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

hugness huRness w.. 540,UO0 IDS. beef at
$2.S4 per 100 lbs.
c. d. LESTER, a stock dealer, committed
suicide on the 9th at Burlington junction
Springs, la. He was a we'll known man
and an old friend of President Cleveland,
having been Deputy Sheriff of Erie
County, New York, when Cleveland was
Sheriff. No cause is assigned for the
deed.
DRIVERS and conductors on several of
| the st. Louis car lines quit work on the 9Th,
causing some inconvenience to travel.
They demand twelve hours asia days worl,
| fifteen minutes for meals and $1.75 and
| $500 day for drivers and conductors re-
| spectively.
IT is said that Mr.. Fosters successor as
Minister to Spain has been fully deter
| mined upon; that he halls from Southe IN
State, and that his name will soon be an
| nounced.
| signed.
| and Guelph, Ontario.
PATRICK KENNEDY was murd cred at La
Crosse, Wis, on the 7th, by James Kelly.
ONLY 81, 900 have been raised for the
benefit of James Stephens, the ex. Fenian.
Rev. j. L. NJ. CURRY, of Virginia, has
been appointed Minister to Spain.
A SHORTAGE has been discovered in the
accounts OF the Union Bank at Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
A JOINT debate between Governor Hoad-
ly and Judge Foraker took place at Tole-
do, o., on the evening of the Sth.
SERvIA announces that she will fight
unless her demands for an extension of
territory are granted.
A CATTLE train on the Northern Pacific
Railroad caught fire on the 9TH and sew
eral cattle were burned.
A LAWSUIT at Waterloo, Ia, in which
$50 was at first involved, has gone on I'M
til the fees and costs foot up over $4,000.
THE New Zealand Government has re-
newed the mail service between that coun-
try and San Francisco.
CONGRESSMAN COLLINS, of Massachu-
sets, one of the gentlemen recently Sc
lected to go to Ireland to assist Parnell,
refuses to go.
DIAMONDS valued at 5000 were stolen
from the residence of Ex-Governor
Claflin of Massachusetts,, at Newtonville,
that State, on the 7th.
Two Bulgarian delegates from Prince
Alexander to the Porte were arrested and
subjected to an official examination.
A COLLISION oc Cured between a coal
and freight train on the Lehigh Road,
near Easton, Pa, on the It'll, aud Geo. L.
Fransue. a brakeman, was killed.
The Canadian Pacific Railway will inn
mediately extend its telegraph system
throughout the Dominion of Canada.
CITIZENS of Rock Springs, Wyo., turned
out en- masse on the 7th, and gave an ova-
ton to the rioters who were not indicted
by the Green River Grand Jury.
OWING to the warlike attitude of Servia
the Porte has been compelled to call out
more reserves for service on the frontier
THE Captain and thirteen of the crew of
the Italian bark Talismano arrived at New
York on the Eth. Their vessel was SO in
jured by storms that she had to be aban-
doned.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Ire asury
DEPARTMENT shows that the amount of
standard dollars put in circulation during
the month of September in the regular
course of business was -, 700, 600.
The Postmasters at Pittsburgh and AL
legheny, Pa, have had a disagreement,
growing out of encroachments by the
former on the latter's territory in deliver
ing special delivery letters, and both Post
masters have communicated their views
on the subject to the department.
THE Board of Management of the new
North, Central and South American Ex-
position at New Orleans have added to
their list of special days an "American
Silver Congress-" assigning it to Decem-
Der 11th and 18th, the two days follow
ing the "American Bankers Congress"
Steps have been taken to secure grand
display of products from the silver re-
gions of the United States.
Hoe cholera is prevalent in some parts
of Dakota and also in Canada.
The transfer of the silver cargo of the
United States steamers Swatara and Yam
tic, amounting to SO, 100000 in standard
silver dollars, to the United States Treas
ury was completed on the 7th. 1t is said
at the Treasury Department that, owing
to the trouble and delay in transporting
by water, railroad transportation only VIII
be employed in the future.
The Consul of the United States at
Guayamas, Mexico, informs the Depart
ment of State that the statements made by
various newspapers that there are 1000
Cinnamon in his district, and that the
same are being surreptitiously introduced
in the United States in contravention of
the restriction act of Congress are untrue,
as the total number of Cinnamon in that
these are nearly all employed in shoe and
tailoring factories, and have no desire to
leave their present profitable positions.
THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy will
withdraw from the Trans sentimental As
ISOLATION.
THE Russian Government has ordered all
Russian officers to leave Bulgaria.
MRS. VERONICA BULL OF Syracuse, N.
Y, who tasted fifty mine days, died on
the 9Th.
A THREE-MILLIoN pound sterling fire &C.
Cured at Charterhouse Square, London,
on the Sth.
CLARENCE BENNETT, of Woonsocket,
OAK, was tarred and feathered and or
dered to leave the place for an assault ON
a woman.
The French Ministry will resign pre-
vious to the meeting of the Chamber of
Deputies.
JAY GOULD and associates have started
West from New York for q tour of the
Southwestern system.
THE Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland
have passed 2 resolution condemning
violence.
THE funeral Of the Earl of Shaftesbury
occurred on the 9Th, in London. His re-
mains were deposited in Westminster
Abbey.
On the 23d inst. the gauge on the Vicks-
burg and Meridian Railway will be
changed to the standard width.
MRS. O'CoNNELL., of LIMERICK, has come
to an amicable understanding with her
tenants and the boycotting of her has
ceased.
In Spain, on the Sth, there were 211 new
cases of cholera and 100 deaths renorted