Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

LOUIS SYCKAIILLER was instantly
killed and Albert Syckmiller, Charles
Faile and George Steinhelder were IA
tally injured by an Erie express near
Mansfield, o., on the 21st. The men
were waiting for freight train and
laid down to sleep on the tracks
THE proposition to close the New
York stock exchange on Saturday pre-
ceding the Fourth of July was voted
affirmatively by the members on the
22d.
JUNE % will live in the memory of
Englishmen and visitors to England
by the reason of the magnificent spec
tacle presented by the parade escorting
Queen Victoria to st. Paurs cathedral
to render service in commemoration of
the sixtieth anniversary of her acces-
sion to the throne.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg,
dated June 81, says: The River Kur
has overlooked its banks near the rail-
road depot of Nawthig, in the Tiflis
district. Nineteen men, belonging to
the Mini Novgorod dragons, were
drowned.
C.sH. ANDERSON, of the Arapahoe
Wheel club, Denver, Col, has lowered
the road record for 100 miles from 6:31
to 6:3O:3O. The former record was
made by A. L. Hachenberger last year.
ROMAN CATHOLIC priests in Chicago
observed the jubilee day of England's
queen by celebrating dead masses for
the spiritual repose of Irishmen whose
deaths were charged against English
misrule in the Emerald isle.
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about 55 years of age, and became ia
nous through being the first man sub
iected to the boycott" in Ireland, his
advice as to the treatment of others be-
ing first applied to himself.
PRINCE RUPERT of Bavaria, who would
be prince of Wales now and future king
of England and emperor of India if his
Stuart ancestors had conducted their
royal affairs more wisely than they did,
rode in the Victorian jubilee parade as
the representative of his mother, Prin-
cess Ludwig.
The Hungarian crop prospects are
very unpromising. The yield of wheat
and rye will be much below the aver
age.
WHAT have you got so many Amer
lean flags for?" asked Julian Ralph of
q Londoner on the day of the great
Jubilee procession. "Oh," he replied,
Il fancy it must be because we are all
one people"
BELoIT (Wis.) college has conferred
the degree of doctor of law upon Ly-
man 7. Gage, secretary of the treasury,
in recognition of his high attainments
in literature and in the sciences of
aSn1
Monies, and his useful public service
J. S. hartley, ex-treasurer of Ne
braska, on trial at Omaha charged
with embezzlement, was found guilty
on the 22d.
REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES FRANKLIN
SPRAGUE, of Boston, violated all prece-
dent, on the ed, and astonished the
senators and spectators in the gallery
by appearing in the senate chamber at
tired in regulation bicycle suit
HARRY WALKER was arrested in
Kingston, n. Y, on the 22d, on a charge
of robbing, with man named Laney,
the jewelry store of VIM. Mcconnell,
at Newark, n. J., on May 5, of 200 gold
watches and jewelry valued at SIC, 900.
A SPANISH fort on the outskirts of
Santiago, Havana province, was cap
tured by a force under Col. Rodriguez,
recently, and burned. This fort was a
plague to the Cubans, as it commanded
a roadway that they used considerably.
AT the business session of the national
sangerfest in Philadelphia, on the Esd,
Brooklyn was unanimously selected
as the next place of meeting.
On the Esd Senator Morgan, of Ala
bama, introduced bill to regulate the
annexation of Hawaii to the United
States. 1t is intended, should the
pending annexation treaty fail of rati-
| fication by two-thirds majority in the
senate, to accomplish the same thing
by majority votes in both houses, as
ordinary legislation.
| EDWARD STOKES, the slayer of Jim
| Fisk, Jay Gould's partner, several
wears ago, is said to be i'll of comph-
cation of diseases without hope of re-
covery. He is at Hot Springs, Va, but
will soon go to Carlsbad, Germany.
THE celebrated race horse, Sempcr
Lex. died at Plymouth, Ind, on the
night of the 22d, of burns received
while en- route from Chicago to New
York. He was valued at $4,000.
The Japanese cruiser Hiyie nov
used as training ship, arrived at San
Francisco. on the Esd. and will remain
| in that port several weeks before sail
| ing for Honolulu. The vessel was re-
ceiyed with the customary salutes.
THE nineteenth annual convention Of
/ the Music Teachers National aSSocie-
ton opened in the auditorium of the
Grand Central palace in New York on
! the gath.