Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-26
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND eENERAL.

on Mount Tacoma, which Oscar Brown,
of Cle-Elum, rislxed his life to carry to
the top of the mountain five years ago.
If Stephen ]. Field, associate justice
of the United States supreme court,
were to retire now he would leave be-
hind him a record of service longer
than that of any other man who ever
| sat on the supreme bench
| HENRY GABLE, an old and expert
enced miner, who was one of the first
to join the rush to the Klondike, has
returned to San Francisco, and tells a
story calculated to deter others from
| going north in search of gold.
CHARLES COMPTON, the actor, died in
London on the 10th.
HENRY C. HANsBRoUGH. United
States senator from North Dakota, and
Miss Mary Berri Chapman, a poetess
of Washington, d. c., were married at
the Hotel Burlington, in New York
| city, on the 18th.
A SPECIAL from Rome, ON the 10th,
said: 1T is reported that the pope will
excommunicate Prince Henry of Or
leans and the count of Turin, as duel
ling is forbidden by the Roman Cath
| Ollie church"
FREDERICK WILDE, a striking coal
miner from Mount Olive, Ill, who went
to st. Louis five weeks ago, was ground
| to pieces beneath Missouri Pacific
train at Howard station on the 10th.
1t was to all appearances a case of pre-
| meditated suicide.
THE presidents secretary, J. Addi-
son Porter, on the 10th, made the fol-
! lowing announcement: Ethan Allen
Hitchcock, of st. Louis, has accepted
the ministership to Russia, and will be
appointed Immediately.
NAVAL officers are considering the
question of constructing dry docks suf-
fciently large to accommodate our
largest war vessels. The matter will
be submitted to congress at the next
session.
THE post office department has pre-
pared advertisements for contracts for
all star and steamboat mail service in
all states west of the Mississippi. ex-
cept Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri.
These contracts, embracing about 3, 700
routes, will run for four years, begin
ming July 1, 1898. Bids will be opened
in the second assistant postmaster gen
erals office December /.
ell Lewis company, at Racine, Wis,
began working II hours per day on the
10th.
THE Peruvian government has or
dered the banks of Peru to withdraw
from circulation, within so days, and
to stop the further emission of circular
checks, payable to bearer, which are
classed as being nothing more or less
than bank notes in disguise.
NOTICE of contest of the second will
of Charles Coudert, of New York, which
devised his property to his seven chill
dren, was fled. on the 18th, by the
widow, Mrs. Mary Coudert, whom a
former will made sole legatee.
The twenty-third annual convention
of the American Bankers association
met in Detroit, Mich, on the 18th.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, formerly of the
Seventh United States cavalry. has
been granted pension of $22 month
and 81, 200 back pay. His whereabouts
is unknown to his attorneys
A MOVEMENT looking to the connec-
ton of Denver and the Black Hills re-
gion of South Dakota by railroad is
said to be in progress in Wyoming.
AS result of the decline in silver
the Lamartine mine at Idaho Springs,
Col, discharged its force of men work
ing on the silver lodeS on the nth.
In the two weeks ended on the 18th
over 1900 beeves were sent to Havana
from Florida, most of them from the
Kissimmee river ranges.
THE Rock Island Railroad Co. has
requested the farmers of Grant and
Garfield counties, Okla, to reimburse
the company for so, 600 bushels of wheat
was a crop failure.
In the Wisconsin assembly, on the
18th, both the express company and
sleeping car taxation bills were passed
over the governors veto.
THE former government boat John
A. Dix, recently turned over to the
Louisiana naval reserve, sank in the
Mississippi at the foot of jackson street,
New Orleans, on the 18th.
Mrs. MARCELINA VALDEZ and q girl
named Francesca. Mondragon were shot
in Guadalupe, a suburb of Conejos,
Col, on the 18th, by Pablo Gallegos.
Mrs. Valdez was wounded in the head
and the girl in the arm and thigh.
Both will probably recover. Gallegos
was a discarded lover of the girl. He
escaped.
THE wheat pit of the New York pro-
duce exchange was wrought up to
fine frenzy of buying activity, on the
18th, inspired by the European demand
and partly by the report of damaged
crops in the northwest, and the price of
wheat went capering upward till the
dollar mark was reached and passed by
fraction of cent.
THE employees of the Wells-Fargo Elk
press Co. all over the United States are
in receipt of letters from the California
headquarters of the company, saying
that salaries reduced three years ago
would be advanced Immediately.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Co. has acknowledged the
business of a claim made blythe Kan
sas state board of railroad commission
ers of exorbitant freight rates on that
road, and agreed to substantial reduc-
tions, to take effect September ].
W. b. l.. DAVIS, aged 60, a wealthy
farmer, living near Rockmart, Ga,
was killed and his house wrecked, on
the 18th, by the explosion of II dyna-
mite cartridges he had placed under
the kitchen stove for drying.
On the 18th the directors of the Chi
cago. Burlington & Quincy railroad de-
clared a quarterly dividend of one per
cent.
ALL that was needed, on the 18th, for
any man in Chicago to make $50. 600
was to have 200 600 bushels of wheat