Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-08
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

on the Pacific division of the Canadian
Pacific railroad went on strike, on the
goth, in obedience to orders from T. II
Pierson, chairman of the grievanc &C
committee at Montreal. Trains were
running as usual on the Pacific divi.
sion, and it was not thought any seri.
GUS stoppage of traffic would result
FIRE, on the morning of the 29th, de
stroyed nine business houses in Cadil.
lac, Mich, among them the telephone
exchange, causing a loss of O,OO0,
partly covered by insurance. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
DURING the performance in the Peo-
pies Palace variety theater in Aber,
deem, Scotland, on the night of the
30th, a fire broke out and the audi.
ence was thrown into a panic and
made a rush for the exits. 1t is stated
that at least forty persons were in
jured, four of them fatally, while a
mum Der of others who are known to
have been in the theater when the
fire started were reported to be miss
ing
In Alexandria, the Virginia suburb
of Washington, just across the Poto-
mac river, the damage done by the
storm, on the 3Oth, is estimated at not
less than s1OO,OO0, and at least two
lives are known to have been lost
Nearly 200 houses were badly dam
aged by the tornado in it's course.
ONE of the worst wrecks that ever
occurred in that section happened on
the Lehigh Valley railroad a short
distance east of Batavia, n. Y, on the
both. As result one man was killed
and another probably fatally injured.
FRANCE has concluded treaties with
Austria and Italy in regard to Tunis,
and now England's refusal to renounce
her most favored nation" rights alone
prevents Tunis from becoming abso-
lutely French territory.
AT Harper's Ferry, w. Va, on the
3Oth, an old man pushed into the thick
of the crowd, declaring that he wanted
20 hear 1.-The Boy Orator." Several
brawny fellows lifted him to their
shoulders that he might see as well as
hear. He suddenly collapsed, and an
examination showed that he was dead.
ANDREW NELSON, who was herding
1900 sheep on the eastern slope of the
Cascade mountains in Washington,
was buried beneath the carcases of
LOO of the animals who were tramp
led to death in stampede.
AN explosion of ammonia occurred
at the Schmidt brewery, owned by the
Indianapolis Qnd.) Brewing Co., on the
10th. which completely wrecked the
cold storage plant, badly injuring
eight men and causing great damage.
The fftieth anniversary of the we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Tredway,
of Dubuque, Ia, was duly celebrated
on the 10th. They were married at
Lyons, N. Y, September 80, 1916. They
removed to Dubuque in 1851.
GEORGE BARNUM, an old hermit and
hunter, was found, on the 3Oth, muir
dered in his hut near Harrison, Mich.
He was a brother of the late P. T. Bar
mum, Snowman, and served in the late
civil war.
An immense bed of ore. carrying rich
deposits of gold and silver, has just
been located on the west slope of
Mount Tacoma, Wash, near the snow
line. There are millions of tons, rum
ming $40 per ton, in sight.
The reviewing stand of the Iowa
semi-centennial parade at Burlington
fell, on the 1st, injuring several per-
sons.
JOHN C. BoDEwIG and George ".
Johnson, charged with having wrecked
a mail train on the Chicago & Grand
Trunk railroad at Battle Creek, Mich,
on July l6, 1894, during the A. r. q.
strike, in which the fireman was in
stantly killed and number of persons
were injured, were found guilty of
in the United States court
at Detroit, on the 1st, after trial
lasting ten days
THE members of the Venezuelan
will soon resume their dis
cussion of the boundary question at
their headquarters in Washington,
when the evidence collected and
studied Independently by them during
the past few months will be compared
and arranged for incorporation in the
final determination of the true divi-
siona1 line.
A MALIGNANT fever similar to that
which appeared in 1893 has prevailed
in Turkestan for the past two months.
Ten thousand persons have died from
the fever.
Mrs. RosALIE ]. ANDERSON, of Rich
mond, Ind, was awarded a verdict for
81, 900 damages against the North Chi
cago street railway company by jury
in Judge Chetlain's court in Chicago
on the 1st. During the Worlds fair
Mrs. Anderson was injured while at
tempting to board a car. She sued the
company for $50. 600.
A BAND of rebels attacked the town
of Canas, near Artemisa, in the prov
ince of Pinar del Rio. Cuba, on the
30th, but were repulsed by the Span
ish garrison. Before retiring the in
surgents looted a number of stores and
burned several hnts on the outskirts
of the town.
THE public debt statement, issued
on the 1st, showed a net increase IN
the public debt, less cash in the treas.
ury during the month of September
of 81, SOC. 033. Total cash in the treas
ury. Ss4s, 642, 7T2.
OF the recently expected 40, 900 REIN
forcements to Cuba SO, 900 had arrived
mp to the 1st.
THE comparative statement of the
and expenditures of the gov
eminent for the mouth of September
shows the total receipts to have been
81, 5s4, PA, and the expenditures sea-
$40, 535, leaving deficit for the month !
of 81, 995, e91. The deficit for three
of the present fiscal year is |
s25. 1ss, I2s.
POSTMASTER MOSES L HOWELL of |!