Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-09-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


shipped 227 stolen bicycles to auction
dealers in Chicago, ST. Louis and Kan
sas City.
FIVE children were drowned in the
harbor at Toronto, Ont, on the 22d, by
the capsizing of a float on which, in
company with ten others, they were
attempting to cross from the mainland
to the breakwater, where they intended
to go bathing. The other children
were rescued by boatmen. Three of
the bodies of the drowned were re-
covered.
WORK was resumed in all depart
ments of the Britton tin-plate mill at
Cleveland, o., on the 23d, the strikers
accepting the terms of the company
and going back to work. Work was
also resumed in all departments of the
Union Falls mill at Cleveland.
FRANK WEBER, of Buffalo, and War
rem Bush and Charles Glasuld, of Chi
cago, lost control of the boat in which
they were sailing on the Niagara river,
on the 22d, and were carried down and
over the Horseshoe fall in sight of
thousands of Mortified people
A HAVANA dispatch, on the Esd, said:
Spanish troops recently captured
Cuban hospital in Matanzas province
with % inmates. The troops fired the
buildings, first placing all the dis
abled men in their cots and burning
them alive. The others, IL in number,
were tied to trees and shot to death,
their bodies being left there
A PARTY of eight men and women
left West Superior, Wis, on the Goth,
in a small sailboat to go after berries
along the south side of Lake Superior,
intending to return on the 22d. Moth
ing had been heard of them, when, on
the gath, the captain of the steamer
Gilbert reported passing a capsized sail
boat few miles out, and it is supposed
that all were drowned.
ARTICLES of incorporation were filed
in Denver, Col, on the Gath, for the
Wheat Belt railroad, which will con-
meet with the Denver & Rio GraDde
near its intersection with Saguache
county, and extend in westerly di-
rection about 80 miles. 1t will enable
the farmers of the richest wheat rails
ing portion of Colorado to find ready
market for their products.
CONSUL GRIMKE at Sauto Domingo in
forms the state department of the COM
pletion of a railroad from Puerto Plata
to Santiago, about 40 miles, over two
mountain ranges. American and Brit
ish capital is invested in the road, and
several American engineers have been
engaged in its building.
A HUGE derrick spoon, weighing
/, 600 pounds and containing half a ton
of salt, fell TO the deck of the steamer
Fitzgerald, which was loading at an
Illinois Central pier in Chicago on the
23d. Andrew Kruper, a laborer, was
instantly killed.
w. r. O'HEARN, cashier of the jack
son County bank, of Black River, Wis,
who was arrested on the charge of re-
ceiving money after he knew the bank
was insolvent, was bound over, on the
2Sd, to the fall term of the circuit court.
The jackson County bank, which was
closed in September last, was reorgan-
lied and re-opened on the 23d.
AN imperial trade was issued, on the
oath, committing the sentence of death
to be imposed upon the nine Turks
who were engaged in the massacre OF
Armenians ut Tokat in March last, to
penal servitude for life in TripoH and
Barbary.
FIeARo says the French government
must fix a maximum price for bread or
reduce the customs duties, and warns
| Premier Meline that it is inadmissible
for him to allow himself to be titled
the dear bread minister"
A DISPATCH from Christiania, Nor
way, says that Walter Wellman has
been there to discuss a projected polar
expedition with DIR. Nansen, who thinks
his idea a good one. Mr.. Wellman ex-
poets to make his start next summer.
THE steamer Rosalie departed from
| Seattle, WASH, on the 25th, for Ska
quay with 100 passengers and full
| load of horses and supplies for miners.
| She also took a number of wagons to
break the famine at the pass.
THE power-house of the Federal Coal
Co., operated by E. w. Powers at Fed
eral, Pa. on the Pittsburgh, CHARTERS
& Youghiogheny railroad, was de-
stroyed by incendiary fire shortly after
midnight on the 25th.
INdigging a well at Cushing, 40 miles
east of Guthrie, Okla, on the Gath, a
fine vein of coal was struck at depth
of IS feet.
| A. L. HANKINs, a widely-known Chi.
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collapse of folding bed on the 25th.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg says
that the cars decision to meet Presi-
dent Faure at Cronstadt was reached
against enormous pressure upon the
part of the German party. The dis
patch adds the officers of the French
squadron at Cronstadt were enter,
tanned, on the 2Sd, by their Russian
colleagues
PROF. w. w. CAMPBELL of the Lick
observatory, San Francisco. will head
the expedition to India, made possible
through the generosity of the late Col
C. f. Croker, to observe the next to:a
eclipse of the sun.
CHIEF OF POLICE PETER CoNLIN was
retired, on the 25th, by the New York
police commissioners on his own appli
cation. He viii receive a pension O
SIS, 900 year.
On the 25th the president appointed
wTa. r. Holloway, of Indiana, to b'
consul general at St Petersburg
Russia, the commission being dated
August 81.
ALL the British army officers on leave
of absence have been ordered to re oir
their regiments immediately.
A TELEGRAM was received at the Jap
anese legation in Washington. on the
s6th, announcing the death of Coun'
Mutzu, ex-minister of foreign affair
and Japanese minister to the United
States in 1888.
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