Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-10

IS the democratic state convention
ton indorsing the administration Of
President Cleveland was rejected over
whelmingly on q rising vote, only 81
rising in the affirmative.
The gold Democratic national CON.
vention which met at Indianapolis,
on the I'd, held two short sessions and,
after effecting permanent organiza-
ton, adjourned until the Sd.
THE turret battleships Navarin and
Imperator Alexander IL, the torpedo
cruiser Pocadnik and two torpedo boat
destroyers. all belonging to the Rus
sian Cronstadt squadron, have been
sent to the Mediterranean.
THE steamer Rosedale, with $50 pas
seDgers on board, was struck, in the
East river off Broome street, New
York city. on the Sd, by a Twenty
third-street ferryboat, and sank in
about five minutes. The Rosedale was
on her way to Bridgeport at the time.
All the passengers, it is said, were
picked up by passing craft
DURING the exercises at the Audi
torium at st. Paul, Mimi, on the Sd,
Col. Thomas G. Lawler, of Rockford,
Ill, the past commandments of the
G. A. r, was presented with a gold
watch and long gold neck chain as
token of the esteem and love felt for
him by the grand army throughout
the country.
THE national committee of the ma
tional democratic party held a meet
ing immediately after the Indianapolis
convention had adjourned. 1t was de-
cided to have an executive committee
of nine to manage the campaign, and
w. d. Bynum was selected for chair
man of the executive committee.
CAPT. ALFRED DREYFUs, who was
sentenced to be publicly degraded and
confined for life in fortress, after
having been convicted by court-mar-
tial of selling plans of French fortii-
cations, etc, to a foreign government,
has escaped from the Isle du Grand
Salut, on an American schooner.
AFTER almost three months, during
which the officers have worked every
clew, four of the men who robbed
George Kolb, wealthy farmer, last
June. have been landed in jail at Tus-
cola, Ill.
PETER RAUCE, q Waterman at the
prospect Hill coal mines, Vincennes,
Ind, fell down the shaft, distance of
$50 feet, and was crushed into a hor-
ri BILE mass. not a whole bone being left
in his body.
LAST June Mrs. Pauline Succo,
Pittsburgh pa widow, had So, 600
She advertised for a position as
but got a husband in
IL
nor money.
THE Edgar Thomson steel works, of
at Pittsburgh, Pa, have
been closed down indefinitely. The
action was general surprise, as it was
not even suspected.
Otis BURLINGAME, living near La
Porte, Ind, marketed eight quarts of
Strawberries in that city on the Sd.
They were picked from vines that bore
a good crop in the regular season, and
this second crop is equally as good as
the first He sold them readily at 25
cents quart.
Rev. Il. 4. REEsER, pastor of the |
Lutheran church at Hollidaysburg, |
Pa, and John ID. Love, a well-known |
were drowned, on the night |
Of the Sd, in the Juniata river, five |
miles below Hollidaysburg. where they |
mad gone fishing.
Il. III. THORPE, sole owner of the cit |
zen's bank of Salina, o., fled a deed |
IF assignment for the benefit of cred |
tors on the 4th. The assets are esti- |
mated at $50, 900, with liabilities about |
The same. Depositors, it is said, will |
De paid in full.
THE Northwestern Millers' associa- |
ion, also known as the Flour trust, |
mas gone to the wall. 1t was organ
zed year ago to maintain a uniform |
price of flour and do away with COM
petition.
THE Columbus (O.) Central Street |
Railway Co. has gone into the hands
If Geo. Fl. Worthington, of Cleveland, |
is receiver. The company is capital
zed at $1,000, 600, and is bonded for
hat amount.
SIEGEL, EIsEMAS & Co.'S leather man.
factory at Newark, n. j., was burned
IN the 4th. Loss, S50,OO insurance,