Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-12
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


AT Pacadillo, on the seacoast of Santa
Clara, Cuba, an expedition landed re
Gently from the Florida coast. Little
| secrecy was observed. The Cubans had
a force of 400 men there to protect it
and as the Spaniards were only 200
strong there they did not attempt to
attack it.
THERE is a big blockade of wheat al
Stockton, Cal, caused by a rise of the
price to 81. Farmers are rushing in
grain SO fast that it can not be handled.
The levee is piled high with sacks Cd
wheat, and more is constantly arriv-
ing.
The recent hot winds have ruined
many thousand acres of promising corn
in central and eastern Kansas. Hun
dreds of fields which promised yield
tof so bushels an acre have been parched
by the intense heat.
OFFICERS of the steamer Miowera,
Ejust arrived at Vancouver, B. c., say
that Honolulu harbor is dotted with
British, japanese and United States
warships, and that a condition of ,un-
rest pervades the people of the city.
On the I'd Acting Postnaster-Ge
Merritt appointed ]. P. Green, colored
politician of Cleveland, O., as United
States postage stamp agent. Green
Immediately qualified
SENATOR JOHN T. MORGAN, senior
member of the foreign affairs commit
tee on the democratic side, is going to
Hawaii for the purpose of making a
personal examination of the conditions
of those islands.
THE crews of the 90 life-saving sta
tons of the United States government,
stretching along the New Jersey coast
from Sandy Hook to Cape May. went
on duty, on the 1st, after being out of
service since May 81
An extensive robbery of art works
and other articles of great value took
place at the Vaud eannonal museum in
Lausanne, Switzerland, on the I'd.
THE Chinese water course, COM
monty known as the West river, has
finally been opened to trade and COM
merce as far westward as Woo-Chang-
Flu, popularity known as Ny-Chan,
which has been made a treaty port.
REV. HENRY DAH, D. D., widely
known throughout the Baptist church
of paralysis, at his home in 1ndianapo-
lis, Ind. He was born at Westield,
Mass, in 1918.
THE Hammond Edge Tool Co., at
Ogontz, a suburb of Philadelphia, re-
sumed operations, On the I'd, after a
shutdown of two months. About one
hundred hands are employed.
A SMALL tornado passed through the
northern part of Greene county, Ia, on
the I'd, sweeping away barns, houses
and stacks of grain. Several persons
are reported slightly in jured.
Two MEN, kn0wn.as Henry Duff and
J. 81. Edgar, whom the police believe
to have been noted crooks, fought a
duel in a small roam. in n Denver (Col.
lodging house on the I'D. Duff was
instantly killed and Edgar was fatally
wounded.
BALL Bros, of Muncie, Ind, among
the largest fruit jar manufacturers in
the world, are preparing to. introduce
machines for blowing fruit jars.
IT was announced, on the Sd, that
the rising of natives in Bechuanaland
had collapsed and that Chiefs. Toto and
Lukajaulos, who had a thousand fol-
lowers. had surrendered to the British.
WORK was resumed, on the I'd, at
the Bohemian branch of Wheaton &
Co.'s glass works, Melville, Nj.
In the race for the queens cup at
Cowes, Isle of Wight, on ,the a3d, the
prince of Wales yacht Britannia, with
his royal highneSs on board, beat EN-
peror Williams yacht Meteor ON time
allowance.
EVERETT RUGGLEs, of Stockton Cal,
has just discovered that the lady whom
he recently welded is an heiress. The
bride has been notified that she. is en-
titled to a one-seventh interest ina
$3.50. 900 estate in New York.
THE Rome (Ga.,) cotton factory has
obtained a government contract for
1900, 900 yards of heavy duck for mail
sacks, the contract price of which, is
$3.50, 600.
THE steamer Noyo sailed from San
Francisco, on the 4th, with lao pas
sengers for Dyea, Alaska Of the pas
sengers booked, ten are women, who
will make the journey over the Chill
koot pass to the Klondilke gold fields.
THE Chicago agent of the Travellers
Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn, has
received instructions from the home
Office not to insure any person going TO
the Klondike region. 1t is a risk that
the company does not desire to take
THE first importation of Mexican
cattle under the Dingley tariff law was
made through the customhouse at
Nogales, Ariz-, on the Sd. Six hun
-dred and forty head of steers, the prop
,erty of E. 5. Newman. were brought in,
the duty being 81, 296. 95 over the duties
fixed by the Wilson law.
ERE broke out in III. I. Bells store
at Lewisburg, w. Va, on the Sd, de-
stroying STATIONS hotel, two banks,
ings. Loss about $40, 600: insurance,
SIS, O0O- The fire was inceudiary, and
the result of a second attempt within a
week.
ALL departments of the Cleveland
CO., rolling mill opened on the I'd.
About 2,0eO men were given work.
Two PERSONS were instantly killed
and five were probably fatally injured
in the wreck of the Past Flyer on the
Kansas Pacific railway, on the Sd, by
gong through small bridge which
spans COmanehe creek, between ByerS
and Strasburg, 40 miles east of Den
yer, Col
NELSON DINGLEY, father of Congress
man Nelson Dingley, Jr.. died at his
home in Lewiston, Me-, on the Sd, aged
IS years. Death was due to a stroke of
paralysis. Mr.. Dingley had been in
remarkable health up to the night of
the 30th, when he was stricken with