Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-01-02

crowned TWO ana One-naf1 miles east OK
| Weir City, Kas-, ON the evening of the
Esd, while trying to ford Brush creek.
A 12-year-old son. who was with him in
the wagon. got out. One horse was
rescued and the other was drowned
A CANADIAN officer says that once a
| force of $4,000 British troops were
established on the south side of the St
Lawrence it would take 200. 900 such
American troops as fought during the
| war of the rebellion to fight their way
to Montreal, and long before they
could succeed the guns of the royal
| navy would have dictated the terms Of
peace of Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia. San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago
and Milwaukee,
AT Deposit, NY, on the 9th, 90 val
uable Jersey cattle on the stock farm
| of Alvin Devereaux which were infected
with tuberculosis were killed by order
of the state board of health.
The Frankfort Zeitung published
dispatch from Constantinople, ON the
23d. saying that there had been fierce
fighting at Zeitoun between the Turk
ish troops, who surrounded that city,
and the insurgent Armenians, who de-
Tended it. Both sides were said to have
lost frightfully. The Turks were TO-
600 strong, and had "a pieces of artil-
1ery. The Armenians numbered 49,
600, but they had no artillery.
FLORENCE MACK a I7-year-old girl of
Detroit, Mich. died, on the 25th, of
loclSjaw resulting from splinter thrust
under her thumb nail. She disre-
garded the advice of the phs Scian
who removed the splinter in failing to
poultice the thumb upon her return
home.
UNITED STATES MINISTER TERRELL
returned to Constantinople, on the
25th, from Smyrna, whittier he went
to secure protection for American resi-
dents.
No LESS than FIVE suicides occurred
in New York city on the 24th.
1t was given out in Washington, on
the 25th, on the best of authority, that
the president had rendered places on
the Venezuela high commission to Ed
ward j. Phelps, of Vermont, and to(
Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, eX-min-
listers to England. Their acceptances
had not been received and it was said
the third place on the high commits
sion would not be filed until Mr..
Phelps and Mr.. Lincoln had accepted.
\ DISPATCH from Massowah, on the
25th, said that two battalions of Ital-
ian troops had arrived there. and that
all the Italian reinforcements would be
in the field by January 4. when an ex-
petition comprising 10000 men would
be ready to advance against the Abys-
sinians.
-,Iv Al
residence of Edward Lynn in South
Scranton. Pa, on the Goth. and his
nine-year-oid daughter Belinda who
was asleep upstairs at the time. was
suffocated. Lynn. who had quarreled
with and driven his wife and an elder
daughter from the house just before
the fire was discovered, was arrested
on a charge of arson.
Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD, president
of the Worlds w. C. T. o., received
a cable from Lady Henry Somerset, OF
London, as follows: christmas greet
ings. Pray for peace" Miss Willard
sent this reply: white Ribbons the
world over are praying for peace. Let
us help the Armenians and not harm
our own kim"
By the burning of the sawmill of the
Sutherland Lumber Co. at Ashland,
Wis, on the Goth, three men lost their
lives. Two were found dead in the
boiler room four feet from the door,
while the third was SO badly burned
that he died in agony soon after, one
of his arms being burned off.
A DISPATCH from Havana says that |
Gen. Martinez Campos' alleged victory |
over the insurgents at Colisco did not |
check the advance of the rebels toward |
Havana. |
Two OF the oldest women in New En-
gland, Mrs. Hannah Lovett, of Nashua, |
N. H., and Mrs. Mary Morey, of Ply
mouth. Mass, died on Christmas day.
A DISPATCH from Algiers says that |
the small French steamer Emile-He-
loise was run down and sunk by the |
British steamer Bellerophon and 80 |
were drowned, % of whom
were natives of Algeria.