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

THE special train schedule Of the
Denver & Rio Grande road for the
Christian Endeavor movement from
The result was gratifying surprise to
the officers of the road, and gave in
timation of a rush of travel wholly I'M
expected earlier in the season.
HERR JOHN MEYER, a director of the
Hamburg-American steamship line,
died in Hamburg on the 24th. He was
about So years of age. He had been
connected with the Hamburg-Americau
line for about 80 years, first as secre-
tary for the president and then as
director.
ROBERT BAUGH, was fatally, and
Joseph Speer and Western Young,
seriously injured, on the oath, by the
giving way of rotten timbers near the
roof of the condemned courthouse in
Jackson, Mich, which they were help
ing to tear down.
E. J. RATCLIFFE, the actor, was ar
rested in Chicago, on the sd. on a
telegram from New York charging him
with wife-beating. The woman was
said to be in a critical condition as the
result of her husbands abuse.
THE American Homeopathic, Opthal-
biological, Ontoleogical and Larvn-
geological society, in session in Buffalo,
\. V, on the gath, elected the follow
ing officers: President, VIM. r. King,
Washington, d. c.; vice-president,
Thomas L Shower, Baltimore; secre-
tary and treasurer. Charles II. Hell
frich, New York.
THE London Echo publishes an in
terview with DIR. Chauncey NJ. Depew,
in which he is quoted as expressing
the belief that the arbitration treaty
between the United States and Great
Britain will be law before the end of
the present Mckinley administration.
THE Pan-American tourists devoted
the day, on the 25th, to industrial
sightseeing in districts adjacent to
Pittsburgh, Pa, and were entertained
at night by banquet, given by the
commercial men of Pittsburgh, at the
DuqSesne club.
A PARTY consisting of about seventy
five newspaper correspondents left
Washington, on the 25th, for Cape May,
n. j. Stops were made at Baltimore
and Philadelphia, where local news
paper men joined the party for a four
days outing.
ONE hundred striking Italians at
Morrisville, n. j., were arrested and
placed in the local lookup on the 18th.
ALICE LINGARD. the actress, died in
London on the 25th.
The crew and the Cubans who were
on board the Dauntless, when captured
by the Mclean, were discharged by
nj fof ItIliI
to, at Key West, Fla, on the 18th, on
the ground that there was no evidence
to show that they were a military or
ganization or intending to commit acts
hostile to Spain.
JOHN CARNEY. who attained fame as
the ''Astor tramp" died in the Mattea-
wan u. " state asylum for criminal
insane, on the 25th. He was 81 years
old. He was the man who took a nap
in Mrs. William Astor's mansion.
IN the intercollegiate boat race at
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, on the 25th, the
Cornell crew defeated Harvard and
Yale. The victory was remarkable, as
the Cornells had not been considered
lin it, by the other two contestants.
Mrs. JOHN A. LOGAN is laid up with
an in jured knee, the result of a fall on
the steps of her home at Washington.
The injured limb is in splints. in order
that it may have complete rest and in
action.
The Turks have been taking advan-
tage of the armistice to loot Thessaly.
so that if they have to evacuate the
people will be left in destitute condi-
ton. Many of the villages have been
burned.
THE Russian turret ironclad Gangoot,
one of the best vessels in the imperial
navy, ran upon reef near Transcend.
during storm in the Baltic, on the
25th, and sank almost instantly. The
crew is reported saved.
MCBRIDE & HARvELL's icehouse at
Williams Bay, Wis, was burned on the
25th. Incendiarism is suspected. The
house cost SIS, 600 and ontained 40, 600
tons of ice.
OVER the Canadian border from north
ern New York, the temperature went
down to the freezing point, on the 25th.