Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-06

The committee of the Union Of AmerI-
can Hebrew Congregations has voted that
services in memory of Sir Moses Monte
fore shall be held in all cities of the coun-
try on some day to be decided upon.
IT is reported that since Ell Mahdi's
death his followers have been continually
fighting among themselves.
AN Indian soldier who recently rebelled
and shot several native officers wa:
hanged at Gungalore, India, on the S0th
in the presence of the British and native
troops.
ASHLAND, Pa, Is excited over a water
famine which exists at that place.
The estimated decrease of the public
debt during the month of July is $1,000,
600.
REV. JEREMIAH OSULLIvAN, not Father
Byrne, is the new Bishop of Mobile.
AUGUST S5h, the date of General Grants
funeral, will be legal holiday in Con.
necticut.
A VIOLENT storm at Fargo. D. T., or
the 31st destroyed an iron electric tower
and did other dama-e
RED hats were given the new Cardinals
at a public consistory at Rome on the
Slst- Great pomp and ceremony marked
the occasion.
BRADsTREET's cotton report for July
shows the condition fully as good as re-
ported for June.
CHARLES L. SKINNER, of Baltimore
Nd, has been disbarred from practice as
an attorney before the Interior Depart
ment for extorting illegal fees.
The total imports of dry goods at New
York during the seven day ended the 3lst,
were valued at s., 332 337. and the amou nj
thrown on the market at s., 179, 7S7.
THERE were 2,6l6 new cases of cholera
in the plague stricken districts of Spain
on the Both, and 1,039 deaths from the
disease for the same time.
IT is reported that Osman Digna was
killed in the Kassala battle. The Mahdi's
followers are everywhere demoralized.
VALENTINE WAGNER was hanged at
Columbus, O., and Matilda Jones, Charles
Davis and George Wilson at Plaquemine,
La, ON the 31st.
JACOB ERB, arrested in Chicago on a
charge of drunkenness, died in his cell on
the 31st. A post mortem examination
that death was caused by chronic infiam-
nation of the brain,
THE police have discovered some of the
land) Bank at Farquharson's Dublin
lodgings.
A FoUR-YEAR-oL daughter of James
Bennett, of New York, a summer resid emit
of Roslyn, L. l., fell into a bath of hot
W alter the night of the Both and was
scalded SO terribly that she died imme-
diately.
THREE hundred employees of the Lake
G,;a DoI& ~
on strike.
ALL the men believed to have been lost
in the fallen mill at Wilmington, DEL,
have been accounted for.
THE Indianapolis Post office inv estiga-
ton has been concluded, aud the Commits
sioners have gone to Washing ton to pre-
pare their report.
THE property and franchise Of the
Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Com
pany were sold at auction in New York
on the 31st for 5000 to Edward S.
Stokes.
A PRIZE fight took place at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 31st between John Beck and
Philip Bulger. Eleven rounds were fought,
and Bulger was knocked out and terribly
punished.
THERE is a conflict of authority be-
tween uue governor OF vest virginia and
the judge of the Federal court over the
payment of Chesapeake aud Ohio back
taxes.
THE six chiefs of divisions in the Sec
ondl A uditor's office (Treasury Depart
menO have beenirequested to tender their
They are: Thos. c. Bailey,
3. II. Goodall, G. Tomell, Thos. Rathbone,
q. A. WALTON and c. c. Snow.
THE Secretary of State received from
Lima on the evening of the 3oth, tele-
gram announcing the death of Lieute
Nye, naval attache to the American Le-
cation at that place. The Lieutenant was
to accompany the remains of
ax- Minister Phelps to the United States,
but before the date Of departure he be-
came i'll and died.
IT is understood that the President
within few days, will fill the vacant Sec
ond lieutenancies existing in the line of
tho army from civil life. There will be
ten vacancies after the nom commission ed
officers who are now being examined shall
have been assigned to regiments.