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

The New Bedford (Mass.) Spinners'
union. on the 9Th, unanimously voted
tostrike against the reduction of wages,
subject to the approval of the National
SpinnerS' union.
THE Columbia theater, on Powell and
Market streets, the smallest but most
popular play house in San Francisco,
was Quilted by fire on the 9Th. The
flames caused about s12, 900 damage to
the interior walls, ceilings and the
furniture, but the damage from water
before the fire was extinguished con-
siderably increases this SUM.
The amount of bullion withdrawn
from the Bank of England on balance,
on the 9th, was $3.50, 900.
The mammoth icehouses in course of
erection at Whitmore Lake, near Ham
burg, Mich, collapsed on the 9th.
Two hundred men were at work on the
buildings, of whom two are known to
have been killed and possibly four. A
dozen Or more were injured.
THE senate committee on military
affairs ordered a favorable report on
the bill increasing the military force of
the country to the extent of two regi-
ments of artillery. The purpose of the
bill is to afford g. sufficient number of
men to protect the new guns and NOR
tars which are being placed in the
coast defenses.
PENSION COMMISSIONERS EVANS is re-
ceiving plenty of support from the G.
A. r. in his efforts to bring about re-
forms in the pension roll. He has had
a number of letters from commanders
of the G.. A r. posts commencing his
stand.
The bubonic plague returns at Bonn
bay for the IS hours ended the night of
the 9th recorded 1872 new cases and 81
deaths. There is a general exodus of
the population, and a suspension of
business is threatened.
THE sum of S., 5S2 and five $1,000
bonds of the Consumers Gas Co. of
Chicago were stolen from the Ameri-
can Express Co. at New York. A clerk
in the employ of the express company,
who is missing, is accus ed of the theft.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE JOHN Nc
COwAN, of Bedford, Pa, went to the
home of his wife, at eight o'clock on
the evening of the 18th, shot her four
times and fed. The woman died in
stantly. The couple separated for the
They had twice been divorced and
three times married. They had four
children.
The partial eclipse of the moon was
photographed at the Harvard observa-
tory on the 7th. Six plates were made
with the big 11-inch telescope, part of
them on the usual plates and the
others through perforated paper. The
II 80 4,l-
graphs was to get some accurate idea
of the extent of the moons penumbra.
B. D. MILLS, of Lincoln, Neb., late
president of a defuncU national bank
in Harlan county, was, on the 18th,
taken to the penitentiary to serve a
sentence of five years. Mills is an
aged ex-soldier, and was once wealthy.
He was convicted, with Ezra Whitney,
treasurer of Harlan county, of embez-
cling S11, 900 county funds.
WILLIAM HENRY THEODORE DURRANT
died on the gallows at San Quentin.
Cal, ON the 18th, for the murder of
Blanche Lamont, His GOODNESS and
nerve to the last was in keeping
with the courage with which he main
tanned his long fight for life. He died
forgiving his enemies and declaring
his innocence.
PAUL ANsTIE, a booklzeeper for the
New York Yacht club, committed sui
eide in the Grand Union hotel, in New
York city, on the 7th. He had been
sufferer from asthma for several years,
and lately liver trouble increased his
physical ailments. 1t is believed he
was temporarily insane when he ended
his life.
REPRESENTATIVE of the Adams
Express Co., opened an ill-smelling box
at Charlton, Ia. on the 9TH, and found
the remains of u human body cut into
bits. The box had stood several days
in the express office. Detectives were
at once put to work.
THE body of man about 60 years of
age, was found in the North river, at
New York, on the nth. 1t was taken
to the morgue, where it was identified
as that of Harvey Eagellxe, of Louisi-
ana, by the clerk of the West Shore
hotel.