Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-08-20

THE Michigan Buggy Co.'S factory
at Kalamazoo, Mich, was burned on
the 18th. Loss, $75, 200; insurance,
sc, OOo The Kalamazoo Wagon Co. s
factory adjoining was saved by hard
work. The fire originated from spon-
taneous combustion in the paint shop.
Ok the 18th Pittsburgh, Pa, was the
center of a severe electrical storm,
which was preceded by a short space
of pitchy darkness. Five persons were
| drowned in Pine creek. swollen to a
torrent by cloud-burst.
1T was announced, on the 18th, that
the Lake Michigan Car Ferry Co.,
operating in connection with the 500
line had cut freight rates 2 cents on
first class and III cents on lower
classes of freight.
DURING the display of fireworks Civ
en- in honor and in the presence of
President Faure at Rennes, France,
on the evening of the 10th, bomb
was prematurely exploded, killing a
girl and seriously injuring five other
persons.
A DISPATCH from Bomb bay, on the
14th, said: Terrible floods have oc-
Cured through the overlooking of the
River Kistna- The damage to prop
erty is immense, and many persons
have been rendered homeless, their
houses having been swept away. Two
hundred persons were drowned by the
sinking of boat near Tatara. The
overlooking water from the river has
washed out a breach seven miles long
in the Nizam or Hyderabad railway.
THE deadlock in the Eleventh
(Mich.) district republican congress
sional convention was broken, on the
18th, when w. L Mesick, of Antrim,
was nominated on the 363d ballot.
ALBERT PLACE and Walter Whipple,
local wheelmen, left Providence. R. L,
at p. M, on the 14th, in an attempt
to.break the bicycle record from that
section of New England to San Fran
cisco.
On the 14th, Prof. Albert Nelson
Prentiss, in charge of the botanical
department of Cornell university, died
at Ithica, n. Y, in the sixtieth year of
his age.
THE position of Capt. John "A. Lee
as police commissioner of st. Louis
having been declared incompatible
with that of elector-at-large he will re-
sign his police commissionership.
ACCORDING to data collected by Sec
rotary Parsons of the Colorado mining
exchange, the gold production of Grip
pie Creek in the first six months of this
year was 81. ESQ, 900. He estimates the
total production of 1896 will be S15,-
100000. That camp produced, in 1895,
S9.199,3 BIT.
UNITED STATES MINISTER TERRELL,
at Consta n tinople, has demanded the
immediate release of six Armenians,
naturalized Americans, who are inn
priso1ed at Aleppo. Mr.. Terrell also
intimated that any further imprison-
ment of American citizens would not
be tolerated.
DR. ]. NJ. SHUT, while exploring an
Indian mound on the farm of Marion
Thompson, in Huntington county,
Ind, on the 14th, unearthed number
of Indian skeletons, the largest being
that of giant, eight feet two inches
long. The skull is fve-eights of an
inch thick.
THE surviving membe rs of Morgan's
famous regiment, the Eighth kentucky
cavalry, have formed an organization.
Col Cicero Coleman, of Fayette coun-
ty, has been elected president. A re-
union will be held in October, probably
at Versailles, Ky.
WILLARD F. NEEDY. Cripple Creek
Coli miner, while ascending the
Phoenix shaft, struck his head against
the timber lining. He fell rs feet,
death resulting instantly. He leaves
a family.
IN compliance with the petitions OF
Gen. Lee and other foreign consuls.
Capt.-Gen. Weyler has extended, until
the end of October, the time allowed
for the registration of aliens in Cuba.
THE residence and drug store of d.
w. Bonnell, at Hubbard, o., was
robbed by burglars, on the night of
the 14th, who secured $500 in jewelry
and medals won by his son, w. w.
Bonnell, a bicycle rider.
NJ. HANorAUx, French minister for
foreign affairs, has announced to the
cabinet that the United States has rec
ognized the French annexation of
Madagascar.