Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-22
NEWS And NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


suicide at Butte, Mont, on the 18th, by
taking poison. The girl was % years
of age, and the daughter of farmer
living near Spokane.
An unknown man jumped into the
water at Prospect Point, Niagara Falls,
Y. Y, on the 18th, and was swept over
the American falls. The only wit
nesses, two hackmen, described the
stranger as short man about IS years
old, weighing perhaps 135 pounds, and
wearing a cinnamon-coloredo vercoat-
SCIENCE has a new discovery to an
nounce to a grateful world. It is a
sure cure for snake bite-the specific
SO long sought in vain The honor OF
the achievement belongs to DIR. A. Call
mette, of the Pasteur institute at Lille,
France. He has succeeded in obtain
Ing an antitoxin by inoculating horses
with progressive doses of the poison of
the most deadly serpents, such as the
cobra. Having at length rendered the
animals proof against the venom, even
in large quantities. he draws from
them the serum. which he calls ''anti-
venom" This fluid, injected into the
body of person bitten by any kind of
snake. will save life, if there has not
been too much delay.
A SERIOUS subterranean disturbance,
very much like an earthquake on a
small scale, took place at Dumbarton,
Scotland, on the 18th. The steamship
Circassian, which was lying off quay.
was suddenly shaken and violently
moved 30 feet by commotion under
her stern. The bank was heaved up
for distance of 100 feet and the ship
yard was considerably damaged.
The International Association of
Fire Underwriters convened at the
Clifton house in Niagara Falls, Ont,
on the 18th. There were about forty
five representatives in attendance.
Important questions regarding fire un-
derwriting were discussed.
OWEN MCCARTHY, ex-city treasurer
and ex-chief of police of Chicago, died
in that city, on the 18th, of old age.
He had lived in the city 90 years. and
had been one of the leading politicians
of Cook county.
THE city of Great harrington, Mass,
was visited, on the 12th. by the most
destructive confagration in its his
tory. About sixty firms, representing
all kinds of business, were burned out.
The loss was estimated at from $780,
'OeO to $500, ZOO.
A DELEGATION composed of rnearly
300 members of the Early Settlers So
eiety of Cleveland and Cuyahoga coun-
ty, o., called upon Maj. Mckinley on
the 14th. There were great many
very old people in the delegation, and
there was a touch of pathos in the
spectacle they made when they
marched slowly up with their white
locks and hating footsteps. Maj. Nc.
Kinley's venerable mother was at heI
sons residence, and assisted in the re
ception of the visitors.
A SERIOUS battle occurred between
the sophomore and freshmen classes
of the State university at Madison,
Wis, at the close of class meeting OF
freshmen on the 14th. AS the latter
class emerged from the gymnasium,
they were set upon by the sophie
mores, and a severe struggle ensued
in which many were severely wodnd
ed. The victorious freshmen duckeC
several of the sophomores in the lake
THREE men attempted to rob the
bank at Meeker, Col, on the 18th
They succeeded in holding up the
clerks and cashier and looted the
bank; but when they reached tht
| street in their effort to escape they
were confronted by a crowd of citi
Gems and hot battle ensued. After
the smoke had cleared away, the three
robbers and one clerk were found ly
ing dead.
A LONE train robber held up Unio1
| Pacific train, about eight miles from
| Ogden, Utah, on the 14th. He caused
the train crew and passengers to be
| lieve that he had confederates in hid
| ing, and thus prevented resistance
| After some time spent in an attemp
| to blow up the express safe, he con
tented himself with looting the mai
car and carrying off a load of regis
tered letters.
AT Columb bus, Ga, on the 14th, j. A
| White, a shoemaker, and Henry White
his son, foully murdered two police
men in that city and fatally wounds
another. There was no cause for tn
| commission of the crime other tina
the fact that both men had been sun
moned to appear before the recorde
or some trivial offense.
THE annual report of the third a.
sistant postmaster-general for the pas
fiscal year shows that the total exper
ditures for the year were $50, 626, 29'
and receipts, $50, 400, POS, leaving def
cheney of So, 127, Oss, or a reduction c
81, 679, $50 less than the preceding yeal
AT two o'clock on the morning of tn
18th the directors of the Bank of Con
merce, one OF the leading financial ii
situations of Buffalo, n. Y, announce
that owing to the heavy withdrawal
the bank was compelled to suspen
business and place their affairs in til
hands of she banking department fC
examination.
AT the Manhattan state hospital o
Wards island, n. Y, on the 14tl
Theodore Meyers, the chief baker
the institution, was murdered by A
bert Durant, an inmate. The dea
man was struck on the right side I
the head with a big ak.
THE special postal delivery servi'
made an increase of Is per cent in bu
: mess during the last fiscal year, 4,1s4
, 317 letters being delivered. The ave
age time required for delivery was
minutes. The net profit of the syste
> was about 100000. The number
postage stamps, stamped envelop'
aud postal cards issued was Abs, 66;
SEQ. an increase of seven per cent. ov'
issues of the previous year.
ADvIcEs from Juneau, Wis. on Il
I4th, stated that the liabilities of '
T. Bumbusch, the banker and fnaHct
agent who disappeared on the lot