Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The stockholders of the Union N ational
Bank at New York have resolved to liqui-
date the affairs of the bank.
HENRY kRANsKoPF, of Indiana, a clerk
Tor the last twenty years in the Second
AUDITORS Office at Washington, was
stricken with paralysis and died at his
desk on the 21st.
THOMAS PoaCHER was held at Salt Lake
City, Utah, On the 21st, by Commissioner
Mckay, for unlawful cohabitation with
his niece as a plural wife, in $1,000 bail.
They are alleged to have had ten chill
dren, all dead.
A VIOLENT wind storm visited New
Britain, Conn, on the 2lst, and did great
damage. Two thunder storms met and
developed a wind somewhat of the char
acter of cyclone. Three houses were
wholly or partly unroofed, two tall CHM
neys blown down and a great number of
trees uprooted.
AT a. m. on the 23d, General Grant
was in a somnolent condition. The re-
spration had grown shallow and the Gem
eral was no longer able to expectorate
because of weakness, which was increas-
ing. There seemed little possibility that
the patient would survive the night
THE people of Highmore, Oak, are suf-
fering from restitution, caused by the
recent cy clone.
EDWARD MoTz, robber, was killed at
Philadelphia on the ed, by VIM. Batters-
by.
GENERAL Won ScHwEINIrz German
Ambassador to Russia, has been trans
ferred to France.
THE steamer Hecla collided with the
Liverpool and London steamer Cheerful
in a fog in the English Channel on the
21st. The latter foundered and thirteen
persons were drowned.
TURKEY wants to form an alliance with
England.
COLONEL E. A. FORD says that a COM
pr omise between Vanderbilt and the
Pennsylvania Railway will surely be ac-
complished.
RU ssIA proposes to add fifty torpedo
boats to the Black Sea fleet
THERE were L 752 new cases of cholera
and 6s5 deaths in Spain on the 21st
SHENANDOAH, Pa, was visited on the
ODD by violent wind and rain storm.
Trees were uprooted and fences and barns
blown down.
EIGHT men were drowned at Yarmouth,
England, on the ODD, in an attempt to r.
lieve the crew of a boat in distress.
PRINCE HoHENLoHE, who was German
Ambassador to France, has been appoint
ed Governor of Alsace- Lorraine.
THE commission to inquire into John
McCullough's mental condition pronounce
him lunatic- His property is valued at
81, 500.
IT is now stated that FL Mahdi died of
smallpox on June Goth.
IT is stated that fresh proposals from
Russia have been made to England on the
Afghan question,
RUSSIA proposes to put a poll tax on
foreigners who remain longer than fort
night in the country.
JUSTICE PRINDvILLE, at Chicago, de-
cided that a pamphlet containing cable
extracts from the Pail Mall Gazette's rev.
Citations was not obscene literature
EMPEROR WILLIAM has gone to Gastein,
where he will meet Emperor Francis Jo-
seph on the 7th of August.
LORD SALISBURY in the House of Lords
on the 22d, complimented Earl Spencer on
his management of Irish affairs.
A TELEGRAM received at the Interior
Department on the 22d from Inspector
Armstrong announced that the count of
khe Indians on the Cheyenne AND Arapa-
hoe reservation was progressing quietly
and no further trouble was apprehended.
THE Lauderdale peerage case has been
decided in favor of Major Maitland.
THE following promotions have been
made in the scientific force of the Geolog-
ical Survey: Thomas G. Chamberlin. of
Wisconsin, geologist, from $1,000 to So 900;
Roland D. Irving, of Wisconsin, geologist,
from $500 to $1,000; Chas. A. White, of
Iowa, from paleontologist at 81, 400 to
geologist at 81, 700.
THIRTEEN persons were killed and
twenty two injured by lightning during
a storm on the 23d near Cajetana, Italy.
THERE was a total of 1927 new cases of
cholera and 94S deaths in Spain on the
22d. Cases were reported at Salamanca
and Barcelona.
JUSTICES Craig and Shope, of the Hi
nois Supreme Court, granted a superse-
IDEAS in the case of Joseph Mackin on the
23d, but bail was denied.
THE wife of Rev. John Light was
struck by freight train at New Boston,
Ia, on the 23d and killed.
SISTER NARY ANGELO of the convent at
Table Mound, Ia, died on the 23d from
cancer of the throat.
PAUsLARIsr societies in Russia are is
suing inflammatory addresses against
England.
MILTON W. SMITH was hanged for muir
der at Osceola, Neb., on the 23d.
THE English Government has received
of the report of the death of
Ell Mahd
THE Ohio Democratic State Cow ention
will be held at Columbus on the 18th and
10Th of August
NEW JERSEY has decided that corpora
tons must pay up their taxes or quit bust
ness in that State.
THE Russ ian boundary commission will
arrive at the Afghan frontier by the end of
August.
ENGLAND has rendered the use Of her
at Constantinople to the Ameri-
can colony there.
SIXTEEN houses were consumed and
several persons burned to death near AK
"a Chapelle, Francs, on the 23d.
H. B. LOOMS, of st. Louis, No., cap
,ured his runaway wife at Keokuk, Ia,
IN the 23d, where he found her in COM
yany with F. NJ. Croker.
LYNCH Bros, of New Mexico, sue Gray
ION g. Co.. of Texas, for $4,000 damages,
'or alleged introduction of Texas cattle
fever.
JOHN WOLFF, q notorious character of
W ashington, Pa, was shot and instantly
killed by Officer Hammond on the 23d
while resisting arrest.
THE English Government was defeated |
n the House Of Commons on the 23d-1S0 |
@ 130-on q clause of the medical reli eff |
,iu
MICHAEL DAvrrr writes Mr.. Chamber |
ain Offering to accompany him on his |
irish tour. The letter indicates that the |
rish party is br oxen into two sections.