Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Supreme Council of the Legion O,
Honor met in St Louis, M. on the sth. :
j. b. HAMMoND's st. Gatien won the
Czarowitch stakes ot the Newnarket races
England. on ne 7th. This Il the horse tha,
ran the dead heat in the Derby with Pole.
nier. ~ -
The lockout at Oliver Bros. 6 Phi1lips,
iron mills, ittsburgh, Pa, began on The
dtn. Three thousand more men are
| bnrown out OF employment An attempt
Will be made to resume with unskilIed La.
Dor.
A MOST disastrous storm swept over
portions OF Pennsylvania on the Sth.
iHE Episcopal Congress at Detroit
Mich, on the sth, discussed the "Cathe.
dra1 Sy stem in American
The Chinese are sending reinforeemsnts
to Pekin. -
CoSLEY, of Boston, will row four mile
race with turn with Teemer at Hilton, Pa,
| October 18th. ie
BUSINESS is at complete standstill at
Hong Kong, China -ai
! MANY persons were killed and wounded
by recent cyclone on the island of Sicily.
/ THE Western Union Telegraph Com
| pany earned SIS. 60, 900 during the fiscal
year. The expenses were S13,o22, 600, and
S5,599,0 were paid in dividends. i,
FRENCH and Chinese troops had battle
in the valley of the Loo Chuan River,
in which the Chinese were routed. @ ia
JOHN L. SULLIVAN proposes to train
down to 300 pounds, and then he wants to
s'put head" on all the able-bodied pugil.
lists. is- zI,l -# Ht8**' ##'"
The stove mouIders' strike in Pitts
burgh, Pa, which lasted nine months,
has been declared off. Manufacturers will
take the mem back as individuals but not
as members of the Union. 4 'a'5}'
The bombardment of Tamsrli by the
French feet was in progress at last ac-
counts. The Chinese are said to be
strongly intrenched.
ONE hundred and ninety-seven fresh
cases of cholera were reported in Italy on
the Sth. and ninety-seven deaths. 81
A STORM on Lake Michigan on the morn
ing of the 9Th washed away hut in which
a number of men were living while work
ing in a water tunnel for Chicago suburb.
Ten of them were drowned.
THE will of the late Mrs. Augusta NJ
Huntington, formerly Mrs. Shumway, of
Cincinnati, o., bequeaths 100000 to Epis-
copal institutions at Faribault. Mimi,
Bishop Whipple being the trustee.
WHILE receiving a '.Plumed Knights"
banner at Seneca Falls, \. Y, on the Sth,
General John B. Murphy was stricken with
apoplexy and died in a few hours. a "a
DURING September British imports de-
creased Eos, 600, as compared with the cor
responding month of last year. Exports
increased 100000 in the same period.
THE President has appointed L. Z. STAN
nard Register of the Land Office at Tay
| 1nrsS Falls Mimi. 0upns
and T. B. White, alternate Commissioner
of the New Orleans Exposition. for Ore,
gon. ,,s. ,.f. r. !s,s. sizssu-. ~ 5i-z> III s.
HENRY and Nicholas Zimmerman, broth
ers, were fatally stabbed in a free fight at
Housewife, Pa, the night of the Sth.
The purged Grand Jury obtained by
Judge Seane at Salt Lake, Utah, returned
six indictments on the Stb, making twenty
one in ten days. --.- f.
A CIVIL RIGHTS case was decided against
a colored man at Washington by Judge
Smell. The suit grew out of the refusal to
sell the colored man a supper ticket on a
Potomac River steamer. - 1f
THE quarterly settlement with the Iowa
State Treasurer shows balance of funds
on hand of $3.50, 257.12. @-.c ..ses=
TIE general term of the New York Su-
preme Court handed down a unanimous
opinion on the Sth declaring unconstitu-
tional the bill passed by the Legislature
forbidding the manufacture of cigars in
tenements.
RICHARD CLARK, of Canada, an employee
of Forepaugh's Circus, while opening the
Iventilator in a cage at Waterbury, Conn.,,
Of the sth, had his hand seized by tiger.
While trying to release himself he was
seized. by two tigers and dragged inside
the cage. The animals were finally beaten
off with iron bars, after. Clark's arms and
legs had been horribly crunched and man
gleds
HHE safes of Mobiles s. Sonseand Tomlin
son & Sons, at Perry, n. Y, were blown
open by burglars the night of the It'll, and
robbed of $21 900 of Arkansas State bonds,
besides large amount of other securities
and money. .......
BARNEY Fl. York, prominent elevator
man of Cleveland, o., died suddenly, on
the. 9th. -.....
ORDERS have been received to close the
Reading (Pa.) Cotton Mills for one month,
owing to over production and slow sales.
The mills have been working on an agree
ment with Eastern mills. The mills en-
ploy $50 hands. { -.-.. - .-.- i
THE game and toy book mandatory of
refer dt W. Was
destroyedtby fire the night of the .Sth. Ad-
joining houses were somewhat damaged.
Total loss, 100000; insurance unknown.
heavy wind famed the flames.
The new Japanese Minister arrived at
Washington on the 9th. 1882
i BLANDEN 6 Co.'s large flour mill at
Fort Dodge, Ia, burned on the 9th.
ORANGEMEN tore down the gates of
convent at Harbor Grace, N. F., on the
9th. ,-rss. f-E IS. s5.s:s
A FIRE damp explosion in a mine in Mo-
ravia, on the 9th, caused the death of
twenty persons.
THE Hamilton Powder Mills exploded at
Cumminsvnle, Ont, on the 9th. Four men
were killed.
TIE English Cabinet has decided to take
stepsSto stop the encroachments of the
Beers in West Africa l "a
THE University st Kieff, Russia, has
been closed, and 16S students arrested
for being Nihilists.
The Cuban soldiers have received no
pay for six months, and the forces are
badly demoralized. 55-'i
The stockholders meeting of the Ohio &
Mississippi Railway Company was held
inCincinnati on the 9th. The Baltimore &
Ohio people defeated the New York and
English parties who sought to take control
from the former.
HI A MAN named Deutsche has been sem
fenced at Odessa to thrice. years PEN
al servitude in Siberia for throwing sui
v,l,rx;c ocid ax-a,. NJ Goronovich rohle.