Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-05-21

The Venezuelan commission held q
meeting in Washington, on the 13th,
for the first time in three weeks, all
thu members being present except JUS
tice Brewer, who had gone to San AM
tonic. Tex, to attend the. funeral OF
his daughter.
The triennial convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
of America met in Ottawa, Ont, on
the 18th, with Chief Arthur in the
chair.
ADvICEs from Pretoria, Transvaa1,
say that the punishment of the reform
conspirators whose death sentences
were committed has been fixed at five
years imprisonment.
BENJAMIN HARRISON MCKEE, grand.
son of Gen. Harrison and son of Mr..
J. r. Mckee and Mrs. Mamie Harrison
Mckee, was, on the 18th, reported
seriously ill at Saratoga Springs, NY,
with what appeard to be pneumonia.
MRS. HENRY ScHwATKA and her six
year-old daughter was shot and killed
by a Chinese cook at Yreka, Cal, on
the 18th. The Chinaman made an at
tempt to kill an infant child, but
failed. He then committed suicide.
FIRE, on the 18th, in the house occu-
pied by the American legation for the
coronation fetes in Moscow. Russia,
created considerable alarm, but was
quenched with only the attic being
damaged.
MISS MAIZE TODD, a cousin of Robert
T. Lincoln, was killed at Lexington,
KY, on the 13th, by being run down
by an electric car while riding q
bicycle.
ANrI-MIssIoNARY riots have broken
out at Kiang-Yen. The British mission
was looted and burned. The mission
aries escaped. ~
ST. DoMINIc's Roman Catholic
church in Holmesburg, suburb OF
Philadelphia, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 14th. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance. S45, 900. It is stated that the fire
was caused by Waterman dropping a
lighted match in the interior of the
church. ,,t
ROBERT n. DoLAN, a photographer
living on Railroad avenue, Wakefield,
n. Y, was found dead, on the 14th
with his head wedged between two
pickets of the wooden fence in front
of his home.
THE cruiser Oregon, on her trial
trip, on the l4th, off Santa Barbara,
Cal, made It, rs knots per hour. This
breaks all records for vessels of her
class. and entities her builders to IT'S,
900 premium. c.t
SENATOR HANsBRoUGH, from the com.
mittee on library, on the 14th, favor
ably reported to the senate bill for
the erection of a monument at Gettys-
burg, Pa, to President Lincoln.
A SPECIAL commission has arrived in
San Francisco authorized by the Jap
anese government to study into the
workings of electrical power and tele-
phone systems in the United States.
DURING heavy thunder storm. on
the 18th, John Bentzel, aged IS, a
farmer at Obey, Pa, was killed by
lightning as he was in tn e act of aris-
ing from bed. @ H@&
On the night of the 14th, James
Northrup, of Anamosa, Ia, who had
suffered with asthma. got up and
dressed himself, put on white shirt,
clean underwear, and combed his hair
and then laid down on the bed. Call
ing his wife to him, he told her he was
going to die, and wanted to be buried
just as he was and not to disturb him
in the least. He went to sleep, and in
less than 80 minutes was dead.
On the 18th, Judge Baker, of Chi
cago, granted a stay of proceedings in
the case of Joseph Windrath. who was
to have been hanged for the murder,
on June 25 last, of Carey B. Birch. =.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 18th.
as reported by r. G. Dun & Co., ag-
gregated 224, against 221 for the cor
responding week last year. For Can
ada the failures were 80, against 81
last year.
On the evening of the 18th the city OF
Sherman, Tex, was visited by the
worst cyclone in the history of north
Texas, which cut swath $50 yards
wide for several blocks, destroying
everything in it's path, and causing
the death of probably 100 persons,
while an equal number were severely
injured. Many of the finer residences
of the city were RACED to the ground.
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