Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-04-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

"MEDIUMs" and cairvoyants were ar
rested by the Wholesale in Baltimore. Nd,
on the sth, and fined, among them Grace
Cortl and, the switch of Wall Street."
She had no money and went to jail.
THos. McCLINrocK. Of Chicago, was
robbed Of 5000 while on a train near
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9Th.
NELSON EDWARDS, q New York dentist,
cut his throat with a razor on the Sth.
GERMAN holders of Russian stocks are
becoming scared and are unloading.
The Prince and Princess of Wales ar
rived at Dublin on the Sth. The flag float
ed from the Mansion House. There was
large demonstration and the citizens COM
mittee presented an address of welcome
A GRAND durbar was held at Rawal-
Pindi in honor of the Ameer of Afghanis-
tan on the 7th, and was a great success.
THREATS of lynching are made against
George Mcmillan, of Newport, KY, who
killed John Cummings.
GENERAL GRANT passed a quiet after
noon and evening on the Sth, and his con-
dition was not materially changed on the
morning of the 9th.
A COMMITTEE of the Grand Army Of the
Republic called on the sth to ask the Presi-
dent to keep old soldiers in the service of
the government.
THE Lord Mayor of Dublin was Kissed as
he drove along in official state in the pro-
cession on the Sth in honor of the Prince of
Wales.
FRANCE will continue to send reinforce
ments to China until a final treaty Of peace
sLan have been signed.
EDWARD LAMBERT, Of Chicago, shot and
killed his mother -in-1aw, wounded his
wife and then killed himself, on the Sth.
IT is said that Attorney General Gar
land has found that General Lawton is
eligible to be appointed Minister to
Russia.
SULLIVAN and Ryan have arranged to
fight at Butte City, Mont, June 10th, with
small gloves for the championship belt
FREDERICK GREINER, convicted of the
murder of Margaret ceiling last Septem-
Der, was sentenced at Columbus. O., on
the Sth, to hang July oath.
AN official circular issued at CONSTANT
nople denounces the Mahdi as an imposte or
and a robber chief of the worst kind.
AN Internal machine was found on the
sth in the Motley Military hospital at
Portsmouth, Eng. The authorities had
been previously warned to look out for an
explosion.
Grant White to his home in New York for
four months, terminated on the Sth in
death. His disease was gastritis. Mr..
White was nearly fifty three years of age.
He was born in New York May %, 1922,
and for twenty five years has been a con-
spicuous figure in literary circles.
THE Guards and the A australian contin-
gent, which left Suakim on the 9th for
Handou, with orders to build zereba at
that point, reached their destination prac-
tically unmoleSted
GENERAL GRANTS condition on the 9th
was slightly improved.
The Farmers Bank of Norfolk, Va,
ma de an assignment on the 9th.
IT is thought in London that war with
Russia is inevitable.
THERE was a war panic on the Chicago
Board of Trade on the 9th, occasioned by
the news from Afghanistan.
THE Oshkosh (Wis.) carriage works
were seized for debt ON the 9th.
Mr.. GLADSTONE considers the Russian
attack on the Afghan outpost on the
Kushk River an unjustifable one, and has
demanded an explanation.
THE Washington Monument was struck
by lightning three times on the 9th. No
damage.
The New York wheat market was fever
ish and excited on the 9th over the war
news.
AN Ohio association of trotting horse
br eeders was organized at Cleveland.
THE Russian Government Is giving or
ders for gunboats to Swedish builders
NJ. SIEBERr & Co.'s immense furniture
factory at Pittsburgh, Pa, was destroyed
by fire on the 9th.
THE anniversary of Lees surrender was
celebrated by ex-Union soldiers at Cleve-
land, O., on the 9th.
THE British Cabinet held meeting on
the 9th to discuss the war news from the
Afghan country.
A Christian convention, under the aus
pieces of Moody and Sankey, opened at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th.
A MONTREAL detective offers to deliv er
the body of Riel, the rebel, to the Govern
ment, dead or alive, for $4,000.
SECRETARY WHITNEY received a tele-
gram on the 9th, which states that Gener
al Barrios is certainly dead.
THE Prince and Princess of Wales gave
a levee at Dublin Castle on the 9th-:he
largest since the Queen visited Ireland in
1S49.
THE Queen of England telegraphed on
the 9th from AK les Bains to know the
condition Of General Grant, and expressed
her sympathy.
ENGLAND, it is stated, will send 1900
reinfoFcements to the Afghan frontier at
once, and the first ar my reserves will be
called out.
ONE Of the ballot-boxes in Chicago wa.
stolen, and several men have been ar
rested, charged with the theft.
THE bill requiring wages of employees to
be paid in money, and not in trade, passed
the Illinois House of Representatives on
the 9th.
ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN Demo-
cratic Postmasters wers commissioned on
the 9th to fill vacancies.
A MANIFESTO to the people of Ireland
has been issued, declaring that there is no
reason why the Prince of Wales should be
recogniz ed except by land owners.
A LUNArIc attacked Prince Rudolph,
Crown Prince of Austria, in Brussels on
the 9th. No harm was done.
IT is related that although Sena tor
Payne, Of Ohio has filed some thirty odd
applications for consulships, he has not
yet secured an appointment in the consul
lar service.
THERE is a growing impression in Wash
ington that somebody outside the city of
New York will be appointed Collector of
Customs for the port of New York.
ANOTHER heavy fall of rock is threat
ened in the Raven Run Mine in Pennsyl-
vania, and the recovery of the bodies of
the ten men overwhelmed by the first fall
Is despaired of.
The Mahdi has been severely defeated
Of El Obeid He will not attack Dongola