Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30


10, for Hull, previously reported as
having been in collision with the
British steamer Santarense, from
Penarth, via Madeira, for Monaos,
sinking the latter and proceeding in .
damaged condition, arrived at Queens
town on the Esd. The captain and
crew of the sunken steamer Santar-
ense were on board the Dundonald-
FIRE destroyed the entire east wing
of the Marion county lind poor house
on the 23d. The burned wing was of
brick, three stories high. All of the
inmates were removed from danger.
A. V. LINTON, the professional bi.
cyclist, whose record for rs miles was
So minutes, seconds, died at Aber-
dare, Wales, on the 23d, from typhoid
fever.
For the week ended on the 23d. $685.
600 hogs were packed in the United
States, against $50, 900 for the cores
ponding week last year.
CORPORAL HENRY Epson, of Company
F, Fourteenth infantry; Private Charles
Morris, Miss Laura Guard and Miss
Emma Young, all of Vancouver, Wash,
were drowned, on the 23d, while out
gal river, near Fleming's mill. The
river at that point is swift, and the
boat was carried into an eddy and up
set
On the oath the national silver con-
vention at st. Louis adopted a single
silver plank platform, and nominated
William ]. Bryan, of Nebraska, and
Arthur Sewall, of Maine. respectively,
for president and vice-president. by
reclamation, and adjourned.
ANOTHER American vessel, the
schooner Gov. l. Y. Smith, of Boston,
Capt. Patrick, from Gibara, Cuba, to
Wilmington, n. c., reported; on the
cath. having been fred upon by
Spanish gunboat off the coast of Cuba.
THE drought which has prevailed in
England for the past few weeks has
compelled a reduction in the water
supply in the west of London to six
hours per day.
The Miami river was swollen beyond
it's banks by the rains of the 23d, mum
dating the houses in the lower part of
the city of Springfield, o. Many fam
lilies were removed in boats by the city
authorities. Much damage was done.
Gov. MATTHEWS of Indiana, on the
oath, assumed an attitude of defiance
toward the federal courts, by advising
the authorities of Hammond to go
ahead with the collection of taxes in
certain annexed territory, regardless
of the decision of the federal court of
appeals reversing a decision of the
lower court, in which bill for an in
junction was denied.
4 in
just above Morrison, Col, on the even.
ing of the oath, let loose a solid wall of
water ten feet high, which not only
did great damage to property, but
caused the loss of Is to 20 lives. The
known dead are Mrs. Miller and three
children and party of campers, Is or
Is in number.
FIELD Columbi an museum, of Chi
cago, is to receive So, 600. 900 as an en-
dowment fund from the founder, Mar
shall Field. He allowed Harlow N.
Higgin botham to formally tender it,
upon conditions which are TO govern
the museums future location.
On the night of the oath the worst
storm in its history broke upon Golden,
Col. Three lives are known to be lost
and thousands of dollars worth OF
property is destroyed. The dead are
A. A. johnson and wife and Mrs. ]. A.
Edwards.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople
says that the latest accounts received
are to the effect that 40 prosperous vii.
lagos around Van have been destroyed,
and every male over eight years of age
killed. The total killed are placed at
IL, 400.
A. C. CLIFFORD, cashier of the Amer
lean Bank of Commerce, New York
city, committed suicide, on the oath,
in the woods near South Amboy. N j.
1t is supposed he was temporarily in
sane. His books are said to be in per-
feet shape.
THE democratic managers in Indiana
have determined, in the face of the de-
cision of the supreme court, to nomi-
nate senators in the IS hold-over dis.
tricts.