Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


terpreted by the Spanish commanders
as an edict to massacre old men, women
and children. and the result is an ap-
palling list of butcheries.
The palatial home of D. NJ. Kirk
bride in Wichita, Kas., was totally de-
stroyed by fire, early on the morning
of the 29th, and the occupants barely
escaped with their lives, Mr. Kirk
bride, entirely unassisted, rescuing his
family by carrying them down a lad
der from second-story window. Loss
on house, SIP, 500; on furniture and IL
brary, $1,000.
THE November treasury deficit, from
official figures issued on the 1st, was
81, 621 900, and for the five months of
the fiscal year to date, $40. 500, 900.
On the Goth United States Treasurer
Morgan mailed 1000 checks, aggrega-
ting S16s. s22, in payment of December
interest on the funded loan of 1896.
THIRTEEN of the 46 prisoners con-
fined in the Wyandotte county jail in
Kansas City, Kas., made their escape,
on the 10th, through window from
which the bars had been sawed. Three
of the number were recaptured.
PETER BRossEAU, a Chicago commits
sion merchant, was held up and robbed
of So, 900 on a Halstead-street electric
car at Thirty-ninth street on the a0th.
Charles Mathusek, who stole the wal
let containing the money, was arrested
after severe struggle, but two COM
paniopS who aided him snatched the
pocketbook while Mathusek was strug-
Cling with his captors, jumped from
the car and escaped.
THE steamer City Of Kalamazoo was
burned at her dock at South Haven,
Mich, on the morning of the 3Oth.
Robert Van Ostrand and Joe Lang,
firemen, were burned to death. The
stewardess is missing, and it is feared
she also has persisted.
PLAGUE has made its appearance in
Formosa, and the japanese there are
dying in large numbers. Cholera is
prevalent in Toxic, and appears to be
on the increase.
The home of Luther Greenman, &
farmer, four miles northeast of Perry,
n. Y, was destroyed by fire, on the
morning of the Goth, and the entire
family, consisting of five persons, was
burned to death.
The Falls Cotton Co. at Norwich,
Conn.,, resumed, on the both, after four
and a half months shutdown and
some 500 employees began work.
WIN. STEINwAY, the well-known piano
manufacturer, who had been i'll for
some time with typhoid fever, died in
New York on the 3Oth.
A NEW bridge is to be constructed
over the Hudson river at New York at
cost not to exceed S25, 900. 900.
THE $50 employees of the Standard
silk mill, at Philipsburg, n. J., who
had been working on short time for
several months, went to work on full
time on the 3Oth. The knitting estab-
lishment of Seifert & Eitonheart, at
the same place, which had been idle
several months, has been purchased by
Carly & Souders, who also commenced
operations on the goth.
GEN WEYLER, as acknowledged by
himself in interviews with prominent
Spaniards of the Junta de Defensa in
his palace at Havana, has resolved to
exterminate all the Cubans in the
province of Pinar del Rio not engaged
as soldiers in the Spanish ranks, no
matter how peaceful and harmless
they appear.
FIRE ENGINE called out by a false
alarm at Everett, Mass, on the 1st,
was run into by a locomotive. The
engineer of the steamer was killed,
and the driver and both horses were
fatally injured.
ALL the logging camps in the neigh
borhood of Manila, Mich, are max
ing preparations to begin work, and
L., L. h.
poets are for a very prosperous win
ter.
The Wisconsin board of election can
vassers completed its labors, on the
Cd, finding that Mckinley electors
received PCS, las, as against 162, 52s for
the Bryan electors.
The situation at Chippewa Falls
Wis, was very critical, on the I'd, the
entire city and much of the Chippewa
valley being liable to destruction and
devastation at almost any moment by
the giving way of the immense ice
gorges that had formed in the river at
intervals for many miles. The resi-
dents were rapidly moving their mer-
chandise and household effects TO
higher ground.
The official count of the votes cast In
the recent election in the state of
Rhode Island is 1000 larger than at
first supposed. The correct figures are:
Mckinley, 37,s47; Bryan, 14,459; plu-
rality for Mckinley, 90, 97s.
THE body of Sheriff William E Her
ron of Plymouth county, Ia, Yas
found, bruised and frozen, beside the
railway track near Merrill, Neb., on
tbe cd where he had evidently fallen
from train.
On the I'd Kansas City (Mo.) police
officials arrested jeff Puget and Albert
Ellis, two Of the bandits who held up
and attempted to rob an Alton express
train at Blue Cut. near independence.
Mo-, on the evening of October "a.
Evidence against them is conclusive.
JOHN W. IRONS, secretary of the Full
tom county board of health, reported
TO the Indiana state board of health,
on the Sd, the death of five children in
thet county from diphtheria. Their
parents belonged to the sanctifed
sect, and positively refused medical
aid for the children. Finally. how
ever, they submitted to allow ply
stefan to prescribe, and the disease
was broken up after Eve children hal
died.
NEWS was received from Cuba, on
the Sd, confirming tine report that
Mat-Gen. Serefin Sanchez was killed
in an engagement at Las Damas,
Santa Clara province