Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| THIRTY persons are known to have
been killed and probably $50 injured
| in London, Ont, on the Sd, by the Civ
| ing way of a portion of the floor of the
| city hall during an after-election meet
| ing, at which the successful candidate
for mayor, DR.. John d. Wilson, was
| addressing 1000 of his partisans.
CAPT. ROsENDAHL, commander of the
German war ship Friedrich Karl, has
been appointed commander of the Ger
man forces ashore at Kiao-Chau bay.
The president and members of his
cabinet have subscribed So, 600 to the
Cuban relief fund.
STOCKTON, Cal, suffered from 5 500,
600 fire early on the morning of the
4th.
On the 4th the mercury registered 81
degrees below zero at Saranac lake; 25
below at Mountain View, and 90 below
in Malone, n. Y.
WIN. CARSON, the millionaire lumber
man of Eau Claire, Wis, died, on the
4th, after an illness of several days,
aged so.
REPORTS of recent visitors to Labra-
dor say that strong evidence exists that
gold is to be obtained in quantities
equalled only by the deposits of the
Klondike. In fact, it is asserted that
the deposits in Labrador are on the
same range as those of the Klondike.
GEORGE BAKER and his wife, who
lived about three miles west of Fair
bury, Neb., were murdered on the 4th.
They were found lying dead in the dim
ing room of their home. Each had
received charge of birdshot in the
head. The shot had been fired through
q window as the couple sat at break
fast.
LADY ANNE COVENTRY, third daugn-
ter of the earl of Coventry. was mar
ried in London, on the 4th, to Prince
Dhulep Singh, son of the late mahara-
jah of Lahore
AMONG the American missionary So
eieties there is feeling that the claim
of the United States against Turkey
for damages growing out of the de-
struction of the mission buildings at
Harpoot, in 1896, should be enforced.
if necessary, by the seizure of a Turk
ish port.
A DISPATCH from Townsville, Ga. on
the 4th, announced that Hon. Ben jam in
Butterworth, commissioner of paten is,
had grown SO much worse that his re-
covery was considered impossible.
SINCE the agitation concerning the
publication of the list of pensioners has
commenced, Commissioner Evans has
received several letters from pensioners
requesting the cancellation of their
pensions.
IT is intimated that it may be found
necessary to put forward compromise
republican candidate for the Ohio sem
atorship, in which case the name of
Assistant Secretary of State Day is
mentioned.
1GNATIUS DoNSELLY, the well-known
populist leader, who is now 66 years of
age, is engaged to be married, at St.
Paul, Minn.. to Miss Marian Hansen,
his stenographer, aged 30. few weeks
hence.
PERSONS who have been closely con-
nected with the Northern Pacific and
Wisconsin Central litigation and are
acquainted with enterprises in which
John D. Rockefe has been con-
cerned, credit that gentleman with be-
ing back of a movement to secure con-
troll of the Wisconsin Central proper
ties.
The schoolhouse at Yeddo Ind, was
burned on the 5th. Reports from the
scene said that it was feared that two
children were in the fire. Two were
thrown from a second story window
and badly injured. The building cost
81, 600.
THERE has been an alarming spread
of maIarial fever at Puerto Principe.
Cuba, both among the inhabitants of
the city and in the garrison. No fewer
than ,, 500 persons have been affected
| by the disorder.
JAMES E. MCBRYDE, a member of the
Populist national committee, and prom
inent in Michigan populist circles, was
arrested in Grand Rapids, on the 5th,
on the charge of embezzling $500 from
| client.
The cane fields belonging to Simon
Milan. at the colony of Palenque, near
| Guines, province of Havana, Cuba,
were burned on the 5th. It is believed
that the fire was of incendjary origin.
NICOLA TESLA, the Servian electrical
| wizard. announces that he has per-
| fected yacuumc tubes of such high il
Illuminating power that they may serve
the greatest lighthouses of the future,
piercing even the densest fog, while
| night will be made as daylight to the
photographer.