Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

1T was asserted in st. Petersburg, on
the 18th, that the admirsls command
ing the foreign squadrons in Cretan
waters, with the exception of the Ital-
ian and French commanders, had al
ready received orders from their re-
spective governments to blockade the
Piraeus, the town of Syria, on the Greek
island of that name, and the port OF
Volo in Thessaly.
A BUGGY, in which were seated San.
ford Gardiner and Mrs. Chas. Fenton,
was struck by train on the Erie rail
road, on the 18th, while crossing the
tracks of that road in Bath, n. Y. Mrs.
Fenton was killed, but Mr.. Gardiner
escaped unhurt.
OK the morning of the 18th tramps
drove spikes in the Louisville & Nash
Vile switch at Springfield, Tenn. A
freight train was wrecked, several cars
being telescoped, with heavy loss. The
deed is supposed to have been done for
revenge by tramps recently elected
from train. who doubtless intended
to wreck the Chicago limited.
On the 18th the Paris Eclair pub
lished a report of an interview, with NJ.
Delyannis, prime minister of Greece,
in which he declared that Greece
would not assent to the establishment
of an autonomous administration in
Crete.
THE sugar refinery on South Second
street, Williamsburg, Il. Y, belonging
to the American Sugar Refining Co.,
after shutdown of over five months,
opened, on the 18th, with a force of
nearly 400 men. The introduction of
the tariff bill with its increased duty
for the resumption.
CHARCOAL, the Indian murderer of
Sergeant White, was hanged at Mac
Leod, Man, on the 10th. He was car
ried to the scaffold.
THERE is no doubt that Frank W.
Palmer, of Chicago, will be appointed
and promptly confirmed public printer.
MAMMALIAN BARRIoz was arrested
in st. Louis, on the 18th, charged with
embezzlement and larceny, preferred
by John Rittenmeyer, proprietor of the
Great Eastern Tea Co. of that city.
The amount stolen will aggregate be-
tween So, 900 and $4,000.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH will pay o
visit to st. Petersburg in April and re-
main there two weeks.
THE unruly elephant Tip, belong
ing to the Barnum & Bailey show, was
strangled to death at the winter quar-
tiers of the circus in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
on the 10Th. Efforts to poison the ele-
plant by concealing capsules contain
ing large quantities of cyanide of potas-
SUM had proven futile.
HENRY WHITE, of Rhode Island, Is to
be secretary of the embassy of the
United States in Great Britain.
GEN. HORACE PORTER, of New York,
was, on the 18th, nominated ambassa-
dor to France.
A DUEL with swords was fought, at
the St Ouen race course, near Paris,
on the nth, between Signor PM, Ital-
ian champion, and NJ. Thomeguex, a
French amateur. Five hundred aston
ished spectators witnessed the fight.
In the sixth attack NJ. Thomeguex was
slightly wounded in the lip.
On the nth the river steamer Sunol.
bound from San Francisco to Vallejo,
Cal, collided in San Francisco bay with
the bark Olympia, bound in from Phila-
delphia- The Sunol turned bottom up
and sank The crew and passengers
were picked up by boats from the
Olympia and other vessels near at hand.
In q saloon brawl in Carson, New, on
the night of the 18th, Dick Bradford, a
Montana miner, who backed Fitzsim~
mons, was fatally shot by a stranger
named Smith, who took the Corbett
side. Smith was arrested and jailed
amid threats of lynching.
WASHINGTON HEssING resigned the
postmastership at Chicago, on the nth,
to devote all his time to his candidacy
for mayor of that city.
WILLIAM T. ADAMS. the author, wide
IL known by his non de plume oliver
Optic" was reported, on the nth, to be
very i'll at his residence in Dorchester.
Mass, and his physicians expressed the
opinion that he could live but q short
time.
THE much advertised pugilistic en-
counter between Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons came of at Carson, New, on St.
Patriclz's day, and it would seem that
the good old saint frowned upon the
Dissertation of his particular day, as
the colors of the Emerald isle, worn by
Corbett. went down before those of hiP
Cornish adversary.