Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Coviugton.
The Prime Minister of Madagascar IL
said to have been strangled by the war
party.
The English and French have come to
an amicable understanding as to the con-
duct of the foreign press in Egypt.
The Board appointed to ex anime and
report on the Notifications and defenses of
the United States met at the War De-
partment in Washington on the Sd.
DR. Low, at Cincinnati, who killed his
brother-in-law, was discharged by the
Coroner, he deciding that the killing was
in self-defense. The Police Court took
similar action.
HERBERT SPENCER has stopped the pub
LEGATION of his beck in America Frederic
Harrison's charges caused his action.
a NORWEGIAN named johnson will at
tempt to cross the Atlantic from Queens
town to New York, in a small boat, alone
THE total amount Of claims presented to
the Government on account of the New
Orleans Exposition is $780,, sIs, or $62, 31S
over and above the appropriations.
THE French Minister of Public Instruc-
ton, NJ. Goeblet, takes Archbishop Guibert
seriously to task for his protest against
the dissertation of the Pantheon"
PHALLEs and Maxey Cobb are matched
to trot at Cleveland on July 4th for IS, 900
a side. The Association also adds S., 900
for the winner.
j. j. CALVERT, with a wife and child In
Chicago, has been living at a New York
hotel with another woman. Paying his
bills with worthless checks caused his ar
rest and exposed him
THE Chinaman who brutally
T T0l-
Mo-, was captured at Muir physboro ILL.,, on
the Sd. He acknowledges the crime, but
says it was committed in self defense.
ON the night of the 10th ult., Louis Noet-
telling, an expert drU gist, suffering from
hemorrhage of the lungs, disappeared from
the Central hospital, at Omaha, Neb, and
no trace of him could be found. On the
Sd his body was found floating in the Mis-
souri, River, he having committed suicide.
REPORTS of the earthquake in the Vale
of Cashmere were greatly exaggerated.
THE steamer Caspian from Baltimore
arrived at Liverpool on the Sd. Her cap
tain reports that Chief Engineer Browne,
was missed during the voyage, ana that
it is supposed he committed suicide by
jumping overheard in the night.
THE railroad bridge across the Ohio
River at Henderson, KY, is completed.
JUNE Goth is agreed upon by the Illinois
Legislature for final adjournment
THE British Parliament reassembled on
the 4th.
JOHN KELLY is at Clifton Springs, N.
Y, try ing to get well, with fair prospects
of success.
TURKEY has been snubbed by Russia
The overtures of the Porte for an alliance
were rejected.
THE Guards have been ord red to remain
at Alexandria, Egypt, for the present.
A PLANNING mill with lumber, shingles,
ETC., to the amount of $4,000, were de-
stroyed by fire at Buffalo, n. Y, on the
4th.
HENRY WARD BEECHER's son Herbert
has been appointed Collector of Customs
at Port Townsend.
LONDON society is agitated over the
Adams Coleridge libel suit, now on trial.
GENERAL RosECRANs has been appoint
ed Register of the Treasury.
By a runaway at Erie, Pa, on the 4th,
three persons were killed outright and
two more fatally injured.
THE motion in the French Chamber of
Deputies to impeach Ferry's Ministry was
voted down.
PEOPLE of Halifax, Nova Scotia, are
1OT d T0ClpIOCl treaty WILL tuC
United States.
THE Suez Canal Conference at plenary
sitting on tho 4th, considered a draft of
the proposed treaty without discussion.
ABE BUzzARD, the notorious Pennsylva-
MIA outlaw, surrendered to the authorities
of Lancaster County on the 4th.
In replying to an address at Kingston,
Ireland, Archbishop Croke said he swish
4 10
T. j. CLUvERIUs was found guilty at
Richmond, Va, of the murder of Fannie
L. Madison, his cousin.
GUATEMALA has added ten per cent. to
the duties on imported merchandise and
ten per cent. to contracts made with Gov
eminent lenders.
THE pudding and rolling departments
of several iron mills at Pitts burgh, Pa, !are
to start up on the 7th inst.
The Lake Erie & Western Railroad has
been ordered sold by the United States
Circuit Court to satisfy judgment for
$33, 600.
PARIS newspapers say some very severe
things of the London Aldermen for not
passing res olutions of coincidence on the
death of Hugo
NAVAL officers just returned from Pau
anna say the people there would like to
have the United States take possession of
The country.
THE effect of a recent understanding
between Germany and Spain will be to
advance the rate on American rye to three
marks per 100 Kilograms.
MINISTER LoTHRoP addressed a joint
session of the Michigan Legislature, on
the 4th, eulogizing Russia for her posi- |
ion toward this country at a critical pc
.iod.
SEVERAL sticks of giant powder were |
'ound on the 4th, concealed about the pri-
Tate car of Superintendent Cummins, of |
;he Texas Pacific Road, at NJ arshal1 Tex.
THE resignation of A. G. Thomson, in |
spector of public buildings of the Treasury |
has been accepted, to take |
effect June 18th. He resigned by request |
IF Secretary Manning.
THE opera house at Rainwell, Mich, |
was burned on the 4th, with Clements |
Try goods store, Plainwell Leader news
paper property, household goods and |
scenery, making a total loss of $4,000; in |
,urance, $1,000.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD reports to the Adj
iutant General that the troops have done |
Ill that was possible to protect settlers |
with the resources at his command.
LIEUTENANT W. H ScHUETzE, of st. |
Louis, No, who is to take the presents to |
he "a tives of the Lena delta, is standing |
IN examination for promotion to lieuten-
ancy of the senior grade.
TIE Secretary of the Treasury called on |
,he board of man ayers of the Worlds In |
lustrial Exposition for an itemized state !
nent of the premiums awarded exhib-
tors.
THE Russian corvette Strelok left her