Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-09-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


burned on the 31st at Fort Howard, Wis. !;
loss 800, 00O. : p - =
THE General Assembly Of the Knights
of Labor begins its session at Cincinnati,
September 4.
The Porte recently refused British
Admiral permission to make surveys for a
canal in Palestine.
COLONEL j. A. EKIN, Assistant Quar-
termaster-General, was placed on the re-
tired list on the 3lst.
= EsAU SMITH, Icolored, wasthanged on
committed eight years ago. = fi.It ,7''ra
The Quesnstown officials have been
censured by the British, Government for
taking no steps to secure Carey's safety.
E HE President of, the Hungarian
Council. had decided to take extreme meas
ures to suppress the anti-Jewish assaults.
Martial law and the death penalty were to
be enforced. H-.'. ,fsW ra';
A TERRIBLE storm swept the Banks
of Newfoundland recently. One hundred
fishing dories and eighty men were lost.
REPRESENTATIVES, of, all the distil-
leries north of the Ohio River held CON
ference at Chicago on the s1st.. An agree
ment limiting production was signed to
take immediate effect j.ET.f@ q" e i...f.,.
UNITED States Treasurer Wyman on
the 31st mailed IL 1913 checks for. y, 163,019,
representing the interest due on September
in registered four and a half per cents.
THE business failures tor the week
ending the 31st numbered 1856 as compared
with 165 the previous week, an increase of
twenty-one, distributed as Tfollows.:, & New
England States 30 Middle States 26 South
ern A, Western -, Pacific States and Ter
ritories 90, Canada and provinces IS; New
York CHy1. :f'""'. -r"';ili'i
THE. French found no Anamese troops
at Hue. The capital had been evacuated
when they reached it. ,-.:. as liz .. =
DE-. NORvIN. GREEN gave the Senate
Labor Committee further light on the sub
ject of te1egraphy on the 31st.
THE President and party started on
their return trip ON the 31st, and expected
to arrive in Chicago September 4th, where
they would remain three days. ,oi- fr.'.
THERE were six deaths from cholera
in Alexandria on the ist; fifty in Upper
Egypt and nine in Lower Egypt.
. PARIS dispatches of the I'd said that
NJ. Harmand, French Civil Commissioner
for Tonquin, who negotiated the treaty of
peace with Anam, had returned to Hanoi
from Hue and resumed the direction. of af-
fairs in Tonquin. ......;-:.ri.
As the train from Berlin was passing
st. Eglitz on the Cd, it ran into a crowd of
people who, intending to take the return
train to Berlin,were pressing forward to en-
~ no hn cid
number killed and wounded was estimated
at forty.
A young man named Shea was
drowned at Rockaway Beach on the I'd.
John Mccoy, although unable to swim, ran
into the water with his clothing ON and
was carried out, but rescued after hard
struggle by Captain McEnroe, life guard.
Hardly had he brought him ashore when
he was obliged to go out again to rescue a
hotel waiter also drowning. He was like.
wise saved. q : 20 reg
A TRAIN frrdih Atlantic City, N. j.,
on the Narrow-gauge Railroad, jumped the
track about half a mile above that place,
the evening Of the I'd, and the engine and
baggage car were thrown down an embank-
ment. No persons were injured. ~ r".
Lille fbOlICc vi i've" AOhIiIcpCEG. eIldG
{, 9S5 men and one woman have permits to
carry pistols, and the number who go armed
in that city without permits is estimated at
50,OOO UH 7sr ~.- - Ei!1tnn
A FREIGHT train going west on the
& Northwestern Railroad ran of
an open switch at Crescent City, Ia, on the
1st, ditching the engine and six cars. Cen,
ductor Wesley Mum and Engineer John
Mahin were, buried underneath the cars
and Instantly killed. The fireman escaped
by jumping clear of the wreck. A tramp,
aged seventy-five years, was buried be-
meath the train, but was taken ont alive. ,,s
A FEW: days ago five, children play7
ing ON the Union Pacific track near, Vim
tab, Utah, dared each other to a :wading
match in Weber River, ind as a result
Henry Priest, son of John Priest, of Uintah,
got in too far and was drowned. as y
IA COLLISION occurred on the Vermont
Central Railroad on the 1st, causing SER
ious mixing up of the coliiding trains, and
the injliring of about twenty persons, some
of them quite severely. No lives were lost.
a SALT LAKE. Otah) dispatch of the
I'd says Mrs, Jane Darlington Young, one
of Brigham's wives. had been relieved, of
the presence, of aslizard which she had swal- |!
lowed fifteen years ago. J.t- pa. 1
A FIREainvoiyingt a .loss,o several
million fiofsins occurred in Vienna, Austria,
on the I'd. OBS ., - iiiId -" ,EFt"Ha
POLICEMAN frank HILL was fatally
stabbed at Norwich, Conn, the evening of
the Sd by Emanuel Mohtero, Portuguese.
Fill arrested Montero for some minor Of
Tense. Montero served term in the State
Prison for shooting one McCabe in 1879.
The funeral obsequies of the Count
de Chambord took place ON the I'd, and was
an imposing affair. .-... s t-.r
A CITIZENS committee visited the Jail
at Florence, Arizona, on the Sd, took out
Len Redfeld and Joe futile and hung them
to the corridor of the Jail. They were two
men engaged in numbering Messenger Col
Inns and robbing Wells & Fargo's Express
near Riverdale on the 10th of August. /!
THE Times Star publishing house at
burned out ON the Sd. So. D. =
Two HUNDRED persons charged with
have recently been arrested in
n single province of Italy 81 .