Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-01-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

JUDGE E. L. BURTON, considered one
of the ablest jurists in the northwest,
died, on the 22d, at Ottumwa, Ia, aged
So years.
In the burning of the A. S. Aloe OPP
teal establishment in st. Louis, on
the night of the 21st, four salvage corps
men who We're spreading tarpaulins
In the burning building We're carried
down with the collapsed floor and
three of them persisted under tons of
wreckage, the fourth being rescued
alive after several hours of horrible
suspense but died shortly afterwards.
Three firemen were shocked to insensi-
bility by live electric wires, and one
was seriously injured by falling from
ladder. Loss, 5000, 900: fully insured.
SAILING orders of the steamships
Friesland and LaTouraine, which We're
to have carried large pleasure parties
from New York to the east, have been
countermanded on account of the
troubles in the east.
A VEIN of salt 800 feet thick and said
TO be the richest in the world has been
discovered under the town of Little
River, Rice county, Kas. It is SEQ feet
down to the salt. Chicago capitalists
will develop it.
A DISPATCH from Madrid, on the 21st,
said: 1T is announced that Marquis
Ahmuda will be the second in command
under Gen. Weyler in Cuba, and not
Gen. Suarez Valdez, as previously an
nounced."
WHILE August Voight, who lived
at the edge of Michigan City. Ind.
was saving cord wood, on the 22d. the
buzz saw struck knot and burst. and
half Of it. striking him in the neck, al
lost severed the head from his body.
Death was instantaneous.
THE Franklin county grand jury at
Columbus. O., on the 22d. returned in
dictments against several members of
the last legislature for bribery, and, it
was reported, would find many more
similar bills. The indicted belong to
both political parties.
WIN. E. BRoCKwAY, the noted coun-
terfeiter and forger, and Abbie L.
Smith and VIM. E. Wagner, two of the
gang connected with him, and all of
whom were arrested with several
others in West Hoboken last fall, were
arraigned in the federal court at Tren-
ton, n. j., on the 22d, and committed
to Jail in default of SIS. 900 bail.
AT the mouth of Fishing creek. which
empties into the Ohio river at New
Martinsville, w. Va, on the 22d, NJ. L.
Potts and two assistants cast a seine.
and upon withdrawing it found the
most remarkable catch of fish on
record. There were in the seine 3. 79O
fish, of which all but about 300 were
large enough to be marketable.
Miss CLARA BARTON and her staff
members of the National Red Cross So
eiety sailed, on the ED, on the steam
ship New York. Those who accom-
panied Miss Barton were DIR. J. b.
Hubbell, field agent; Miss Lucy
Greaves, stenographer and typewriter;
Ernest Mason, interpreter and linguist,
and George III. Pullman, secretary to
Miss Barton.
AT the closing session of their con-
vention in Chicago, on the 23d. the
National Association of Manufacturers
of the United States passed resolu-
ton, among others; asking the estab-
lishment by the government of 4 de-
partment of manufactures under
secretary of equal rank with the Sec
rotary of agriculture.
COMMANDER CONVERSE of the torpedo
station at Newport. r. l., was called
to Washing ton, on the 23d, to consider
the details of placing torpedo tubes on
the new batuleships of the Kearsarge
type below the water line. This will
be a new feature in our war ships.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN TURNER, who. dur
ing his four terms in congress many
years ago. earned the scubriquet Of
1.-The Outlaw by his fearless and in
dependent course, died as Louisville.
KY, on the ED. a9edS5