Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-15
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

London, on the 18th. The United States
and Canada were represented.
An explosion occurred at the manu-
featuring plant of the Pains Fire
works Co., at Greenfield, ]. l., On the
Sth, and resulted in the destruction OF
the manufacturing sheds and a small
magazine. The damage is placed at
about $4,000. Only one man was
slightly injured, although there wei e
several hundred people working about
the place at the time.
Augustin Daily, the well-known
known American theatrical manager,
died suddenly in Paris. on the eth.
Thirty-six buildings, comprising al
most the entire plant of the Nordlin-
ger-Charlton Fireworks Co., at Gran
iteville, ACKNOWLEDGMENT, n. Y, were
blown up, on the sth, and the entire
plant was practically wiped out of ex-
istence Of the rs employees not one
was killed, and only three We're in
jured. Loss, $4,000.
Under orders from the war depart
ment recruiting is going on actively
at all stations, the intention being tc
fill every regiment, troop and battery
up to it's full strength. Recruits are
all given to understand that theis' en-
iistment contemplates foreign service.
The Transvaal crisis is ut hand.
Either Dom Paul Kruger will demand
of his Nolksraad the reforms demand
ed of him, and give guarantees that
those reforms will be granted, or the
British government will see that they
are granted either by menace or actual
application of force.
1t was reported, on the night of the
Sth, that landslide had occurred at
Ross Hollow and engulfed IS men, all
of whom are supposed to have been
killed. Ross Hollow is a pass between
two small mountain ranges about
twenty-eight miles west of Little
Rock, Ark.
The movement started by pension
attorneys to secure n change in Ike
head of the pension office at Washing
ton has fallen down. AS soon as the
Grand Army of the Republic became
convinced that the hue and cry against
Commissioner Evans was being made
by the pension attorneys, for their
own profit, they determined to stand
by the commissioner.
Dispatches from Manila, on the Sth,
said it was reported that Aguinaldo
had dissolved the Filipino congress
and had proclaimed himself dictator.
The Barrows and Carrie Jones, the
Baby Clark kidnapers, were arraigned
before Justice Fursman, in New York,
on the Sth, and remanded for further
hearing. Bail in each case was fixed ut
$4,000. The prisoners were taken to
the Tombs.
A former employee of the Standard
Oil Co. told the Industrial commission,
at Washington, on the Sth, that eight
nominal grades of oil were sold out of
two tanks, and that the company,
which dealt in turpentine, adultera ted
the latter by putting six or seven gal
Ions of gasoline in each barrel.
Capt. p. Jansen and six men of the
schooner Edward Parke arrived at
San Francisco, on the 9th, in a small
boat after having spent four days on
the ocean at the mercy of the ele-
ments, which, fortunately. were unusu-
ally benign. The schooner sprung Il
leak and was abandoned.
In his testimony before the sena-
torial committee which is inquiring
into the pure food question, on the
9th, Capt. Fred Pabst, of Milwaukee,
said a national law covering n govern
ment inspection of beer would be 4
very good thing as it would protect
the honest manufacturer and the hon
est consumer.
4 Madrid dispatch says it is report
ed that Germany intends to purchase
from Spain the island of Fernando Pc,
on the African coast, which has been
used by Spain as a penal colony.
The Edison-Portland Cement Co.,
with an authorized capital of $11, 00o,-
600, was incorporated at Trenton, n.
J., on the 9th. Among the incorpora-
tors is Thomas A. Edison.
Mark Twain Samuel /. Clemons),
was banqueted, on the 9th, by the
Savage Club of London and made an
honorary member of the club.
A posse of Lander (Wyo.) officers
were reported, on the 9th, as hot CT
the trail of three of the train robbers
implicated in the recent Union Pacific
hold-up near Wilcox. Wyo.
The president and the cabinet have
approved plans by which Gen. Otis
will have his army increased 20 over
80, 600 rifles without any call for vol
unteers in this country. One of the
propositions sanctioned will send to
the Philippines two of the four col
ored regiments in the regular army.
Twenty-Five American soldiers, who
were engaged in accommodating the
fortified hills in the vicinity of Mo-
rong, Luzon, on the 9th, were attacked
by 800 Filipinos. The Americans
fought their way through the enemy,
and inflicted severe losses on them.
The chief scout accompanying the
Americans was killed.
Capt. Dreyfus left Cayenne, French
GwiaRa, on the 9Th, Oh the second
class cruiser Sfax, for Brest, France.
The captain appeared in good health,
and looked forward to his acquittal
on the charge of treason.
Before fhrong of 10000 spectators
who crowded the great pavilion of the
Coney Island Sporting club to its ca
pacity, James Jeffries, on the night
of the 9th, defeated Robert FitZsim-
mons in IL rounds, and new heavy
weight champion was launched.