Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FOREST fires are starting up again
around Ashland, Wis. 4 big fire was
raging across the bay, on the Sd. and
another was threatening Brule on
the Northern Pacific.
EDWIN F. THoRNE, the actor, died in
New York city ,on the 4th, after long
illness.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the Sd, showed,
Available cash balance, S2S1, 254, 221;
gold reserve, S149, 500, 337.
FIRE broke out at p. M, on the 4th,
in crowded charity bazar in Paris, at
which the flower of the old French
aristocracy were present An indie
scribable panic ensued, as result of
which hundreds of lives were lost, the
bodies of a large portion, including
many titled ladies, prominent church
men and women, being incinerated.
Latest reports put the loss of life at
$50.
JOSEPH R. DUNLOP, publisher of the
Chicago Dispatch, left Chicago, on the
4th, in custody of Deputy Marshal John
A. Logan, for Joliet, to begin his two
years term in the penitentiary.
ACCORDING to official reports re-
ceived at the palace in Havana, on the
Sd. "a battles were fought the previous
day, as follows: In Santiago, six;
Puerto Principe, two; Santa Clara, ten;
Matanzas, six; Havana, two; Piner del
Rio, eight. The aggregate losses, as
officially reported, were: Cubans, 81
killed; % prisoners; Spanish, %
wounded.
GEN. HORACE PORTER, United States
ambassador to France. sailed for his
post on the 5th. Previous to his de-
parture he was presented with beau
tiful silver-bound illuminated album by
his friends of the Union League club of
New York, whose names, after those of
President Mckinley and cabinet,
adorned the pages.
A SPECIAL from Webster City, Ia, Un
the Sd, said: It is given out that the
amount of Cashier H. II. Espes' defal-
cation from the Savings bank of Rad
cliffe is in the neighborhood of SIS, 600.
Espes has left for parts unknown.
COLLECTOR KILBRETH of New York
city received from Secretary of the
Treasury Gage, on the 4th, series of
regulations aimed to prevent the i'm
portation of spurious and adulterated
| teas. The new regulations, which
must be put into effect at once, provide
for the expectation or destruction of all
! teas which do not come up to the stand
ard fixed by the new regulations.
| ADMIRAL MEADE (retired( q. S. N,
who had been i'll at Washington city
for three weeks. died at DR.. Johnson's
| private sanitarium, on the 4th, of grip
aggravated by appendicitis
A COLLISION occurred off Girdless
| lighthouse, on the coast of Scotland.
on the 4th, between the British steam
ers Coldynee and Gringoe. The Colby
nee sank and IL of her crew were
| drowned.
| A MAN named Lawrence, confidential
servant of Mrs Arthur H. Blair. of
Chicago. has disappeared, and with him
diamonds to the value of SIS, 200 and
s., 500 in money. He was sent to make
a deposit in Mrs Blair's safe-deposit-
| box, but took the contents instead and
skipped.
GEN. SMoLENsKI says that Prince
Constantine ordered the Greek retreat
from Matt and that the order was
blunder. Prince Constantine says that
he did not order a retreat, but that as
| commander-in-chief he assumes the re-
i sponsibility for it.
FIVE anarchists, convicted of partici-
patton in the bomb outrage of June 7
| last, at the feast of Corpus Christi, were
shot to death at Barcelona Spain, on
the 4th. They died shouting: Long
live anarchy"
The senate, on the 4th, passed the
bill to provide for free homes on the
| public lands for actual and bona fde
| settlers, known as the free homestead
bill;" yeas, ~; nays, IL.
| JAMES II. ALDRICH, the defaulting ex-
cashier and paymaster of the Kansas
City, Fort Scott & Memphis railway
and its branches, appeared in the Grim
inal court at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
9Th, pleaded guilty to the charge of
embezzlement, and was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
The beautiful residence st WinwRh
Park, near New Rochelle, n. Y, of
President Green of the Columbia Navi-
CATION Co, was burned, on the 5th.
causing loss of $500, 900, including
many vRlusble Dictures