Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-06


affiuent circumstances, literally starved to
death recently in Philadelphia, Pa.
The Executive Committee of the South.
western Railway Association decided or
the 30th that the Missouri Pacific was moi
to be recognized as Chicago Road since
it is no longer in the Wabash combination
KING LEOPOLD of Belgium has presented
King Humbert of Italy with a silver medal
for devotion to the cholera -stricken people
of Naples.
Seine region of France, and Italy has
established a quarantine against all ports
from Dieppeto Cherbourg.
A CONVENTION of Christian workers, LED
by Moody and Sankey, was in session al
| Worcester, Mass, ON the 31st.
The massfng of Chinese troops in Uhe
vicinity of Shanghai and Pekin is still
going on.
THE Captain of the steamer Maasdam
which was burned at sea, makes state.
| ment concerning the disaster. Not a mar
was lost, and all arrived ON the steamer
Rhein at New York on the 31st.
THE result of the German elections di.
vides the representatives among more than
six different parties.
j. J. BAILIE, discharged book-keeper OF
the National Bank of America, Chicago, is
accused of being $4,000 short in his ac-
counts.
THE Congo Conference will meet at Der.
lin November 18th. Prince Bismarck will
preside at the opening and closing of the
conference.
THE French Government has sent an Off
cial representative to Corea to watch the
interests of Frenchmen there, as the Ger
man influence predominates in that coun-
try.
BILL BASS, colored, was hanged at
Paris, Tex; George Hill, in Cherokee
County, Ga, and Ike Fain, colored, at
Kingston, Tenn, were also legally
launched into eternity on the 31st.
IT is reported that rebels recently cap
tured an English accommodating party south
of Dongola.
SECRETARY MoCULLoCH took the oath
of office and assumed charge of the Treas
ury Department. on the 31st.
PRESTON d. JONES, editor of the Provi-
dence (R. - Sunday Dispatch, was found
dead in his room on the morning of the
31st. Supposed cause, apoplexy.
THE Association for the Advancement OF
Women, in session at Baltimore, Nd,
elected Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, President.
FRANK BOWMAN, founder of the Men
delssohn Glee Club, died in New York on
the 30th.
PETER FINKLE, known as 'Bis Thunder
during the old time anti troubles in
New York State, died at Schodack, N. Y.
on the 30th.
THE lookup at Edgerton, Miss, was par
TALLY burned on the night of the 18th, and
a young man named Gunderson, confined
therein, was burned to DEATH
ALBERT and Charles Goodman were ex-
ecuted on the same scaffold in the st. Bar
nard Parish Ua.) Jail on the 31st, for the
murder of Louis Maspero last winter.
Two iron roofers fell from the roof of an
elevator at Duluth, Mimi, on the 3ist, a
distance of nearly one hundred feet, and
were mashed almost to a jelly.
DoMINICK MCCARTNEY wants to fight
John L. Sullivan for 5000, and has de-
posted $500 forfeit with his def.
BEN HEFFNER, farmer living near Lima,
O., killed his wife ON the 31st, and then
tried to kill his son and daughter in-law.
FIFTY pounds of dynamite We're stolen
from a factory at Kindberg, Styria, on the
31st. The people were uneasy over the
probable outcome. 4f
IT is estimated that the decrease of
the public debt for October was S., $50 900.
In the Youngstown mine disaster inves-
tigation the Coroner's jury returned a
verdict that the men came to their death
from an explosion of fire-damp, together
with effects of after damp.
WHILE George K. Raposky, John Mollen-
WITT and John Unglovitch, Hungarians,
were cutting coal in a mine breach, near Cen
tralia, Pa, on the 31st huge rock fell,
killing them.
DAVID JONES, Sanford Hastings and
Charles Higgins broke out of the Sandusky
(O.) Jail on the 31st and escaped.
GEORGE SMITH, ON trial for the murder OF
Henry Struck at Lancaster, Pa, on the
31st, pleaded guilty to murder in the Sec
ond degree. Winfield Smith, indicted with
his brother George for the same crime, was
acquitted.
THE coinage in the United States mint
at Philadelphia for October was $2,411 900,
which includes Sl,300,00o in silver dollars
and SOL 800 in dimes.