Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| 1hE NdtlOnA ASSOCIATION or Health
Boards met at Washington, d. c., on the
10th.
The police Of Cork, Ireland, on the 10th
seized a number of rifles and bayonets dis
covered outside the city.
The National Association of Trottine
Horse Breeders met at New York on the
| 10TH
| The Western Nail Association met al
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th and reafirmed
card rates.
LEHAN, ABRAHAM & Co.'s cotton mill al
New Orleans, closed on the 10th on ac-
count of the depression in trade.
The Duke OF Edinburgh has been APP
| pointed to command the Mediterranean
| squadron.
/ a SAN FRANCISCO woman tried to kill
herself on the 10th, but, failing, she put a
| fatal bullet into her husband. Cause, jeal-
ousy.
The machinery moulders at Pittsburgh,
Pa, have virtually accepted the fifteen
per cent. reduction ordered in wages.
| THE Congo Conference on the 10th, dis
| cussed the question of free navigation on
the Niger River. Mr.. Kasson, the Amer
lean delegate, presented neutrality
project.
THE Virginia and Indianapolis clubs
have been dropped from the American
Base Ball Association. Officers elected:
H. D. Mcknight, President; Chris Won der
Abe, Vice-President; and w. c. Wycof,
| Secretary and Treasurer.
INFORMATION was received at st. Paul,
Mimi, on the 10th, that a commercial trav-
eller named Baird had been killed and
| robbed of $500 near Golden City, British
L 81,
| whom Baird travelled, have offered re-
| ward of 81 900 for the capture of the MUIR
derers.
j. w. MCKEE, Frank Fl. Mcdonald and
Charles II. Locke, all of Buffalo, N. Y,
| were arrested in st. Louis, Mo-, on the
10th. The first named was book-keeper
for a firm in Buffalo, and took away with
him $1,14S.70 of his employers money.
The young men spent all but $505, which
was recovered. They were willing to re-
turn without a requfsition.
AN investigation of the alleged irregu-
larities in the office of the First Comp
troller of the Treasury was begun in
Washington on the 18th.
THREE members of the Welsh Noun
tain, or Buzzard gang of outlaws in
Pennsylvania, have been committed for
trial.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has consented to
start the machinery of the New Orleans
Exposition by electricity from the White
House.
TWELVE Nihilists were captured in st.
Petersburg ON the 18th, and important
documents were seized.
THE festivities in connection with the
silver jubilee of Archbishop Lynch's con-
secration began at Toronto, Ont, on the
18th.
JAMES L. FLINT, a member of the New
York Union League Club, was arrested on
the 10th on a charge of having persuaded
a man to vote under another's name for
Cleveland.
AT Retchitza, Russia, a subtsrra mean
passage leading to the tax receivers Office
was discovered on the 18th.
THE military were ordered out to the
scene of trouble with the strikers at An
gus, Ia, on the 18th, where a threatening
condition of affairs existed.
JOHN P. HAIDEN, who resides near Little
ton, w. Va, accidentally shot himself,
wife and four children on the 18th, while
taking a load from gun. None were
fatally injured.
THE Wilkinson Bros. failure at Syracuse,
N. Y, has involved others and caused sew
eral assignments.
j. 1. RUFFIN, ex-Chief of Police of Gin
cinnati, o., died on the 10Th.
TURKISH atrocities in Macedonia are said
to be Increasing.
THREE lives were lost by the burning of
a candy factory at Detroit, Mich, ON the
18th.
THE Chinese commanders have been
ordered to suspend hostilities.
THE preliminary examination of the Ar
kansas train robbers took place at Little
Rock on the 18th.
A SON of the Bishop of Rochester, Eng,
has become a Roman Catholic.
MANY colored oystermen were drowned
during a storm in the Rappahannock
River, Virginia, on the 18th.
Ex-Governor LONG of Massachusetts,
gives reasons why the people of his State
favor the Mexican treaty.
Two Oregon cowboys tied one hand be-
hind them and fought duel with knives
on the 18th, in which both were killed.
GENERAL BRIERE De LIsTE threatens to
resign the command of Tonquin, unless he
is reinforced.
THE submarine telegraph cable between
Senegal and France has been completed,
and the first message was sent on the 18th.
QUIET has been restored among the
striking miners at Angus, Ia, and the call
ing out of the military was premature.
THERE were 34S failures in the United
States and Canada during the seven days
ended the 18th, as compared with 800 the
previous week.
THERE were twenty-one deaths from
cholera at Paris during the week ended the
18th.
MARSHAL WRIGHT, of Cincinnati, O.,
used $14, 105 of the peoples money in en-
ploying deputies at the October election.
THE dinner given by the Executive Com
mittee of the New York Merchants and
Business Mems Cleveland and Hendricks
Clubs on the evening of the 18th was a
grand affair.
Mr.. FOSTER, United States Minister to
Spain, met the Special Committee of the
New York Chamber of Commerce ap-
pointed to consider the Spanish American
treaty on the 18th.
A Hooking VALLEY miner, who deserted
the ranks of the strikers, was made the
victim of piece of villainy. An attempt
was made to blow up his house and muir
der his family.
BRADsTREET'S weekly trade review
shows no gain in the industrial situation.
Holiday purchases at business centers
cause an Improvement in many branches of
business.
GENERAL BRIsBIN, President of ithe Ex-
ecutive Committee of the National Cattle |
mems Association, declares that a major
ity of the cattlemen are in favor of the
leasing of public grass lands.
r,Yr UNCONVENTIONAL Mopotaru Car,r,;o