Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-17

ADVICES from SlmfSrOpol, capltaI or
the Russian province of Taurida, on
the 10th, said that torrential rains had
fallen in that district, inundating
portion of the province. Many per
sons had been drowned, the rivers
had overfowed and ruined the crops,
and the damage to the wheat crop was
enormous.
THE fourth biennial sale of the prince
of Wales, hackneys and harness horses
was held, on the 10th, at Princess Stud
farm, at Wolferton, near Sandringham,
Norfolk, England. Nearly all of the
horses sold were bred by the prince of
Wales at the Wolferton farm, under the
supervision of Sir Dighton Probyn.
LARS ANDERSON, until very recently
a member of the United States diplo-
matte corps at Rome, Italy, and Miss
Isabelle Perkins, of Boston, heiress to
ST. 900, 900, were married in Boston, on
the 10th.
THE strike at Jones & Laughlin's
iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa, was, on
the 10th, declared off by the strikers
committee, and all the old men that
could went back at once at the reduc-
ton.
CAPT. DERBY, United States engineer
in charge of the levee districts from
Vicksburg to New Orleans, announced,
on the 10th, that the struggle with
the high water of 1897 was over.
JAMES HUGHES TAYLOR, a veteran
tragedian of wide reputation, died of
dropsy at DowningtOn, Pa, on the
10th, aged IS. He made his debut in
Portland, Me-, in 1850.
Mrs. JOHN CAMERON, wife of the
superintendent of the Victor coal
mines at Pueblo, Col, and prominent
burned, on the nth, by the explosion
of can of benzine with which she
was cleaning furniture. Her son, Is
years old, was badly burned in trying
to save his mother.
Rev. FREDERICK o. HOLMAN, d. D.,
formerly pastor of the Hennepin Ave
nue. NJ. E. church in Minneapolis,
Mimi, and one of the most brilliant
and best-known pulpit orators in the
Methodist church, died, on the 18th, of
lung trouble, aged 40 years.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 18th,
showed: Available cash balance, $780,
495. 632; gold reserve, S144, 23S, 372.
BROKER ELvERToN R. CHAPMAN left
the District of Columbia Jail, on the
18th, at 1918 a. m. his time" having
expired at midnight.
WHILE the canvasmen were at work
on the big tent of Ringing Bros cir
Gus, at Wappeton, n. D., on the 10th,
the center-pole was struck by light
ming. Charles Walters and Charles
Smith were killed and four employees
were shocked.
THE Berlin official Reichsanzeiger
publishes the decision of the imperial
appointed to investigate
the question whether vaccination
against smallpox produces a DISPOSE
ton to tubercular disease. The COM
mission finds that there no proof of
such disposition upon the part of the
persons.
AN attempt was made to assassinate
Gov. A. j. Smith of the national sol
diers' home near Leavenworth, Kas.,
on the morning of the 18th. A dyna-
mite bomb was used, and Mrs. Smith
was painfully injured. Part of the
family residence was destroyed.
He NC" OIh OOdEO VI Ilcd1bh Will
approve plan within short time to
erect on the shore of the Hudson a
large mausoleum, in which 10, 900 bod
les, treated by a new process, will be
inferred.
f. n. BLIvEN, of Popeston, Mimi,
killed himself, on the 18th, after fatal
~ wounding a daughter of Frank
Wegel, an aged farmer living in Moody
county. Bliven asked the girl to elope
with him. Upon her refusal the trag-
edy followed.
IT was rumored at Key West, Fla, on
the night of the 18th, that Weyler had
resigned. No details could be ascer-
,ained, nor could the report be verified
1t the time. 1t is said to have come
rom Havana in a private cable.
BRIGHT skies and balmy weather IA
1ored the ceremonies connected with
he graduation of the class of '97 from
he military academy at West Point, on
he 18th. There were about 1000 peo-
Die in attendance.