Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE Louisiana Democratic State Con-
vention has been called for April 18th, to
select delegates to Cincinnati.
In accordance with an order of Court
the wires and property of the Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph Company along the Union
Pacific Railway, seized by order of Jay
Gould, have been restored to their owners
and all connections re-established.
On account of the dissolution of Par
lament, Mr.. Parnell has returned to Ire
land, but will return in few weeks to COM
plete his engagements in this country.
THE main building of the Kansas State
Insane Asylum, at Osawatomie, was par
TALLY destroyed by fire on the evening of the
9Th. The inmates were all safely removed.
The fire is believed to have originated from
spontaneous combustion. The loss is esti
mated at $4,000, with no insurance.
JAMES ALLEN, the waiter at the St.
Nicholas Hotel, Lasvegas N. Mex, who shot
and killed James Moorehead, a commercial
traveller from st. Louis, was taken from the
custody of the Sheriff and hanged by mob.
THE Arkansas Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Little Rock, June 9,
to nominate candidates for State officers and
also to choose delegates to the National Con-
vention.
GEN. GRANT and party expected to
sail from Vera Cruz, Mexico, on the 18th, for
New Orleans.
M. DE LEssEPs and Capt. Eads, by
invitation, have both appeared before the
Senate Committee on Inter oceanic Canals
and explained their respective systems.
THE Senate, by party vote, rejected
the nomination of VIM. r. Brown as Census
Supervisor of the Eighth District of Illinois,
upon the ground that at least one of the
eight Illinois Supervisors should have been
selected from the Democracy.
THE boiler in Lehman, Rosenthal &
Co.'s fax mill, at Frankfort, Ind, exploded
on the morning of the 18th, just before the
usual hour for beginning work, and while
all the employees, ten in number, were
gathered around. Every one Of the
ten men was instantly killed. The
building was completely demolished, and the
debris took fire and was quickly consumed.
THE Missouri Republican State Con-
vention, to select delegates to the Chicago
Convention, will be held at Sedalia, April IA.
The House Committee on Public
Lands will report favorably Mr.. Ryan's bill
to graduate the price and dispose of the res
idue of Usage Indian Trust and Diminished
Reserve Lands, Kansas.
THE Ohio Republican State Conven-
vention has been called to meet at Columbus,
! April %.
,vI I of
ng was held at ST. Louis on the evening of
| 1.-THE 18th. Hon. John B. Henderson was the
principal speaker.
DENNIS KEARNEY was arrested at San
Francisco, on the 18th, on charges of mis-
| demeanor, based upon his remarks at a
workingmen's meeting. He was released on
bail.
A DETACHMENT of the Fifth Infantry
recently overhauled party of Sioux who
had been committing depredations near Fort
McKeogh and killed three of them. Two
Cheyenne scouts were killed in the fight.
THE Post-office Department has con-
Guided contracts for the Star Mail Service
for four years in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
The total amount of awards is about $780,
600.
IT is reported from Chicago that the
Trade and Labor League Of that city recent
| ly received a communication from the St.
Louis branch, urging their cooperation in a
trade union strike, to be inaugurated April
| 1, and to comprise all organizations in the
West.
THREE negroes were hanged on the
10Th: At Washington, Ark, Sydney Nc
Fadden, for the murder of his wife; at
Florence, Ala, John Mayfield, for the MUIR
der of lobe Irvine, another colored man;
and at Thomasville, Ga, Day Brigherly, for
an indecent assault upon white woman.
The Wisconsin Democratic State
| Convention, to choose delegates to the Gin
cinnati Convention, will be held at Madison,
May 10.
The Arkansas Republican State Con-
vention, for the selection of delegates to the
| National Convention, will be held at Little
Rock, April 2
THE House Committee on Commerce
| have instructed Mr.. Clardy to report bill
to the House providing for the appropria-
ton Of $40, 900 for the improvement of the
harbor or landing Of St. Charles, Mo-, by
diverting the channel of the Missouri River
| from the south to the north bank.
THE Ohio Democratic State Conven-
ton, to select delegates to the National Con-
vention, will be held at Columbus, May 16.
THE trial of Virgil and Houston
Gally for the murder Of John P. Gilmer, at
DeKalb, Miss, has been postponed on ac-
count of the failure to get jury.
THE residence of Mr.. Richard John
son, a farmer living near Dennison, Craw-
| ford County, Iowa, was burned on the 18th,