Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-19

A. SPECIAL dispatch from Bombay
says that in IL districts of the Deccan
and Concan $4,000 people are be-
heved to be on the verge of starvation.
WALTER NJ. CASTLE, of San Francisco,
expected to sail from England for the
United States on the 14th. accompanied
by Mr. Castle, on board the American
line steamship st. Louis.
The Penn Steel Casting Co., of Ches-
ter, Pa, has cast the ram for the bat
tle-ship Kearsarge, now being built at
Newport News, Va. This is believed
to be the largest casting of the kind
turned out in this country, weighing,
when ready for shipment, about 10000
pounds
ALBERT s MERRIAM, a wealthy lum-
herman, walked into the Commercial
club at Minneapolis. Minp., on the
18th, entered small card room, and
shot himself through the head with a
revolver. Death was instantaneous.
UNDER charges of political treach-
cry, six members of the Cook county
Qll.) democratic central committee
were. on the 18th, expelled. Nearly go
members of the committee voted for
dismissal
THE Chicago English High and Man.
ual Training school at los West Mon
roe street, one of the largest pu bile in
situations in that city, was partially
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Supt.
Robinson estimated the damage at
$4,000 All of the machinery used in
the institution, valued at SIS, 900. was
Tla In TG ST1V
posed, originated from the furnace in
the foundry.
Police OFFICER PURvIs, of Brooklyn,
while attempting to board a Grand
street trolley car, on the 18th, slipped
and fell under the wheels, receiving
injuries which caused his death few
hours later. This brings the list OF
trolley victims in that city up to 167.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business on the 18th stood at
S123, 101, $50, a net gain for the day of
S252, 200. The Withdrawals for the day
at New York were S12, AGO.
KING OSCAR of Sweden may be called
into the Venezuelan arbitration, but
only in case of a disagreement of the
four arbitrators appointed in the first
instance, when he will nominal the
fifth.
In an interview, on the 18th, Premier
Canovas del Castillo said that there
had been serious reverses in Cuba,
but that these ought not to dis
courage the national spirit Within
the present month, he said, the
government wasr sending such rein
forcements to Cuba and the Philippine
islands as should be able to put an end
to the wars in both countries in short
time.
THOMAS BRAN, the first mate of the
barkentine Herbert Fuller, was taken
before the United States circuit court
at Boston, on the 18th, charged with
the murder, on the nigh seas, OF Capt.
Nash of the Fuller, his wife Laura,
and the second mate of the vessel, Au-
gustus w. Bramberg. The case was
confined one day pending a motion tC
quash the Indictment.
The new Northern Pacific securities
will be issued a bout the middle of De-
cenber. They are being received in
large amounts from the bank note
company and are being signed at the
rate of several million dollars a day
by the officers of the railroad COM
pany Over 200, 600 signatures will be
required to complete the securities.
THE battleship Iowa passed up the
Delaware river, on the 13th, on her re-
turn from her builders trial trip. On
her smokestack was displayed 1927. :"
This signified that she had exceeded
her guaranteed speed of 10 knots.
JOHN Y FIsTER, secretary of the
New Jersey republican state commit
tee and editor of several of the Leslie
publications, died at his home in New
ark, n. J., on the 18th, of pneumonia
On the 18th the navy department
made the final reserve payment on the
torpedo boat Ericsson, and she is now
the property of the government.
GEORGE A. HANsCOM, late publisher
of the Lowell Daily Times and Eve
ming Star, died at Northampton, Mass,
on the 18th, aged 60.
THE government is strengthening
coast defenses and putting abandoned
forts in shape for occupancy.
NAVIGATION at the port of St Peters
burg closed for the season on the 18th.