Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-05-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

CudI e4Or tWeA6y VOTOSs ~ - - - {.
A VAST amount of timber has been de-
stroyed by forest fires in the Blue Noun
tains near Lehigh Gap, Pa.
A COMPROMISE amendment to the cattle
mportation bill has been adopted by the
British House of Commons.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY has failed to re-
spond to subpoena summoning him be-
fore the Springer Committee.
A war in telegraph rates ON Chicago bus
ness was inaugurated on the 29th.
THE House Committee on Public Lands
has agreed on bill to repeal the pre-smp-
ton and timber culture acts. 81 ....s
EX-SENATOR KELLoGG'S trial began in
Washington on the 10Th. He is charged
with receiving money to influence the ex-
pediting of certain Star-routes. -d5
NEAR Charleston, w. ", on the night OF
the 2Sth, three burglars being discovered
in the house of John Woods, shot him and
his son, the latter fatally. Woods daugh-
ter wounded one of the robbers with a pis-
toll shot. .i -. .E--sfFs z.slsaz .t!F 10
THE troop ship Crocodile, from India,
has arrived at Portsmouth, Eng. She had
cholera on board during the II
THE Pail Mall Gazette, critfeising the re-
port of the Scotch crofters' Investigation,
says it teaches the lesson that to expa-
triate malcontents only increases the diff
Guilty. IA 1.t a...s u
..n A NEW company, with capital of ST.
100000, is to be organized to purchase the
mills and furnaces of the suspended firm
of Brown, BonneH & Co. of Youngstown,
Ohio. 80 >7'i4i'i &'i'f''S'isd- -
THERE was rumor current on the Goth
that Abbott, the Watertown bank cashier,
will disgorge $1,000. 49, ,- ls.s.=-'
!. GUARANTORs Of the Cincinnati musical
festival are beginning to object to the
heavy assessments. .s..,. ...it 81.
SPANISH troops are pursuing small bands
of insurgents in Catalonia and Navarro.
A SLAVE insurrection has taken place in
Brazil. F'' ESQ '''f -
THE debt reduction for April is estimated
at s., 100000. -.s.''f 81 aIi"l''s r..' s-s -.
SIX soldiers died of cholera on the Brit
ish troop ship Crocodile. - ,i-r. 3D. -''
THE British House of Commons has re-
jectedsa bill to license crematories. t.ra -a.
AN insurgent band in Cuba has been de-
feated and twelve men captured.
ABBOTT, the Watertown bank cashier,
has been held to bail in the sum of $20,0 900.
THE increase of the sale of public lands
during 1888 over the preceding year is as
follows: Number of entries, IS, 3S1; acre
age, 10,92S ,927; cash received, $3,377s 43O.
THE Poor-house of Van Buren, County,
Mich, burned on the Both and fourteen in-
valid and aged inmates persisted. ii
" TRANSACTIONS on the New York stock
board on the 30th reached $40, eco shares.
8. F. DoNNELLY, a reporter for the New
York Sun, died on the Goth of injuries re-
ceived at fire. -. .s VI, ~44
SPECULATIVE markets were considerably
affected on the 3Oth by the announcement
that James r. Keene had failed.
The conclusion has at last been reached
that the recent terrible railroad disaster at
Ciudad Real, Spain, was purely, accident
al.
forming a National Association to control
prices and production. 5..F~.. Ell
By the mistake of Chicago drug clerk
on the Goth, Mrs. Laura Williams was Civ.
en- fatal dose of morphine for quinine.
In the Kellogg Star-route case on the
30th, Ingersoll made argument in favor of
a motion to exclude Prices testimony.
ALLEN INGALLS,, one of the murderers of
the Taylor family, at Avondale, o., hanged
himself in the Cincinnati Jail on the night
of the Goth. ,s
LATE advices from Berber are to the eff
feet that the town is surrounded, the gar
rison demoralized and retreat impossible.
A CoLoRED convention met on the Goth
at Louisville, KY, and appointed delegates
to the National Colored Convention at
Richmond. 49, r. -.
THE bandits whe have been robbing and
numbering in West Virginia were caught
on the 30th and taken to st. Adams. While
being rel - for safe keeping two of
thefSEwe ZEN from the officers and
STATE conventions were held on the 30th
as follows: In Massachusetts,, by Repub-
licans and Democrats; Michigan, Repub-
Hcans and Greenbackers; Maine, New
Hampshire, Virginia, Vermont, Iowa and
wisconsin, Republicans. e.
The trial - ex-senator Kellogg resulted
Nan acquittal on the 1st. leo
GLADSTONE says the latest from General
Gordon indicated that Khartoum was in
no danger. 'ss rl i
THE dyn1Aite scare at Toronto, Ont, is
thoughtso be the result of practical joke.
B. F. SwETTE was arrested in Oberlin,
o. Ion the 1st for violating the United
States mail laws. -ss.
INSURGENTS destroyed the telegraph
wires and a railroad bridge at Corona,
Spain, on the LIST. AK.
ANOTHER dynamiter was arrested near
Birmingham, Eng, on the 1st. i.'.5 |'
THE Thetis, flagship of the Greedy expe.
dition, saiod from New York on the 1st.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad declared its
semi-annual dividend of four per cent. on
the LIST. ,.s.t 5.-ts,s.riz5 .-ri,..- io .liis
/. FRANCE has accepted England's proposal
for aeonference on Egg ptian affairs. '~&
The British Government will introduce,
a bill creating Minister for Scotland. =.
A BLIZZARD which swept through the
Yellowstone Valley April % and so was
very destructive to stock, in some herds
amounting to loss of ten per cent.
The Treasury on the 1st purchased 30o,-
600 ounces of silver for delivery at the vari-
Gus nints. s-.si,.4=s.f ii q 4y
A GANG Of roughs mobbed circus at
Montpelier, Ind, on the 1st. One man was
fatally wounded. so ''7''5'fs." sfa' - II
The Chinese Ambassador at Berlin left
that city ON the 1st for Paris to negotiate
with Prime Minister Ferry. - 1a,r,
; A.sECTIoN Of wall of the Cincinnati
Cou7k house fell on the 1st killing one Of
the men employed on it. ...5 .r.,
A LARGE number of workmen were in
jured by the fall Of the wall Of burnt
building in London on the 1st- tsa
A STAND Of seats at the Cincinnati base
ball park fell on the 1st under the weight
of a crowd. Many persons were hurt.
ExTENsrvE forest fires have been rag.
ing for several days along the Erie Rail-
road in Mexican and Cameron Counties,
Pennsylvania. 81 ,-..I - gsl}4.s
Ex-CoMPTRoLLRB KNOX entered upon
his duties<sas President Of the National
Bank {fepublic, Washington, d. G.,