Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-29

| SENIOR MoRET Y PRESDERGAsT's speech
| at Saragossa on the Cuban question
and in denunciation of the policy of
the government has made great SEN
sation in Madrid
| A DISPATCH from Bourges, capital OF
the department of Cher, France, on the
21st said that the northwestern por-
| ton of that department had been de-
stroyed by a hurricane
| ULBY GAIsFoRD, a Tacoma wash. }
barber, heart-broken by a hayward
wife, Is months ago buried himself
/ from the world in Alaska, and to-day
/ is sole owner of a Klondike placer
valued at 81, 900, 900, from which he has
already taken over $50, 900.
| THE feature of the meeting of the
! Wesleyan conference at Leeds, En-
| gland, was an eloquent speech by Rev.
w. II. Milburn, chaplain of the United
States senate. In the course of his re-
marks Mr.. Milburn said that Method
ism was one of the mighty forces bind
| ing England and the United States to-
| gether.
| THERE have been serious outbreaks
and riots at Barcelona, Spain, and the
| geudarmes have been stoned by the
mob. The government sent large rein
forcements to restore order.
| Ex-USITED STATES SENATOR JAMES r.
| DooLITTE, of Wisconsin, who has been
| in the east for some time, is lying very
i'll at Providence, R. l., and is hardly
| expected to recover. Mr.. Doolittle is
nearly 81 years old.
ANOTHER drop in silver was recorded
in the home market, on the 22d, the
price quoted in New York city being
59% cts. an ounce. There was a marked
absence of demand for the metal. The
value of the silver in silver dollar.
according to the price quoted is just
fraction over 46 cents.
MRS. AUGUSTA LARNEY, former wife
of Michael Baumgartner, on trial at
Oconto, Wis, for the murder of her
husband, was discharged. on the 22d,
there being no evidence that she MUIR
dered Baumgartner.
Ten thousand school children laid
floral offerings at the base of the Brig
ham Young monument in Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the 22d, and then
marched in the monster parade of the
school children.
A RAIN, of the proportions of cloud
burst prevailed, at Waterbury, Conn,
on the 22d, and as a result flood was
caused, which gave indications of be-
ing the greatest on record in that
city.
A HEBREW peddler was shot and
robbed at Beaver. Ia, by three men.
A posse pursued and captured the trio
and then lodged them in Jail at Boone.
The wounded man NAV die.
ALBERT SCHoDRosKY, aged two years,
son of Mrs. Elizabeth Schodrosky, a ST.
Louis widow, was run over and horri-
bly, mangIed by Terminal engine No. Q
on the god. The child was attempting
to cross the street in front of the loco
motive.
YOUNGSTOWN. O., was visited by
terrific cloudburst, on the evening of
22d, which caused food that inuu-
dated a portion of the town, and re-
suited in the drowning of many per-
sons and the destruction of much prop
erty.
Hon. EDWIN F. UHL, formerly am bas-
sador of The United States to Germany,
arrived at New York on the Esd, on
board the steamer Normania from
Hamburg.
On the Esd boat containing As en-
ployes of the Hamburg engine works
capsized in the River Elbe, and six per-
sons were drowned.
AT Trinidad, Col, six men and two
women have been arrested charged with
the murder of Deputies VIM. Gregg
and VIM. Kelly when they were in
search of cattle thieves in the spring
of 1896. Officers are in pursuit of two
more men who are said to have been
implicated in the crime.
On the Esd, during the prevalence of
heavy rain and thunder storm at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, the powder mage
zine at the Empire mine, operated by
the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co., in
which 20 tons of powder was stored,
was struck by lightning. The force of
the explosion was so great that it shook
the foundations of nearly every dwell
ling in Wilkesbarre. John Higgins,
who was driving by at the time, was
instantly killed.