Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-05-15
PERSONAL. AND GENERAL.

hoaassrS s1snber @ s7sisf roysi and nd.
ttend societies in the Old World. y :
THE steamer Romano. from Hull for Bos.
ton. was sunk by collision on the Sd inst,
with the Nevada, from New York for
iivekpod. EPassengsrs and { efsNT We're
transferred to the latter steamer.
B OE,ths 9th the court of inquiry to ex-
anime into the cdndact of the Fourth Regi-
ment during the Cincinnati riots convened
.atDayton. Itwill be In asession week or
longer. siIi
1 CAPTAIN STEVENS, an lrfshnian who tas
expelled ,frem the British army. has besn
given q commission by the African Inter-
national Association to enlist 9 COO HOUSES
for services in the Congo country.
HEUGENKIG G. WooDwARD, Treasurer of the
Philadelphia Board of Publication, is short
in his accounts $4,000 The money be-
longed to the General Assembly of the.
church. 9'is' if'-'ts*Ne e'-' s'N $50
THE wife of J.iiH. Wright, an insur,
ancs agent Of Toledo, shot Miss Celia
Enright, a telegraph, operator in the
Produce Exchange office of the Western
Union in that city on the 9th. Jealousy
prompted the. affair. Miss Enrigkt's
wounds are not dangerous. sigs.. sno b,,
SWITZERLAND wants to get rid of the Sal
walton, Army. ...f- ,.,,.44 .5sr,v,-2f,g ID,
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, the eminent law,
yer and well-knowr as having been Secre-
tary of State of the Southern Confederacy,
died in Paris ON the It'll. 40, .siii III 3s
HEAVY damage to crops is reported near
Dayton, O., in consequence of a severe
hail storm. 7'1'A''' @>t'
THE American squadron in the Mediter-
ranean has arrived at Tenedos. G esJ =.
THERE was large attendance on the eth
at the funeral, in Cincinnati, of Archbishop
Toebbe. ~ ti''ss'-5@i- - '''.+ N'"
- PARTICULARS of the sinking of the steam
ship State of Florida are received from
Farther. Point, where the steamship Titania
passed inward ON the It'll. Only forty-four
persons out OF 1877 on board the vessel were
saved, and of the bark with which she
| collided only the Captain and two men
were rescued The total loss of life is 1875.
DONATIONS and legacies to the American
Tract Society during the year are given at
$102, S69.
3 THE annual report of the Lake Shore
Road shows an increase in net earnings for
the year of $343, $500, 81 ..d4 -
PHILIP R. REESE has been suspended by
the New York Produce Exchange for fail
ing to fulfil his contracts. a5i.i' - '''z'' 30,
| u he 61klChtOWAi tASh VOA ASs .
phis, Pa, were sold on the 7th for $4,000,
and will soon be running again. .yf. -'''
THE statue in honor Of Tyndai, burned
at the stake in 1885, was. unveiled on the
18th by the Earl of Shaftesbury. ei'i Il 'i,'
/ The death is announced Of John +. Slater
of Norwich, Conn.,, who gave 81 ,00O, 900 for
Vocational purposes in the South. ~
THE paying teller Of the Baltimore Bank
of Commerce. William Missey, has been
arrested on a charge Of embezzling ST., 0o0
CAPTAIN h. N. ADAMS, Assistant Super
intendent of the Government Canal Works
at louisville, had his neck broken on the
7tf in an accident at the wharf. "a '-' .5t
A ,FRUIT-PAcKER named Alphonso Lee
clovitz jumped from the fourth floor of the
Clark House, Minneapolis, Mimi, the
morning of the TIN and killed himself. In
sornnia. ,jSs!yeH 5fHi i" a9iiSi6E7f3 fs--
A SPREADING track on the, ST.. Louis
division of the Wabash Road, ten miles
south OF Decatur, ILL.,, threw three passenger
cars of thea track on the hi and injured
about forty people, some seriously. sl4
THE train containing the Directors Of the
Mexican Central Road was wrecked ON the
7th south of Huajuquilla by Mexicsnsppeh-
ing switch. Another wreck occurred
week previously. ~
The American Forestry Congress, in
session at Washington, adjourned on the
9Th. ..s-..sf,.. r,,....fi .-s.
AT Mobiles factory in Ayrshire, Scot
land, ten women were, blown to pieces by
an explosion of dynamite. 81 = is''} -
THE American Bible. Society circulated
1857 ,O5l copies of the Bible lastyear in this
country and 451 1854 copies abroad. Fl
WILLIAM ELLIS was shot and killed the
evening Of the It'll by George JENNIE, in a
dispute about log-chain, at Tidioute, Pa.
DESPERATE fighting between the Chinese
and Black Flags is reported Lao Ri. IL
PRINCE JEROME NAPOLEON, in his reply
to his partisans, says q republic can not be
displeasing to son of the first Consul
BARON ST.. LEoNARDS was committed to
Jail in Brentford. Eng, on the 9Th, and bail
refused, on a charge of indecent assault
upon q domestic in the family of a friend
he was visiting. soiiio ,5.t 81 81" o1 u
AT the Medical Convention at Washing
ton, D. C., on thOSth, DIR. Keller, of Ar
Ansas, said in a few years cremation
weuld bp regarded as sanitary neces-.
| :, GrADAroNE APPEARED at the Health Ex-
hibftf1pyh London on the Sth and was re-
ceived aSh mingled cheers and Kisses.
7 AN INVESTIGATION Of the affairs of the
Marine d g hal been begun. Excitement
has model ted The general impression be-
ing that n sident Fish was hasty in. his
action. lO,e s...,.er1t . i =
CHINA vii itvest Ii Hung Chang with
full powers the Anam question. go
| DURING thu trial Of Dubetskt and daugh-
ter. Nihilist at st. Petersburg, the former
stabbed hi9 slt fatally and the latter seri-
ously. .I5..{ t;r.4sl. .Hti
THE CHI ges of bribery in connection
with the kte Kentucky Senatorial election
were founx by the COMMITTEES Of investiga-
ton to be Eithout foundation ",Haj
! THE ser hg meeting of the Kentucky As
sociatiol began on the sth at Louisville
| with w{rm weather and the track ankle
deep ID mud. 81 Ej Iesl .Taif'pat
SEAMAN NFDEKMANN resumed his ties.
timony on. ~ 9Th before the 4Jeannette
! Conimittee o. inquiry. Testimony was
aisagfyen by John p. jackson. Paris cor
lrespor aent Of che New York Herald.
81 The reely relief steamsr Thetis arrived
1 at st. INNS. n. F., on the 9thr i};.l II,
! MINIsI Err SARGENT will be banqueted
/ preyio to his departure from Berlin.
4 r. dcKrM, a fxember of the Canadian
1 Parlf5 lent, has been arrested for forgery.
| A r edition of the Medical and Surgi-
cal Hid by of the War of the Rebellion
viii ba sued shortly.
| III Is Ational Medical Association in
/ sessio4 "a Washington, adjourned sine
die on &h6 th. - 9ts 10 isfH tff3f& }!tfStt
*. MAN%b )hiings were damaged by thun-
srsto5 sssHal Eastern States, on
4 "a IT, sl.,s. 81. !.I.4t !