Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

REV. JOHN a. DOYLE, OF the Jesuit COLI
lege, Detroit, Mich, died ON the 18th.
MUCH sickness is said to prevail in New
Hampshire attributable to the long drought
with which the State has been afflicted.
THE eighth annual convention of the
American Humane Society began its ses-
sions at Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 18th.
SMALLPOX has made its appearance
| among the British troops at Dongola;
eight cases had been reported.
A LoATHsoME disease known as ssblack-
| leg" is said to have broken out among
young cattle in portions of Pennsylvania.
THE Congo Conference is presided over
by Count Won Hatzfeldt, German Minister
| of Foreign Affairs
| THE pugilists Sullivan and Greenfield
Were indicted by the New York Grand
| Jury for misdemeanor on the 10Th, and
| were required to give bail in 81 900 each TO
answer.
A REDUCTION of wages of the Philadel-
phia ingram carpet weavers was an
nounced on the 10th. It will affect 10000
people. By the reduction expert weavers
viii only be able to earn twelve dollars per
week
THE British Parliament has rejected the
Irish compensation and Improvement bills.
The suspension of the banking house of
Hyatt, Levings s CO., Washington, Ind,
has caused a great deal of excitement
in that portion of the State.
GENERAL SANFORD has been appointed
an additional delegate for the United
States at the Congo Conference
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, United States
Minister to England, will reside at Oxford
after his successor is appointed.
The Governor of Rhode Island has
appointed VIM. P. Sheffield United States
Senator to succeed the late Senator An
thony.
HENRY CAMP, Elias Wilmeyer and Adam
Mertz We're fatally injured by the prema-
ture explosion of powder at Brush Valley,
Pa, on the 18th.
THE cornerstone of the crematory tenn
pie at Greenpoint, L. l., was laid on the
18th by Prof. Felix Adler, in Mount Olivet
cemetery. A number of bodies already
await cremation.
THE Universalist Church at Norwood,
Mass, with adjoining house, burned on
the 18th. Loss, Sc, coo; insurance, So 900.
LOUIS and Edward Gueld, Frenchmen,
arrived in New York on the 10th. On the
18th Louis shot his brother and then killed
himself. Both had been drinking heavily.
THE Supreme Court of the United States
case appealed from the Virginia courts, on
the ground that it had no jurisdiction, on
account of the peculiar points involved,
when Richmond was evacuated.
GREAT distress is reported among the
people in Buchanan, Wise and Dickinson
Counties, in the extreme western portion
of Virginia. There is fatal disease rag
ing, which is thought to have been caused
by the prolonged drought,
PORTUGAL will maintain her territorial
rights at the mouth of the Congo River,
but viii accept the principle of free trade
ON the whole river.
A FIRE occurred the evening of the 10Th
in the Brush Electric Light Works at Tole
do, o., damaging the machinery and
building from $4,000 to $4,000. The loss
is covered by insurance.
THE Evangelist, Moody, opened three
days convention of Christian workers in
Buffalo, n. Y, on the 18th. He was
greeted with an immense audience. Con-
siderable interest was manifested.
EIGHT Texas negroes called on Mayor
Edison of New York on the Goth and wanted
to be sent to Liberia.
THE German Reichstag was formally
opened on the Goth and the Imperial speech
was read.
ANOTHER sharp frost at Paris on the
Goth had favorable effect in checking the
cholera.
THE National Farmers Congress, in ses-
sion at Nashville, Tenn, adjourned on the
10th to meet again in New Orleans in Feb
ruary.
THE Nova Scotia sugar refinery at Hall
fax has been compelled to shut down on
account of dizziness of trade.
TIE Of AUr hoS in.
formation that within year 4, 500, 900 trees
have been planted in Nebraska.
The National Base Ball League in it's
session at New York ON the Goth, made
changes in the playing rules. N. Y. Young
was elected President.
STUDENTS of Harvard College want the
rules changed 50 that those over twenty
one years of age need not attend chapel
services if they do not desire to do so.
THE Treasury Department ON the Goth
purchased $50, IO5 ounces of silver for the
New Orleans and Philadelphia minis.
THE Mayor OF Philadelphia, Pa, sent a
message to the Select and Common Coun-
ellis on the Goth recommending that the old
Liberty Bell, now in Independence Hall, be
sent to the New Orleans Exposition.
FRESH troubles have broken out at Chi
cago concerning the quotations of the
Board of Trade, the "bucket shops" being
the main source from which they spring.
The Board of Directors of the Baltimore
s. Ohio Railway Company on the Goth
elected the following officers: President,
Robert Garrett; First Vice President,
Samuel Spencer: Second Vice President,
Thomas III. King: General Manager, Brad
ford Durham; General Superintendent,
William NJ. Clements: G. j. Foreacie,
Superintendent trans-Ohio Division.
THE condition of u. H DeYoEng, pro-
prietor of the San Francisco Chronicle,
who was shot by SpreckIes, Is worse than
at first reported. The doctors are afraid
supporation will cause his death
THE annual report read at the meeting
of the National Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton showed that SIDJ.gB) had been sent to
Oregon in behalf of the cause. William
Dudley Foulke, OF Indiana, was elected
President. George William Curtis and
Senator Hoar are among the yice-Presi-
dents.
In the Brooklyn rink on the evening of
the goth the Democrats celebrated in
elaborate manner the election OF Cleveland
and Hendricks. The Vice-President elect,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and others
made speeches. The appearance of Mr..
Hendricks was greeted with WARM APP
plause.
STUDENTS of the University at Madrid
made a tumultuous demonstration in the
streets on the 20th because of the action
of one of the Bishops. Police had to in
terfere.
THE Siamese Government has signifed