Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-19
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AT a meeting OF a number of promi-
nent Jewish citizens of San Francisco,
on the 9th. the general sentiment was
expressed by the speakers that the col
onists now in that city ought to be
helped, but that others who contem-
plate coming should be discouraged.
The steamer City of Para, from PAN
anna, was immediately sent into quar-
antine upon her arrival at San Fran
cisco on the 9th, A. Frerere, a French
cabin passenger, having died at sea,
on the 5th, of yellow fever.
A GRAVEL train on the Chicago &
Northwestern railway struck street
car which was passing over the main
track of the road in GAINESVILLE, Wis,
on the 9th, injuring seven persons.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 9th, showed:
Available cash balance, SIPS, 9S1, 762;
gold reserve, S14o, 5ss, 457.
NOTICES have been conspicuously
posted about the town of Clayton, n.
NJ, warning all negroes to leave before
August Is. Nearly all the negroes there
are preparing to go away.
JUDGE JOSEPH KUHN, an attorney of
Port Townsend, Wash, expects to con-
duct a party of gold prospectors to the
Copper river, Alaska, in the spring, a
section that is peopled with a hostile
tribe of Indians, numbering about
1000, with no less than 200 braves. 1t
is considered a very hazardous under
taking.
a TERRIFIC storm struck Paterson,
n. j., on the 10th. The rainfall was
the heaviest in 25 years, and much
damage was done by the cyclonic wind
which accompanied It. Trees were
uprooted in some places, signs and
fences carried away and trolley cars
were stopped.
THE Morning Times, of Cripple
Creek, Col, has been sold by j. p.
Siley to Frank j. Atkins and Gail
Hoag, two well-known newspaper
men, both of whom have been for
years connected with the Rocky Noun
tain News, of Denver, Col.
WHILE flying kite during heavy
electrical storm, on the 10th, Walter
Vinson, a 12-year-old boy, who lived
in Chelsea place, Kansas City, Kas.,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
THE inhabitants of Thomasville, Ga,
are intensely excited over what appears
to be the existence of volcano near
there. The crater is about 25 feet
square and several streams of blue
smoke issue from it.
DESPITE diplomatic denials Madrid
dispatches reaching Havana virtually
confirm the report that President Nc
Kinley and Secretary Sherman have
given Spain until January 1, next, to
end the war in Cuba.
THE queen regent of Spain has de-
creed that the military honors observed
in the case of the funeral of a marshal
shall be accorded the remains of the
late premier of Spain, Senior .Canoyas
del Castillo.
OFFICIAL information reached Ha-
vana, on the 10th. of a decisive battle
between Spanish troops and insurgent
forces in Matanzas. According to this
information the Spanish troops were
routed, after a hard battle, with heavy
losses.
j. NJ. TRANT, who killed James Fleet
wood about ten years ago, was assas-
sinated in his own home at Ryan, /. T.,
on the night of the 10th, by unknown
persons. Traut was the terror of his
neighborhood and had many enemies.
VIM. LAMB PICKNELL, of Boston, the
celebrated artist, died in Marblehead,
Mass, on the night of the eth. He was
As years of age.
Ex-KING MILAN of Servia is so seri-
ously ill, in Vienna, that some anxiety
is felt by his friends as to his eventual
recovery.
A SPECIAL dispatch, on the 18th,
from Paris, said that Planas, another
leader of the Spanish anarchists, had
been expelled from France, being con-
Quoted to Havre, from which port he
will come to America. Both Marmel
and Planas, the dispatch added, called
themselves Cuban patriots.
VIM. E. QUINBY, of Detroit, lately
United States minister to the Neither
lands, arrived at New York, on the
10th, on board the steamer Western
land from Antwerp.
IT is said that the Philippine islands
insurgents are now following the Gu
bans tactics, surprising conveys and
detachments of Spanish troops, and
that up to date they have been gener-
ally successful in almost all the en-
counters, this being really the only
means by which the hberators have
acquired the large number of Reming-
ton and Mauser rifles and supply of
ammunition they possess at present.
The first tin plate manufactured in
America to be sent to Europe is, &C
cording to the local manufacturers,
that started on the 18th, by the Ameri-
can Plate Co. of Elwood, Ind, on its
way to Italy. 1t was a carload con-
sisting of 500 boxes of the most expcn-
sive tin plate made there. The COM
pany made a similar shipment to En-
gland on the 12th.
UMPIRE TIN HURST, who threw q
beer glass at the spectators during q
game in Cincinnati and severely in
jured Fireman Cartyvelles, was fined
500 and costs in the police court in
that city on the 18th.
GEORGE ]. GOULD has brought suit
against Hiram Graham and his broth
err, Aaron Graham, for trespassing on
his trouting preserves in the wilds of
the Catskills.
ALDERMAN WIN. MANGLER, of Chica-
60, was, on the 18th, sentenced by
Judge Dunno to pay a fine of 81, 900 and
serve 90 days in the county Jail for con-
tempt of court
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has
appointed the Grand Duke Nicholas
Nicholaievitch to the honorary coll
onelcy of the Magdeburg hussars-
DAVID DELRIcH and his wife were
found murdered in their home, three
miles south of Bellefontaine, O., on
the 18th. The house had been ram
sacked throughout