Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

third degree, was sentenced by Judge
Peckham on the 18th to twenty years at
hard labor in the Clinton Prison.
The cargo of the steamer Nacoochie,
bound from Savannah, Ga, to New York,
was discovered on fire on the night of the
1lth Oft Charleston, s. C. The matches
We're closed, steam turned in and the boat
headed back. The passengers were trans
ferred to the Tallahassee
THE Grand Trunk Railway notified its
employees on the 10th that further reduce
ton would be made of from five to eight
per cent. in wages.
ASSISTANT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CRos-
BY took the oath of Office on the 11th and
began the discharge of his duties.
NJ. RoUsTAN, the new French Minister to
Washington, arrived in New York by the
steamer Normandie ON the 18th.
THE German market building at Mil
| waukee, Wis, burned on the 18th.
THE Western Nail Association met on
the 18th, and reafirmed the present card
rate.
The French are reported to have cap
tured the Chinese gunboat Feihoo.
DIPHTHERIA and typhoid fever prevail
to am alarming extent in Montreal, Can.
ORhsBY PHILLIPS, one of the proprietors
OF the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Dispatch, died sud-
denly on the 18th. Cause, overwork.
FRESH rumors were current in London
on the 18th that Ell Mahdi had captured
Khartoum and killed General Gordon.
ADvIcEs received at the Department of
Agriculture indicate a larger cotton crop
this year than last.
THE number Of pensioners ON the rolls of
the Government at the close of the last
fiscal year was 81, 1856; amount paid out
for pensions during the year, S56,9OS, 597;
total amount disbursed for pensions since
1861, $67s, 346, 1874.
THE potato crop of the country this year
will exceed 100 900 600 bushels.
SOME of the best corn raised this year
comes from what was formerly known as
the great American desert, in the vicinity
of the hundredth meridian.
MAJOR GENERAL W. s. HARVEY, who is
eighty-four years of age, was married in
st. Louis, Mo-, ON the 18th to Mrs. Marie
st. Cyr.
HIPPOLITE GONZALES was arrested in st.
Louis, Mo-, ON the 18th, on charge of as
sault with intent to murder in Hoboken, N.
j.
THE President has appointed Caleb II.
Barney Commissioner, and Joseph HI.
Reynolds, alternate Commissioner to rep
resent New Jersey at the New Orleans Ex-
position.
THE total values of domestic bread
stuffs exported during October was SILL
541 ,112, against $14, 740,994 for the cor
responding month of 1888. For the ten
months ended October 31st, S120,99S, O47,
and $145, 125, 1881 for the corresponding Pc
riod of 1888.
THE Governor General of Canada has
refused to commute the sentence of Mrs.
Boutelle, sentenced to be hanged at Que
bee on the Goth for poisoning Mrs.
Savers, with whose husband she was
criminally intimate.
In Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, on
the 18th, a fourteen year-old boy stripped
his younger sister and roasted her ON
red-hot stove, producing injuries that
proved fatal.
THE situation of the French ia Tonquin
is said to be becoming more perilous daily.
Skirmishes are constantly occurring.
q DURING the twenty -four hours ended the
evening of the 18th there were forty three
deaths from cholera in Paris; two deaths
in Toulon and several fresh cases re-
ported.
The canvass Of the votes in New York
was continued on the 18th. No material
errors had thus far been encou ntered.
Rev. DIR. C. L. GooDELL, of the Pilgrim
Congregational Church, st. Louis, Mo-, has
received call to Washington, D. c., from
the Congregationalists of that city.
THE Canadian Government has declined
to aid Canadians in making exhibits at the
New Orleans Exposition.
NINE. SALcHI made her first appearance
this season at the Academy of Music, New
Yerk, the evening of the 10Th, and received
a great ovation.
: DUNCAN C. Ross, the wrestler, has chal-
lenged any man in the world to a tussle.
THERE are 80 lighthouses on the United
States coasts, and lob movable -::-er
lights in operation.
1t was stated on the 18th that Deputy
Commissioner of Pensions Clarke will be
appointed Commissioner, vice Dudley, re-
signed.
AN earthquake shock was felt in New
Hampshire on the 18th.
THERE were fifty-eight deaths from
cholera in Paris during the twenty -four
hours ended the evening Of the 18th.
MAxEY COBB and Meta Medium, driven
double, trotted mile at New York on the
18th in 2:15 3-4.
THE British franchise bill passed to its
first reading in the House of Lords on the
18th.
POLICEMAN JOSEPH EDGAR was fatally
shot at Newport, KY, on the night Of the
18th, by a burglar who made his escape.
IT is officially denied at Washington that
Mr.. Astor, Minister to Austria, has ten
dered his resignation.
ANOTHER case of cholera had occurred at
Buenos Ayres, in South America. Strictest
quarantine is being observed at that port
against all vessels coming from France.
Rev. HENRY WILLIAMSON, an Episcopal
rector of Trenton, n. j., committed suicide
on the 18th. No cause assigned.
MISS PEARL TYLER, daughter Of the late
ex-President Tyler, was united in mar
rage at Richmond, Va, on the 18th with
VIM. Munford Ellis.
THE American Racing Association, in
session at Chicago on the 18th, ordered that
hereafter no book-maker be allowed to
start or enter horse.
THE second annual convention of
American Stockmen met at Chicago on the |
18th.
LILLE ELLIS, of Brooklyn, N. Y, was
shot In the head while in q New York |
on the night Of the 18th |
with James Ryan, an actor, who declares |
the woman killed herself. The case was |
under investigation.
JOHN GILLESPIE, of Pittsburgh, Pa, is |
on his muscle and wants to meet either |
three weeks. Ifthat challenge is not accept |
ed he viii later fight either of themwith bare |
somewhere in the West or