Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-05

The handsome Carrara marble bust
of President Mckinley that is to be
bus, o., arrived at New York from
Naples ON the 2Sth.
A TRAIS was wrecked on the Central
Pacific road four miles west of Reno,
New, on the 2Sth. Six Indians were
killed and nine injured. Quite a num-
Der of the train crew sustained inju-
ries.
STATE COMMANDER DODGE has granted
the application for the organization of
G. A. r. post at Notre Dame, Ind.
the seat of Notre Dame university. The
membership of the post will be COM
posed wholly of Catholic priests.
WORLDS and national surepintend-
ent of the department of scientific
temperance instruction in the Woman's
Christian Temperance union, Mrs.
Mary Ii. Hunt. sailed, on the Goth, from
Boston for Brussels as fraternal dele
gate from the w. C. T. u. to the Anti
Alcohol congress to be held in that
city. She will return in September.
THE Southwestern Passenger asso-
citation is apparently going to pieces.
The st. Louis & San Francisco has
withdrawn. The Rock Island and
Santa Fe, it is reported, are about to
do so, and there will seemingly not be
enough lines left t. maintain the or
ganization.
The great race between the steam
yachts Pathfinder and Enquireron Lake
Michigan ended, on the 18th, in victory
for the Buffalo boat. The Pathfinder
gave up the contest when off Wauke
gan, ILL.,, and turned back for Chicago.
The loss of the whaler Cape Horn
Pigeon in the Japan sea during a fu-
riouS storm was announced on the GOTH
Capt. Scullam and the crew of IS were
saved. but 900 barrels of sperm oil
went down with the vessel.
MINISTER SANTo- TRIsO, of Portugal,
has received no information concern
ing the alleged revolutionary troubles
in his country. He believes he would
have been notified of any serious out
break.
The Belgian chamber of deputies
passed bill, on the goth, compelling
all foreigners who have had a years
residence in that country to enroll
themselves in the civic guard.
OOt1N L II L AN OOLlA dNCos " III
lured Lawyer Burt 5. Clark, of Brook
Ign, to fiat in New York city, on July
10, and then robbed him and tried to
force acid down his throat. were sem
fenced, on the 3Oth, to IS years i'm
priSonment at hard labor.
WORKING behind closed doors, j. K.
Hardy, of Chicago, claims to have pro-
duced, at a cost of ten cents a pound,
metal which experts pronounce gold.
Several bricks of the metal have been
purchased by jewelers., who declare it
good enough gold for them.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 30th,
as reported by r. &. Dun & Co., were
236, against PSI for the corresponding
week of last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 2S against 40 last year.
The commercial treaty between
Great Britain and the German Zoll-
verein, which has been in force since
May 80. 1864, was renowned, on the
3Oth, by Great Britain and ceases to be
operative a year hence.
JOHN ANDERSON and Hagens Nelson
were fatally injured by the tipping of
derrick on a new building at Market
the S0th. The men fell from the sixth
story to the street
By the premature explosion of a
dynamite blast on Beechwood boule
ward, in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 30th,
three men were dangerously hurt, one
of them probably fatally.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the 30th. shovel:
Available cash balance, $23S, l72. $50
gold reserve, S143. SIS, 369.
The crops in a strip five miles wi6e
and so miles long in Rock county,
Mimi, were entirely destroyed by hail
on the night of the goth.
THE Japanese government has &C
copied the offer made by Hawaii to ar
bitrate ma tiers in dispute between the
two coun tries.
A DISPATCH from Lisbon says the
situation at Oporto is alarming. Min
listers fear an attempt at revolution.
The governor of the town has been
dismissed and replaced by Augusta de
Castillo, a naval officer.