Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-21

The Union Pacific strikers at Denver
resumed work on the 16sh.
TINE Great Falls Cotton Mills at Dover,
N. b., have shut down until the first
proximo. ~
THE Gordon relief expedition will push
forward to Wady Halfa as speedily as pcs
sible.
BEN SLICK, engineer at mill at VIII
| liams' Station, Mich, was fatally stabbed
on the 18th by tramp.
CAPoUL, the .well-known tenor, is to
marry the daughter Of wealthy land.
owner of England.
Rev. Dr.. JOHN BROwN, aged ninety three
| and the Oldest Episcopal minister in New
York State, died at Newburg ON the 18th.
j. C. BURROWS. of the Fourth Michigan
District has been nominated for reelection
to Congress.
CRop prospects in Ontario are much i'm.
proved, and there will probably be some
thing like an average yield.
NUMEROUS deaths have been caused re
Gently near st. Petersburg, Russia, from
misunderstanding, induced by stings of flies
that had come in contact with cattle in
fected with rinderpest. f
EDMUND MCCURTAIN, brother of the
present incumbent, has been elected Gov.
ernors of the Choctaw Nation.
SAKE, a jockey, was instantly killed at
the Brighton Beach races on the 10Th by
his horse falling.
TWELVE thousand people attended the
demonstration of the Irish National socie-
ties at Ogden's Grove, Chicago, on the
10th.
A SERIOUS accident happened to train
on the Cincinnati Short Line on the 10Th,
but, strange to say, no one was fatally in
jured.
STRIKERS who went as missionaries to
the fourth pool mining district in Penn
sylvania induced the men at one camp tc
come out.
IT is reported that the Presidency of the
Erie Road has been rendered to John
King, formerly receiver of the Ohio &
Mississippi.
The friends of the late William Whist
Ter, who was member Of the Greedy par
ty, determined to exhume the remains and
examine them.
SEVERAL firemen in Cincinnati were
overcome by heat on the 18th while fight
ing a confagration that destroyed nearly
$100, 900 worth of property.
Six hundred of the delegates to the Irish
National Convention at Boston went on an
excursion rendered by the Boston City
Government on the 10Th.
ACCORDING to returns from the Choctaw
Nation, Edmund McCurtain, brother of the
present incumbent, is elected Governor of
Choctaw by majority of over 200.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for fe-
male walking match, six days, go-as you
please, at Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Coroner of Long Island City in
formed Miss Dora Buck, of Lincoln, Neb.,
that he would exhume the remains of
Private Henry if she so desired.
REPORTS to Bradstreet's for the week
ended the 18th showed no Improvement in
the general trade of the country, but in
the West and Southwest merchants are
purchasing literally on account of the fine
crops. S @
THE United States Commissioner at Gal.
weston, Tex, issued a warrant for the
arrest of Governor Ireland of Texas,
for alleged violation of the United
States statutes in reference to mis-
cegenation case in that State. The mat
ter furnishes lively topic for discussion.
The steamer Beda, just arrived, left the
Arctic Ocean July 10Th. She reports that
the whaling catch will be light owing to
the extreme severity of the winter. At
Point Hope the ice was aground in six
fathoms of water.
JACOB GAuDAUR, of ST. Louis. No., has
challenged Peter 81. Conley, of Portland,
Me-, to three-mile race at Creve Coeur
Lake for $1,000 side, and has deposited
800 forfeit.
BOTH Houses of the Virginia Legislature
have passed resolutions providing Tor the
appointment of joint committee to ex.
anime and report whether there is an cleo
ton law in the State or not.
SUPERINTENDENT THOMPSON of the Rail
way Mail Service, left Washington on the
10th, on an official tour of inspection
through New York and the New England
States.
LATEST advices received stated that the
French and Chinese ironclads at Foo Chow
were cleared for action, and with steam
up were awaiting orders to attack.
FIFTEEN deaths from cholera occurred
at Marseilles during the twenty -four hours
ended at 0 p. m. on the 18th. The weather
was cooler.