Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| that there are few genuine autonomiSts
in Cuba, the great majority of the mem
| bers of the autonomist party having
| Joined the ranks of the insurgents.
| A CRANK appeared at the White
| House, on the 9th, and demanded to
see President Mckinley. He said the
president had not treated him right
He tried to go up by the elevator, but
was taken in charge by officials and
placed in the police station.
| THE birthday of the prince of Wales
was celebrated in London, on the 9Th,
with the usual flag hosting, bell ring
ing and artillery salutes. He was born
| November Q, 1871.
| A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres says
that general frost has severely in
jured the wheat and fax crops of the
Argentine republic.
THE wheat crop of Italy is estimated
at about 60 per cent. of last years crop,
or Sc, $50, roo bushels.
| Gov. LEEDY of Kansas has been re-
quested to investigate the circum-
stances connected with the purchase
of soap by the state board of charities
| for use of the various state institu-
| tions. 1t is asserted that the board is
| paying II cents a pound for soap,
| which can be purchased for three cents
a pound.
| DR. EDWARD NEwBERRY, founder of
Brentwood, Long Island, died, on the
9th, from pneumonia, contracted at the
funeral of Henry George. He was an
intimate fsiend of Henry George, and
an earnest advocate of the single tax.
AT Column bia. S. c., on the 10th, De
| tective w. III. NewhoId, of the state
force, looking after violations of the
whisky law, shot and killed Rev. J. w.
| Turner, a Baptist preacher, on suspi-
| cion. Turner, who was in a buggy
driving through the city, was COM
manded by the detective to halt. He
did not halt promptly, and was shot.
| The detective fed to escape being
lynched.
THE annual dinner of the National
Home Market club was held at the
| Mechanics hotel in Boston on the
| night of the 10th. Fully 1000 persons
attended. The most distinguished
guests were Congressman Nelson A.
Dingley, of Maine; Charles A. Russell,
| of Connecticut, and Jonathan P. Dolli-
yer. of Iowa, and Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, of Massachusetts,.
MARSHAL BLANCo, on the 10th, re-
moved from his command the local
military commander at Gibara, prince
of Santiago de Cuba, for allowing a
demonstration in honor of Lieut.. Gen.
| Weyler, when he went on shore there
a few days ago from the steamer Mont
| serrat, which had put into that port
| owing to a misnap in her machinery.
Mrs. MARGARET BOUGHAN died at her
home in Chicopee Falls, Mass, on theN
10th. She was born in Ireland, and
claimed to be 1874 years old. Her hus-
band corroborated her story, and said
that he discovered in the records of
her birthplace that she was born in
1878.
GEN. FITzHUGH LEE, United States
consul-generaI at Havana, sailed from
New York, on the 10th, for Cuba.
THEODORE DURRANT, the convicted
murderer of Blanche Lamont, was
taken into court at San Francisco, on
the 10th, and was promptly resentenced
by Judge Bahrs to be hanged on the
| 18th, despite the efforts of his lawyers
to secure further delay.
FIRE in the five-story-building on
Central pier. Brooklyn, occupied by
the Royal Plantation Coffee Co., did
$50. QUO damage. Ten thousand bags of
coffee were stored in the building.
THE Princeton collegians were great
" disappointed when it became known,
on the 10th, that Grover Cleveland's
son was to be named Richard Folsom
Cleveland. They had given the young
gentleman the name of Grover Cleve-
land, jr., on the day of his birth and
hoped it would stick to him. The
name decided upon is given in honor
| of Mrs. Cleveland's father.
WILLIAM ]. HEATING, 81 years of age,
| who resided with his parents in North
Homestead, Pa, died, on the night of
9th, from the results of an injury re-
| ceived in a football game at Swissvale
ten days before. He was injured while
PLAYING half back for one of two teams
engaged in the practice.
Coz. HENRY c. Cook, commander of
the Fifth infantry, United States army,
stationed at Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta,
Ga. has issued an order which prohibits
| any further playing of match games of
football on that reservation.
AT q depth of $50 feet in the new
| workings of the Hawkeye, situated on
Plum gulch, two miles from Deadwood,
S. D., a body of free-millinG gold ore
| has been struck, which shows an as
say of 81, $50 in gold per ton.
THE officials of the Glasgow (Scot-
land) ioiners' union have posted notices
| in all the shops of that city forbidding
members of the union to hang doors
which have been made in the United
| States, or to use manufactured loinery
which has been imported from Amer
| lea
THE Middlesboro (Ky.) machine
| works and foundry, one of the largest
| plants in the south. were destroyed by
| fire on the 10th. The plant employed
$50 men, and was being enlarged. The
/ loss on the main building will reach
| 500, 600.
| JAMES SIMPSON, engineer, and John
| Robinson, fireman, of a freight engine
on the Burlington 81 Missouri River
railroad in Nebraska. were blown from
their cab by the explosion of the en-
| CINE boiler, on the 10th, and both in
Stantly killed.
| Mrs. MINTA MOORE, colored woman,
who lived in Lawrence, Kas., many
| years, died, on the 10th, at the age OF
lis years She was born in Kentucky
and was reared a slave.
A HAVANA letter to the New York
Sun seys that $50, 600 Cubans have per-
ished from hunger since Septem Der 10.
The heavier mortality is reported from
| the re@oncentrad0 Ciatricta