Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-05-28

OK the 21st, after services at tbs
Church of the Messiah, all that was
mortal of the noted journalist John A.
Cockeril was deposited in Elk's Rest
in Bellefontaine cemetery, st. Louis.
THE supreme court, on the 21st, sus-
pended the 19-year sentence of ex-City
Treasurer Bolln, of Omaha, and fixed
his bail at IS, 900 pending q review OF
the case.
By the collapse of building under.
going repairs in Buffalo, N. Y, on the
21st, more than score of its so occu.
pants were buried in the ruins. Res
cuers were Immediately put to work
and soon recovered the bodies of two
of the victims, man and a woman.
and dug out many who were more or
less seriously injured.
FEARFUL natural gas explosion,
that made the earth tremble for blocks
around, occurred in Coffeyville, Kas.,
on the 21st. Two fine two-story brick
business buildings were reduced to a
mass of ruins. one man was killed and
large number of people were more or
less in jured.
A DISPATCH from Canton. O., on the
22d, said that Senator NJ. S. Quay,
of Pennsylvania, had arrived there,
and was guest of ex-Gov. Mckinley.
ADvICEs from Diarbikar, in Asia
Minor, say that massacres were feared
there during the Moslem festival Of
Bairam, which began on the 23d.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business, on the 22d. stood at
Sill. ITO, 1876. The days Withdrawals
were 81, lis, 700.
THE strike of the straw plaiters in
the city and province of Florence,
Italy, assumed an alarming phase on
the ed. Thousands of strikers pa
raded the streets and began hurting
stones at passing carriages and tram
cars. The police interfered and were
also stone by the mob.
THE circuit court at Tiffin. O., on the
ED, overruled the motion for new
trial for Lee Martin, awaiting execu-
ton at Columbus for the murder of
Marshal Shultz. of Tiffin. Martin shot
Shultz when the latter attempted to
arrest him.
THE privileges of the mails were. on
the 22d, denied to the Home Art Pic
ture Co. and the Russell Collection
agency, of Chicago.
AFTER an extended and brilliant
career as operate and dramatic man
ayers, Introducing to the American
public the greatest actors and singers
OF Europe, and presenting grand opera
on a more splendid scale than has ever
before been attempted in this country,
Messrs. Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau have
been compelled to assign.
THE czar on the 22d received in
private audience. at Moscow, the
United States minister, Mr.. Breckin-
ridge, and then received the special
of the United States. These in
Guided Gen. A. Med. McCook and his
brother. Aid-de-Camp Scriven, Com
mander Bronson and Maj. J. W. Patzki.
of the special embassy, and Rear-Ad
miral T. o. Selfridge.
THE official statistics of the produc-
ton of salt in the United States during
the calendar year 1895, shows the total
production was IL. 1866, 64S barrels of $50
pounds each. The valuation of the
product is 81, 423,Os These figures
show an increase of 600. 900 barrels in
product over the previous year, but a
decline of $500. 900 in value.
Mrs. DYER, the Reading iEngland),
child murderess. was sentenced to
death at Old Bailey, London, on the
22d, despite the desperate attempt of
the defense to esta blish her insanity.
The judge intimated she could have nc
hope of reprieve.
THE duke of Connaught, represent
ing Queen Victoria at the coronation
festivities in Moscow, has presented
to the czarina the grand cross of the
Victorian order, which has been newly
by Queen Victoria, and also
an ornamental vase of the Armada pat
tern.
EARLY on the morning of the 22d
masked robbers broke into the ia rn
residence of Christopher Saunders.
and aged German, west of Ko
komo, Ind. and by the mostexcruciat-
ing torture of the aged man and wife,
secured s175 cash that was hidde in
the house Bloodhounds were put on
the track Of the robbers.