Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-28
Personal AND GENERAL.

tied behind them.
OWING to improvements in the trade the
coke producers have decided to carry on
operations as usual in Pennsylvania.
A. NJ. West, candidate for vice-Presi-
dent with Butler, of Massachusetts,, form
ally accepts the nomination. ~ &
THE letter OF Hon. Thos. a. Hendricks.
accepting the nomination as the Demo-
cratic candidate for Vice-President, is
published. 1t is the briefest on record.
a The Republican State Convention of
Connecticut, ON the second ballot, nom.
mated Henry B. Harrison for Governor.
The seventh meeting OF the American
Bar Association convened at Saratoga, N.
Y, on the Goth. President Cortland Parker
delivered the opening address. r. 81.
The German flag has been hoisted over
the territory south of Congo, in Africa,
which belongs to Hamburg merchants.
q The Michigan Democratic State Con-
vention at Grand Rapids, Endorsed six of
the Greenback electors and nominated
seven of their own.
THE compositors in the Commercial i'd
Uocdte, New York, struck on the 2Utb
against a reduction of wages. The paper
is supporting Butler for President. M 90.
THERE were only two deaths from chol-
era at Toulon on the Goth and twelve at
Marseilles. tse.- 80 fsta- ''t - %
PAUL PoPULoRUM, tanner. Chicago, has
assigned, with liabilities of 100000. 5i
THE Democratic State Convention of
New Jersey met at Trenton on the goth.
General Mcclellan was temporary chair
man. A great deal of enthusiasm was
manifested. .,., 4......- -aah.r
THE Michigan Greenback Convention
met at Detroit on the Goth, Endorsed Gov
ernor Begole's administration and nomi-
mated him for reelection as Governor of
the State. -3. -
FRANCE now demands an indemnity of two
hundred million francs from China, and if
it is not speedily paid the French minister
will be withdrawn from Pekin.
THE Breeders Gazette publishes state
ment that contagious euro-pneumonia
has undoubtedly found lodgment among
cattle herds in Illinois. Is, ...r
DoRMAN B. EATON, of the Civil Service
Commission, writes letter on the assess
ment of clerks, in which he says they are
| to act as any other citizens, pay or not pay,
as they please. - ......l.
THE striking miners in Pennsylvania
have determined to continue in their de-
mands. The producers claim they can
pay wages o"AiS " oiO
strong competition in the kanawha. ti
GOVERNOR KNOTT has pardoned James
Cunningham and Owen Bradley, Ken.
lucky Penitentiary inmates, who rendered
valuable assistance to the officers during
the revolt at the prison recently. .} .g4.
THE Democratic State Convention of
Texas nominated Governor John Ireland,
present incumbent, for reelection by ac-
clamatien, and Barnett Gibbs, of Dallas,
| for Lieutenant i' - I'D .-LstDlt
TELEGRAPHERs who served during the
| war, and those who have been following
| the pursuit for twenty years, were in ses :
| sion at st. Louis, Mo-, on the Goth. The
''o1d-timsrs" held a pleasant reuni IN. An
/ excursion down the river was taken in the
/ evening. .s,..- fs.... t.sts
THE sixteenth annual reunion of the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland, of
which Lieutenant General Sheridan is
President, will be held in Rochester, n.
Y, September 18th and 18th (Chickamauga
weekly ..
| AGENT DYER of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indian Agency has informed
| the officials of the Indian Office that some
of the Indians are abusing their boys who
have returned from the Carlisle school.
| They do not wish their boys to continue in
| the "white mans road" s's'
THE Northwestern Lumbermen's Asso-
it, assslen in Ghieage aeddt o1a
for the season not later than November /.
1t is thought the result of this will be to
reduce the product from $500, GOD to 1000
QUO. It was thought the cut of logs :or
winter should be reduced forty per cent.
INDIAN Agent MCGILLICUDDY OF Pine
Ridge agency in letter to the Com
missioner of Indian affairs says
that ''Son-of- Nowater'' recently at
tempted to take the agents life.
Ana article in cheap publication saying
the Indians had right to kill McGillicud-
dy caused the Indian to make the attempt.
He was arrested and held subject to the
order ofthe Indian officer ..y
+ Cool weather has greatly improved the
health OF British TROOPS in Egypt.
s Ii FANG Poo, Chinese Minister to
France, received his passports on the 81 st.
PROF. A. MUELLER NEUHoFF, the emf
nent musician, died suddenly al Cleve-.
land, O., on the 21ss. q,
! Two persons, implicated in the Dublin
scandals were sentenced ON the 21st to two
years in prison. H .'A t5il-
OTIS GRAY RANDALL, an old Boston
broker, was arrested on the 2Ist on =
charge OF crookedneSS.
THE factories of Lowell, Mass, will shut
down for one week during September to
reduce stock. rtE
The French flag was lowered at
Pekin zon the 21st. China will refuse to
accede to the French demands, and it looks
like war. -....
= JUDGE JOHN F. DILLON, of New York,
delivered the annual address before the
American Bar Association, in session at
Saratoga on the 21st.
NINE men were suffocated in the Green.
back colliery, near ShamoSin, Pa, on the
2Ist, victims of the deadly black da mp. "a
PATRICK EGAN, President of the Irish
National League of America, declines to
receive the pay allowed for his services.
A WOMAN at South Haven. Mich, recent
ly maltreated two-year-old child, caus-
lynch her on the 21st, and armed officers
had to protect Der from mob violence.
The Treasury Department on the 21st
purchased flo. 900 ounces of silver for de-
AVERY at the New Orleans and Philadel-
phia minis. $50 %tf.+ p si.i A
JUDGE JACOB A. Ella. Auditor of the
Treasury for the Post-ofice Department,
died on the 21st of erysipelas. Ella served
two terms in Congress from New Hamp-
shire. lEafHl
WIN. NJ COLLINS, of Louisville, KY,
delegate to the late Irish Convention at
Boston, says it was understood by the
League that Irish affairs would be kept
separate from American politics. He de-