Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-22
Personal AND GENERAL.

| An attempt was made by an incendi-
airy on the Sth to burn the house of M. s..
Sturgeon. q Davenport Qa-3 lawyer.
| THE Illinois Central Railroad will not
adopt the new time standard.
CHRISTIAN OETTLE,. who killed Ed
ward Ramp in.a quarrel over debt, was
convicted of manslaughter on the Sth, at
| Cleveland. o.
In duel with swords at Chapultepec,
Mex, on the sth Olivier, a French mer-
chant, was killed by Degheest, Mexican
banker, who was himself badly wounded.
WHILE picking up chips, on the 9th.
about building, which workmen were
tearing down, Mrs. Eliza Simpson, of In
dianapolis, had her neck broken by a fall
| ing beaIna sssss R sssssf 80.
The examination of witnesses in the
Greedy relief investigation began on the
18th. tsiF
THE deaths by the recent colliery ex-
plosion in England foot up sixty-seven.
JUDGE HOFFMAN, of San Francisco,
recently decided that Chinese who returned
from this country to China prior to the re-
| striction act are entitled to land here.
lsc FIVE men were killed and seven seri-
ously hurt by the fall of abuilding in Buffa-
| 10, N. Y, on the 9th. 2''H3 "i'f aii
AN anti-Jewish riot in Hun gary on
the 9th was quelled by the police alter sew
eral rioters had been killed. -, -, :
AT Forest, o.. on the 9th Baggage
Master Speidel was fatally shot by a bur-
| glar whom he was trying to arrest.
T.. The interstate Commissioner Edu-
cation, appointed at Louisville, KY, has
prepared bill to submit to Congress.
THE Jamaieans are again indulging
in rebellious talk, being dissatisfied with
I the eoirse of the British-G Government
- ANTOINE, the Alsatian deputy .charg-
ed some time since with treason by the
| German Government, has been released.
| AT blast furnance in Newcastle,
Pa, a scaffold seventy-eight feet above the
ground gave way on the 9th with four men.
One was killed. ~ s>rft hon. ~5..i
/ A MAN named williamson, living at
Stone City, Ia, while intoxicated on the
Sth, attacked his wife with an ak and in
fiicted such injuries that she will probably
die. He has been arrested. ,l...s .tt.i
A STEAM Boiler Insurance Company
has been Incorporated in New York with
capital of S250,600. ''5''
HIRAM McAFEE, of Newport Town
ship, near Marietta O., accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting on the
9th. .,., 49, g.,
81 THE bark MaFgarita, laden with 1,375
barrels of naphtha and JOG barrels of re-
find oil, burned at New York the morning
of the 9th. at; $40 5aI., snI 3D.. : . .ts
'a COUNTERFEIT. half dollars, made in
imitation of weIl-worn coin, have been in
troduced in Salt Lake City, Utah. 'il 49,
J. THE Mayor of New York asks gen
Jeral suspension of business on the 26th of
the present month, which is to be celebrat-
ed as the anniversary of the day on which
the British evacuated the city.
/: DANIEL SCHOOL, a railroad watch
man at High Trestle, on the Northern Pa
cifir, near Missoula, NJ. t., was shot through
the head, in his watch-house, and robbed
of 800, on the sth. The murder was done
for plumber. ~ .s,.o- .-H .t|
The Monmouth Presbytery, in New
York, celebrated the 4a0th anniversary Of
the birth of Luther, on the 9th, with appro-
pirate ceremonies. f "'.' '.
A PANIC was caused by false alarm
of fire as the audience was leaving the
Twenty-third Street Theater, in New York,
the night of the 9th. Many were bruised,
but none seriously. ...s -..-
The business failures for the seven
days ending the 9th in the .Uuited States
and Canada were .2i1, against 215 for the
previous week. ss;t.s -f,E;g u..- .s
ENGbIsH railroads continue to pur-
chase American sleeping-cars. ~
AUGUSTA KoEBLER committed suicide
at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 18th, by taking
rat poison.
EDMUND McCURTAIN has been nomi-
mated for Chief Of the Choctaw, Nation.
!. WILLIAM Rosa was dangerously shot
by burglar at East Saginaw, Mich, the
night of the 10th. - .a- ssft .
A SINGLE eastern railroad recently
discharged twenty-seven employees for
color-blindness. "a ~ --"s
:. The New York, West Shore & Buff.
falo Road is to be opened for through traffic
January l. s&s i.'
n THE Canadian Pacific Railway has
established large number of experimental
farms along it's line.
The Acknowledgement of Indiana |;
proposes National encampment of State
troops, at Washington next year. /
MGR. CAPEL preached two sermons in
from the Catholic stand point. ~
Z THE Civil-Service Commissioners and
the President can not agree on a scheme to
regulate promotions in the Civil.Service
= THE London police claim to have
clews to the perpetrators of the recent dy-
Mantle .outrages, and there are reports that
Americans are implicated.
w! s. KIRKER, absconding teller of
the Second National Bank of Ironton, O.,
has returned home. He had been on a
prolonged spree So ii-3''. Al az
: IT has been discovered that the PEN
sion claim agents have s'been guilty of
fraudulent practices in connection with
claims for additional bounty. Sc 4i"s'
THE. failure of Higbee & Co, Ffe-
mont, O., is announced, and is, expected to
prove Serious. The firm had numerous ele-
vators along the Nickel Plate line,
3; IT is stated that the commander of
the French forces in Topguin has informed