Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AvIGoRoUs fghti is being made to pre-
vent the Palisades of the Hudson from
being used by INSCRIPTIONS quarrymen.
The private bank of R. G. Baxter at
Burlington. Ont, was broken into. on
| the 1st, and the vault and safe wrecked
by dynamite. About 81. 900 was taken.
A POSITIVE and final refusal was
given by the 500 road, on the ID, to
| the request that it become party to
| the agreement to withdraw commits
sions on north Pacific coast business.
Before the 500 will agree to this prop
osition the other roads will have to
concede it the difference it has been
demanding for two years on east-and-
| west bound business. Its competitors
are equally determined that it shall
never be allowed these differences.
CYCLIsT J. A. BRIEGEL left Chicago,
on the I'd, bound for Klondike, via Ell
Paso, Tex, Los Angeles and Frisco,
Cal, and Seattle. Wash. A large
crowd congregated to watch the man
start on his long journey. His wheel.
with outfit, weighed go pounds.
L. NJ SHAW (rep) was elected gov
ernor of Iowa, together with the rest
of the state ticket by a decreased ma
jority,
| DURING the progress of a fire ut BOr-
not's dyeing and securing establish
ment in Philadelphia, on the I'd,
large can of benzine exploded. Thir-
| teen firemen were SO seriously burned
that they had to be taken to hospi-
tai. 1t was feared that some of them
might lose their eyesight.
IT was reported in Key West, Fla,
| on the 1st that the Cuban filibuster
rendezvous in the bahamas had been
seized by the British government and
| a quantity of arms captured and a few
men arretsed.
CASHIER SLFvERBERG, of the COpen-
hagen branch of the Mutual Life in
| surance Co. Of New York, who was ar
rested on September IS, charged with
embezzling $4,000 crowns, and with
| classifying his accounts, was, on the
| I'd, sentenced to two years penal serv-
| itude.
AN English syndicate has purchased
| of Frank Phiscator, of Benton Harbor,
Mich, his gold mines in the Klondil1e,
| paying 81, 600. 600 for three claims-NO.
81 on Bear creek and two rich claims
on FL Dorado. The syndicate pays S2O,-
900 down and the balance of $3.50, 600
| at the end of one year.
| RETURNS of the general election in
| Newfoundland, received from all but
| two legislative districts, show that the
opposition party, headed by Sir James
Winter, carried 81 seats, the govern
mentc andidates holding only d.
]. HoGE TYLER (dem.) was elected
| governor of Virginia, as was also the
| rest of the ticket, by from so, 900 to 60,
600 majority.
| COL JOHN ROUSE MEROTT CHARD, V.
| c., the hero of the famous defense of
| Rorke's Drift, South Africa, in Janu-
ary, 1879, died at Taunton, England, on
| the 1st.
| GUY STEELE, a letter carrier, and
| William Sidener, stamping clerk at the
post office in Charlottesville, Ind, were
| arrested, on the Sd, on a charge of rob-
| bling the mails. For several months
| letters containing money have been
| disappearing. Post office inspectors
placed decoy letter con taining money
| in the post office, and found it in Siden-
er's pocket when he was arrested on
suspicion. Sidener confessed and inn
plicated Steele, who also confessed
when arrested.
/
| governor of Massachusetts, by an esti-
mated plurality of so, 900.
| THE bank of Shipshewana, Ind, was
entered by burglars, on the night of
the I'd, and the safe was blown open
with dynamite. Two men were en-
gagged in the robbery. All the valu-
able papers were taken, together with
So, 900 in cash. The burglars then es-
capped on a handcar.
THE republicans carried the state of
Pennsylvania by plurality approx
mating 1T0, 900.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH, on the
Sd, received the premier, Count Ba-
deni, in audience, and they had long
conference regarding the internal af-
fairs of Austria, as developed by the
recent disorderly scenes in the reichs-
rath.
IT was officially announced, on the
Sd, that the terms of purchase of the
Universal and Commercial Fuel Gas
Co. of Chicago, from the Unreasonable
MILAN syndicate by the Peoples Gas
Light and Coke Co. Chicago Gas Coz b,
had been settled, and that the actual
transfer of the property would be
made on the 18th. The purchase price is
S., 500, 900.
| JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, British secre-
tary of state for the colonies, was in
stalled, on the Sd, as lord rector of the
Glasgow university. There was an inn
c:ense crowd of people present, and
Mr.. Chamberlain met with an enthu-
siastic reception.
| AERoNAUT STEWART YOU'VE was
drowned in Lake Michigan at the foot
of Monroe street, Chicago, on the Sd.
while attempting to descend from his
balloon in n parachute. Thousands OF
people witnessed the accident.
THE Paris Temps, in its comments
on the Greater New York municipal
election, says: The result of the cleo
ton is deplorable for New York and
the cause of democracy"
Mr.. JAMES II. ECKELs, the comp
troller of the currency, will accept the
!. presidency OF the Commercial national
bank of Chicago to which he was
elected on the I'd.
PROF. GEORGE FREDERICK HOLMES, OF
the University of Virginia, died at
Richmond on the 4th.
Miss ARIE 5. HUNTINGTON. democrat.
daughter of Rt Rev. Frederick d.
Huntington, Episcopal bishop of GEN.
trail New York, was elected school COM
missioner at Syracuse, n. Y. lead
ing the ticket in her class. She is a