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

huAhOCA Ok II CSn CoSoS VI CuO1oTd al Naples
on the 18th, as well as deaths, although the
mortality is still heavy.
+ THE New York State Liquor Dealers As.
ISOLATION met at Syracuse on the 18th.
They had a street parade.
The reunion Of the Army of the Cumber.
Land commenced at Rochester, N. Y, on
the 18th. General Sheridan was present,
and held a reception. tt......-.f...*
THE total value of domestic breadstuffs
exported during the month Of August was
SIG, 1855 during the same month of 1888,
$1s.s7 .276. o-..-s.E -.tFi.-.s=. an
JAMES IRWIN & Co.'s extensive vitriol
works at Pittsburgh, Pa, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th.
Two thousand French troops landed at
Kapal and attacked and defeated the Chi.
nese, who reiterated after heavy loss. ..-
GERMAN papers intimate that within
twelve monGhs at least Herbert Bismarck
will be appointed German ambassador to
| London. +.s
Two hundred Iowa saloon keepers held
| a meeting at Council Bluffs on the 18th
| and organized an anti Prohibition Asso.
citation.
On account Of restitution idle miners in
the vicinity OF Athens, O., are committing
depredations upon small stock belonging
| to the farmers.
| SINCE General Gresham seems to hest
tate about taking the Treasury portfolio,
it is the current belief in Washington that
Mr.. Coon will succeed the late Judge Fol-
ger.
RICHARD HOWELL, of Manchester, En-
| gland, won the ten-miie race at the bicycle
tournament, Springfield, Mass, on the 18th.
| THE founder of the order of the Sisters
of Mercy, Rev. Mother Superior Mary
Francis Xaviver Waldo. died at Manches-
ter, N. H., on the 18th in the seventy
fourth year of er age.
THE Cambria Iron Company at Johns
town, Pa, employing 5000 men, posted a
notice on the 18th, reducing the wages from
ten to twenty per cent, owing to the de-
preston of trade.
! THE American Political Alliance on the
18th nominatedW. L. Ellsworth, of Penn
sylvania, for President, and Charles H.
Waterman, of New York, for Vice-Presi-
dent.
The Hawaiian Prince, who was taken
with cholera at Naples, died on the 18th.
IN Medina County, O., Lehon Fry pro-
posed to Mrs. Garneau, widow. She re-
fused, and he thereupon shot her, though
not fatally. He then went out and killed
| himself. -fs
THE second pageant by the Order of
Cincinnatus at Cincinnati on the night of
the 18th attracted large number of visit
ors to that city. The floats, twenty-five in
number, represented scenes from Shake
| speare's plays.
THE Journal of Commerce, New York,
| has reports from cloth mills showing that
| owing to dizziness of trade the lessening of
| production will amount to IL, 900 900 yards,
or 100000 suits of mems clothing.
IT is estimated that of 5000 men usually
| employed when the mines are in opera
ton in the Pennsylvania pools, not more
| than 600 are now at work, owing to the
| strike. The strikers have ''tin-pan bri-
| gade," which has been organized to sere-
| made the non-union mon.
IT is not pleasant for Gar or Emperor
to travel in Europe. The route over which
the three Emperors returned home
was examined to guard against dynamite,
and all the employees of the line were re-
quired to swear allegiance before the
| trains moved.
ALBERT BELL, aged sixty, was found
suspended by the neck from mantel-
piece at his home in Baltimore, Nd, on
18th. Being cripple and goaded by
poverty is supposed to have been the
cause of the suicide.
| r. A. DAY, a prominent mining man and
| an sx-Aldernan of Leadville, Col, while
ascending the shaft of the Vanderbilt mine
ON the 17th, in a bucket, fell a distance OF
100 feet and was instantly killed.
THE total earnings of the Northern Pa
cific Road for ethe fiscal year were $2,
6O3,575.
THE stability of number of leading
Liverpool firms is questioned, owing to the
low prices of cotton, corn, provisions and
sugar.
RICHARD A. FLYNN, twelve-year-old
boy of Worcester, Mass, shot and killed
Eddy Sheridan, same age, with pistol on
the 18th. He did not know it was loaded.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH appeared at the
Opera-house in Milwaukee on the 18Th,
having recovered from his recent illness.
| HENRY M. STANLEY, the African explor-
err delivered a lecture in London on the
18th upon the Congo country.
HENRY IRVING and Ellen Terry sailed
for Montreal on the 18th.
APPLICATION was made on the 18th for
the appointment of a receiver for the
Bankers & Merchants Telegraph Com
pany.
PETER CLARK, Marshal at Albany, N.
Y, went to the house of John A. Hearn to
|
threw him over a railing, which caused his
death.
THE New Jersey Convention of the Ma
tional Labor party was held at Newark or
the 18th, and Butler was Endorsed.
AN American schooner was seized a
Viadiv ostok, Russia, recently, for having
contraband goods ON board; and an En-
glish schooner was also seized for illega
hunting.
THE Illinois State Board of Agriculture
has issued call for a National Conven
ton of those interested in the breeding anc
management of the various classes o
stock, to be held at Chicago, November ID
1884. -t
The Secretary of the Interior has rem
/ dered an important decision in reference
| to lands within the granted limits of tn
Northern Pacific Railroad released from
| reservation from the Indians.
The new education bill in Belgium
causes great dissatisfaction. multitude
gathered in front of the royal palace on thu
18th, hooted at the king and shouted "Viv'
la Republiaue."
THE attorneys for the Indianapolis Sen
tinel filed bill of discovery in the Blain
libel suit on the 18th. 1t is now clalme'
that all the paper stated was true, ant
that they want an order issued at once TO
the presence of the plaintiff before tn
court to answer the questions filed few
; weeks since; and if that is not done the.
ask that fur Their proceedings be perpetual.
/ stayed.