Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-05-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

$500
against the Government.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR reviewed the par AIDE
of the League of American wheeluaen
as it passed through the White House
grounds on the Goth.
An assessment of atty per cent. on the
guarantors of the Cincinnati Dramatic
Festival has been made. The Associa-
ton has to meet deficit of So, 700.
JOSEPH FRAZER, the murderer of Wes-
Icy Hupp in Anderson, Ind, committed
suicide on the 10th by hanging himself in
jail with his pocket handkerchief.
PENNSYLVANIA Republicans have NOM
mated General James s. Negley for Con-
gress in the Twenty second District, and
Hon. L. NJ. Bayne in the Twenty-third.
ACCORDING to the report of the Grand
Secretary OF the Grand Lodge Of Odd Fell
lows, in session at Harrisburg, Pa, the
membership increased lis during the past
year, being now S0,504. fs -. fts
DURFUs WEAVER, a colored insane pa.
tient in the Kansas City (Mo.) Hospital,
was killed in self-defense by Steward Win.
frey on the Doth. Weaver had attacked
q couple of patients and afterwards at
tempted to burn the building.
JOSEPH DUDLEY, a New York philan-
thropist, has left $4,000 to Presbyterian
charities. st 4sS -
. THE House Committee on Military AZ
fairs will report favorably bill making
provision for the employment of honorably
discharged soldiers or sailors in prefer
ence to civilians in the civil service, the
capacity of the former being equal to that
of the latter.
Two suicides were reported in st. Louis,
Mo-, on the Goth. Mamie Stern, of Keokuk,
Ia, took poison at Hurst's Hotel, sooner
than be dependent upon her brother-in-law.
Michael Schoettel, an Alsatian, fifty years
of age, shot himself while delirious from
drink.
SECRETARY FoLGER will soon issue a call
for SIT, 00o. 900 three per cents.
6 ENTHUSIASTICALLY ADYE will COM
mand the Khartoum expedition.
A GENERAL strike of the iron-workers at
Pittsburgh is considered improbable.
TWELVE thousand bales of cotton were
destroyed in the recent Liverpool fire.
IMMENSE damage is reported in Akyab,
British Burmah, by cyclone.
1T was decided by the Methodist Protest
ant Conference at Baltimore that no
change be made in the form of the mar.
riage ceremony.
GENERAL GRANT has mortgaged his
property in favor of w. 81.
as partial security for the lat
ter's loan of $3.50, 200.
THREE children belonging to Mrs. Full
weller, of Portsmouth, o., were drowned
by the collapse of the suspension bridge
over the Scioto River on the 21st.
CAPTAIN EADs made an argument before
the Senate Commerce Committee on the
Dist in favor of the improvement of the
between Galveston harbor and the
Gulf. '
THE National Industrial Congress was in
session on'the 21st at Chicago; the National
Society of Mechanical Engineers at Pitts
burgh, Pa, and the Brewers Association
1t Rochester, N. Y.
THE House Committee on Agriculture
decides that it will not report in favor of
any money for the dlstribu-
lion Of seeds. among the sufferers by the
overflow.
C. c. MATsoN, of Bloomington, Ind,
was renominated for Congress in the Fifth |
District on the 21st. ssss.
The American Lacrosse team scored
second victory at Manchester, Eng, on the
list. defeating the Lancashires.
: FxRxs ON the Elisa: Harnish tohacco fac
;ory, Lancaster. Pa; loss, $4,000. Wood
-uff's paper mill, Buffalo; loss, $4,000. |
Kelly Nail and Iron Company,s mill, Iron
;on, o.; loss, $4,000. African NJ. E. |
Church. Moberly. No.; damage, $3.50.
BY collisions on the 2lst between a |
mixed train and a fYeight train on the Pam I
Handle Railway. az Wheeling Junction,
Pa, forty-one miles from Pittsburgh, D. |
travelling salesman for a |
Cincinnati house. was killedsand five en-
ployes of the road injured.
DoNNELL, LAWSON & SIMPSONS propo-
,ition is to pay their Indebtedness to their /
:reditors with notes bearing six per cent.
interest and maturing in twelve or twenty
'our months from date. If this is salts
;he firm will resume,
sFERDINAND WARD couldn't get bail and !
lad to go to Ludlow Street Prison.
The American end of the Bennett
Mackey cable MAS Ehded at Rockport,
Mass, on the ed.
HANLAN was victorious in the sculling
n0oeu With Laycoclr on the 22d, in Aus.
ralia.
n. coppiteG suicide in Easton, Pa, on
JOHN, OHLxkE, wife and grown daugh.
'oA /
D., the night o 1.-THE 2ist.
JAMES C.. EEooD, u San Francisco, is GO
ng to establish branch of the Nevada
Bank in London 5l.s
Two men narled Thompson and Cook
we're fatally injfred by railroad accident
Il Harms City,sPas, on the 22d.
JupGR EDw4N C. MAXWELL has been
,ominated fof Governor by the Greenback-
rs OF West Virginia.
EXETER n IL, London, was thronged at
he concluded ceremonies of the Wyckliffe
celebration % the evening of the 21st.
a CANADfANs loan of 81, 000. COO will prob
.bly be made to assist In the conversion of |,
I've par cehts bonds.
0x&kRAL GRANT denies a rumor that his
on Ulynses- In. had skipped to Canada.
lie was il MorIdstown, N. ].
GLADsyoKE reiterates the statement that
he question of Egyptian finance will be
e ieading Question considered by the
Conference. ~ |,
vBY vote Of g to % the Ssnate refused
che bill prohibiting the mail.
ng Of newspapers containing lottery ad.
'ertisements.
AwpAkrHY Englishman named Falken.
ridge ~ opposed to have committed sui
5le at pepeg. Manitoba
NJ Tlel4k O., during thunderstorm
q the e rs lilly Fear was struck by Il
ightninS y instantly killed. Her sister
nd two5 * ep, who were with her, mar
ow4y Asol 81 HE same fate.
FiKEs oi f22d:, Forge department
IeilY Mani ron Company, Ironton,
J.; 1oss, $6600 Shinkss Shoddy Mills.
l6as, 10000. Ward & |.
hide and tal1ow factory, Chi +