Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE German Christian EndeavOr
society convention met in St. Louis on
the 21st.
A. COLBY and Roy Beckwith. lessees
of the Tanzy mine in Tuolumne coun-
ty, Cal, had, up to last accounts, taken
S42, 600 in bullion from the pocket re-
Gently struck, and there was more in
sight.
THE executive committee in charge
of the celebration to be given at Ere
mont, o., September 2, when Presi-
dent Mckinley will visit that city,
have issued invitations to w. J. Bryan,
Grover Cleveland and Horace Chap
man, the democratic nominee for gov
ernor of Ohio, to be guests of the city
the same day and take part in the ex-
ercises.
A SPECIAL from Constantinople says:
In spite of the presence of the Euro
pean troops, the ADglo-Hellenic revo-
lutionary societies keep sending agents
and arms into Crete.
SENIOR MoRET Y PRENDERGAsT, the
Spanish liberal leader and former min
lister, delivered a brilliant speech at
Saragossa, on the night of the 10th, on
the Cuban question. He violently at
tackled the policy of the government,
especially its methods of campaigning
in Cuba, and declared that autonomy
must be proclaimed.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco says
Ex-Gen. Hubbard, of New York, is the
most prominently mentioned man as
the probable successor of Col. Croker
as first viee-presldent of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Co.
THE famous Broadmoor Casino, the
500, 900 pleasure resort of Colorado
Springs, Col, was burned to the ground
on the 10th.
E. FORD, a prominent business man
of Holyoke, Mass, died at his home, on
the 21st, as the result of a bicycle &C
cident- He collided with another
rider.
Rev. DR. TALMAGE has been forced
to sever his connection with the First
Presbyterian church of. Washington
owing to dissension among its mem
bers. DIR. Sunderland is now in charge
of the church.
. Miss JEAN INGELow, the distin-
guished poet and novelist, died in Lon
don on the night of the 10th. She was
in her seventy-seventh year.
THE president signed the deficiency
appropriation bill on the Goth.
THE beginning of a litigation in
which Yale university is interested to
the extent of $3.50, 900 was marked in
surrogate's courts in Batavia, n. Y, on
the Goth, when objections were filed to
the probate over the will of William
Lampson, late of Leroy. who left the
bulk of his estate to Yale.
REPORTS from various parts of the
country tell of preparations on the part
of individuals and parties for pill
grimage to the new gold fields of Alas
ka and British Northwest Territory.
Victoria, B. c., is full of prospective
miners, waiting for transportation
northward.
NINE members of the crew of the
steamer Concho were drowned, on the
21st, in consequence of the sinking of
the vessel named, off the Isle of Wight,
as the result of collision with the
British steamer St. Fillans.
Four women and two men were
killed by an explosion in the loading de-
partment of the armory of the Win
chester Repeating Arms Co., at New
Haven, Conn, on the 21st. Five others
were taken to the hospital badly in
jured.
THE Constantinople correspondent of
the London Post says the Turkish min
listers have accepted the frontier pro-
posals made by the European powers,
but the sultan has not yet ratified their
acceptance.
LAW and order have triumphed at
LeadvIlle, Col, and all the great gam
bling halls are closed. The gamblers
admit that they have been beaten, and
will go to the new Monte Carlo, near
Denver.
CHARLES HELBAcH, a well-known
slack and tight wire performer, of
Neenah, Wis, has decided to initiate
BIondin and walk a cable stretched
across Niagara Falls.
HORACE MOULToN, a pioneer Kansan,
and for many years a capitalist and
politician by turn, was burned to
death, on the 2Ist, at his home in Kir-
win, Kas., by the explosion of lamp
which he was carrying.
WALL street was greatly excited to
learn the other day, that James r.
Kean. famous as Jay Gould's principal
adversary in the olden days, had en-
tered the market again and that the
market had paid him 81, 600. 900, within
60 days, in return for the honor.