Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

WITH fully 5000 pleasure seekers on
board, the three-decked excursion
steamboat Paul Koch drove on shoal
near Penfield lighthouse, in Long Is
land sound, on the 30th, and took
fire. With rare presence of mind a
passenger prevented panic and led a
small party of card players to fight
the flames, which were extinguished
before the excursionists were aware
of their danger.
KILLING frosts visited many portions
of Iowa, on the night of the 30th.
DIR. JAMES Il. ANGEL, of Ann Arbor,
Mich, says Turkey is now discussing
his acceptability as American minister.
DIR. ANGEL has for years been chairman
of the American board of foreign mis-
sions, whose work in Turkey has not
been carried on to the satisfaction of
the sultan.
The Jarvis bill passed at the last ses-
sion of the Tennessee state legislature,
after one of the hardest fought legal
battles in the history of the state has
been held to be constitutional by the
state supreme court. This bill will
save the people of the state about
Sc, 900, 900 a year in ofice-holders' fees.
A MAN named Rossi, a discharged
stable hand in the vatican at Rome, on
the 1st, attempted to kill Commander
Martinucci, of the major domo's office,
through whom he had lost his place.
Thinking he had killed his victim at
the first shot, Rossi shot himself
through the head and will die. The
commander will also die.
JUDGE GRossCUP, of the federal court,
on the 1st, upheld the liability of the
city of Chicago for damages to railroad
property by reason of the strike of 1894.
Id. LUFKIN, of Sacramento, Cal,
aged 20, and Mrs. A. L. Lufkin, ~,
were married in Hartford, Conn.,, on
the 1st, by Rev. w. w. Ranny. The
bride was the widow of the bride
groom's brother.
A DISPATCH from Washington, on the
1st, said that it was understood that
the president had fully decided upon
| Ellis H. Roberts, of New York, for
| United States treasurer, and that his
nomination would be sent to the senate
| in day or two. Mr.. Roberts at one
time was assistant treasurer at New
York.
JAMES ROBERTS, wife and three chill
dren were killed by an Illinois Central
passenger train at Alma, Ill, on the
1st. They were in a wagon, and at
tempted to cross the track, when the
wagon was struck by the locomotive
and all the occupants were instantly
killed.
In the case of John L. Searles, the
Sugar trust witness, on trial in Wash
ington, Judge Bradley, on the 1st, or
dered the jury to bring in a verdict OF
acquittal.
A TEN per cent. cut in wages, affect
ing all men not under the amalgamat-
ed scale, was ordered atJones s. Laugh
Inns American iron works at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 1st. AS result the
open-hearth workers and some other
employees, in all about 200 persons, re-
fused to go to work.
| ACCORDING to mail advices. received
on the I'd, another crisis is precipitated
in Corean affairs by the action of Russia
in virtually forcing the acceptance OF
her officers as instructors after the
cabinet had decided to abandon the
proposal. All the ministers, who had
opposed the scheme, rendered theil
designations.
EDGAR HARRIS, an insane letter car
rier at Baltimore, Nd, 81 years of age
shot and killed his 12-year-old son
George and his young daughter Ada
wounded his daughter Ella, aged II
on the I'd. and then turned the pisto
on himself. He was taken, at the point
of death, to the Johns Hopkins hospi
tai.
THE house of representatives, on the
LIST agreed to the conference report OF
the sundry civil appropriations bill.
THE Princess Troubetzkoy, formerly
Amelie Rives-Chanler, and known al
over the world under her maiden nam'
of Amelie Rives, as the authoresS o
THE Quick or the Dead" is a patien
in a private sanitarium in Philadel
phia, suffering from nervous prostra
ton.
. The statement of the condition o
the treasury, on the I'd, showed: Avail
able cash balance, S2s9. 95o, OF; gold re
serve, S144.51s.114