Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-26

THE Lucas county children'a home.
at Toledo, o.. where 200 children are
cared for. was partially destroyed by
FIRE on the 18th. All the children es-
capped In safety, loss, $4,000.
A SINGAPORE dispatch says it is rue
mored that Ii Hung Chang will retire
to private life, being Disguised with
the treatment he received on his re-
turn from his journey around the
world.
THE Probst Construction Co., of Chi
cago, assigned on the 10th. The COM
pany is one of the largest contracting
concerns in the country, with head
quarters in New York.
THE new Armstrong-Slater Memo
rial trade building at the Hampton
(Va.) Normal and Industrial institute,
was opened on the 18th, with appro-
pirate ceremonies, in the presence OF
an audience which thoroughly tested
the seating capacity of the spacious
chapel.
THE body of W. W. Ingram, WE'LL
known resident of Chicago, was found,
on the 18th, in the woods near Michi-
CANINE. Mich, lying beside the body
of deer which the deceased had evil
IDENTIFY shot. Both man and animal
were covered with snow. Mr.. Ingram
was about 81 years of age.
THE child of Washington Mckinley,
who lives at Sparta, O., was killed in
curious manner. She was walking
from school with a lead pencil in her
hand, when she tripped and fell, the
point of the pencil pentrating the
chest and probably striking the heart
MAJ. WINFIELD D. OsGOoD, of the
Cuban insurgent artillery, with Gen.
Maceo, Boston boy, and not long ago
a famous half back on the Pennsylva-
mia football eleven, has at last been
heard from, and the report of his death
at the hands of the Spanish forces Is
proven false.
On the 18th a dispatch was received
in New York city, from Madrid, to the
effect that Gen. WeyIer had resigned
as captain-generalo of the Spanish army
in Cuba, and that Gen. Prando had
been named by the government as his
successor.
PORTSMOUTH, n. H., is at last going
to get protection in case of a war. The
out protection, as well as the navy
yard, is all to be changed, and it is ex-
pected that before a year has gone by
Portsmouth harbor will be impregna-
BILE to foreign battle-ships.
The work of preparing coast de-
lenses for Boston harbor and navy
yard is to be scommenced at once. A
battery, consisting of two eight-inch
disappearing guns, will be placed at
Point Constitution. on the site of the
old light house. 1t is expected that the
Notifications will be finished by Janu-
airy l, 1897.
E w. CURRY, chairman of the Iowa
Democratic state central committee,
died, on the 18th, at the Savoy hotel,
in Des MOines, where he had been sick
for two months. Mr.. Curry's death is
reported to have been the result of in
juries received while being initiated
into Des Moines lodge of Ellzs.
PATRICK CRoNIN, aged 90, prisoner,
jumped from a rapidly-moving train
between Erie and Pittsburgh, Pa. on
the 10Th, and was fatally injured. He
was followed by Thos. McCrea, war
den of the Erie penitentiary, his guard,
who was killed.
THE federal grand jury at Chicago
returned 16 indictments, on the 10th,
of which seven were against counter
feiters and passers of counterfeit coins.
The other nine were against small vio-
lators Of the internal revenue laws in
the sale of liquors.
GEORGE A. MORRISON, the defaulting
county treasurer of Rensselaer, coun-
ty, New York, began his ten years and
six months sentence in Clinton prison
on the 10Th. Morrison was also cashier
of the National bank of Troy, yet he
leaves his wife and family without a
cent.
Hon. JOHN W. FOSTER and wife ar
rived in Honolulu on the I'd, and has
since held frequent conferences with
government officials and leading roy
allsts, indicating that he is studying
Hawaiian affairs with reference to an
nexation. He has stated to German
planters who oppose annexation that
If it is defeated he believes the reel.
procity treaty will be annulleS.