Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-01
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Coney Island, ON the Goth, in which
| 200 buildings were destroyed and dam
age to the amount of half a million
done, an army of thieves appeared
upon the scene, and looted both burn
| ing houses and those safe from the
| fire. Thirty-five hundred persons
| were temporarily driven from shelter
by the flames.
The Spanish Gen. Montero, while on
his way to Manila, on the Goth, with
the Spanish garrison from Zamboan-
ga, on the steamer Leon NH. died OF
wounds received in a recent engage
ment with the Filipinos in Mindanao
Senator Aldrich, chairmen of the
senate committee on finance, has is
sued a call for a meeting of that COM
mittee, to be held at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York. June Q.
An electro technic congress was
opened at Goettingen, Hanover, on the
goth, with $50 delegates in attendance.
The United States cable ship Hook
er, from New York, May L, for Manila,
arrived at Port Said on the Goth.
The steamer Umbria, sailing from
New York for Europe, On the 9Th,
took out 415,OOO ounces of silver.
Paper money won't do for circula-
ton in the Philippines. The islands are
infested with ants, and they seem to
be particularly fond of United States
paper money. Only coin will be sent
out in future.
The Iowa supreme court has affirmed
the verdict of the lower court, in the
l.
imprisonment for life. Frank \. No
sak, son of a prominent banker, was
convicted of burning a store building
and causing the death of Edward
Murray. at Walford, Ia, in 1897.
Gen. Brooke has issued a decree, at
Havana, making editors and publish
ers responsible for libels. The Span
ish laws made the writer of an article
alone responsible; and, therefore,
every Havana editor has had hired
substitute, paid to sign articles of a
defamatory character.
Grave fear exists that the scenes of
the Nez Perces Indian war of 1877, in
which so whites were massacred. 13
volunteers and 105 officers and soldiers
killed and 12O wounded, are about to
be repeated about Lewiston, Idaho.
New York and English capitalists
have representatives in a dozen sec
tions of Kansas buying up all of last
years wheat they can get. More than
10000 bushels were sold for shipment
to Liverpool in Saline county in one
day.
The through train from Chicago to
Minneapolis, Mimi, over the Rock ISL
and & Burlington and Cedar Rapids &
Northern railways, was wrecked on
the 2Sth, at lis a. M, at the crossing
of Sink creek, about four miles south
east of Waterloo, Ia. Nine persons
were killed and % injured.
Many places in Nebraska and Iowa
were visited, on the 2Sth, by de-
structive cyclones and hailstorms.
Many lives were lost in the aggregate,
and a large number of persons were
injured, while the loss in crops and
other property reached up into the
hundreds of thousands.
\ Chicago Great Western passen-
ger train was wrecked, early on the
of the 2Sth, four miles north
of Oelwein, Ia. The Pullman car por-
ter was killed and a number of persons
were injured.
Among the passengers Who arrived
at New York, on the 2Sth. on the
steamer Lauenberg, from Matanzas,
were Gen. Joseph p. Sanger and Col.
George r. Cecil.
Brig.-Gen. George West died at his
home in Athol, Mass, on the 9th,
aged 81 years.
Messrs. Fred Dumond and Lionel
Walden, American artists, have been
awarded third medals for oil paintings
at the Paris salon.
A large proportion of the names on
the Cuban army rolls are found to be
fictitious, and the rolls omit a ma
jority of the names of those rightly
entitled to share in the. gratuity. The
object of this, apparently, is to dis
credit the entire proceedings and to
show the Cuban public that large
of the troops refused to
take American money.
Louis E. Bert, farmer of Oxford
near Sandusky, o., was
killed by lightning, on the night of the
eth, at barn warming near his
barn, and all were Frustrated. sew
eral of them being more or less in
jured by the shock.
Lena Bouts, aged II, and younger
brother, children of Frank Bouts. n
tie contractor of Penning-
ton county, S. D., are under arrest, the |
girl being charged with numbering her |
She shot him through the |
head while he slept. The man was |
cruel to his family, who lived half |
starved much of the time.
In the vicinity of Bijeu Falls, S. D.. |
On the night of the 27th, the wind blew |
with the velocity of tornado over a |
path 200 yards wide and several miles |
ong. Seven persons, five of them mem |
bers of one family, were killed. and |
two were probably fatally injured.
Joseph Keller and Ray Sherman, of |
Alden, n. Y, and Louis CARR, of |
Auburn Four Corners, Pa, were killed |
1T Wendt's station, near Buffalo. n. V, |
IN the 2sth, while driving across the
New York Central tracks.
In the Colorado Springs (Col.) pest |
house are eight cases of smallpox. all
put one being colored. Nearly all the
.ases developed in one house, where
t was introduced by member of the
amily WHO contracted the disease
While on a visit 10 relatives in Pueblo.