Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-24

A DESPATCH from Havana. on the
10th, said that Gen. Quantin Bandera
led a large force of Spanish soldiers
from their barricade into ambush, and
there fell upon and annihilated them.
OK the oath there will be Solemnizea
in Bismarck, s. D., the wedding of
Sioux Indian maiden and n foreigner
of wealth and social prestige. The
bride will be Picture Eyes, the daugh-
ter of John Moose, an old warrior who
has scalped many a white man. The
prospective groom is Thomas Dulaine
Cronan. an Irishman.
MORE tea is now af1oat on the Pacific
ocean than ever before at one time, in
order to enter before the Dingley bill
goes into effect. One thousand tons of
the new crop has been landed in Ia
coma, Wash, and 100000 pounds are
on the ocean. The Canadian line is
also bringing heavy shipments.
ToLAN ISRAEL GIDEON BARNETT, OF
Montreal, Can, claims to be brother
of the late Barney Barnato. the South
African diamond king. He says Bar
nato's real name was Barney Isaac Alri
Barnett.
THE bronze statue of Winged Lib
erty' presented to the battleship Mas
sachusetts by the Bay State, was I'M
yelled. on the 18th, by Gov. Wolcott.
ISAAC NORTON, cashier of the United
States internal revenue department IN
| San Francisco, committed suicide, on
the nth, taking carbolic acid.
Two THOUSAND men, women and chill
dren, made desperate by hunger, pa
raded the streets of Matanzas, Cuba,
on the 18th, demanding bread. Private
residences were broken into and gro
Gerry stores looted before the Spanish
police, with drawn swords, succeeded
in quelling the riot.
| A DISPATCH from Calcutta, on the
| 18th, said: Almost the whole of the
| province of Assam has been devastated
| by the earthquake. The ruin is appail-
| ing. The courts, treasures, jails and
hospitals have collapsed. The loss OF
| food supplies is enormous. The crops
are mostly ruined.
THE Akron (O.) police will equip a
street car as a travelling prison, in
which to transport unruly folk from
Lakeside park and Summit lake, where
there have been numerous Sunday
rows. The jail on wheels will also be
used for patrol wagon in case OF ne
ceSSitY.
| SEVERAL weeks ago a cow belonging
to Joel Beasley, a farmer near Centre
| town, Ohio county, KY, was bitten by
a stray dog afflicted with rabies, which
| fact was unknown to the farmer. who
continued using the milk. While milk
| ing the animal some of the fluid en-
tered a small scratch on the palm of his
hand, and on the 18th he died of lock-
jaw.
| JOHN GUGELHEI MER, a farmer, six
miles west of Davenport, Ia, was found
dead in the kitchen of his home, on the
18th, and his wife was dead in the eel
lar. He was at one time insane. In
vestigation by the coroner showed thai
he had mixed strychnine with eggnog
and given it to his wife, afterward
drinking the poison himself
On the 18th cyclone passed over the
outskirts of the city of Paris, France
causing the loss of about twenty lives
and injuring about ninety persons.
IT is reported that Queen Victoria, il
consequence of the sad physical infirm
ity which has befallen her, will abdi
cate the throne. before long, in favor
of the prince of Wales. The queen, i
is reported, is almost blind.
WILLIAM CRAwLEY, a miner, me
death in a horrible manner in the
Nickel Plate mine of the jackson Coal
. and Mining Co., north of Brazil. Ind, OF
the 18th. While drawing pillars the
roof fell before he could escape, anC
his body was crushed into a shapeles!
mass by many tons of slate. Crawle!
was As years of age and married.
''Do ALL you can for bimetallisuI,
! This quotation is from personal mem
orandum made by the president anC
; embodied in private instructions which
= have been given to the American am
: bassadors to Great Britain, German.
and France. The instructions hav'
been given from the White House di
i rect. They are in such form rs to i'm
S press the ambassadors with the deel
earnestness of the president for bimet
D allism.