Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

called his home He hado been a miseT
for a quarter of a century, denying
himself the comforts of life and almost
the common necessities.
| INFORMATION has been received at
Washington that the Italian ambcs-
sador, Baron Fava, is to be recalled.
1t is alleged that he has not done his
duty in his reports of the killing of the
three Italians at Harnersville, La.
LILLE jordan had been at work at
her sewing machine at her home in
Evansville, Ind, on the 31st, when
three ladies from Henderson were an
nounced. She met them at the door,
and while welcoming them fell dead.
The fine iron bridge over the River
| Bayate, in the province of Pinar del
Rio, Cuba, has been blown up, and
there has been no communication be-
| tween the towns of Artemisia and
Pinar del Rio since.
HENRY VI. PRIEST, of Steubenville,
o., has been appointed receiver of the
Brilliant iron and tube works at Bril-
liant, o., by Judge DouthelI. The
company recently made an assign
ment to John 5. McMasters, and this
action takes all the property out of
his hands.
| CHAs. +. WARBURToN, proprietor of
the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph,
was found dead in his room in Allan
| tic City, n. j., on the 1st. Mr.. War
| burton was 81 years of age, and had
been afflicted with heart trouble for
some time.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH, on the 1st.
| took formal leave of the heads of bu-
reaus and other employees of the inte-
rior department.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE SMITH, president of
the Woman's Rescue League of the
United States. has taken up her GUAR
tiers in New York city, and intends to
dismount every wheelwoman in
Gotham-if she can.
SECRETARY CARLISLE said, on the 1st,
that President Cleveland would write
a letter indorsing the nominees of the
indianapolis convention.
ACTING CONTROLLER BOWERS has de-
cided that man transferred from the
volunteer service to the regular army
is not entitled to veteran bounty.
DANIEL SPEAKER, president of the
Mohawk River bank. died in Fonda, n.
Y, on the 1st. of pneumonia, aged 9s
Mr.. Speaker had been president of
forty years ago, and was probably the
oldest bank president in the United
States.
THE entire main building of the pic
turesque Kentucky institute for fee
ble-minded children, at Frankfort, was
destroyed by fire, on the list, rendering
homeless 200 feeble-minded children
aud destroying SsO,OOO worth of prop
erty.
THE Banca Bulese, located in Brook
lyn, and operated by Pietro Gallo &
Son, is closed, the proprietors having
left the place. When the building was
opened, on the 1st, it was found that
the safe was open, but empty. 1t was
asserted by Italians that the deposits
amounted to $4,000.
the resignation of Hoke Smith as
secretary of the interior went into
effect on the 1st inst. Assistant Sec
rotary Reynolds assumed charge of
the department pending the arrival of
Gov. Francis.
Mrs. GEORGE KNoPP was arrested in
Council Bluffs. Ia, on the LIST, charged |
with using the mails for fraudulent
purposes. and held for the grand jury.
She advertised for husband and sue
ceeded in getting the better of a mat |
rimonial adventurer who married her |
thinking her to be rich.
TIE battle ships Families and Ira
falgar, hagships of the British Med |
iteEranean squadron, and I2 other |
British warships left Malta, on the 1st, |
for the Levant.
AN explosion in the nitroglycerine |
house of the California Powder Co., at |
Pinole, Cal. on the 1st, wrecked the |
building and caused the death Of I2 |
workmen, eight Chinese and four white /
men.
RI. HoS. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, !
British secretary of state for the colo
mics, was passenger on the steamer
Teltonic. which arrived at New York,
on the I'd, from Liverpool. His visit |
will be brief one, as he intends re-
turning home in about fortnight.
THE steamer Laurada, the Cuban fl
ibuster, which recently landed at
Navassa and transferred her men and
arms to the tug Dauntless, and later
arrived at Port Antonio, Jamaica, has
been grounded. 1t is suspected that
her mishap was the result of foul play.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Rome, on
the "a. Salu II was there
King Humbert will announce his alb
dication after the marriage of the
prince of Naples, the heir apparent, to
Princess Helene of Montenegro.
A DISPATCH from Lowell observatory,
Flagstaff, Ariz, to Harvard observa-
tory, on the I'd, announced the re-dis-
covery, by DIR. Lee, of the companion
to Sirius-in position angle PIG degrees
and distance SO. This companion was
first seen in 1859.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
from st. Petersburg says that the tour
of the car throughout western Eu-
rope will not be changed on account
of the death of the Russian minister
of foreign affairs, Prince Eobanoff-Ros-
tovslSy.
Mrs. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, on the
Cd, denied the published report that
her husbands condition was precari-
GUS
Ex-Gov. Francis, of Missouri, took
the oath of Office as secretary of the
interior in Secretary Carlisle's Office,
on the Sd, and Immediately entered
upon the discharge of his new duties.
THE National encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic. in session
mt st. Paul, Mimi. on the I'd, selected
Buffalo, n. Y, as the place of holding
the next general encampment. There
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