Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-20

A SEVERE shock of earthquake was fel?
In various parts of England on the 14th.
The Right Hon. George J. Shaw Lefevre
has been appointed Postmaster-G General OF
Great Britain, vice Fawcett, deceased
THE New York Police Commissioners
have issued orders that no more glove
fights be allowed in that city.
DELEGATES to the st. Louis Cattle Con-
vention were reported as arriving rapidly
on the 14th, and numerous kilograms were
received from parties en- route. Indica-
tions point to a large attendance.
THE one hundredth anniversary of the
conservation of Bishop Seabury (Episco-
par was celebrated in many of the East
ern cities ON the 14th
JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the tragedian, re-
turned to Chicago on the 18th, from whence
he stated his intention of proceeding to
New York and organizing new company.
TRUMAN B. HANDY, a well-known COM
mission merchant Of Cincinnati, o., was
thrown from a buggy on the 14th and
suffered a fracture of the skull.
RETURNS to the Dominion Government
show that 11,71S immigrants arrived in
Canada during the month of October.
AT Buffalo, N. Y. on the 18th, Peter
Lewis Otto shot his wife dead.
FIRE destroyed Doxey's Opera-house at
Anderson, Ind, on the night of the 14th.
An -protectionist league has been
formed at Paris.
THE cool weather is having favorable
effect in aiding in the suppression of cholere
in Paris.
An extensive cotton-seed oil-miI at Mon
roe, La, burned on the 18th. Loss, $780,
600.
AN order has been issued from the Treas
ury Department prohibiting on and after
November 18th the Importation of old rags
from all infected Mediterranean
and French ports.
AT the close Of the canvass in New York
County, ON the 18th, fourteen Assembly
Districts out of twenty -four had been
finished, showing no material change from
unofficial figures.
THE British Government has sent 200
tons of torpedoes to protect coaling stations
in China.
FIFTEEN persons were killed in railway
collision near the depot in Hanau, Ger.
many, ON the 14th.
A DISPATCH received at Paris on the 14th
stated that the French forces were in pos
session of Tamsui.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY will attend the Congo
Conference as the technical adviser Of the
American delegate.
THE joint executive committee of the
trunk line commission met in New York
on the 14th and decided to restore east
bound tariff rates as adopted last July.
ALL of the men in Hoyt's large shoe fac
tory, at Haverhill, Mass, quit work on the
14th because the proprietor refused to re-
instate a discharged employee.
CLEvELAND's plurality in the city of
Boston is II 746.
VIM. A. DUNCAN, reelected to Congress
from the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Dis
trict, died at Gettysburg on the 14th.
An amusing feature of Democratic
torchlight procession at Columbia, S. c.,
on the night of the 18th, was the appear
ance of seventy commercial travellers in
Mother Hubbard dresses.
The London Daily NeUs states that Mat
thew Arnold has resigned his post in the
Education Office, and proposes to begin
heightened tour of the United States about
Christmas.
A PASSENGER train on the Houston &
Texas Central Road was thrown down an
near Hampstead, Tex, on the
18th. Several persons were killed and
number wounded.
In the eighteen hours up to p. m. of the
18th, fifty-two new cases of cholera and
twenty -one deaths were reported in Paris,
and forty eight new cases were reported
between six o'clock and midnight.
THERE were 1877 failures in the United
States reported during the week ended
the 14th against 166 in the preceding
week, and 205, 167 and 116 in the corre-
spending weeks of 1883, 1882 and 1881 re-
spectively.
THE President has decided to appoint
Deputy Commissioner of Pensions O. P.
G. Clarke, to succeed Commissioner Dud-
ley.
FIRE at the Grand Trunk Railway Depot
in Mount Clemens, Mich, the night of the
18th, destroyed five cars and property ag-
gregating $4,000, most of it belonging tc
local merchants.
MRS. LILY DUNLAP, of New York, was
arrested in st. Louis, Mo-, on the 14th,
charged with robbing man of S125 at the
Everett House. Her husband was also
taken in, being charged with completely in
the case.