Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

.,Ao ~ aeoR ooge at south haven, Mich, on
the 9th. $500 81
PEsNsYLvANrA Railway officials are
circulating the wicked story that the Ball
timore & Ohio people make their passen-
gers sea sick by whipping them around
curves ct terrific rate and jolting them
over arough road. 3
GEORGE CHAGNoN, French Canadian
weaver, was killed and several persons
We're injured by the bursting of afy-wheel
or the engine in the Wauregan Mills at
providence, r. l., on the 9th.
PRIME MINISTER FERRY has informed
England that If China accepts mediation
without delay, or increasing further the
expense by military operations, France
will limit its claim to indemnity to SAC, 0O0,-
600. zss-.
SIR GEORGE BOWEN, Governor of Hong
Kong, has been ordered by telegraph to
refuse permission to any French men-of-
war to refit or ship contraband of war
stores within the limits of that colony.
THE Episcopal Council of the diocese of
Nebraska, at its session in Omaha on the
9th, elected Rev. DIR. Worthington, of De-
troit, Mich, to succeed the late Bishop
Clarkson. tfH sETE --e -f
The expedition which is to be sent to
Bechuana Land, South Africa, will be COM
posed of 900 men. No extensive defense
| Is expected to be made against the efforts
of the British commander to adjust the
difficulties in South Africa, as it is gener-
| ally understood that the only forces likely
| to oppose him are marauding bands of
Beers and others, which can easily be sub
dued.
THE Khedive of Egypt has conferred full
powers on General Wolseley in the Sou
dan. 20 +Af E
THE Marquis of Londonderry died sud-
| denly on the 9Th. He sat in Parliament as
! an Irish peer and voted as G.. H. Vane-
Tempest. v. Castlereagh succeeds him.
THE French Senate, by vote of 145 to
| III, on the 5th, resolved to abolish life Sem
| atorship.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY was presented on
the 9th with an elegant silver service by
the Greedy Testimonial Committee at his
home in Newburyport, Mass.
SEVERAL cases OF alleged cholera and
| one death Were reported in Paris on the
9Th. There We're five fresh cases and one
death at Nantes.
| PRESIDENT SOLOMON, of Hayti, on the
anniversary of his taking the Presidential
chair, October 18th, declared full and COM
plete amnesty to all political offenders.
| A PARIS correspondent of the London
| Times says the Franco-C Chinese conflict
could easily be adjusted if England and
| America together would use their influence
with both powers. .4 -t
THE Chinese Council of State has failed
| to arrange for the settlement of the diff
| ficulty with France.
| DIR. JAMES A. REED, superintendent of
the Dixmont Insane Asylum at Pittsburgh,
Pa, and one of the most prominent physi-
clans of country, died suddenly on the 9th
of kidney disease.
GRoHMER's stables in Carrollton, Ind,
were burned early on the morning of the
9th. Thirteen valuable horses were con-
| sumed, and several others fatally burned.
The loss is very heavy.
THREE bridges on the Straitsville Branch
of the Columbus, Hooking Valley & To-
ledo Road burned the morning of the 9th.
Loss about $4,000. The wires were cut
| and communication with the general Of
ces thus shut off to-day. The bridges
were all in the same neighborhood, be-
tween Straitsville and Jacksonville.
E. BERNsTEIN's clothing store at Min
neapolis, Mimi, burned on the night of the
9Th. The stock, said to run as high as $780,
600, was completely destroyed; insurance
light. The building was damaged to the
extent of 81 900.
AN explosion at the dynamite works of
Stump & Co., at Stouchburg, Pa, ON the
9th, resulted in the instant death of three
men, the demolition of the building and
damage to surrounding structures.
A BOY named John Tyler was killed at
Ottumwa, Ia, on the 9th by falling from
train, which passed over him, crushing his
body.
THE excitement in London, England,
over the American election was intense,
particularly over the delayed announce
ment of the result. s
FOUR persons were killed by boiler ex-
plosion at Stafford, England, on the 9th.
THE Rt. Hon. Henry Fawcett, late Post
master General of England, died ON the
9th. He was totally blind.
SIX men were killed and several others
injured by the fall of smoke-stack at
Rolesonia Station, Pa, on the 9th.
THE schooner Wild Gazel1e, Captain Law
son which left San Francisco October 1st, on
fishing cruise, is reported wrecked
off the Choumagin Islands, Okhotsk Sea,
and all hands lost.
Mr.. MOODY began a religious conven-
ton for Christian Workers at Montreal,
THE body of Andrew Marshal, accountant
for the Bank of British North America at
Montreal, was found floating in the ST.
Lawrence River opposite the city on the
9th. The affair presented mysterious as
poets.
a FIERCE snow-storm swept over por
tions of the Province of Quebec on the
night of the 9Th. AT Revere du Loup build
ings We're swept away and other damage
done. At Rimonski the rapid rise of the
river inundated the town.
THE reported illness of Mr.. Blaine was
denied ON the 9th, the. statement coming
from Augusta that he had merely isolated
himself for the day, on the 9th, in order to
take a much-needed rest.
THE Mayor of New Orleans notified the
Street Railway Companies on the 9th that
they must resume running on the 9TH, or
the City Attorney would be directed to enter
suits for the forfeiture of their charters.
striking employees.
GEORGE W. CHILDS gave farmers club
dinner ON the 9th at his country house at
Wottoon, Pa. Among those present were
Hon. Simon Cameron, ex-Speaker Samuel
J. Randall Wayne MacVeagh, George B.
Roberts, President of the Pennsylvania
Railroad; Senator J. D. Cameron, Judges
Green and Biddle, and D. o. Mills, R.
Lenox Kennedy and Whitelaw Reid, ed
itor of the New York Tribune. Twenty
four gentlemen sat down to dinner.
Silver Plume, near Georgetown, Col,
was almost annihilated by fire on the
morning of the 9th. 1t was incendiary and