Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-04-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

GENERAL GRANT was much better on the
18th and went out driving.
Hon. 8. s. Cox, OF New York, has been
appointed and confirmed as Minister to
Turkey.
The Arabs lost 400 men in the skirmish
on the oath near Suakim.
ENGLISH estimates still place the Arab
losses in the battle on the 22d at 3,OoO.H
JAY GOULD declined recollection as a di .
rector of the Union Pacific Railway.
Two Soudon shieks have gone to Con-
stantinople to enter the service of the
Sultan.
MAUD s., queen of the turf, started on
the 25th for Philadelphia in charge of her
trainer.
A DUAL tragedy occurred at Stewards =
vile, Ind, on the 18th, in which two farm
ers killed each other.
AMONG the Arabs killed near Suakim re-
Gently were thirty-four WON en- who were
armed as soldiers.
MILTON BUcKNER, a colored desperate
and murderer of Kentucky, was arrested
in Louisville on the 18th.
THE British, according to latest returns,
had $50 men killed and wounded and 900
camels in the battle near Suakim on the
25ta.
The Connellsville (Pa.) Coke Syndicate
has decided to advance the price of coke.
CHAs. FRANCIS ADAMS, JR., was re-
elected President of the Union Pacific Rail-
way Company.
IT is announced in London that the
cause for calling out militia is that Russia
has rejected the English proposals.
THERON Brown, colored, cut his wife's
throat at Newark, N. J., ON the 18th, and
then blew out his own brains.
WM. HAINEs, of Muncie, Ind, went to
the henhouse of Bish op Scott on the night
of the oath to play practical joke, and
was killed by the latter.
IT is reported that the Porte has asked
the advice of Bismarck in regard to a
Turko- Russian alliance against England.
MAYOR OCONNoR of Dublin says that
the flag will be hoisted when the Prince of
Wales arrives, and that thousands of
stalwart hands will be ready to guard it if
necessary.
For sixty miles south of the Straits of
Mack nav the ice in Lake Michigan was
solid entirely across on the 18th. of an av-
erage thickness of thirty inches. 1t is
thought that vessels will not be able to get
through to Buffalo before June 1st.
THE New South Wales Legislative Coun-
Gil by unanimous vote, and the Legislative
Assembly, GO to 81, approved the dis
patch of the colonial contingent to the
Soudan. The announcement of the votes
were received with loud cheers for the
Queen.
THE British ambassador at S.. Peters =
burg has been instructed to press the Rus
sian Government for a reply to Gran
vii la1S fl,n
the Afghan frontier.
THE Western Nail Association met at
Pa, on the 18th, and reaf-
firmed the card rate. Trade is fair and
stocks small.
THE Music Hall at Buffalo was destroyed
by fire the night of the 10Th, together with
the wardrobes and other property of the
McCaull Opera Company.
THE Intrrior Department was closed on
the 26th out of respect to the memory of
the late Jacob Thompson, of Kentucky,
Secretary of the Interior under President
Buchanan.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN CASEY YOUNG, of
Tennessee, is in Washington, suffering
from paralysis of his right arm and Leg.
He says that he has felt the paralytic
symptoms in his system for long time.
dence that three of the new appointees,
viz: First Comptroller Durham, Indian
tAtkins and Land Commits
sioner Sparks, all served together on the
House Committee on Appropriations.
The trouble in the Northwest Territory
IS becoming quite serious.
REBELS in the Soudan are cutting the
wires.
To- ~
he Goth, and did not complain of pain.
Mr.. Low ELL thinks that Mr.. Phelps, his
successor as the American representative
1T the court of st. James, is an estimabIe
md cultured gentleman, and he regards
he selection wise one.
ENGLISH soldiers in the Soudan are suf-
ering from sunstrokes.
The testimony of General Grant in the
,ase of James d. Fish in connection with
he Marine Bank failure, was taken be-
ore a notary.
THE arms factories at Birmingham, En-
gland, are working night and day.
The Queen of Great Britain has called
,ut the reserves and militia for permanent
service.
THE New York Assembly committee
will report adversely on the bill to permit
upon races
PRIME MINISTER FERRY states that
France will send further reinforcements to
ronqun.
GLADSTONE announces England's pro-
est against the action of France in de-
,laring rice contraband of war.
The Yale Alumni of New York gave a
Inner ON the Goth, at which Mr.. Phelps,
he new Minister to England, was present.
ELABORATE preparations are being made
It Kingston, Ireland, for the reception of
he Prince and Princess of Wales.
PAT RELLIHAN, of New York, was sem
enced to two months Imprisonment for
ibellIng Pat Ford. Both are Irish news
PAPER men.
The Metropolitan Base Ball Club of
Jew York has released Keefe and Easter
'rook, two of their strongest players.
VIM. D. CUSHING, of Wheeling, w. Va,
vas arrested on the Goth ON a charge OF
and shortly afterward COM
nitted suicide.
The Senate Committee on Public Build
ngs and Grounds reported in favor of
lectric light for the Senate chamber in
tead of gas.
CHAs. w. DURANT, an aged millionaire
f New York, is of unsound mind, and his
hildren are at law about who shall take
barge Of him.
GENERAL NEGRIER attacked the Chi nese
t Dong Dang, but was unable to rout the
elestials owing to the heavy forces of the
nemy. The French report 30 killed and
rounded.
A TRAMP who was given shelter for the
ight in house of two ladies at Wades- !
orc, KY, killed burglar who entered |
nd demanded money of the ladies.