Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-19
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| rant for the arrest was sworn out by
John F. Eddy and Edward T. CARING
ton, both stockholders in the paper.
CAPT.-GEN. WEYLER has taken the
field in person against the insurgents
under Antonio Maceo in the province
of Pinar del Rio, and news received
from the front indicates that the Span
ish columns are approaching close to
the enemy.
| A GOLDEN torrent has been submerg-
| ing the United States sub-treasuries
since the 5th inst, which has risen so
high that some of the sub-treasuries
are begging for time within which to
count the gold and get the paper money
to pay for it.
OFFICIAL advices from Manila, the
capital of the Philippine islands. say
that the Spanish troops have defeated
asforce of 1000 rebels at Montaloan.
The insurgents lost 90 men killed, while
the Spanish had only one killed
THE town of Spencer, W. Va, was
almost destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the 9th. Thirty-nine stores and
houses were burned. The fire started
in a room over Simmons'& Co. S gener-
al store, and swept along the main
business street, leaving destruction in
its path.
NEARLY all the rivers of central and
northern Italy have overlooked. A
quarter of the town of Citta di CASTILLO
has been flooded, bridges have been
swept away, several persons have been
drowned and large tracts of land have
been desolated.
PREPARATIONS have begun in Wash
ington for the greatest inaugural fete,
upon the occasion of the installation
of President Mckinley, March next,
that has ever taken place in the his
tory of the national capital. Local
repu blicans and gold democrats are
already at work making arrange
ments.
DR. JARED d. WETSIORE, who had
been in Jail at Grand Haven, Mich,
| for three months, charged with COM
plicity in the murder of EnOs Law
renee, at Holland, for which Ray
Coates is serving life imprisonment
and Mrs. Lawrence a 20-year sentence,
was discharged, on the 10th, on Mrs.
Lawrence admitting that her testi-
mony against him was perjured-
AT Bonner Springs, Kas., Peter ].
| Greenwald, former preacher in the
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from the rafters in his barn ON the
9th. He had become Respondent over
business affairs. Greenwald was As
years old, and had a wife and eight
children
THE Lowell astronomical observa-
tory is to be removed from Flagstaff,
Ariz., to the City of Mexico.
BELLEFoNTAINE, the famous local
| IN Ohio 1r-hioh
Gently compelled to discharge its po-
lice force, is now on the eve of giving
up it's electric lights The electric
light trustees have notified the city
council that they must have at least
So, 900 Immediately or shut the works
down.
A TRAMP discovered dynamite on the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern track
east of Washington, Ind, at one o'clock
on the morning of the 10TH He sig
nailed passenger train with 300 peO-
pie aboard. The train wreckers fired
at the tramp, shooting him through
the leg. The engineer saw the signal
and stopped his train just in time.
| The train wreckers escaped
On the 10th the secretary of the in
terror approved schedule of allot-
dams in Minnesota.
| WINDOW glass advanced 10 per cent.
| within three days, prior to the 18th,
and an additional advance of 10 to IS
per cent. is expected soon.
The new battleship Iowa went to
sea from Lewes, Del, on the 11th, on
her builders trial trip.
A TERRIBLE railway disaster &C.
Cured at Sokolxa, in the Russian gov
eminent of Grodno, on Che 18th. The
st. Petersburg and Warsaw express,
while running at high rate of speed,
collided with a freight train, COM
pietely wrecking the engine and all
the cars comprising the express, and
killing six persons and iniuring j. 9TH
ers, some of them fatally.
WALTER WALTERS, colored. was re-
turned to New York city, on the 10th,
from Providence, X. l., where he was
arrested while attempting to pawn
some of the ,jewelry stolen from the
residence of Mrs. E. c. Jones, of New
York city, on October 10. Walters
later confessed to the burglary OF the
entire 5000 worth of jewelry, most of
| which was recovered.
THE treasury gold reserve. at the
| Close VI UuSlACoS Oh bllC 11bll, lSO iu-
creased to SI22, 626, 4s2. The net gain
at New York for the day was S675, coo,
! and the Withdrawals were 81, 100
On the 18th Gov. Mitchell of Florida
issued a cali for a southern states hsr-
Dor defense convention to assemble at
Tampa. Fla. January 20, 1897.
The Spanish war Office is preparing
to send 20, 600 more troops to Cuba
THE seventy-eighth annual meeting
of the general missionary committee
of the Methodist Episcopal church con-
vened in Detroit, Mich, on the 18th.
There was a full attendance.
ARTHUR PORTER, of Yukon, Okla d,
formerly residing at Wichita. Kas.,
was kicked in the head by a mule, Gu
the 18th, while he was driving in Lin
coin county, Okla, and was instantly
killed.
FOURTEEN buildings in the business
portion of Traverse City, Mich, were
destroyed by fire, on the 18th, entail
ing loss of $50, 900; partially insured.
Ed Newberry, porter in the Front
Street hotel, was burned to death.
SOME ore brought down from the
coast north Of Vancouver, B. C., and
assayed for gold or silver has been
pronounced by the aSsayer mt VAN
eouver 70 be eassitsria. or tin ora