Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


MILITARY maneuvers on an extensive
scale will take place at Lahore, India, in
December.
MENDEL & RosENBERGER's box factory
at Cincinnati, O., was burned, on the
30th, entailing a loss of $45, 900 and
throwing 12o employees out of work.
GREAT damage has been done by foods
in the eastern portion of Switzerland. the
whole of the upper valley of the Rhine
having been inundated.
REPRESENTATIVES of Eastern trunk
| lines, at meeting in Commissioner Fink's
office on the 3Oth, agreed to restore pas
senger rates to basis of $40 from Chicago
| to New York.
ACTIVE war preparations are being
made by the Porte in anticipation of be-
| ing compelled to adopt extreme measures
| to settle the Roumelian diff Guilty.
1t is estimated that there has been O de-
crease of about 100000 in the public
debt during the month of September
| The payments on the account of pensions
during the month were about 81, 000, 900.
THE United States Treasurer on the S0th
m allied 1896 checks, aggregating S6,036, =
136, in payment of interest due October
1st on regis tered four per cent consols of
1907.
PROF. ALEX. AGAssIz has found it nee
essary to decline the office of Superin-
tendent of the Coast Survey because of
the duties already resting upon him This
decision is greatly regretted by the Pres
ident.
SECRETARY MANNING on the 3oth dis
missed seven employees in the Registers
ce, inclu ding five clerks and two chiefs
of divisions, named Charles Neale and
N. B. Walker. 1t is said the vacancies
will not be filled.
The Central union of German manu-
facturers have petitioned Prince Bis
marck to inquire into the subject of BIZ
metalism. The petition is sthe outcome Of
Manton Marbles visit to Germany.
SEVERAL protests from the clergy of
Washin gton churches against the special
delivery system on Sundays have been
filed with the Postmaster General, and it
is said that the Sunday feature of the
ser vice will be attacked and denounced
from the pulpit.
THE third trial of the Jew, Bitter, and
his wife at Cracow, Russia, on the charge
of numbering Christian girl, res ulted in
conviction and sentence of death.
A KANSAS farmer had an enemy and
offered Frank James 500 to kill him. He
was threatened with arrest, but let off
on promise of not molesting his neighbo
ST. LOUIS is getting in fine trim for
carnival week, beginning on the 9Th, dur
ing which there will be a succession of
pageants and startling events that will
make it lively and interesting for visitors.
THE Chcagos and New Yorks played
the second game of their series at Chica-
ho
their second victory, thus making them
morally certain of securing the pennant.
PROF. j. E. De LEON success fully per-
formed the feat on the 30th of crossing
the Portage Gorge. at Portage, n. Y, on
a tight rope stretched 200 feet above the
rocky bed of the river directly above the
falls
MISS HoNoRA L HARDWOOD, daughter
of Rev. DR.. Edward Harwool, rector of
Trinity Church, New Haven, Conn, has
created sensation in that city by elop-
ing with Mr.. Truman Hemingway on the
eve of her wedding with a Mr.. Pruyen, a
young millionaire OF Albany, N. Y. Mr..
Hemingway inherited $500, 900 year ago.
MRS. ELIZA STEEL committed suicide at
Celina, O., on the 1st
The stove-molders are on a strike at
Neenah, Wis.
SIR ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, Earl of
Shaftesbury, is dead. He was born in
1901.
JAMES PALMER, murderer, escaped
from the officers at Mentor, Ind, on the
1st.
A CONVENTION of wind ow-glass manu-
facturers was held at New York on the
LIST.
THE Missouri Pacific has leased the
Central branch of the Union Pacific Rail-
way.
SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH made
notable political speech at Salisbury,
on the 1st.
w. A. AND G. A. NIMoCKs, of the Min
neapolis (Minn.) Journal, have purchased
the Detroit (Mich.) Post.
THE Porte protests to the Powers
against the disarming of Mussulmans in
Roumelia.
WILLIAM PAGE, the well known paint
er and formerly President of the New
York Academy of Design, died at his
homo near Tottenville, Staten Island, on
the night of the 3oth.
TURKEY has prob ibited the expectation
of cereals.
GEORGE YOUNG has been convicted of
wife murder at Ennis, Tex, and sentenced
to death.
AN accident on thu Western Maryland
near Chambers burg, Pa, ON the
1st, caused the death of two children.
1T is rumored that the British squadr on
in the Mediterranean has been ordered
to Turkey.
APPLICATION has been made at Hart
ford, Conn, for receiver for the Charter
Oak Life Insurance Company
MILE. EMMA NEVADA was married at
Paris on the 1st to DIR. Raymond Palmer,
of Birmingham, England.
Two children. whose combined cages
will not reach thirty years, eloped from
Greensburg, Pa, and were married at
on the 1st.
A TRAIN of the New York &c New En-
gland Railway collided with an omnibus
at New Britain, Conn, on the 1st, and
killed two children.
THE Supreme Court of New York has
rendered a decision ordering foreclosure
on tho New York, West Shore & Buffalo
WIN. Pc Finland has been convicted at
Ennis, Tex, of murder committed dur
ing the war, and received life sentence.
A HANDSOME young woman took aroom
at the Morton House, New York, on the |
S0th, and registered as "Annie Bennett,
New York" after which she retired. The |
next morning she was found dead in her |
room with the gas turned ON and all |
cracks in the windows stuffed with paper. |
She was an actress. Her mother resides |
In Philadelphia
MISS ALICE B. JoRDIR, of Coldwater, |
Mich. a graduate of the academic and |
law departments of the University of |
Michigan, entered the Yale law sch DOL |
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