Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-09-25

FoREsr nres wers-reported spreading In
Michigan on the l9sh.
AFUGrrIvR from Dongola states that
General Stewart has sacked and burned
Berber.
GENERAL WoLsKLEY is preparing to be-
gin the ascent Of the Nile October 10Th.
ISAAC JACOBSON, who murdered George
Bedell, his employer, was hanged at Chi
cago on the 19sh.
| WHILE feeding hogs on the 10th, Gid
Henderson, a farmer near Hopkinsville,
KY, was assasinated.
Iris again reported that China wants to
settle peaceabiy her littto affair with
France. .-
BREEDERS of fine cattle in the Blue
| pleuro-pneumonia.
! AT Newbern. Tenn, on the 10Th, an I'M
known man deliberately laid his head on
the railroad track and allowed train to
cut it off.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended the
| evening of the 18th, there were 2s3 deaths
from cholera at Naples and 437 fresh
| cases. -. .4.
GENERAL GRANT and Blaine had q con-
| ference in New York on the 10Th.
| THE Austrian Consul at Khartoum has
not been heard Of since last April. It is
| thought he was killed. ..s-
| SENATOR PENDLEToN, of Ohio, is recov-
| ering from a severe siege of sickness.
RINDsKoFF Bros. & Co., clothing mer-
chants, New York, made an assignment
on the 10Th. Liabilities reported at $780,
| 600. The assets are in round numbers
about 81. G00,O0O.
| PRIDDY, the Pittsburg oarsman, is al
| most paralyzed in the arms, and re-
port has been started that he was tamper-
| ed with before his recent race with Norris
| the Bostonian.
| WIVES and sisters Of the striking min
ers around Coal Centre, Pa, have or
ganized ''tin-pan Brigade" and propose
! to serenade the non-Union men every
morning until they quit work.
| GOVERNOR CRITrENDEN of Missouri has
appointed Mr.. S. D. Barlow, of the Iron
Mount ain Railway, agent of the State to
make selections of and obtain patents for
certain lands granted by Congress, July
2s, 1866.
| The latest name proposed as the sue
| cessor to the late Judge Folger is Thomas
Hillhouse, of New York, President of a
Trust Company. Gresham has declined,
and it is said Morton will not get the APP
| pontment.
A DISTINCT earthquake shock was felt on
the 10Th at Detroit and other points in
Michigan; at Toledo, Cleveland, Cincin-
natl and various parts of Ohio, and also
in many parts of Indiana and Kentucky.
In some towns buildings were almost
shaken down, and the greatest excitement
| followed.
THE Agricultural Bureau sends out a
| in 70 to SSxpb in India -
and endeavors to show that that country
has no advantage over America.
| DETECTIVES claim that they have dis
covered "Mollie Mcguire" organizations
in the coal and iron districts of Pennsyl-
vania. A Hungarian miner was horribly
murdered recently and hung up. The
| feeling against the Hungaria MS is intense.
| UNITED STATES MINISTER FOSTER had
! a three hours conference on the 10Th with
| the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs in
| Madrid, presumably upon the subject Of
the proposed commercial treaty between
Spain and the United States.
| GENERAL SCALES, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor of North Carolina,
while crossing Cowee Mountain on the
| 18th, was thrown down precipice by the
upsetting of his buggy. The General
! caught in tree, which saved his life, but
the buggy was smashed to pieces and his
horse killed.
| MILTON, Ind, was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire the night of the 18Th.
| The Opera-house, drugstore, hotel, bust
ness houses, in fact, almost everything ex-
cept the Wayne Agricultural Works was
| consumed.
IT is understood that the Porte has adj
dressed note to the powers protesting
against England's action i'll regard to the
Egyptian debt.
AT political demonstration at Utica
Ind, the night of the 18th Melvin Swartz,
unmarried, was shot and killed by a by
stander named James Clark. Swartz was
taking part in the parade No cause is as
signed for the murder.
SIXTEEN frame residences and stores
burned at Berlin, Wis, on the 10 b. An
hour after the flames broke out the build
ings were consumed. 1t was feared the
whole town would burn. All the inhab-
itants were out fighting the fire.