Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

a FATAL grace crossing acclOenE Oc-
CURED at Allentown, Pa, Christmas
day, when a Central railroad of New
Jersey passenger train ran into a car
of tho Lehigh Valley Traction Co., in
East Allentown. One man was killed
and four injured. A number of other
passengers were slightly hurt by fly
ing glass
SECRETARY OLNEY and Sir Julian
Pauncefote have finally agreed upon
the draft of a treaty providing for a
general system of arbitration of dis
putes between the United States and
Great Britain, which will doubtless be
approved by the president and sub
mitted to the senate.
A LANDSLIDE occurred near Rath-
more, County Kerry, Ireland, on the
2sth, doing great damage to property
and causing the loss of at least nine
lives. The ground pushing into the
River Flesk, almost completely
damned that stream and made a disas-
trous inundation probable.
Mrs. ANNA HANSON DORSEY, the pio-
neer of Catholic literature in this
country, died at Washington, Christ
mas day, aged So years She was a
daughter of the late Rev. William Nc
Kenney, a chaplain in the United
States navy. She was honored with
personal letters from Plus TX. and also
from Pope Leo.
JUDGE PRYOR, in the supreme court
of New York, has denied the applica-
ton of the Agudath Hakehiloth, a He
brew organization, for certificate of
incorporation, because it fixes the
time of holding business meetings on
Sunday, and the judge says: 1.-THE law
which scrupulously protects them in
the observance of their creed, gives
them no license to affront the religious
susceptibilities of others"
On the 26th the associated banks of
New York city held S34, 500, 900 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
TRAIN wreckers removed rail from
the approach to high bridge near
Birmingham, Ala, causing a passen-
ger train, on the 9th, to plunge ITO
feet into the river below, and result
ing in instant death to 20 persons.
The wreckage. igniting from the fire
in the stoves, was burned to the wa
ter's edge, cremating many of the vic
Tins
WHITE GHOST, the Indian chief who
visited Washington with a delegation
of his fellow tribesmen, asking for
$500, 600 interest on alleged deferred
payments for land, saw the Great
Father on the 28th. Indian Commits
sioner Browning introduced the chief
to the president White Ghost did not
stay long enough to make a speech,
but was exceedingly pleased to shake
hands with MIR. Cleveland.
PREsIDENT-ELECT MCKINLEY has
promised to 60 to New York for the
dedication of the Grant monument on
April 81. He will make an address.
Many representatives of foreign gov
ernments at Washington will be pres
emit to witness the ceremonies. Ii
Hung Chang will see that the Flowery
kingdom is represented.
PROF. EMANUEL SCHAID died in Co
lumbus, o., on the 2sth, from a para
lytic stroke He had been professor
of Latin and Greek in the Lutheran
Capital university in Columbus since
1859, and was for the same period one
of the editors of the Kirchen Zeitung.
Prof. Schmid was born in Ann Arbor,
Mich, in 1898.
The ferryboat New Brunswick. be-
longing to the Pennsylvania railroad,
was totally burned at Jersey City. n.
J., on the 2sth. The New Brunswick
was worth about 500, 900
MASKED men, believed to be white
caps, shot William Whaley and his
wife to death in Sewer county, Tenn,
early on the morning of the goth.
Whaley was a professional prosecut-
ing witness, and had been out of the
penitentiary only a short time.
THE Spanish steamer Carranza, Capt.
Martinez, foundered in the Bay of Bis
cay, OF Santander. on the 2sth. She
carried a crew of % men, 20 of whom
were drowned.
AT Delaware, O., on the 2sth, Lulu
Stultz, aged 10, in At of anger after
reproof from her parents, cut her
throat from ear to ear with q razor,
dying instantly.
THE highbinders' war is again rag
ing in that portion of San Francisco
known as Chinatown.
THE steamer Kaiser Wilhelm IL,
from Bremen, which arrived at New
York on the goth, brought 800 italian
men, women and children, destined for
the Sunnyside colony in Chieot county,
Ark, which was established by the
late Austin Corbin.
Gov. MORTON Of New York has ap
pointed Col. Ashley W. Cole, former
New York city newspaper man, TO be
his private secretary, and also to be
secretary of the state railroad commits
sion. The salary is IS, 600 per year, and
is one of the best in the state service.
EUGENE TOMPKINs, proprietor of the
Boston theater; Col. Mapleson. late inn
presario of the Imperial opera com.
pany, and all who took part in the
Mapleson benefit at the theater Sum
day, the eth, have been summoned to
the superior court, charged with vio-
lating the Sunday concert law.
FIRE swept through the dynamo
building of the Newark IN. j. Electric
Light, Heat and Power Co, on the
night of the Goth. and Newark was
plunged in total darkness. The pow
erhouse was totally destroyed, and II,
as It is feared, none Of the machinery
can be repaired, the loss viii reach
$ls5.o0o.
THE celebrated Thistle Shaft mine,
formerly known as the Feather Fork,
at Gibsonvflle, Cal. which Is owned
by syndicate of Scotch capitalists
and valued nc millions, In filing up
with water, and may have to be aban-
doned- The water vein was struck .
. short time ago, and the Influx was 50
audden that the miners narrowly CO.
cApod with their Hvsa