Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

LORD LYTToN has applied for an injunc-
ton against the publication of his late
fathers letters to Lady Lytton, his
mother.
The body OF John Dunn was found
the evening of the 18th in the creek in
Emigrant Canyon, U. T., held under a
wagon loaded with wood. The wagon
had upset and pinioned him down, crush
ing out his life.
HENRY MIcHAUD, aged twenty years,
while saving wood with circular saw at
Berne, Ind, on the 14th, was thrown
against the saw and fatally injured by
the saw cutting him nearly in two.
j. GAuMEs and family, of Linton Town
ship, jefferson County, Ohio, on the 14th
drank from spring of water which was
poisoned, and at last accounts were lying
at the point of death.
BALTIMORE m erchants had confer
ence with Pennsylvania Railroad officials
on the 14th in reference to the move
made by that company against the Balti-
more 6 Ohio line.
Hon. JUsTUs P. MORRILL, received the
necess airy votes in the Vermont Legisla-
ture on the 14th to insure his election rs
United States Senator.
NILSSON will not come to America this
season.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended the
| evening of the 18th, 235 new cases of chol-
era were reported in Italy, and 116
! deaths.
NEAR Grant, Pa, on the 18th, masked
men robbed farmer of $1,7oO.
RAILWAY passenger agents held a
meeting at Chicago on the 18th, and dis
cussed the cut in rates to Missouri River
points.
RUIZ, the revolutionist, hoisted Co
lomblan flag over a steamer at Pana-
ma, and put to sea on the 18th. A yes
sci with troops is pursuing him.
Two Cincinnati negroes quarrefed over
the election on the 18th. One was shot,
the other stabbed. Both will probably
die.
HEAVY frosts were reported from va
rious sections of the country on the 18th.
THE mills at Fall River, Mass, agreed
on the 18th to shut down for a week. Un-
less trade improves they will remain
closed for an indefinite period.
A BRONZE statue of John Harvard,
founder of Harvard College, was unveiled
at Boston ON the 10Th.
THE Vermont Prohibitionists have in
dorsed st. John and Daniel and placed
electors in the field.
JAMES LEGG & Co., manufacturers OF
fancy cassimeres, Burrillville, r. l., have
assigned. Liabilities variously estimated
from $500, 900 to $685.
THE mills at Minneapolis, Mimi, are
turning out an immense quantity of flour,
and new wheat is being ground almost ex-
clusively. One of the mills in a single
day recently turned out 5,467 barrels of
-four.
AN order has been issued that all grain
breadstuffs and provender needed by the
German army must be purchased direct
from producers, and avoid middle men.
THE Snow paper mill at Wauchusett,
Mass, owned by Croker, Burbank Sc Co.,
was damaged $4,000 by fire on the 18Th.
Insurance, $4,000.
The Chenango Valley Touring mills,
Geo. G. Moon 6 Co., proprietors, and pa.
per mills of Cary, Nash & Ogden, Port
Dickinson, suburb of Binghamton, n.
Y, were entirely destroyed by fire the eve
ming of the 18th. The loss is estimated a
$50, 900. 1t is a serious blow to the COM
munity.
WHILE cunning near Auburn, N. Y, on
the 10th John Keogan, aged forty-five,
fatally shot himself through the abdomen.
REV. JAS. F. CHALFANT, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, of Cincinnati,
died on the 18th.
The collar and-elbow wrestling match
at Boston, Mass, on the 18th, for 500
side and the championship of the world,
between II. NJ. Derfur and John McMa-
hon, was won by Mcmahon.
A MARKET wagon containing VIM. Prior
and little boy and girl named Katie
Dresline and Robert Jones, while crossing
the track at Elkton, Nd, on the 18th, was
struck by the New York express on the
Philadelphia, Baltimore 6 Wilmington
Road. All three were instantly killed and
the wagon smashed. The horses were also
killed.
THERE was heavy fall of snow in the
New England States ON the 10th.
ENGLISH detectives are on the watch for
dynamiters from Belgium.
THE forest fires have destroyed much
valuable cedar timber in New Jersey.
Provisions are extremely scarce in
Egypt from Berber to Khartoum.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Road has cut
passenger rates from New York to Chica-
go and st. Louis.
JOHN KING was elected President of the
New York, Lake Erie & Western Rail-
road on TIE 10th to succeed Hugh j.
Jewett.
DURING the twenty -four hours ended the
10Th 173 fresh cases of cholera were re-
ported in Italy and lightweight deaths.
HARVEY FOSTER sprang forward to save
Miss Lizzie Wallace from passing train
at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 10Th, and both
were horribly mangled.
A HUNGARIAN was arrested on a steamer
at Liverpool on the 10th, and in his trunk
was foundNa large quantity of dynamite.
He was subsequently released.
THE National Breeders bench show
opened at Philadelphia, Pa, on the 16 tn.
1t includes two Esquimaux dogs of the
Greedy relief expedition.
The thirteenth annual convention of the
National Board of Steam Navigation con-
cluded its labors in New York on the 10th.
Henry G. Haarstick, of st. Louis, was
elected member of the Executive Board.
The Duke of Brunswick has had another
relapse and is believed to be dying.
Fl. NJ. DUFUR, who was defeated in the
wrestling match on the 18th, challenges
his opponent, John Mcmahon, to another
contest for 500 to 81 900 side.
THE schooner Charles Valentine from
Halifax, N. s., for Sydney, G. B., was
totally wrecked at Dry Breaker, near
Loufsberg, the night of the 18th. No trace
of the crew could be found, and it is be-
lieved all were drowned.
HERR vow ALvEN SLEBEN, the new Ger
man Minister, was presented to President
Arthur by Secretary Frelinghuysen on the
18th.
THE bank, Opera Hall and number of
stores and business places were destroyed
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