Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-05-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

L HE duke anu ouCucSS VI NJ
arrived at Moscow from st. Peters
burg on the 10Th. The duke will rep
resent his mother, Queen Victoria, at
the coronation ceremonies
ARcHDUKE CHARLES LOUIS, of Aus
tria. brother of Emperor Francis Jo-
seph, died in Vienna en- the 10th.
The announcement of his death Gre
ated a feeling of sorrow throughout
Hungary, where the archduke was
very popular.
AS FAST freight No. SO on the Lake
Shore railroad was pulling out of Air
Line Junction, o., on the 10th, the air
hose broke, setting the front brakes.
An empty stock car in the middle of
the train was crushed like paper box,
and of the seven tramps who were rid
ing in it, one, Edward Haven. of
Washington, Ga, was killed, and five
were more or less severely injured.
THE steam schooner Albion from
Cooks Inlet arrived at Port Townsend,
WASH, on the 18th, bringing no It'd
ings of the brig Blakeley, which left
Port Townsend for Six Mile weeks
ago, carrying passengers, stock and
freight and alleged to be greatly over
loaded.
LIEUT.. 1'EARY is going north again.
and steamer is being fitted out at ST.
Johns, n. F., for that purpose. The
object .of the expedition is to secure
for the Philadelphia Academy of Sci
ence the Acton meteorite near Cape
York which Lieut.. Peary discovered
last year.
TIE executive council at Pretoria,
Transvaal, On the 18th, decided that
the punishment of Col. Francis Rhodes,
Lionel Phillips, George Farrar and
John Hays Hammond (the leaders Of
the reformers who were sentenced to
DEATH shall be Is years imprisonment
TwENrY-EIGHT killed outright, so or
more injured, some of them fatally,
and a property loss aggregating about
81 200, 600, is given as the estimated
damage done by the cyclone in Mar
shall. Nemaha and Brown counties,
kas.
On the Goth the president recognized
P. L. Hudson as consul of the Argen-
tine Republic at Chicago, and A. J.
Ballot as consul of Salvador at Seat
tie, Wash.
FIRE, the result of spontaneous COM
bustion, broke out in one of the coal
bunkers of the battle-ship Indiana, in
the Brooklyn navy yard. on the 10Th,
right next to one of the magazines. lit
was extinguished before any serious
damage was done.
On the Goth. Coroner Dobbs of New
York county, n. Y. gave, and ex-Con-
gresham Ralph Hill, of indianapolis,
Ind. took possession of the body of
his caughter-in-law. Mrs E. E Hill,
who committed suicide, on the sth
inst. at the Colonnade hotel in New
York city. Mr. Hill said he would
have the body or emated at once.
In fire at boarding house in
Providence, r. l., on the Goth, Vim
cenzo Rizzi was suffocated- Several
other men were taken out of the
building in an unconscious condition,
one of whom will probably die.
THE Southern Presbyterian general
assembly met at Memphis, Tenn, on
the 2lst-
EIeHr miners, who were at work
800 feet below the surface on the third
level of No. shaft of the Ashland
mine at Ironwood, Mich, on the e1st,
were entombed by the sudden falling
of a body of ore. They were all res
cued alive and but little the worse for
their terrible experience by q party
who dug through to the shaft from
the Norrie mine.
The Canadian Association of Anna
teur Oarsmen will hold its yearly re-
gatta at Rockville. Ont, ON August
9 and Z.