Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

~s"~ so1Aoo eAAA.A 1ACdtLcE 1uSuIduC0 SOul-
pany, of Boston, Mass, has decided to re-
tire from business.
BEN G. OWEN, the defaulting Secretary
of the Philadelphia Academy of Music,
pleaded guilty on the Sd, and was SEN
teIAced to eighteen months imprisonment
in the Penitentiary.
In the German Reichstag DR.. Wind
thorst's fight against Bismarck was con-
tinued on the Sd, and the latter was de-
feated by a decisive vote.
Two miners named SharpIess and BOYLE
We're fatally injured by an explosion of
fire-damp near Coal Bluff, Pa, on the Sd,
the gas igniting from their naked lamps.
PATRICK HARTNET, the wife murderer
who was to have been hanged on the 9Th,
was reprieved by Governor Hoadly of
Ohio until January 21st.
THE venerable Ex-Governor Coburn of
Maine was taken seriously i'll on the Sd
Electoral College.
DIPHTHERIA has recently prevailed to
an alarming extent among children at
Montreal, Can.
THE Senate confirmed the appointment
of Postmaster-General Hatton on the 4th.
LEVY, the cornetist, has again committed
Costa at Erie, Pa, on the evening of the
4th. The lady is No. 4.
THE buildings, nearly all the cars and
fifty horses belonging to one of the Balti-
more street railway companies, burned on
the 4th.
THE Cuban agitator, Bonchea, was cap
tured on the 4th with his band, two of
whom were killed.
A MAN was arrested at Omaha, Neb., on
the 4th, who is thought to be Pusey, the
defaulting chief clerk of the Kansas State
Prison at Leavenworth.
The powder magazine at the Virginia
Military Institute exploded ON the 4th. No
one killed.
GENERAL GRANTS friends do not favor
the pension project. They desire that he
be placed on the retired list of the army.
THE wife of Rev. w. A. Downs, of Riv-
erhead, Long Island, eloped on the 4th
with Deacon G. Mitchell Terry, leaving be-
hind two young children.
THE Southern Historical Society had an
interesting meeting in st. Louis the even
ing of the 4th.
NEVILLE, the bigamist, was sentenced
at Toledo, O., on the 4th, to seven years
with hard labor in the Columbus Peniten-
tiary, the full extent of the law.
THREE young boys were drowned at
Rondout, N. Y, on the 4th, by venturing
too far on thin ice, which gave way be-
meath their weight.
STANLEY, the explorer, opened the ses-
sion of the Geographical Society at Edin-
burg on the 4th.
COLONEL OYAMA, the japanese Minister
of War, arrived in Washington on the 4th.
MOTHER MANDELBAUM, her son julius
and her clerk Stronde, charged with re-
ceiving stolen property in New York, and
who were under heavy bonds, failed to re-
Spond when their cases were called on the
4th. 1t is supposed they have skipped to
Canada.
THE Naturalization elopement at Wash
ington, d. c., is the topic of the day at
the Capital. 1t was a complete surprise to
every one, more particularly the man
Miss. Willard was to have married.
The franchise bill passed the British
House of Lords on the 9TH.
THE annual report of the Secretary Of
the Navy was made public on the 9Th.
THE man arrested at Omaha supposed to
be Pusey, the defaulting Kansas Prison
Clerk, proves to be another man.
THE Connecticut clergy have inaugu-
rated a crusade against Sunday traffic on
the railroads within the State.
Cook TEETs, the blind wife murderer,
was hanged at Owen Sound, Ontario, on
the 9th.
NJ. ScHENcK has been elected President
of the Swiss Confederation for 1885.
SOME serious allegations of Irregularities
in the Office of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency are to be investigated.
THE cotton report for the Memphis dis
trict shows a decrease in the yield of about
fourteen per cent.
THE house of Stephen Young at STRAIT
ford Corner, n. H., was blown to pieces the
evening of the 4th by a dynamite explo-
sion. One person was instantly killed and
eight were more or less seriously injured.
CAPTAIN HERMAN GIsEKE, an old and
we'll known citizen of Omaha, Neb., COM
mitted su eide on the 5th by shooting HIM
self in the head.
SOLOMON TORRES and Jose Manuel Soto
were hanged at Salinas, Cal, on the 9th
for the murder of All Din, Chinaman, on
December goth last.
THE centennial Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church begins in Baltimore,
Nd, on the 9th.
THE Virginia Senators strongly oppose
the confirmation of Hugh McCulfoch as
Secretary of the Treasury.
THE matters of South Norwalk, Conn.,,
are on a strike, and had become SO demon
strative on the 9Th that the Cover nor was
called upon for troops.
FIFTEEN business houses were either de-
stroyed or damaged by fire at My ersdale,
Pa, ON the 9TH.
THE Narragansett Park property at
Providence, r. l., was sold ON the 9th for
$50, 900. It was bought by syndicate who
will apply for charter and run the track.
THE banking house of Raymer, Sea-
graves & Co., Toledo, O., ASST gned on the
9TH. Liabilities 500, 900; assets nominally
equal.
THIRTEEN persons who were poisoned
with arsenic in their food at Greenbrier,
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, on the
4th, were pronounced out of danger on the
9Th.
A TERRIBLE story of jealousy and muir
der came from Walworth, Neb., on the 9th.
Thomas Furquin shot and killed Mary and
Fanny Finley and their attendant beaux,
named John Williams and Charles Wat
kins, just as they had returned from a
dance He then Drained the father of the
girls with the butt of his gun and rounded
up the tragedy by killing himself with a
pistol shot.
MUNITIONS of war for China are being
loaded in ships at London.
JOHN PURSCHT, a native of Vienna, re-
siding in st. Louis, No., hacked his head
with an axe and took oxalic acid on the 9th.
He succaeded in, ending his career.