Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-26


Alaska. at Victoria, b. c., on the 18th.
bringing news of the struggles and
disasters of the Argonauts of '97. Up
ward of 1000 men were encamped at
Skaguay when she called there, while
camps of others equally unable to get
through extended at intervals of three
or four hours march.
THE two counterfeit 81, 900 bonds re-
Gently received at the United States
treasury from Louisville, KY, are said
to be the cleverest specimens that ever
troubled the secret service people.
They were the work of Brockway, the
king bee of the counterfeiters.
On the 18th, Cell Killon, living near
Wabash, Ind, found what physicians
pronounce to be the charred bones of
human being under the ashes of a
hay stack which was mysteriously
fired some days before, when his barn
and four valuable horses were burned.
IT was positively announced, on the
10th, that Mrs. Margaret Ferris,
widow of the builder of the great Chi
cago wheel, had been married in Pitts
burgh, Pa, to Francis Schlatter, the
divine healer of Canton, o. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Mr..
Ward, pastor of st. Peters Episcopal
church.
The French cruiser Bruix, which,
with the cruiser Curcouf, was escorting
the cruiser Pothuan, with President
Faure and his suite on board, on the
way to Cronstadt, returned to Dunkirk,
on the 10Th, with her machinery disa-
bled. The battleship Dupuy de LONE
Immediately started to replace the
Bruix.
FIvE-YEAR-oI D JOHN CONWAY. whose
parentsreside in Albany, n. Y, and who
had been at the mercy of kidnapers for
three days, was returned to his home,
on the 10Th, through the efforts of
private detectives and reporters in the
employ of the Albany Argus.
GRAIN is moving out of Nebraska at
a rate of 500 cars day. Three-fourths
of this is new wheat and the balance
corn. Everything on wheels that will
hold grain is being utilized by the rail
roads to get the shipments to market
on quick time.
FREDERICK r. CoUDERT, the famous
authority on international law, was re-
ported, on the 10th, dangerously i'll
from nervous prostration at his cottage
at Bar Harbor, Me.
UNCoNFIRMED reports were in circula-
ton at Valencia, Spain, on the 10Th, to
the effect that the Carlists in the dis
trict of Chelva were preparing to rise.
By close vote, on the 10Th, the New
York produce exchange decided to
continue the branding and grading
of flour. A proposition had recently
been made to discontinue the practice.
A DISPATCH from Nisch, Servia. says
that during gunnery practice there, on
the 10Th. shell belonging to one of
the guns of the fortress exploded, kill
ing six artillerymen and badly injuring
four others.
THE commission of Ethan A. Hitch
cock, of st. Louis, as minister to Rus
STA, was made out at the White House
on the goth. The appointment dates
from August 10.
BOYS playing in the second story of
GERS hardware store at Ortonville,
Mimi, on the goth, started fire that
resulted in the destruction of nine
buildings and money loss of $3.50, 900,
distributed among 80 firms and individ-
uals.
The president, on the goth, appointed
James Jegrays, of Camden, Tenn, and
Ross Griffin, of Kansas City, commits
sioners to allot lands in severalty to
the Indians of the Uncompahgre reser-
walton in Utah.
The body of H. II. Key, tourist
from Wisner, Neb., was found near
the summit of Pixies Peak, on the Gath,
with bullet hole in the back OF the
head at the base of the brain.
MICHEL ANGIoLILLI, who shot and
killed Senior Canovas del Castillo, the
premier of Spain, at the baths of Santa
Aguera, on the Sth, was garroted at
San Sebastian on the Goth.
THE Peoples savings bank of Mt.
Pleasant, Mich, closed its doors, on
the Goth, and is now in the hands of
the commissioner of banking. Nc
statement was given out. According
to the last statement, made In January.
the capital stock of the bank was $780,
600, with 500, 900 in deposits.