Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

1f1u III q CuaTSe OF omDeZZiing Sf,VVO.
FRANCE and Germany have reached an
agreement regarding the Egyptian,
Chinese and Congo questions.
MATHEW BROWN, a prominent citizen
of Toledo, O., was run over and fatally in
jured by team of horses, on the 18th.
THERE was no further rioting at South
Bend, Ind, on the 18th, although the
trouble was likely to be renewed at any
moment-a sort of armed truce, as it
were.
The third annual meeting of the Vest
ern Iron Manufacturers Protective Alli-
ance was held at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
14th.
tralia over the recent German annexation
Of New Guinea and adjacent islands.
-FOUR large tobacco factories at Lynch
burg, Va, employing over 1900 negroes
have resumed work, and all others are pre-
pairing to start again.
POLICE COUNCILLOR RuMPFF was fatally
stabbed at Frankfort on the Main. It is
thought to be the work of unknown Social
lists.
A FARMER sixty years of age, living
weeks for his deceased wife, when he took
q
horn serenade the night of the 18th, and q
shot was fred into the crowd and one of
the serenaders killed.
SHEFFIELD (England) police declare that
Captain Phelan lived there in 1888, openly
avowed himself against Rosa, wore new
clothes every day and had plenty Of money
while there.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa EFe Rail-
has do q or with Nevi.
can Government which will benefit United
States trade on the west coast of Mexico.
PRoF. BENJAM MIN SILLIMAN, of Yale Col
lege, died at New Haven, Conn, the night
of the l4th-
j. h. PIrTENGER, prominent lawyer of
Tiffin, o., and at one time Mayor of the
town, died on the 14th, as it is supposed,
from an overdose of morphine.
AN elevator and 5000 bushels of grain
were burned at Big Stone, D. T., the night
of the 18th. Loss, $4,000.
THos. FARRELL died at st. Paul, Mimi,
on the 18th, at the advanced age of Ill
years.
FoRTY-EIGHT men were entombed in a
coal mine in France ON the 10th by an ex-
plosion of fire damp.
THE Eastern Pig-Iron Association met
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on
the 18th.
JOHN j. Cisco & Son, Wall street IN.
Y.) bankers and brokers, made an assign
ment ON the 18th.
THE Pennsylvania Road has substantially
refused to enter the coal combination.
DEMOCRATIC members of the House of
Representatives held a caucus at Wash
ington ON the 18th to agree upon a plan of
work during the remainder of the session.
THE Erie and other trunk lines have re-
duced the emigrant fare from New York
to Chicago to IS.
The meeting of the Union Base Ball As
ISOLATION at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 18th,
was failure, only two clubs being repre-
sented. 1t was decided to disband and
form a new league.
GEO. T. DOWNING, a WELL known colored
man, has written an open letter to promi
nent New Yorks Democrats, in reference
to his race. He thinks the election of Cleve-
land a happy event.
CORRESPONDENCE between Bishop Lee
of Delaware and Bishop Potter of New
York, in reference to the admission of Mr..
Huntington into the Order of the Holy
Cross, is published, the venerable Bishop
of Delaware taking issue with the New
York Bishop on his action.
j. DONALD CAMERON received the Re-
publican caucus nomination for United
States Senator from Pennsylvania, to uc-
coed himself, on the 18th.
MATHEW Brown, for many years a
prominent grain merchant of Toledo, O.,
and at present a Director in the Second
National Bank of that city, was run over
by runaway team on the 18th and re-
ceived injuries which were supposed to be
fatal. He is about eighty years old.
THE Freemdn's Journal of Dublin paid
$1,000 to a clergyman to stop a libel suit he
had instituted.
A. c. ARvERsoN, Secretary of the Du-
luth (Minn.) Board of Trade, my seriously
disappeared on the 18th.
RICHARD OLDs, at the bottom of the
Star of the West mine, at Butte, Utah, ON
the 18th, gave the wrong hosting signal.
The bucket turned with him and he fell
out, alighting on an upright drill, which
ran into his body, causing his death in a
few hours.
A SMALL fire in the dwelling of Abel
Kitcharn in New York ON the 18th, burned
the owner to death before he could be
taken out. He was over eighty years of
age.
REAR-AnM1RAL POWELL, United States
Navy, is dead.
MICHIGAN shipped last year $50, 201 bar
rels of salt.
The English troops in Egypt are re-
ported by General Wolseley to be in good
health.
FRANKIE ROBERTS, the midget, died at
Syracuse, N. Y, on the 10th, from the eff
fects of the CRsarian operation.
SENATOR 2. B. VANCE was renominated
hy tho nar,ncra of Role
c., on the 18th by exclamation.
The commercial situation at Buenos
Ayres continues uncertain, and the pre-
MUM on gold is rising.
THE Indian Apr opriation bill was agreed
upon by the House committee on the 10th.
The amount provided is $5,664, 1856.
MONEY has been subscribed in Philadel-
phia to take legal measures to prevent the
old Liberty Bell from being taken to New
Orleans.
EDMUND YATES of the London World is
to undergo four months imprisonment on
the charge of libeling Lord Lonsdale, the
Court of Appeals having dismissed his ap-
peal.
THE revolution in the United States of
Columbia is a serious one. The rebels have
Barrau quilla.
THE annual report of the Department of
places the yield of corn for
1854 at 1, 795, COZ, 600 bushels; wheat, 513,-
600, 900 bushels; oats, 81 1900, 600 bushels.
These aggregates are the largest ever re-
corded.
TRAINS were delayed many hours on
nearly all the railroads ON the 10th on &C.
count iof the heavy snow drifts, and in
some instances were totally abandoned.
THE freight blockade on the Pittsburgh,