Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-09-08
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Maj. Zen. Otis is acting governor Of
Manila, in the absence of Gen. Merritt.
James Elliott, of Detroit, Mich, one
of the oldest fire chiefs in the United
States, died on the 31st, of stomach
! trouble.
Brig Gen Royal T. Frank has been
assigned to command temporarily the
Third army corps, formerly COM
manded by Gen. Wade, the latter hav-
ing been relieved to become member
of the Cuban military commission.
The transport steamer Olivette, which
has been lying near the quarantine
] station, at Fernandina, Fla, through
some mysterious agency sank on the
| 31st. Aboard the ship were the hos
pital corps of 35 and a crew of IS per-
| sons, all of whom escaped without in
jury, but in scanty attire.
Unknown incendiaries tried to kill
the family of Fred Langs, farmer
| living near Melrose Park, a Chicago
suburb, by setting fire to his home.
Mrs. Langs and her child were asleep
in the dining room at the time, and had
narrow escape from death.
Four suspicious cases of fever were
| declared at Taylor, Miss, 40 miles south
of Holly Springs, on the 31st.
Robbers secured Sc, 900 in cash from
the Pacific Express Co. in Omaha, on
the 31st. 1t was one of the boldest, as
| well as one of the smoothest, pieces of
| work ever perpetrated there. The
money was consigned by the First ma
tional bank of Omaha to the Citizens
national bank of st. Paul, Mimi.
Admiral Scheley has ben selected to
| command the Pacific squadron upon
the retirement of Admiral Miller,
about the middle of October, if the
Porto Rican commission finishes its la
Dor by that time. He will have vessels
| of the greatest steaming radius in the
| navy.
A grand demonstration occurred at
Canton, O., on the 1st, in honor of the
| visit of President Mckinley and Sec
rotary of State Day. Out of respect
for the presidents expressed wish that
his visit be informal, the affair was
| to considerable extent unorganized,
| and partook largely of the nature of a
spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm.
The A. Geisel Manufacturing Co. s
plant, on the northwest corner of Clark
| avenue and Second street, st. Louis,
| was totally destroyed by fire that
started shortly before midnight on the
1st. The loss was estimated to be $780,
Oo0-S1o0, 600 on stock, $40, 200 on tools
and machinery and $40. 900 on building.
At meeting of the directors of the
Pacific Cable Co., in New York. on the
1st, plans were considered for estab-
fishing cable communication with the
Philippines, the Asiatic coast, Japan
for duplicate cable via Sitka and the
Aleutian islands were ordered.
The schooner Sophia Sutherland,
| which left San Francisco Is months
ago with Il pr ty of treasure seekers
| for the SolonC Stands, has returned
| with a cargo :ocoanuts. The men
were deceive the protector of the
enterprise, Sorenson, who was
put ashore of the islands.
The light in the southern Phil
| ippines hav, re-established.
The battlcs.ip Iowa was gotten into
| the new dry dock at the New York
navy yard on the LIST. Her bottom was
in fairly good condition.
The American Microscopical society
| finished up its business at Syracuse,
d. Y, ON the LIST, devoting the after
| noon to pleasure.
The bankruptcy, in London, of E. d.
| McConly is announced, with liabilities
| estimated at $3.50, 600. He was formerly
| railroad contractor in New York,
and failed in Baltimore during the year
1877.
It isreported thatthereligious orders
| in Manila are selling their property to
Hong Kong syndicate.
While attempting to rescue the sail
ors of AN Italian bark, off Tybee, Ga,
i during the storm, on the 31st, Lieut..
! Morgan, United States engineer corps,
and six regular soldiers were drowned.
Nicholas j. shannon, one of the Chi
cago police officers who, on May i, 1886,
helped to quen the Haymarket riot,
died in that city ON the list. The
cause of death was undoubtedly due to
many wounds hs received from the
| fragments of the bomb thrown by the
anarchists.
Ex-Mayor Fritz Ell. Twitchell, one
of the most prominentcltizenso of Bath,
Me-, member of Gov. Powers coun-
| ell, and well known in business circles
/ in Maine and Massachusetts,, is a con-
fessed embezzler. The amount of the
embezzlement is placed at 500, 900, but
it may exceed that amount.
Commissioner of Pensions II. Clay
Evans has issued an order prohibiting
the sending of pension checks to gen
eral delivery" The intention of the
department is to have all such checks
delivered at the indiyidual local ad-
dress of the pensioners.
The French people now believe that
CapA Dreyfus will be brought home,
unless he is murdered beforehand
Through the fundamentally of those
| who dread his revelations If he
reaches France alive he may expect
restoration to his rank in the army, rs
may also his champion, Col Picquart
Mrs Sarah Shankenberger has been
| arrested at Frankfort, Ind. charged
with murder in having systematically
poisoned her daughter-in-law. whose
husband was in the, navy, on hoard
| the cruiser Minneapolis. He arrived
home on the LIST.
Gov. Tanner of Illinois, on the LIST,
refused to send troops to Pana, on the
request of Sheriff Coburn, ON the
ground that he was opposed to the i'm
portation of outside labor into the state
which must depend upon the army of
the state for protection while at work.
The auxiliary cruisers st. Paul and
St Louis, at Cramps ship yards, Phil
adelphia, were returned to the Inter-
national Navigation Co. by the govern
ment ON the ID