Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-09
Personal AND GENERAL.

mas been commuted to imprisonment for
life by Governor Hoadly.
The largest business block of Millican,
Tex, was destroyed by fire on the 1st.
The Exchange National Bank of Gin
cinnati has gone into voluntary iquida-
tion.
THERE were 4ss fresh cases of cholera
reported in Italy on the 1st and 1917
deaths.
Mr.. KIRK, the new Japanese Minister
to the United States, arrived at San Fran
cisco on the LIST.
WRITING paper manufacturers met at
Boston, Mass, on the 1st, and decided
upon an advance in prices.
GENERAL WIN. A. THRooP, q promi-
nent citizen of Detroit, Mich, shot him.
self through the head on the 1st, infiicting
q mortal wound.
A STRANGE disease has broken out
Pennsylvania.
THE decrease of the public debt during
September was 81, 04T, 039; cash in the
Treasury, 1925, 031 .S22.
Roscos CoNKLING was killed in base
ball game at River Head, l. L, on the 1st.
This is not the ex-senator, but a namesake
of seventeen.
JOHN w. Finn, President of the Ameri-
can Association of Master Mechanics,
died al Atlanta, Ga, ON the 1st.
1T was semi-officially announced at Paris
ON the 1st that Admiral Courbet had made
a descent upon Kee Lung.
A SON of O'Donovan Rosa, now in Paris
boasts that he has $1,000 francs with which
to buy dynamite to send to England.
A MOVEMENT was started on the New
York Produce Exchange on the 1st to es-
tablish a clearing house for the grain
trade.
THE twenty-first annual convention of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
began its sessions at San Francisco, Cal,
on the 1st.
THE Irish National League met at Dub.
lin ON the 1st and complained of having
received no funds lately from America to
aid in the work laid out.
SINCE January 2,53S miles of main track
have been laid in the United States
against 4,244 during the same period last
year.
LIE TEMPS denies that France is seeking
alliance with Germany on the Egyptian
question, or that France is negotiating for
peace with China.
THE New York Produce Exchange wants
the railroad managers to lift certain
charges which operate against grain men
of that city.
The stove-molders' strike at Pittsburgh,
Pa, is virtually over, the men being will
ing to accept the ten per cent. reduction.
THE Oliver iron Works at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the LIST, notified the employees of
a reduction of 124 per cent. in tue wages
on account of the depression in trade.
THE Minneapolis (Minn.) mills are
turning out more -four than ever before
in the history of the city. Several are
running on new wheat exclusively.
W. F. BARTHOLOMEW, coachman for W.
J. Simmons, a wealthy business man of
Emma Babcock, aged eighteen,
on the LIST. 1t was a secret affair.
The drought in Virginia is alarming.
The heat has also been intense for several
days. Grass is dried up in the southwest,
creeks are dry and attic are being driven
into Tennessee for water and grazing.
COMMISSIONER FINK has announced
the termination of the railroad war.
MRS. BELvA LOCKWOOD announces that
she will take the stump.
decreasing.
The operations of the Postal Depart.
ment for the fiscal year are given to the
public. They show deficiency of abaut
s., 000, 900.
THE Liberals of Glasgow, Scotland, will
erect a statue of Gladstone.
Hoes are suffering and dying from q
malignant disease in several counties in
THERE were 3a6 fresh cases of cholera in
Italy on the ID. and 194 deaths.
A GANG of men called a: Dennis Ne
Grath's house, near Providence, r. l., on
the I'd, and murdered him.
JOHN F. MARSH declines to be the Peo-
Piles party candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Massachusetts.
BOTH Blaine and Logan were at Cincin-
natl on the ID. Tney reviewed an i'm
mense procession in their honor and held
public receptions.
a PLATFORM gave way during the races
at Stra bone, Ireland, on the I'd, and many
persons were injured.
A SCHEME to smuggle grain into Can
ada has been discovered at Stratford,
Ont.
COMMODORE SCHLEY has been presented
with a gold medal and Lieutenant Emory
a silver medal by the Massachusetts, His
torical Society for the part they took in
rescuing the Greedy party.
DYNAMITE outrages at Guy LIE Noble.
France, on the I'd caused great damage and
frightened the inhabitants.
FRANK s. CHANFRAU, well known for his
representations of Kit, the Arkansas
Traveller" died at Jersey City on the ID.
THE President of a branch of the Irish
National League at Dublin has been ex.
PEELED because he shook hands with Earl
Spencer.
WAN LEE LEE Vow, Chinese laundry.
man of Cleveland. o., who married a
white woman, was natural.zed on the I'd
by the Probate Judge, as his first papers
were taken out prior TO the act OF 1882.
John MCCULLOUGH. the actor, became
violent at Chicago, and it required sew
eral men to restrain him. 1t is thought
the tragedian's mind is seriously affected.
WALTER EVANS, United States Internal
Revenue Commissioner, officially states
that John A. Logan does not own an in
terest in dis illery, in answer to an in
qairy from Kansas man.
WITHIN two days, October LIST and I'd,
four persons were murdered in Spring
dale, Tex. The provoeations were trivial.
ONE man was killed and several seri
ously injured by an explosion, on tho ID, OF
a can of powder At a saloon adjacent t.
the Excelsior Mine, near Des Moines, Ia.
A Swedish miner carelessly allowed a
coal from his pipe to drop into the can.
The Grand Jury at Barrie, Ont, on the
I'd, returned q true bill for murder against
DR.. Cosse, the Chicago dynamiter, who
shot a man named Hamilton in q house of