Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-09-15

Failures for the week ended ON the
9th, as reported by r. G. Dun & Co,
were, for the United States, 1874, against
215 for the corresponding week last
year; for Canada the failures were Is,
against 35 for last year
The American army chaplains in
Manila have instituted Protestant
services in private buildings Such
services have never previously been
held in the history of the Philippine
islands.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 9th, showed:
Available cash balance, 1907, 361 ,015;
gold reserve, $685.. 1874, 1914.
Louis Sass, sporting editor of the
Chicago Record, and Carl Smith, edi-
torial writer on the same paper, were
drowned. on the 9Th, by the capsiZing
of their canoe near the city of Quebec,
Canada.
The war department has ordered the
discharge of number of officers con-
nected with the volunteer service,
whose service will no longer be re-
quired. Among those discharged was
Capt. James G. Blaine, now en- route
together too gay.
The monthly report of the Iowa
weather and crop service estimates
Iowa's crop for this year as follows:
Corn yield, 2sO.OOO,OOO bushels, an
increase of 100000 over last year;
average, "a bushels per acre. Wheat,
"a, 1877. s14 bushels; increase, 1884, 760;
average per acre, winter wheat, is;
spring, 16. Oats-Total yield, 141 $751;
coo bushels; increase, 9,3O4 900; aver
age, 33 per acre.
At Fort Adams, off Newport, R. l..
on the 9th, the 16 mortars of the new
armament received their first test.
Each mortar was fired once, and ev-
cry shot caused the hotel windows at
Narraga1sett Pier, eight miles away,
TO rattle as if there had been an earth
quake.
The Alfonso XIII. arrived at San
Juan de Porto Rico, on the 18th, from
Barcelona, bringing instructions for
the Spanish commissioners, with mail
and passengers. Many of the latter
were residents of the island, who fled
at the outbreak of the war, and the
to welcome their return.
The town of jerome, Ariz-, was al
most wiped out by fire on the 18th.
Eleven lives were lost, and the entire
business portion of the town was
burned to the ground. Fifteen hun
bred people were left homeless and
destitute. The property loss is placed
at 100000.
The Laundrymen's National asocia-
ton began it's fifteenth annual meet
ing at the Grand hotel, in Cincinnati,
on the 18th. to continue three days.
All the officers and 100 delegates were
on hand. Cincinnati was selected. on
account of its extensive laundry manu-
factories.
The Masonic temple at Washington
Courthouse, o., was destroyed by fire
on the t1th- The Springfield, o., fire
department rendered timely assis-
lance The loss on the building is
about $4,000.
by the explosion of 40 gallonsof gas
.iine in the cellar of a grocery store at
I444 South Second street, Philadelphia.
on the night of the 18th, four and pos
sibly a much larger number of lives
were lost.
The shock of the news of the assas-
sination of Empress Elizabeth 'crazed
one of the court servants, who rushed
from the palace to the buryqlatz,
shriel5ing: Where is the murderer of
our empress?"
Deputy Qua1termaster Cel. Kimball
received an order from Gen Miles, on
the 18th. setting forth that a parade
of the returning Porto Rican troops
viii take place in New York city on
lbe 18th.
The town of New Westminster, B.
&, the chief settlement on the Frazer
River, was destroyed by fire ON the
nth. Two persons died from fright
and five were reported missing.
a dispatch from Naples, On the nth,
said: There is a distinct recrudes-
cence of eu,uptions from Mount Nesu-
vius, accompanied by rumblings and
explosions.