Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SENATOR PETTIGREw, of South Dako-
ia, was overcome in the midst of a
violent speech in the senate on the
Goth. He hesitated, failed to enunciate
his words, and then, without serious
agitation, took his seat, with his
sentence unfinished. DR.. Baine, who
was summoned to attend him, said
that his illness was caused by q blood
clot on the brain, but that there would
be no serious results if he should be
kept free from excitement.
JUDGE THOMAS NJ COOLEY, of Mlchi-
gan, the noted authority on constitu-
tiona1 law, has become a hopeless
invalid. His loss of memory has been
followed by deep melancholy.
On July Peter s. McNally. of Bos-
ton. will attempt to swim from En-
gland to France across the English
channel His course will be from Do
yer to Calais, 20 nautical, or % land
miles, in distance The feat has been
accomplished by but one man. Capt
Webb, who swan the channel in 1875
AN incident typical of the situation
occurred in Constantinople recently.
During the panic caused by the salute
fired in honor of the jubilee of Queen
Victoria the Mussulmans trooped into
the streets, armed with bludgeons, and
asked the police whether the Greeks or
the Armenians were to be attacked.
Col +. B. MUssEY, the well-known
Washington correspondent, died in
MiddIebury, VT, on the night of the
27th, of Bright's disease. He was 81
years of age and had been i'll for some
time.
A FRESH attempt on the part of the
sultan to secure Germany's support of
the retention of Thessaly has met with
refusal and the advice to conform to
Europe's wishes on the subject.
Ex-QUEEN LILIUoKALANI of the Ha-
waiian islands spent some time in the
private gallery of the senate, on the
29th, accompanied by three members
of her suite.
AT Aspen, Col, at Q depth of ], 600
feet, body of metallic ore that runs
"a, 600 ounces of silver to the ton has
been struck in the Mollie Gibson mine.
1t is believed that the lost ore chute
has been recovered.
NINE children were killed and many
others injured by the collapse of q
church wall at SOlano, in the province
of Ciudad Real, Spain, ON the 2sth.
MRS ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, widow
of the founder of the Christian Camp
bellite Baptist church, died at Beth
any, w. Va, on the 2sth, aged IS years.
w. F. HERBERT was relieved of the
receivership of the Carolina, Cumber-
land Gap &c Chicago railway by Judge
C. II. Simonton, sitting in the United
| States circuit court at Charleston, 5.
C., on the 29th. This action is taken
without prejudice to any of the claim
ants against the road now before the
court
| CHAIRMAN MIDeLEY of the Western
Freight association, accompanied by \
number of traffic officials of the west
ern roads, left Chicago, on the 29th,
| for New York to attend a conference
of the Joint Traffic association with the
| lake lines to be held there with the
view of cutting down lake line differ
entails.
wEYLER expects to fight a great
pitched battle upon the plains of
| Camaguey when he meets Gen. Garcia,
the result of which may De the turning
point in the war. Should Weyler's
legions meet with defeat Spain viii be
| ready to listen to Mr.. McKinley's offers
of friendly intervention.
UNDER the title, "a Belated Reward"
the London Daily Mail announces that
I. Townsend Burden has just paid $S.-
600 as part of his promised reward of
$40, 600 for the capture of the men who
robbed his house in New York last
year.
In transpires that the missing steam
er Alden, from Yokohama for London,
was wrecked OF the eastern extremity
of Africa, and IS of her passengers and
crew are missing. The steamer Mayo
picked up IS survivors
ROBERT J. PowLEY was electrocuted
at Auburn On. W prison on the 29th.
The crime for which Powley was exc
cuted was the murder of his wife, COM
mitted on March 8. ut Niagara Falls,
ny.
JOHN RUSSELL You've, is to be appoint
ed librarian of congress It is probable
that the nomination will soon be sent
to the senate Under the law reorgan-
izing the library enacted by the last
congress, the vacancy occurred July !.