Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AN explosion, evidently caused by
chemicals used in the preparation of
pepsin, shattered the upper part of
Armour & Co.'S pepsin factory, at Chi
cago, on the cath, and the blaze which
followed practically consumed the
building; loss, $4,000.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the oath,
showed: Available cash balance, $751;
164, 9O9; gold reserve, S144, 7O4, S42.
An Athens dispatch says: The in
tentions of the sultan are greatly dis
trusted here, and it is believed that he
is avoiding negotiations for peace
through the powers because he wants
Edhem Pasha to march to Athens.
BY the caving of a trench at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on the Gath, three work
men were instantly killed and fourth
was fatally injured. The dead are A.
Dennis, A. Brown, James Christie. .Fa-
tally injured, Michael Sheehy.
THE Odessky Listoclz, of Odessa, an
nounces the coming arrival there of
one of the Wander bits, who, according
to that newspaper, is about to start
big naphtha works at Buku, Russian
Transcaucasia.
BANK EXAMINER CALDWELL has dis
covered a further shortage of $50, 600 in
the accounts of the wrecked State ma
tional bank of LOgansport, Ind.
On the 25th w. F. Mittman, a dane
ing teacher, shot himself in the corrI-
dor of the thirteenth story of the Chi
cago chamber of commerce building
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below, narrowly missing pedestrians
in the crowded lobby. 1t is thought he
was dead before he struck the pave
ment.
THE examination of Herr Won Tausch,
the former chief of the secret political
police, who is charged with four-fold
perjury and treason, was continued in
Berlin on the 25th. Won Tausch wept
during the course of the proceedings.
E. S. MALoNEY. of Tennessee, son-in-
law of Senator Mills, of Texas, and for
20 years q clerk in the post Office de-
partment in Washington, expired from
heart disease, on the 18th, while driv-
ing to the Office.
THE secretary of war has awarded
the contract for building six locks and
dams in the Monongahela river to
James McCarron, of Philadelphia, 1T an
aggregate cost of 1922, ISL.
DURING a display of fireworks at
Nantes, France, on the evening OF the
oath, four persons were killed and a
score of others were injured by the ex-
plosion of a bomb.
JOHN c. MILESTONE, late secretary of
the Cincinnati water-worl1s, was arrest
ed, on the 2ath, on a charge of embez-
Element of water-works money. The
arrest was on a warrant sworn out by
President Herman, of the board of
affairs
1t is understood in Madrid that
Senior Sagasta, the liberal leader, will
soon publish an important political
statement in which he will announce
his unalterable opposition to the sale
of Cuba, and his unyielding support of
the maintenance of the integrity of
Spanish territory.
THE first vote in the senate on the
tariff bill occurred, on the 26th, on
Senator Vests amendment to reduce
the rate on borax to three cents per
pound. The amendment was defeated:
Yeas, 20; nays, "a.
incetcwn, Mass, on the 25th, announc-
town fishing schooner Joseph z. John
son with the loss of 16 of her crew.
THE Indiana supreme court decided
that the fact that a candidate for an
office offered a bride or reward to a
voter disqualified him and made him
ineligible to office. The decision was
based upon the state constitution.
ELISHA DYER, of Providence, was in
augurated, on the 25th, governor,
captain general and commander-in-
chief of the state of Rhode Island and
Providence plantations for the year en-
suing"
FRANK MUELLER, convicted of the
murder of his late employers wife and
sentenced to be electrocuted Column
bus, o., in September, has made COM
plete confession in writing.
ONE THOUSAND striking New York
tailors resumed work, on the 26th, hav-
ing gained the concessions demanded
from the middlemen. Meyer Schoer-
field, the leader of the strikers, said
he did not look for a settlement OF the
tailors' contest earlier than four weeks
hence.
THE Society of Architecture of Bel
gum has taken the initiative in con-
voking an international congress OF
architects to meet at Brussels August
IS The United States government is
invited to send special delegates to rep
resent it in the congress.
THE Ward steamship line has offered
free transportation of all supplies the
government may wish to send to suffer
ing Americans in Cuba
FRANK MCCOPPIS, postmaster at San
Francisco for the past five years, and
a prominent democrat, died, on the
Goth. as the result of a surgi cal opera
ton.
CHAs E. WILSON, colored, was
whipped, on the 26th, in Centreville
(Md.) Jail by the sheriff in fulfillment
of the sentence of the circuit court for
Queen Anne county, which condemned
him to Is days in Jail and Is lashes foE
wife beating