Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
THE Grant monumental fund at New

THE Grant monumental fund at New
York now amounts to $94 900.
ROBBERS boarded a train between Naples
and Benvento on the 9th, shot the guard
and secured II 900 francs in money.
DR.. J. A. NoNAMAKER and his wife com
mitted suicide together at Salido, Col, on
the night of the 9Th.
CONNECTICUT farmers are donating their
surplus apples to the charitable institu-
tions of New York.
WHAT is believed to be a Pan-Slavist
| conspiracy for the overthrow of Prince
Alexander of Bulgaria has been discov-
| cred.
COLONEL SwITzLER is to make an official
visit to South Carolina and Georgia to
gather statistics.
THE Governor of Indiana has been petit
toned to quarantine against Kentucky
cattle disease.
PHILIP CALLAN, in letter, protests
against Mr.. Parnell's treatment of him
and asks his old constituents to support
him.
J.R. HoGLE has been arrested a. CghieaSs
on charge of robbing D. G. Sterling e. &
Lake Shore train.
ADVERSE reports are current concerning
Mr.. Gladstone's health, the threatened
erals.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH is rapidly gaining
strength, and the improvement in his men,
tai condition continues.
NJ. DE FREYCINET, French Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, expresses sympathy with
the Bulgarians, but says he cannot support
them.
JOHN KNELL and his whole family at
Baltimore, Nd, came near losing their
lives by escaping gas. One child died.
MARY GLANFERT, formerly one of Bar.
NUNS midget curiosities, being very small
was found dead in bed at Newton, l.. /.
on the 9th.
A PARIS newspaper says the triple alll-
ance has been ruptured, and that Austria
and Germany have joined England, France
and Italy against Russia.
A SENSATION occurred at Plymouth, Eng
land, on the evening of the 9th, when a
lecturer in church was denounced as hav-
| eloped with another mans wife. The lee
turer came near being mobbed, and was
subsequently arrested.
A COLLISION on the New York, Pennsyl-
vania & Ohio Road at Akron, o., on the
| 9th, caused by an operator falling asleep,
demolished $4,000 worth of property.
THE steamer Mountain Girl was sunk in
a collision with the James w. Calf on the
Ohio River below Lawrenceburg, Ind. A
lot of circus property was destroyed and
two lives were lost.
THE property OF several members of the
original telephone syndicate has been at
tached at Lowell, Mass, at the suit of the
Erie Telephone Company.
Ii is stated that the Canadian Minister
of Justice has recommended to the Coun-
Gil that Riel should not be hung, but
should be incarcerated in lunatic asy
lun.
THE celebrated English thoroughbred ST.
Blais, owned by Mr.. August Belmont, ar
rived in New York on the steamer Holland
on the 9th.
A MEETING of citizens was held at the
Mayors Office in Philadelphia, Pa, on the
It'll, to take measures to secure the sfunds
necessary to complete the memorial to
General Grant in Fairmount Park.
LENT, LILLY & CoMPANY's collieries near
Delano, Pa, have resumed work, the OPP
orators acceding to all the demands of the
striking miners. The men have been on
strike all summer. The number employed
at these collieries is nearly 400.
THE will of the late Henry W. Shaw
Josh Billings) was filed on the 9th. The
market Vaiuo OF the estate is f.U,UUU
ANOTHER installment of Mormon con-
verts arrived in New York on the 9Th.
There were 80 of them in all, composed of
old and young men, women and children.
They were recruited from all sections of
Great Britain and Europe, and were, as a
rule, healthy, rugged appearing people,
but bore the look of illteracy distinctly
marked.
MONTREAL is evidently on the eve of
another riot. The forcible removal of
Gagnon's children to the hospital by the
Mayor and sanitary officials has evoked a
storm of indignation from the French pa
papers La HinerUe and lie Monde, and the
editors of both papers have been arrested
for libel.
ONE OF the wells recently drilled at Find
lay, o., for natural gas was "torpedoed"
on the 9th, and a stream of oil shot eighty
feet into the air. The well continued flow
ing at the rate of 800 barrels per day and
to height Of forty feet There is great
excitement in the town.