Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

BIsMARcE and Stanley had a long con-
ference on the Congo question on the 18th.
THERE were thirteen deaths form cholera
at Gran, France, on the 18th.
The third annual parade of the Central
Trade and Labor Assembly of New Or
| leans, La, was held on the 18th, and was q
pronounced success.
THE residence of John Steinmeyer, pro-
prietor of the brewery at Flagstaff, Ari-
coma, was burned on the night of the Dist.
He was burned to a crisp. His wife and
child We're rescued.
POLICEMEN GRANT and Devins of New
ark, N. J., have been committed to await
trial on a charge of highway robbery and
attempted shooting. While drunk ON duty
the night of the 23d, they attacked man,
robbed him and fired several shots at him
| while he was endeavoring to escape. Two
other policemen who failed to arrest the
guilty officers were suspended by the
Mayor.
The Emperor Francis Joseph sent an
q utograph letter to Count Bylandt
Reydt, on the occasion of the compile
tion of fifty years of continuous service
in the army. The Emperor, Archdukes
and others of the royal family visited the
Count on the oath. Emperor Williams of
Germany and Minister of War sent con-
CALCULATIONS to the aged General.
On the night of the oath fire was discov-
cred in the building in Chicago occupied
by the Chicago Paper Company and 9TH
ers. The paper company's loss is $50, 600;
| insurance, $4,000. Other minor losses,
chiefly by printers, 5000: fully insured.
The building is owned by Treat Campbell,
and is damaged 5000; insured.
TIE Iowa State Board of Canvassers
completed the canvass of the returns for
| Presidential Electors on the oath with the
following result: Blaine, 1917 ,OS9; Fusion,
| ,2s6; Republican plurality, 1903. 1t is
| impossible to fix the vote for the st. John
Electors exactly, as there was no uni
| formity among the ballots throughout the
State. st. Johns vote, however, was very
close to 1900. The canvass of the Con-
gressional and State returns will begin De-
cember 4th.
The weavers in the mills at sTaunton
Mass, have accepted a reduction of
wages.
CLEvELAND's plurality in Kentucky is
81, O73; majority over all, 1922.
A NEW crematory was dedicated at Lam
caster, Pa, on the Goth. One body was in
cinerated.
Ell MAHDr has from Il, 900 to 10000 of his
men in camp around Khartoum, but Cor
don still holds them at bay.
THE visible supply of wheat on the 25th
was Al 10000 bushels; corn, $685., $50
bushels; oats, 3, IL, 900 bushels.
THE pudding mill of the Bethlehem
(Pa.) Iron Company, which has been idle
since the early part of the past summer,
will resume December LIST.
MRS. JOSEPH SHIRLEY and her thirteen
year-old daughter were killed by lightning
near Point Pleasant, w. Va, ON the 18th.
THE official count in New Jersey gives
Cleveland 1852 plurality. ST. John re-
ceived {, los votes in the State.
THE British troops are being removed
from Dongola on account of the prevalence
of smallpox among the native forces.
SEVERAL of the large woollen mills in
Rhode Island have begun running on three
quarters time in order to prevent fur
Their production without entire sus-
pension.
The House Committee on Appropriations
met in Washington on the 25th to map out
work for the December session.
THE Berlin Museum has purchased Du-
rer's portrait of Jerome Holzschuler for
$25O, 200.
A NUMBER of the leading ladies of Que
bee have joined in petitioning for the COM
mutation of the death sentence of Mrs.
Boutel.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the New York, Lake Erie & Western
Railroad was held on the 18th. The knife
is to be put into salaries and new era of
retrenchment and economy inaugurated.
John King was elected President.
THE Democratic National Committee
will have general charge of the arrange
ments for the Inauguration ceremonies and
festivities, aided by a committee of citi-
zens of Washington.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is as yet uncertain
whether it will be practicable for him to
be present at the opening of the New Or
leans Exposition. He will, in any event,
visit the Exposition some time in Deem
Der or January.
Hon. JAMES L. PUGH was elected United
States Senator from Alabama on the 18th.
Hon. JOHN S. SAVAGE, formerly member
of Congress for the Wilmington (O.) Dis
trict, died suddenly at Wilmington on the
18th.
1T was stated by Louisville (Ky.) paper
on the 18th that the reported scourge in
Kentucky and West Virginia was myth,
A FOOT of snow was reported at Grand
Rapids, Mich, on the 25th, and still fall
ing. Sleighing was good.
THE Vermont Legislature defeated the
local option bill on the 18th by vote of
123 to %.
AUSTIN F. KINGsBURY, of Ponca, Neb.,
has been debarred from practice before the
Interior Department.
The one hundred and first anniversary
of Evacuation Day was celebrated in New
York on the 18th by hosting a flag over
a dinner by the veterans of 1912.
KING LEOPOLD, of Belgium, sent an auto
graph letter to the Emperor of Germany
thanking the latter for his recognition of
the Congo Association.
THE steamship City of Toxic arrived in
San Francisco on the 18th, bringing fifty
six cases of Chinese exhibits for the New
Orleans Exposition.
AN attempt was made on the 18th to
Hamilton Sc Dayton Railroad near the
Cincinnati city limits. The Instructions
were discovered in time to prevent mis-
chief.
THE thermometer at Mt. Washington, N.
Y, indicated a temperature Of fourteen
degrees below zero on the 25th.
QUEEN VICTORIA and the Duchess of AL
bany intend making pilgrimage to
Cannes, the scene of the Duke of Albany's
death, next spring.
EDWIN 81. TAYLOR, of Vassar, Mich, has
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