Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

THE ordnance bureau made test at
Indian Head. on the 4th, firing ten
inch armor-piercing capped shell at
14519-inch plate. The latter was nickel
steel, Harveyized. The shell went
through the plate and exploded on the
other side The test was considered
most satisfactory.
As THE result of wager, Prof. Ar
thur st. Andressey and Miss Louise
Charlotte WIborg were married, on the
night of the 4th, in the den containing
the monster lions Caesar and Cleopatra.
at the Boston zoo. An immense crowd
witnessed the ceremony, and cheered
the couple as they emerged from the
den.
DR.. w. w. SHEFFIELD. a prominent
dentist, died at New London, Conn.,, on
the 4th, aged 30 years. DIR. Sheffield
was one of the best-known dentists in
the United States, having acquired
considerable prominence by his tooth
browning patents.
THE president has ordered a court
martial to try Capt. Lowering, whose
undenied brutality towards Private
Hammond has been exploited in the
press The court will sit at Fort Sheri-
dan, Chicago. November p, under the
presidency of Brighten. j. F. Wade.
Mrs. CELIA WALLACE, who resides at
the Auditorium. Chicago, and is a child
less widow, has taken fancy to
Evangelina Cossio Y Cisneros, the Gu
the Cuban maid and make her an heir
E,1 H. -In nT
Mrs. Wallace at $500, 900.
In a book on the Cuban war just pub
lished in Havana, Gen. Weyler writes
the introduction. In one place he
says: The system of warfare carried
on by me during this campaign is not
a new one. 1t is the same as pursued
by the Americans of the north when
they fought their brethren of the
south"
OF the 40 persons who landed with
Gen. Maceo near Baracoa, Cuba, near
ly two and a half years ago only three
survive, the others, including Gen.
Maceo, have died either on the battle
fields or in the hospitals or in prisons
in Cuba.
Mrs. ANGELINA MENDENHALL. aged
lis, Ind. on the 5th, and was buried,
later in the day, in the same coffin
with her husband, aged 50. who had
died As hours before. For Is years
Mrs. Mendenhall had said that she
would not be present in life at her hus-
bands funeral, eveniif he died first for
she would join him few hours after
his death.
The most Important iron ore dis
covery in the Menominee range in Mich
igan in several years has been made
on the bank of the Michigamme river,
one mile south of the Mansfield mine.
The vein is u feet deep and 40 feet
wide. The ore assays 62 per cent. in
iron and .O51 per cent. in phosphate,
thus putting Its assay within the Bes-
semer limit.
THE first annual report of Commits
sioner of Pensions Ii. Clay Evans to
the secretary of the interior was made
public on the 5th. It fails to show the
diminution in the number of pensions
anticipated by former commissioners,
but discloses a net gain of 1886, the
total number on June 80, 1897, being
976, OLA.
MARK TwAIN's publishers, at Hart
ford, Conn, have received a cablegram
from the author, in which he denies
the report that he recently wrote a
letter to a personal friend in this
country stating that he had made
49, 900 in the last two years and had
paid his debts in full.
Col. HENRY L. RUSSELL, of Chicago,
vice-president and general manager of
the Union Drop Forge Co., died sud-
denly of heart disease, while at lunch
con on the 5th. Col Russell was "a
years of age. He leaves a widow.
TEMPLE EMANUEL, the Jewish syna-
gogue at the corner of Twenty-fourth
and Curtis streets, Denver, Col, was
totally destroyed by fire on the 5th;
loss, S35, OOO..
GREAT BRITAIN has declined to take
part In the Florida fisheries confer
ence though greatly interested in the
objects of the conference"
ABOUT 1000 head of cattle arrived in
Havana, on the 5th, from the United
States.