Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Hon. THOMAS T. BAYARD, late United
States ambassador to the court of st.
James, with his family, will sail for
New York on either May or May Is.
THE bank at Biggsville, Ill, was bur-
glarized early on the morning of the
3Oth. Three dynamite explosions
broke the vault, but the safe, in which
the money was kept, was not opened.
The robbers got $500 in the vault and
escaped on a stolen hand-car.
JUST at dusk, on the evening of the
3Oth, the town of Chandler, Okla, was
everything in its path, but one build
ing, a hotel, being left intact. The
first report said that a dozen or more
persons had been killed, and $50 badly
injured, while later dispatch said
many others were missing and thought
to be dead under the ruins. Only day
light could reveal the true state of
things.
C. n. BUDD, of Sparta, Tenn, killed
his wife, on the 30th, and then COM
mitted suicide. He left a letter saying
he committed the crime because his
wife did not love him.
THERE was an accident, on the 31st.
ON the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington
road, q quarter of mile below Reads
boro, Mass. The cars rolled over ON
their sides and lodged on the brink of
bank 25 feet high. Several passen-
gers were more or less injured, but no
fatalities occurred. Spreading rails
caused the accident.
THE boom in Argentine securities Ia
continuing on the London stock ex-
change, the activity being due to the
decision of the Argentine government
to resume payment of full interest
upon the debt and cancel the oblige-
ton of the year in advance of the time
agreed upon.
LATER news from the cyclone-swept
town of Chandler, Okla, greatly in
creases the number of the dead, with
the added horror that many of these
met their fate in the flames that de-
stroyed the ruins of their homes or
places of business.
THE Dingley tariff biz passed the
house ON the 31St-2o5 yeas, t21 nays;
present and not voting, 81 Five demo
crats-Broussard, Dewey and Meyer, of
Louisiana, and Kleberg and Slayden,
of Texas, voted for the bill amid ap-
plause.
Ten business houses at Albany, Ind.
were destroyed by fire on the S1st-
Loss, $40, 600; insurance, about $50, 600.
THE Red Cross society has made an
international appeal for aid for the in
habitants of Crete. The armed insur-
gents are able to obtain provisions by
going to the coast for supplies, but the
people living inland are destitute.
WHILE masonS were tearing down
the New Hartford house at Winstead,
Conn, the oldest landmark in that part
of the state, on the 31st, they I'M
earthed a bottle of wine which was
placed there when the hotel was built,
135 years ago.
THE state department declared, Oh
the SIst, that Consul-General Lee bad
not been granted leave of absence to
take effect on the 18th, as published. or
on any other date. Gen. Lee had not
asked for leave.
STEPHEN J. FIELD, associate justice
of the United States supreme court,
has decided to retire from the bench in
July.
PUBLIC PRINTER PALMER, on the I'd,
resumed charge of the government
printing office after an absence of three
years. He found handsome bouquet
of roses on his desk from the employees,
all of whom were glad to sec him back.