Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-28

DURING twentY-four houis ended OF y Ia.
m. on the 2ad, there were five deaths from
cholera at Marseilles and two at TouIon.
THos. MURPHY, of jackson, Mich, an
employee Of the Smith Middlings Purifier
Company. in a fit of delirium on the night
of the 2fst. caused by bad health, MUIR
dered his wife.
The Peace Convention at Mystic, Conn.,,
passed resolutions condemning the use of
dynamite.
LENA slime, of New York, aged eigh-
teen, was fatally shot on the I'D by Joseph
Rice, rejected lover of the same age.
Disastrous hail and wind storms were
reported from the East on the I'D. In
Virginia there was terrific cyclone.
THE French representative at Pekin left
the city Immediately after the lowering of
the French flag on the 21st. ago
THoS. CAMPBELL. traveller for st.
Louis millinery house, committed suicide
at Burlington, Ia, on the 22d. i &
THE German press advise that men-of-
war be sent at once to Chinese waters to
protect German interests and subjects in
that country. .3.'f
GENERAL LEROY Pope WALKER, first
Secretary of War under Jefferson Davis.
and who gave orders for firing on Fort
Sumter, died at Huntsville, Ala, on the
Odd. "2"
THE Salvation Army will be permitted
to hold meetings in Switzerland on the
ground that the meetings are not reiig-
ious. ...3 .fl,. -as.- s.Ey ~
GovERNoR BATE of Tennessee has of.
fered a reward of 81 600 for the apprehen-
sion of the parties who murdered the Nor.
mon elders in Lewis County. las sz,t,
THOMAS WHITE, late cashier of the col
lapsed Planters and Mechanics Bank at
Petersburg, Va, shot himself quite Sc
riously on the 22d, but claims he did it &C.
cidentally. --t-. r.' I5s.
The Emperor of Austria received Mr.
Taft, American Minister to Vienna, VINO
is about to leave for his now post at 81.
Petersburg, on the 22i. ~.
The United States steamship Ialla'
poosa was sank off Cottage City, Mass,
on the 22d in collision with a collier. This
is the vessel that Secretary Chandler was
in the habit of using for his trips Inc
crew were all saved but two-Surgeon
Black and a colored servant. ~ 81.
ADMIRAL CoURBET has been ms ructed
to lombard the Arsenal at Foo Glow, to
land troops and destroy the Chinese war
material.
JOHN KING, JR., it seems, is elected as
sistant President of the Erie Railway
COMPANY, Mr.. Jewett consentlng to re.
main some time longer under such circum-
stances.
ALL miners in the Sunday Creek Valley,
along the Ohio Central Railroad, quit
work on the I'D because some cars of the
Hooking Valley Syndicate We're being
used by the former line. .
|" ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY striking coal
miners were arrested and placed in jail IN
Pennsylvania on the 22d on charge OF
conspiracy. In the Fourth Pool the men
| who quit few days since have returned
to work. Ia
COMMANDER ScHLEY, of the Greedy reliet
! expedition having stated privately that
t the remains of the late Edward Israel, OF
Kalamazoo, Mich, meteorologisti OF the
Lady Franklin Bay expedition, We're in
tact. relatives didn't allow them to be ex-
humed. d i-t-.r
CHESTERFIELD County, Virginia, was
visited the evening of the 2lst by yclone.
Huge trees were uprooted and fences and
on houses blown down. Considerable
damage was done to orchard trees. The
storm was accompanied in some places by
| heavy rain and hail while i'll other places
scarcely any fell. Hs 81 .,
MICHAEL COOP, a well-known citizen of
Oil City, Pa, forty years of age, shot
| himself an the region of the heart on the
| 22d. Death was almost instantaneous.
| He had been in a Respondent state of mind