Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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dies pack horse fell on him HI
lived long enough to be taken to New
castle, but died shortly after his ar
rival there.
The stagecoach between Grande anC
Arapahoe, in Day county, Okla, wa:
held up by four highwaymen, on the
| 25th, and the four occupants were or
dered to stand and deliver. Mrs. Amy
Childs. of Philadelphia, refused to dis
mount. and was shot dead.
A DISPATCH from Zanzibar, on the
Goth, said: ''This evening an ultimatun
was sent to Said Kalid informing him
that unless he strikes his flag and
| makes a complete surrender by nine
o'clock tomorrow the palace will be
bombarded. All the British residents
of the town have been requested to &c
on board the war ships lying in the
harbor by eight o'clock in the morn
ing"
On the Goth dry house of the Ohio
Powder CO. s mill at Goes station, six
miles from Xenia, o., blew up, killing
two men, Charles Higgins and Frank
Eiche. Both men were married, and
Higgins leaves, besides his wife, two
children, aged 12 and 16 years. A
house on the same spot blew up ten
years ago, killing three men.
THOMAS c. PLATT refused to be a
candidate for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation by the republican state conven.
ton at Saratoga, n. Y, on the 26th,
and Hon. Frank S. Black, of Troy, con.
gresham from the Nineteenth district,
was nominated on the fourth ballot.
On the 25th a body of Turks made
an attack upon the Cretans at Male
vyzi, but were repulsed, losing 40 of
their number killed and 20 wounded.
PAUL L. BROWN, trading in Philadel-
phia as J. w. Brown & Co., wholesale
grocer, made an assignment on the
Goth. The failure was due to the
tightness of the money market. The
liabilities will exceed 500, 600; asset is
not stated.
THE body of Bill Doolin was official
ly identified by the government off,
Gals at Guthrie, Okla, on the Goth,
and proof filed for the So, 500 reward.
The body was embalmed and taken to
Fort Smith, Ark, to claim another
S1,7OO reward; thence it was taken to
Missouri for a similar purpose.
FIRE consumed the milling plant and
-four house of Everett Aughenbaugh
& Co. at Waseca, Mimi, on the 26th
Estimated loss, SIS, 900; insurance, $685.
900. The plant will be rebuilt.
The fire at Octonagon, Mich. has left
scarcely a vestige of a once thriving
village of 1000 inhabitants except a
hungry, shivering horde of sufferers,
who have not yet been able to find ac-
commodations of any kind, either food
or lodging, since they were driven
from their homes.
Otis HALL, a prominent jeweler of
Ind, while in Terre Haute,
on the goth, on business, took a dose
of antipyrene for relief from a head
ache, and died an hour later from
paralysis of the heart, caused by the
drug.
HUNDREDS, including a large Dum-
her of college men and professors,
viewed fish at Bar Harbor, Me-, on
the Goth, which was landed at Rodeks
Weir, and none were able to classify it.
1t looks like a shark, has two fins, is
seven feet wide, six feet long, and
weighs 600 pounds. 1t tore along the
bay at a frightful speed, but became
helpless in shallow water.
CONGRESSMAN D. d. WooDMANsEE, of
Ohio, was elected president of the Ma
tional League of Republican clubs at
on the 26th. The ballot
resulted in a vote of SO for him and
s04 for Charles Ulysses Gordon, of Chi
cago. The league will meet next year
in Detroit, Mich.
THE Michigan gold democratic state
met at Lansing. on the
&c tn, and nominated full state ticket
headed by Rufus Sprague, of Green
vile, for governor.
THE annual report of United States
shipping commissioners for the year
ended June 30, 1896, show total ship
ments and discharges of seamen for
seagoing vessels to have been
129, 4s5, compared with lis. 4s3 for the
previous year.
THE death at Atlantic City, n. J.. of
Judge Arthur Macarthur, retired. of
the District of Columbia supreme
court, aged 81 years, was announced
on the Goth.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, an old resident of
Wichita, Kas., fell from the window of
his room to the pavement, on the Goth,
and was instantly killed. His neck
was broken.
FIFTY Armenians took possession of
the Ottoman bank at Constan tinople,
on the Goth, killing several soldiers.
The Armenians resisted efforts of
troops to dislodge them. The rioting
became general. 1t was believed to be
the result of a revolutionary plot.
ACCORDING to cablegrams. the steam
er Laurada, which sailed from Phila-
delphia for Cuba August 6, landed one
of the most formidable flibustering
expeditions yet shipped to Cuba, and
then touched at Port Antonio, Jamaica.
THE New York Herald heads sub
scription list which it proposes to
start in order to pay the expenses of
Mr.. Henry Watterson in the event of
his nomination by the sound-money
democrats at the coming Indianapolis
The Herald heads the
list with $1,000.
CAPT. L. r. RoEMER, who went to
Cuba to fight for the insurgents, re-
turned to st. Louis on the Goth. Capt.
Roemer secured a three months fur
Tough from the Cuban army, and with
q few comrades eluded the Spaniards
along the coast and escaped from the
island. Capt Roemer succeeded in
New York. and went direct
to St. Louis.
The Canadian yacht Canada defeated
the challenger Vencedor at Toledo, o.,
on the Goth, and won the international
Saes, by 90 seconds, time allowance.