Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-08-06
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| ALEXANDER BELL, an habitual onen
der, in Jail at Columbus, Ind, charged
with horse-stealing, made his escape
knocking down the guard who openet
the door to his cell to hand him hi
dinner.
A NUMBER of claims against Spair
are accommodating in the state depart
ment on account of American citizens
who have suffered in property and per
son from the operations of Spanish
troops in Cuba.
DURING recent skirmishes in the
provinces of Pinar del Rio and Santa
Clara, Cuba, the insurgents left Ii
killed on the field, among the dead
being an American, and retired with
their wounded.
ONLY so many of the strikers at the
Brown Hoist works at Cleveland,
o., as could be used after retaining
over three hundred non-union men
were taken back, on the 2sth, but
others were promised employment as
fast as the company could find places
for them.
A TERRIFIC hail-storm, on the 27th,
destroyed nearly all the corn and uncut
small grain in a strip of territory 20
Preston, Grant, Fredonia and Meadow
townships, in the north part of Plym-
outh county, Ia.
A DESTRUCTIVE hailstorm struck Clay
county, Mimi, on the eth, passing
northwesterly across Sabin and as far
north as Glydon on the west and Stock
wood on the east. In many cases the
destruction was complete.
WHILE watching a game of ball at
Youngstown, O., Oscar Gilchrist was
struck in the eye by a foul fly with
such force that the eye was knocked
into pulp and fell out of his head.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, late general
manager of the Associated Press, died
at his home in Lake Forest, Chicago,
on the 27th. He had been sick for sew
eral days with pneumonia.
JAMES BYERs, agent for the Van
dalia railroad and Adams Express Co.,
at Moran, Ind. committed suicide on
the 27th. Byers was short in his ac-
counts with the express company $500,
and with the railroad company, SIS.
The correspondent of the United
Press at Honolulu, writing under date
of the 21st, says that the volcano XII
laUea renewed its activity, during the
night of the 18th, and was worse than
ever.
THE destruction of crops, live stock
and farm property in Yankton county,
S. D., by the recent hail storm is now
estimated to amount to $1,000 900.
IT is rumored in Constantinople that
the Turkish government contemplates
the issue of paper money.
A DISPATCH from Buluwayo, on the
2Sth, said: "a force of imperial troops
is being hrrriedly pushed to the front
from Maolutsie and Mangwe and Fort
Tu1i. The situation is becoming more
serious every day"
BEING found guilty in the British
high court of justice, on the 2sth, of
violation of the foreign enlistment act,
DR.. Jameson was sentenced to fifteen
months Imprisonment without labor;
Maj. Sir John Willoughby to ten
months; Maj. r. Wright to seven
months, and Capt. Henry f. Coventry
(son of the earl of Coventry, Col. r.
Grey and Col. F. FL. White to FIVE
months imprisonment each. They
were taken at once to Holloway prison.
CHARLES COREY and Miss Kate Fill
mann, both of Boston, were drowned
in the Niagara river, between Grand
Island and the Canadian shore, above
Niagara falls, on the 2sth. The young
couple had hired a small boat for
row, and in the rough water the boat
became manageable.
THE gold standard democrats of Ken
lucky will hold a state convention on
August 20, in Louisville, to perfect
thorough organization of their forces
and select delegates to the national
convention decided upon at the recent
conference held in Chicago.
The United States consuls at Vera
Cruz and Acapulco telegraph the sur
geon general of the United States !
marine hospital service the existence
of yellow fever at those points
THE fact has become known that the
recent flood in Colorado entirely de-
stroyed the Catslill branch of the
Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf road, 40
miles in length.
PART of the town of Ilfracombe,
Devonshire, one of the fashionable and
most attractive seaside resorts in En-
gland, was burned on the 29th.
ONE of the three men who partici-
pated in the recent Colorado Springs
and Cripple Creek Col. stage robbery,
was captured by deputy sheriff while
leaving a Denver train at Colorado |
Springs, on the Goth, but for reasons
unknown the arrest was kept a pro-
found secret until the Goth.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN JOHN T. Brown died |
suddenly at his home in Fowler, Ind, |
on the 2Sth, of heart trouble. He leaves
a widow and an adopted child in COM
Portable circumstances.
THE notification committee appointed |
by the Prohibition national conven-
ton, which met last May in Pitts |
burgh, called upon Joshua lowering at |
Baltimore, Nd, on the 2sth, and Off |
cially informed him of his nomination |
for the presidency upon the prohibit |
ton ticket.
A COMMITTEE from the University of |
Chicago called upon Maj Mckinley at |
Canton, O., on the goth, as representa- |
tives of the Republican club of that |
school to pay their respects to the re- |
publican candidate and to present t% q
him a life-sized marble bust of himself, |
made by Hans Hirsch, the noted sculp- |
tor of that city.
ROBERT GARRETT, ex-president OF the |
Baltimore 81 Ohio railway and head of |
the widely-known banking house of |
Robert Garrett s. Sons, died at Deer |
Park, Md. on the 10Th. Mr.. Garrett |
had been in failing health for several |
years.
AN express train from Philadelphia |