Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE Servian Governm emit, in note to the
Porte, admits the suzerainty of the Sultan
over Bulgaria.
CONGRESSMAN BLAND criticises the Pres
ident's message as being sectional.
PRINCE ALEXANDER sent an answer to
King Milan on the sth in which he rejected
the Servian peace proposals.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, ex-Minister to
Turkey, arrived at New York on the 9Th.
A FLoUR-MILL explosion occurred at
Milwaukee, Wis, on the 9Th, in which four
| persons were injured.
| Two more men lost their lives on the
| Sth at the Croton aqueduct at Merritt's
Corner, N. Y.
| THE dead body of Mrs. F. Rockstrok
| was found in the cistern at her residence
in Appleton, Wis.,, on the Sth. 1t was sup
| posed she had fallen in accidentally.
| HENRY W. TAYLOR, obtained verdict
| at Indianapolis, Ind, against Harrison j.
| Rice for $4,000 for malicious prosecution.
| THE Home Insurance Company won an
! important test suit at Indianapolis, Ind,
arising out of purchase of policies from
| the American Insurance Company, of Chi
| cago.
NADJID PAsHA has been entrusted with
a special mission from the Porte to Prince
| Alexander, the object of which is to assist
in arranging peace between Servia and
| Bulgaria.
| THE ten-year daughter of James
| Dunn, of Xenia, Ind, died on the 9th Of
| trichinosis.
| THE Western Union Telegraph Company
4 hoe iuid IF
| and quarter per cent.
| THE Porte protests against the seizure of
Massowah by Italy.
e. B. HEATH, the Kearney (Neb.) POST
| office embezzler, has been captured in Ari-
| IONA.
| Mr. F. A. CHANNING, Liberal, elected to
| Parliament in Northamptonshire, England,
| was born in America.
THE President is to send a special mes
| sage to Congress on the subject of rivers
| and harbors.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, it is said, desires to con-
clude his public life with the production of
| home rule measure for Ireland.
FOUR men were killed and three others
seriously injured on the 9th by the caving
In of a sewer at Akron, o.
GENERAL DECoURCEY has been recalled
from Anam and General Negrier succeeds
in command of the French troops.
AN explosion of natural gas ct Canons-
burg, Pa, on the 9th, wrecked a dwelling
and blew the family into vacant lot thir-
ty feet distant.
THREE hundred and thirty two members
of the new House of Commons were never
before elected to Parliament.
ROBERT GARRETT was reelected Presi-
dent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at
q meeting of the Board of Directors on the
9th.
JUDGE BICKNELL has rendered decision
at Washington, Ind, concerning the au-
thority of school trustees, holding that
their powers are strictly statutory and
people deal with them at their own peril.
THE Sultan has informed the German
ambassador that Turkish troops will in
wade Eastern Roumelia should Prince
Alexander oppose the Turkish Commits
sion.
TEE Secretary of the Treasury has in
structed the Collector of Sitka to refuse
clearance to vessels laden wholly or in
part with timber which has been taken
illegally from the Government lands.
PRINCE AUGUSTUS of Portugal will ask
the hand of Princess Augusta, daughter of
Crown Prince Frederick William.
ALLEN ADAMS has Uceu LOuuu Sullty
and sentenced to death for the murder of
Noses B. Dickinson at Amherst, Mass,
ten years ago.
TIE body of George Boyd, an inmate of
the Soldiers Home at Dayton, O., was
found in field near the Home on the 9th,
supposed to have frozen to death. He was
ninety EIGHT years of age, a member of
Company B, One Hundred and Second
Pennsylvania Volunteers.
The saw-mill of Burnham & Still at East
Saginaw, Mich, with a large quantity of
lumber, burned on the 10th.
MISS ALICE BRYAN, of GAINESVILLE, O.,
committed suicide at Charleston, s. c., on
the 10th.
DOCUMENTS discovered by the British at
Mandalay show that an alliance exists be-
tween France and Burmah.
THE University of Nashville, Tenn, cele
brated its centennial anniversary on the
10th.
JOHN LANGDoN SHELLEY, librarian at
Harvard University, died on the 10th.
THE Bell Telephone Company has won a
patent suit at Pittsburgh, Pa, against the
Western Pennsylvania Telephone Com
pany.
THE eight hour law was discussed at the
meeting of the federation of trades unions
at Washington on the 10th.
FORTY Servians have been shot by order
of King Milan for disabling themselves for
military duty.
A MINERS riot occurred near Elizabeth,
Pa, on the 10th, in which sticks and stones
were freely used and several men were Sc
verely injured.
A MEETING was held at Pittsburgh, Pa,
ON the 10th, of the Classification Committee
of the Western and Middle States Freight
Agents Association.
THE Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, refuses to interfere in the SEN
fences of prisoners engaged In the Cross
maglen outrages.
GEO. W. TowNsLEY, Postmaster 'atj New
HOLLAND, Pa, has disappeared, and short
a ge in his accounts has been discovered.
OFFICIAL funeral services for the late
K ing Alfonso were held at Havana, Cuba,
ON the 10th, and were very impressive.
SENATOR CULLoM has introduced bill
in the Senate authorizing the construction
of a bridge over the Mississippi, at or near
Alton, Ill.
j. B. MAENIx, assignee of the estate of
the late Archbishop Purcell ct Cincinnati,
ms given up his position. The shortage in
accounts reaches 100000.
V Supreme Court Of Ohio has decided
against the Lake Shore Road in
was charged with discriminating
IF the Standard Oil Company.
Nall Gazette advises Mr.. Glad
hke terms with Mr.. PaxAell and
bwer. /
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