Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE steamship Germania, sailing
from New York for Europe, on the I'd,
took out 900. 600 ounces of silver.
A RICH strike of gold has just been
made on the Boyle lease on the Lucky
Gus property at Bull Hill, Col. The
ore was encount tered in the 1S0-foot
level and assays 81, COO to the ton. The
vein is a six-iuch streak of fourine-
stained quartz and showed free gold in
profuse quantities
ADvICEs from Australia tell OF appal1-
ing climatic conditions in many sec
tons of the country. The prostrutions
from heat are so numerous that the
situation in large cities is simply alarm
ing.
The International Paper Co., of Cor
NTH, Saratoga county. n. Y, a combi-
nation of all the big firms in the coun-
try, fled articles of incorporation, on
the 3Ist, with a capital of S45. 100000.
a CAR load of trained dogs from New
foundiand on the way to Alaska
The dogs will be taken to Skaguay and
used in hauling miners outfits in the
Yukon valley.
GERMANY, according to special dis
patch from Shanghai. has demanded
that Port Arthur and Ta-LienWan be
made free ports.
The month of January closed with
nearly 81, 900. 900 on the right side of
the government ledger. To be exact,
the receipts for the month exceed the
expenditures by 1881 ,G3s,39.
RoACH's shipyard at Chester. Pa,
concluded a contract, on the 1st, to
build for the Standard Oil Co. the larg-
est tank ship ever constructed in this
country. The ship will be 364 feet in
length. IS feet beam and % feet deep
and viii be built to carry oil in bulk.
The most violent storm known since
1851 swept the shores of Cape Ann,
Mass, and vicinity, on the 1st, causing
heavy loss of life, and about $500, 600
property damage. More than a dozen
| vessels went ashore near Gloucester, at
| least four more are lost, and many 9TH
ers damaged.
LESTER A BEARDsLEE, rear admiral
of the United States navy, has been re-
tired on account of age. He was the
second ranking officer in the navy, arr
at the date of his retirement was sta
| toned in Washington as president of
| the examining and retiring boards.
| DETAILS received in ConstantinOple,
on the Sd, from Balikesr, Asia Minor,
showed that 20 persons were killed and
| SO injured by the recent earthquake at
| that place and in Brusa.
| The senate, on the Sd, confirmed the
| nomination of Col. NJ. L. Ludington,
assistant quartermaster general, to be
brigadier general
QUIET negotiations are said to have
been going on in the senate for several
days, looking to a sensational combi-
nation of the friends of both Hawaii
and Cuba. with the object in view of
precipitating a crisis on both ques-
| tions.
A FIRE which broke out in the fourth
story of the retaining plant of the
| United States Rubber Co., at Manga
tuck, Conn, on the night of the 1st,
| practically destroyed the entire plant,
entailing loss of more than $500, 600;
partly insured.
THE Carnegie-Oliver Mining Co,
operating four of the largest iron
mines on the Gogebic range, in Wis
consin, and employing l,5O0 men, has
announced an increase of ten per cent
! in the wages OF all Inelr euPIoySS"
| LUCY TAYLOR the 20-year-old daugh-
ter of Walter Taylor, a clerk in the
| treasury department in Washington,
| jumped from a second-story window.
on the night of the 1st, and, failing to
| kill herself, ran. almost nude, through
| the streets. 1t was half an hour be-
fore she was found, during which time
her father had hanged himself. lie
was cut down and removed to hos
pital Both are likely to recover.
A RLooD-sTAINED coat belonging to
| A. d. Storms, who is charged, at Bur
lington, Ia, with numbering Mrs.
| Rath burn and her daughter, was found
on the I'd. There was much feeling
against Storms, but little probability
of trouble.