Old Dominion guiana factory
and the Merritt wrecking warehouse
and the docks, causing loss of $780,
600. Twenty-Five fremen were pros
LraLeO DY the intense neat.
AT Mount Etna, Ind, over 5000
pounds of black bass were taken from
the Salamouie river with buckets on
the 18th. The river runs through the
oil belt, and during the freshet the
water was covered with oil, which
drove the fish to the shore.
THE private bank of North & Tay-
lor, $50 West Madison street, Chi
cago, was closed at ten o'clock on the
morning of the 18th.
AT least three persons, and possibly
| others, were burned to death in a fire
that destroyed six-story brick build
| ing at No. 465 Greenwich street, New
York city, on the 18th. Several per-
sons were injured by the smoke and
heat and by jumping.
Ex-PREsIDENT HARRISON has prom
ised to open the campaign for the re-
publicans in New York city by a speech
to be delivered on the evening of Au-
gust 25.
On the 18th IS prominent democrats,
representing nearly every county in
the state, met in Wheeling, w. Va,
| and formally bolted the national demo-
cratic platform. They also, in equally
strong terms, denounced Mckinley and
| protection, and called a convention to
meet in Wheeling, on the Goth, to
elect delegates to the indianapolis
| sound money convention.
MoLLAH REzA, who on the afternoon
of May assassinated Nazr-Ed-Deen,
shah of Persia, by shooting the mon
arch with a pistol as he was entering
| the inner court of the shrine of Shah
1 - Tohoran on
the 18th, hanged at Teheran for his
crime. Immense crowds of people
witnessed the execution of the assas-
sin.
CASHIER w. g. PETERS of the Column
bia national bank at Tacoma, Wash.
charged with classifying the books and
appropriating the funds Of the insti-
tuition, was, on the 18th, found guilty.
President Henry Oliver of the Column
bia national bank. who is under indict-
ment for embezzlement, will be tried
in February next
IT was reported, on the 18th, that a
British man-of-war had seized the
| Mexican island of Clarion, which be-
longs to the state of Colima, and will
esta blish coaling station there.
NATE EARNsHAw, IL years old, son of
a well-to-do farmer, residing five miles
south CT Olathe, Kas., committed sui
eide, on the 18th, by shooting himself
with a revolver. The lad had been a
slave to cigarettes.
THE first regular train was run over
the Lake Superior & Ishpeming rail
way on the 12th. The road is COM
pleted from Marquette to Negaunee,
Mich, and will soon be finished to
Ishpeming. 1t is primarily an ore
hauling line.
! DANIEL BUFFERS, one of the oldest
members of the Chicago board of trade,
died, on the 18th, of stomach troubles
aggravated by the extreme hot wealth
er.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN and Arthur
p. Sewall were formally notified, on
the night of the 10th, in the presence
of an audience that packed Madison
Square garden, New York city, of their
choice by the Democratic national con-
vention as the nominees, respectively,
for president and vice-president of the
United States. Gov. Stone of Missouri
delivered the notification speech.
FIRE, on the 18th, destroyed the
original building of the Manhanset
house, Shelter Island, y. Y. Loss,
5000, 900. The guests lost nothing.
FIVE deaths, attributable to the ex-
treme heat, were reported at Hart
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