Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24

FIRE in the Western Union Tele-
graph Co.'S building at Evansville.
Ind, on the 18th. damaged FrondracE.
Bros, cigar manufacturers, whose
factory occupies the top floor of the
building, SIS, 600. The Western Union
office was not damaged to any extent.
The London Globe of the 18th said
that important negotiations were pro-
ceeding, if not completed, whereby
Great Britain would derive ccnsidera-
BILE benefits in the opening up OF China,
adding that an English syndicate had
obtained a concession to construct and
maintain long railroad, which would
be a powerful counter check to Rus
sian designs.
IT is reported that an expedition
from Honduras landed on the south
side of the island of Cuba, recently,
with large supplies of ammunition and
arms. and that the cargo was safely
delivered into the possession of Gen.
Rivera.
A HEAVY wind and rain storm ragged
along the Atlantic coast on the 18th.
At Atlantic City, \. j., the large Casino
building. where the Ellks' disaster hap
pened two years ago, collapsed with a
crash, carrying with it an untenanted
cottage next door.
A DISPATCH from Cape Town says
that Col. Cecil Rhodes country house
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. It
may be presumed that the country
house" referred to in the dispatch is
the South African palace of the EXPIRE
mier of Cape Colony.
n one of the 1arpaSf
buildings in connection with the Knox
vile (Tenn.) college for colored stu
dents, was burned, on the 18th. The
building was occupied by female stu
dents, all of whom escaped. The loss
will reach S25, 900, and is said to be in
sured.
GEORGE WILSON and John Palmer
were arrested in New York city ON
the 18th. charged with swindling
pawnbrokers of that city and Brook
Iyn to the extent of thousands by
means of alleged gold watches and
chains presented as pledges
FRANK B. PFIsTEB, 35 years of age, a
clerk in the Indian bureau at Wash
ington, and son of the late Congress
man Pfster, of Kentucky, committed
suicide, on the 10th, by shooting him
self through the right temple.
THE United States cruisers Newark
and Raleigh arrived at Key West, Fla,
on the 10th, after an unsuccessful
chase after the alleged flibuster Three
Friends.
MARION HATFIELD, a relative of the
notorious Hatfelds of kentucky and
West Virginia, was hanged in Sneed-
vile, Tenn, on the 10th.
On the 10th there were 10 steamers
due at New York from European ports.
nine of which were from two to six
days overdue.
MAJ. MCKINLEY went to Chicago, on
the 10th, for a week S visit with friends.
THE beautiful and costly Casino
together with the bridge
which spanned Four-Mile run, at the
main entrance to Schenly park, Oak
land station, Pittsburgh, Pa, were de-
stroyed by fire, on the 18th, at 1855 a.
m. The casino building and contents
an investment of about
$780, 900.
Mrs. J. COLEMAN DRAYTON, daugh-
ter of Mrs. William Astor, was mar
ried in St. Colum bias church, London,
on the 18th. to Mr.. George Haig,
member of the firm of Ha.g & Haig,
whisky merchants.
HERMANN, the magician, who gave
a performance at Rochester. n. y,
on the night of the 10th, at the Lyceum
theater, diedin his private car at Great
Valley, n. Y, on the 18th, while en-
route to Bradford, Pa.
On the 18th the federal assembly at
Berne, Switzerland, elected DR.. Adolph
Deucher president of the Swiss Goa
federation for 1897, and Mr.. Fraffy, |
the present minister of the interior, |
Mr.. Deucher was vice
president for 1895 and for 1896
The court-martial of the anarch- |
SITS arrested for completely in the re-
cent disturbances at Barcelona was |
concluded on the 18th. The sentences |
imposed are kept secret, and anyone |
iivulging them is to be severely pun
shed. 1t is believed, however, that 2s |
If the anarchists have been sem
enced to death and SO others to penal |
,ervitude.