Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-18

In the destruction by ire, On the
10th, of a small frame cottage in
Springwells, Mich, occupied by the
family of Stephen Rogulski. a two
year-old child was burned to death
and Mary Rogulski, aged II years,
was fatally burned. Five other mem
bers of the family were also more or
less seriously burned.
THE Bankers Exchange bank, OF
Minneapolis, Mimi. closed its doors
on the 10th. 1t closed some weeks be.
fore, but resumed in a few days. 1t.
last statement was dated Decembes
%. 1896. 1t showed deposits of Sol, 000s
capital, $50, 900; loans and discounts
S63. 600
The 700 employees of the McBetl
lamp-chimney factory at Elwood, Ind,
walked out, on the 10th, on account OF
a difference with the company.
The safe in the Clearfeld lPa.) post
Office was blown open. early on the
morning of the 10th, and 81. 900 worth
of.stamps and $500 in cash were stolen.
A hole was drilled through the top
of the safe, and the door was blown
off and landed across the room
THE board of trustees of Washing
ton and Lee university met in Lexing-
mously elected Hon. VIM. L. Wilson,
postmaster general. president OF the
university. It is said that a commit
tee from the board visited Mr.. Wilson
soon after the resignation of Presi-
dent Lee and that he expressed hirs-
self as being willing to accept tie
position. He will enter upon the
duties as president July l.
SENATOR PETrIGREw (sil., n. D. On
the 18th, introduced a resolution,
which went over, directing the senate
committee on public lands to investi-
gate, by subcommittee or otherwise,
the issue of a patent in the Perrine
land grant in the state of Florida.
This is the patent issued to President
Cleveland's father-iu-law.
LYMAN ]. GAGE has severed his con-
nection with the First national bank
dent, his resignation being rendered
to the board of directors at meeting
held on the 18th.
SPENCER Erwin, well-known stock
broker of Philadelphia, died at the
Hotel Aldine, where he resided, on the
18th. He had been i'll of pneumonia.
Mr.. Erwin was senior member of the
firm of Spencer, Erwin & Co.
On the 18th Chauncey NJ. Depew was
unanimously elected chairman of the
board of control of the Joint Traffi
association.
The Grecian government has formu-
lated a notification to the powers set.
ting forth that Greece cannot remain
a mere spectator of the events which
are taking place in Crete, and that the
ties of race and religion compel her
to intervene in behalf of the oppressed
and outraged Christians in that is
land.
MRS JANE L. STANFORD has sur.
prised the trustees of Stanford uni.
versity by announcing that she had
made deed of gift to the university,
to take effect at her death, of the fine
Stanford mansion on Mob Hill, in San
Francisco, with all it's furnishings,
paintings and other art works, the
whole valued at 81. 900, 900. The house
is the finest ever built in California.
The price of steel rails advanced a
little at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th,
ranging between ST. and SIS.
COUNT Won WoLKENsTEIN TRosBERG,
brother of the Austrian am bassador to
France, committed suicide in Vienna,
on the 18th, by shooting himself with
a revolver.
A HEAVY snowstorm, interspersed
with hail and rain, prevailed all over
Pennsylvania on the 18th. In the
mountain regions the snow was ten
inches deep, and at Harrisburg there
was five inches on the level.
FIRE, on the 18th, caused a loss Of
S1OO, 900 in the building 172 and ia
Madison street Chicago; well covered
by insurance.
A BOILER in the coal mine of Lee &
Vestal. in Weathersfeld township,
near Youngstown, O., exploded, on
the 18th, killing Joseph Wilcox and
fatally scalding Louis Kyle.
THE president, on the 18th, sent to
the senate the nomination of Carroll
D. Wright, of Massachusetts,, to be
commissioner of labor-a reappoint-
ment.
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