Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Arabs urging reconquest of the soud al
for Egypt.
HoN. HoRATIo SEYMOUR was elected
chairman of the Erie Canal Conference,
j which began its session at Utica, n, Y :,
on the 18th.
| WM. SMITH. alias c. P. Weibusch, 6
noted robber, was on trial at San Francis
co, CAL, on the 18th, on charge of rob.
bling the mails.
| JOHN CoULBERTI has been arrested in
London under the new criminal law fol
abducting young girls.
| AT a meeting of the Western Export
Association held at Chi cago on the 10Th,
it was decided to admit California to the
1 association.
| A COLLISION of coal cars on the Cabin
Creek Railroad, near Charleston, w. Va,
on the 10Th, killed four men, including the
President of the road.
| Jos. L MORGAN, Secretary of Legation
in Mexico, is temporarily acting as Con-
| sui General of the United States, pending
the arrival of Consul General Ewing.
| HANNAH Stokes, who was intoxicated
and abusive, was pushed down stairs. at
Cleveland, O., on the 10th, by Lucy Rob-
| inson, and her neck was broken.
| THE Saginaw (Mich.) strike is practi
cally ended, nearly all the mills having
| started up at the old terms, or at ten
| hours with a proportionate reduction in
pay.
The Gear celebrated the fifty-fifth an :
| niversary Of the birth of the Emperor of
Austria on the 10th, by a grand banquet.
JOHN A. ST. JOHN, of st. Louis, Gau-
daur's hacker, says there is no truth in
the reported arrangement of a race be-
tween Gaudaur and Teemer.
GRAND high mass was celebrated at st.
Roch's altar in Notre Dame Church, Mon
treai, on the 10th, invoking the Almighty
to grant a cessation of the smallpox cpl =
demic prevailing in that city.
COMMISSIONER UPsHUR of the Indian
Bureau has awarded the contract for fur
nishing $4,000 pounds of beef and 10000
pounds of flour to the Northern Cheyenne
Indians, to Thomas c. Powell, of Chicago,
the former at S. 46 and the latter at s.. ~
per hundred pounds.
The resignation of W. 81. II. Llewellyn,
Indian agent of the Mescalero agency in
New Mexico, has been accepted to take
effect Oct Der 10th.
A FIRE in lumber yard at Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, on the 10Th, communicated to
Zesbaugh Bros. picture-frame works,
and to the factory itself, which was
partially destroyed. Loss about $50, 900;
insured for $1,000.
THE round house of the Providence and
Springfield Railroad at Providence. R l.,
was burned the morning of the 10Th;
loss $4,000.
THE Central Iowa Railway Company
has filed suit in the Court of Claims
against the United States for damages in
the sum of 81 $50, for balances alleged to
be due under a contract for carrying the
mails from Abba to North wood, Ia, for
a period of four years, beginning July 1,
1875.
FIFTY girls employed in the stitching
department of Bradley & ,Metcalf's boot
and shoe mandatory at Milwaukee,
Wis, put on their hats and went home on
the 10Th. The declared they would not
return to work until an unobjectionable
assistant was removed.
ELIAS DoTY is out as Greenback candi-
date for Governor of Iowa.
MINISTER PHELPS is reported ill at Lon
don.
THE anthracite coal trade in the East is
demoralized by overproduction.
ADMIRAL CoURBEr's remains will be
landed at Brest.
The expulsion of Russians from Eastern
Germany continues.
ANNIE McKEEN, daughter of the Presi-
dent of the Vandalia Railroad, eloped
from her home in Terre Haute, Ind, on
the Goth, with her fathers horse trainer,
v. L. Shuler. IA
KITTY WILLIAMS, daughter Of an ex-
Mayor of Cedar Falls, Ia, died on the
Goth from burns. Her hair caught fire at
a gasoline stove.
The Egyptian relief expedition to Kas-
sala will march in October.
A VALUABLE collection has been stolen
from the royal armory at Turin.
A SEVERE battle occurred on the goth
between the miners at Shenandoah, Pa,
and some Hungarians and Poles imported
there to supplant them.
The Bell Telephone Company and the
Canadian Bank Note Company lost $780,
600 between them by the burning of the
building jointlyloccupied;by them atIMont-
real, Can, ON the Goth. Nathaniel Brad
ley, a night Waterman, was suffocated In
his bed.
AN alliance of Turkey with England
against Russia is said to be opposed by
the Sultan.
JOSEPH ZIrKA and Charles Black W ere
drowned at Cleveland, O., on the Goth,
and a man named Cruskel committed sui
eide by drowning at the same place.
Mr.. PARNELL has called a conference
on the 2oth inst. of the Irish Parlia-
party.
NEWS has been received at Cairo con-
frming recent reports of rebel successes
in the Soudan. .s
JACOB GROUP was fatally injured by his
horse running away and throwing him
4 . 4 To- Do
the Goth. His wife was also wounded.
The anniversary of the battle of the
Fallen Timbers, where "Mad Anthony"
Wayne broke the power of the Indians in
the Northwest, was celebrated on the bat
tie ground near Toledo, O., on the Goth.
ACTING SECRETARY OF TIE TREASURY
FAIRCHILD gave an audience on the Goth
to a number of safe, lock and vault COM
panies in regard to the award of a con-
tract in their line by the Department dur
ing the present year. Only two compa-
MES put in bids.
ACTING SECRETARY FAIRCHILD tele- !
graphed to Mr.. Brooks, the newly appoint
ed Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco |
On the Goth to take possession of the SUBJ |
Treasury there at once.
THE spinning, drawing and combing de- |
partment of Richard Williamson & Co. g |
worsted mill at Camden, N. j., was de- |
stroyed by fire the morning of the Goth. |
The loss is estimated at between $75, 900 |
and 100000.
CARDINAL GU1BERr, archbishop of |
Paris, was said to be dy ing on the Goth.
He had been uncons cious since the day
previous.
A GIRL seven years of age died at Wild
nes- on-the- Mersey, England, on the Goth,