Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-15

| made a murderous attack on Chinese hop
pickers in Squak Valley. Wy. T., recently,
and killed two of their number, were in
dicted by the Grand Jury. on the 9Th for
murder in the first degree.
The Dominion Government has sent 6
| steamer loaded with supplies to the Lab
rador coast to alleviate the distress among
the starving fishermen.
| The vicinity of Ringtown, Pa, was Wis
| tied ON the Sth by binding snow storm
| Ice a quarter of an inch thick formed in
many places.
THREE HUNDRED men employed by the
| Muskegon (Mich.) Boom Company struck
on the Sth against being locked in their
| wages for time lost by rainy or stormy
weather.
CARDINAL MCCLosKEY died a little
after one O'Clock the morning of the 10th.
THE reward for Indian sca1ps in Ari-
iona has been increased to 5000 each.
In fight between the Fl ench and Hovas
in Madagascar. recently, the French lost
| twenty one killed and wounded, and the
Hovas 200.
AN investigation is in progress OF
charges pre- erred against the Omahe
Postmaster.
LIMA advices state that the Government,
| troops are still pursuing General Caceres,
of whose movements very little is known.
THE Attorney General of Indiana gives
it as his opinion that teachers salaries
can not be garnished.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad will BE-
opened from Montreal to Kicking Horse
Pass, a distance of 1891 miles, on Novem-
Der I'd.
TWO men were drowned by the capsiz-
ing of a fishing smack off Frankfort,
Mich, on the Sth, during gale.
GENERAL STEVENSON, First Assistant
Postmaster General, was rendered pub
lie reception at Bloomington, Ill.
ALL incoming trains are boarded al
Quebec by physician, and all persons
refusing to be vaccinated or who can not
show vaccination marks are quarantined.
GEoRGE PAXTON was struck on a cross.
ing by a Cleveland & Pittsburgh train
near Steubenville, o., on the 9th, and in.
stantly killed.
H. TATTENHAM, who left Meadford, On
tario, in yacht, was pursued by tug to
Lake Huron, where he was captured and
taken back on a charge of forgery.
PUPILS in the public and provincial
schools at Buffalo, n. Y, are to be vac
cinated and other precautions are being
taken against the spread OF smallpox.
AT conference of glass manufacturers
and workers at Syracuse, N. Y, basis of
agreement has been arrived at and work
in the factories will be resumed.
CORRESPONDENTS between the Attorney
General, the President and the Solicitor
General has resulted in the dismissal of
suits brought by the Government against
the Bell Telephone Company.
MRS. CLARENCE CLARK, once promi-
nent society belle of Wilkesbarre, Pa, but
latterly a confirmed opium eater and
drunkard, committed suicide at Williams
port, Pa, on the 9th.
THE Treasury Department on the 9th
purchased 100000 ounces of silver for de-
livery al the Philadelphia mint for coinage
into silver dollars.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL CALEB B. lay
TON, Twentieth Infantry, and Captain
VIM. E. Kingsbury, Eleventh Infantry,
have been placed on the retired list.
THERE were 207 failures in the United
States and Canada during the seven days
ended the 9th, against 1876 the week before
and 1S5 the week previous.
The American box and shook factory
and planning mill, owned by Thomas w.
Thompson, of Williamsport, Pa, burned
on the oh, together with a large amount
of stock. Loss, nearly $4,000; insurance,
SIS, 500.
A ROW BOAT was capsized in Boston har-
Dor on the 9th. Two men were picked up
by the crew of a tug-boat, but both died
in short time. There is said to have been
third man in the boat named NJ. S. Cove,
whose body was not recovered. One of
the dead men is named H. B. Carrier.
A CLEVELAND & PITTSBURGH passenger
train, going East, struck team Of horses
and a wagon at Alkana crossing, near
Steubenville, O., on the 9th, killing both
horses, completely demolishing the wagon
and fatally injuring George Paxton, the
driver of the team.
AT the Luke Fiddler breaker at Shamo-
kin, Pa, on the 9th, Polish boy, employ
ed as slate picker, missed his footing and
fell headlong into box in which were
swiftly revolving a pair of "monkey"
rollers used in preparing the smaller sizes
of coal. Before the machinery could be
stopped his body was ground to pieces.