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

1T IS estimated that 10O,OoO persons left
Paris during the cholera epidemic. They
are now returning in great numbers.
| A GERMAN Admiral and other European
officers are employed in the Chinese North
ern feet.
| NEGOTIATIONS have been resumed on the
part of England for a commercial treaty
with Spain.
HERBERT CLARK, member of prominent
banking firm at Moscow, Idaho, has alb
seconded with over $4,000 of the banks
funds and a woman not his wife. His wife
and two children were left at Moscow.
THREE anti-German newspapers in AL
] sace-Lorraine have been suppressed by or
ders of Governor General Won Manteuffel.
| JACOB SCHUYLER, of Miamisburg, o.,
committed suicide on the Goth, by hanging
himself to rafter in his barn.
REVISED and corrected figures of the
official vote of Indiana give Cleveland
and Hendricks plurality of 6,5l2.
The annual district convention of the
railroad and river miners met at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 9th.
THE relations between Secretary of War
Lincoln and General Hazen are said to be
becoming strained.
MRS. JOHN JACOB ASTOR gave Thanks
giving dinner to the inmates of the New
York Newsboys' lodging house.
| FIVE HUNDRED persons are thrown out OF
employment by the burning of the Forty
Fort colliery near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
| OLIVER BROS. & PHILIPS, iron and steel
manufacturers of Pittsburgh, Pa, have or
dered ten per cent reduction in wages.
| 4 CONVICT in the Ohio Pententiary was
pardoned by Governor Hoadly, and the re-
| leased man had genuine day of Thanks
giving.
THANKSGIVING DAY was generally OBJ
served throughout the country, the ex-
changes, banks and business houses being
closed nearly everywhere.
DIR. JOHN MAXWELL, living near Spring
field, o., chloroformed his five children and
himself and laid down to die. Three of the
children died. He was revived and placed
in Jail.
| AN enraged woman at Paris, France,
killed a man by shooting him five times in
the chest. She claims that her victim per-
sistently slandered her.
THE Middletown IN. W National Bank
closed it's doors on the 2Sth.
THE Howe Sewing Machine Works at
| Bridgeport, Conn.,, have shut down.
ANOTHER Pittsburg (Pa.) rolling mill
resumed on the 2Sth, after several months
| idleness.
| A DANGEROUS state of affairs is reported
| in India, and there is an excited feeling
among the natives against England.
| INDICATIONS point to speedy ending of
| the coal miners strike in the Hooking VAL
| ley, Ohio.
ARCHBISHOP FRENCH has resigned his see
in Ireland.
CAPTAIN D. L. PAYNE, the leader of the
Oklahoma ''boomers," died suddenly at
Wellington, Kas., ON the 2Sth.
The coke syndicate met at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 2Sth and ordered a general re-
duction in wages of the laborers.
CHOLERA seems to be gaining ground in
Spain. Several fresh cases were reported
at Toledo on the 18th.
THE Metropolitan Industrial League of
New York is opposed to any tariff legisla-
ton at the present session of Congress.
A FARMER near Manlius, N. Y, shot, on
the 18th, at what he supposed to be a
skunk, and killed an unknown man who
had hidden in straw stack.
GEORGE BRISCo, colored, was warned to
leave Anne Arundel County Md, because
of his penchant for appropriating other
peoples property. He declined to profit
by the warning, and on the 2Sth party Of
masked men seized and lynched him.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th an
nounced that the steamer Durango was
in collision off the port of Dunkirk
which resulted in her sinking and the
drowning of thirty persons.
SEVERAL violent earthquake shocks were
felt in Switzerland on the night of the
9th.
GEORGE BURRIs, the spiritualistic doctor,
who is supposed to have caused the death
of Mrs. Sarah Welker, at Mt. Vernon, O.,
has been adjudged insane and sent to the
Insane Asylum at Columbus.
A SENSATION has been created at Central
Park, New York, by the escape of a
twenty-fi five foot boa constructor from the
museum.
CONGRESSMAN PEMBROKE JONES of the
Cape Fear District of North Carolina was
married on the evening of the 2Sth to Miss
Sarah Wharton Green, at Fayetteville,
n. C..