Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs Is reported
seriously Ill at Washington, Ga
GENERAL BAIRD has been appointed In
spector- General Of the army.
FRINGE ALEXANDER of Bulgaria ha
asked the Gear OF Russia to approve hi
action.
THOMAS NJ CLEMENTS and his siste
Susie were murdered near Saguache
Col, on the 23d by members Of their owl
family.
A CONFERENCE of the powers has bee,
proposed by Russia.
A COMMITTEE of the National Millers
Association has been appointed to confe
with the Secretary of the Treasury in re-
gard to the rebate on jute bags.
ALL Mussulmans have been dis charged
| from the Rou melian militia.
COMMODORE ALEX SEMMEs, Command.
ant of the Washington Navy Yard, dice
suddenly at Hamilton, Loudon County
Va, on the 23d.
A SEMI OFFICIAL statement says Ger
many will insist on Turkish rights being
| respected.
Mr.. DoRMAN B. EATON, Chairman o
the Civil Service Commission, declare.
that the staten emit that he had charged
his expenses at Washington to the Gov
| eminent is a wanton falseh hood.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has issued a circu.
lar to the powers announcing the union o.
Eastern Roumelia and Bulgaria.
| THE Post office Department has beer
informed that Inspector Murphy started
| on the 23d with Hibbs, the defaultine
| Postmaster at Lewiston, Idaho, and the
stolen papers and money recovered fol
the United States.
The yacht Puritan was sold at public
auction at New York on the 23d for 3d.
| 500.
AT the Neoga Ql.) reunion on the ODD,
| Colonel Fred Grant read some touching
words fr ON his father, concerning the
restoration of good feeling between the
sections.
| RoUMELIANS who were tearing up rail-
| ways and cutting telegraph wires had a
slight skirmish with Turkish troops on
| the 23d.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by the
| Porte calling the attention of the great
powers to the action of Prince Alexander
| of Bulgaria, and giving notice that the
Sultan will take energetic action.
The Secretary of the Treasury will
make personal investigation of the case
of Mr.. Sterling weigher at the New Yor
Custom-h house, who was suspended, but
will take no further action in the matter
until after Collector Heddens reports to
him all the circumstances attending the
removal of Captain Bacon and the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Sterling.
P. G. MACCoUNT, of New York, a we'll =
known Irish Nationalist, had an inter-
view with Secretary Whitney ON the
23d in relation to the claim of Mrs. Par
nell to pension on account of the serv-
ices of her father, the late Admiral Stew
art, known as "Old Ironsi des," in the
war of 1872. The Secretary promised to
give the matter consideration.
Four miners at work in low part of
the Franklin mine at Houtzdale, Pa,
were drowned on the 23d by letting in up
on them a rush of water from an old mine
on higher level Fifteen acres of water
five feet deep must be pumped off before
the bodies can be recovered The victims
are John Mehan, Peter Folk, Joseph
Hampce, Hungarian, and John Forsythe
WIN. WINTER and his wife left home
at Point Pleasant, Va, on the 22d and
locked their two children, aged three and
five, in the house. During their absence
the house took fire and was entirely con-
sumed. The two children were burned to
death.
The United States steamers Swatara
and Yantic, with cargo of about $10,-
400, 900 in silver coin, were due at Wash.
ington on the 23d, but had not been heard
from since they sailed from Key West.
The delay in their arrival was undoubt-
eddy due to the stormy weather, and it
was believed they encountered heavy
gales off Hatteras.
THE United States steamer Juniata,
which was sent to inquire into the deten.
ton of certain Ameri can vessels by the
Portuguese custom officials on the east
coast Of Africa, has cabled her arrival at
Mozambique. The subject of her mission
has in the meantime been referred to the
Government at Lisbon
GOVERNOR HILL of New York was re-
nominated by the Democrats of the EN-
pire State at Saratoga on the oath.
TIE Canadian volunteers who served in
repelling the Fenian invasion in 1866 want
to be put in the same category with those
who aided in suppress sing the Riel rebel
lion as regards honors and emoluments.
THE order for the removal of settlers
from the line of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railroad has been suspended pend
rights.
JOSEPH FISHER and three of his chill
dren burned to death near Cedar Rapids,
Ia, on the oath.
THE American Forestry Congress con-
cluded their session on the oath and adj
journed until 1886.
The Cacerists are becoming more active
in Peru, and several places have fallen
into their hands.
SECRETARY LAMAR and Attorney Gen.
eral Garland were the only absensees at
the Cabinet meeting on the Oath.
BRADLAUGH, Morley, Cham berlain and
Others addressed an immense popular
meeting in London on the Oath.
The U MON Pacific has decided to build
a new bridge at Omaha, to take the place
of the present structure
BULGARIA has voted ca, 900, 600 for the
purpose of carrying out the unity pro-
gramme between Roumelia and Bulgaria.
The Porte is awaiting the ans wer of the
signatory powers to the treaty of Berlin
before taking action on the Roumelian
question,
THE National Assembly of Bulgaria has
proclaimed union of the Two Bulgarias.
GREAT damage continues to be done
by the prairie fires in Dakota. The town
Of Tower City narrowly escaped destruc-
ton on the oath.
RUSSIAN officers who resigned from the
army are called traitors by
the Bulgarians and Prince Alexander has
been asked to expel them.
AT a meeting Of the leading wire manu-
facturers of the country, held at New
York on the oath, the prices were adj
vanced ten to fifteen per cent.
In q manifesto issued by Prince Jerome