Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THEsUrsulne convent at Ballytruckle,
County Waterford, ireland, was de-
| stroyed by fire on the 18th.
AN important meeting Of the Southern
| general passenger agents was held at At
lanta, Ga, on the 25th.
The fourth annual meeting of the Amer.
lean Forestry Congress will be held at
Boston September 22d.
| THE French newspapers are urging
Spain to resist Bsmark's greed in the
Caroline Islands affair.
| SUIT has been brought by the Famous
Dry Goods Company, of Vicksburg,
Miss, against various insurance COM
panies for 500, 500.
THE members of the international tele-
| graph con ference were banqueted on tn g
18th by the Bremen Senate.
IT is reported from Suakim that the
British and friendly natives have defeat.
ed the hostile Arabs at Shinat.
HOLE -THE-DAY, Chippewa chief,
was taken from Northern Pacific train
at way station, on the 25th, dragged
into the woods and brutality beaten. He
was witness in Government case oil
| selling whisky.
A PORTION of the embankment of the
Sidney CO., waterworks reservoir was
washed away by heavy rain storm on
the 18th, leaving the city without water.
A FREsHET in Girly's Run the night oil
oath, caused by a cloudburst near Ever.
green, Pa, flooded twenty-five houses,
washedaway thirteen railroad and town
ship bridges and drowned a large lot OF
livestock. The damage will reach many
thousand dollars. No lives were lost.
| Mr. THEODORE FRELINGHUYsEN, son of
4 fha LOT 1f S&aEa
ried at Newport, r IT,, on the 18th, to
Miss Alice Coates daughter of James
| Coates, of the firm of j. s. P. Coates, OF
| Scotland.
The Union building, containing a num-
Der of factories at Troy, N. Y, was
burned on the Goth. Loss, $2s, 900.
A HEAVY rain-sto on the Goth was
followed by snow at Harvey's Lake, ten
miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Ed BURGE, q well-known railroad
man at Cincinnati, O., had paralyzed
arm cured by lightning shock on the
18th.
FIRE at Fergus Falls, Mimi, on the
Goth did SO, 900 damage.
GERMAN beer is to be boy cotted by the
Spaniards.
A NEW railway line to connect Lafay-
cite, Ind, and Terre Haute is to be built.
THE British militia has been ordered to
demobilize
AT Philadelphia Pa, on the Goth, an at
| tempt was made to blow up the saloon of
j. B. Rodgers with dynamite.
FOUR English regiments left Alexan-
dria, Egypt, on the Goth, for home.
PARNELL is to be banqueted by the Lord
Mayor of Dublin.
DANIEL CHILDERs, near Vinita, I. T.,
killed his sister in Law, and was after
ward killed by George Perryman.
GERMANY is willing to discuss with
Spain questions concerning the Caroline
Islands.
IRA LINNELL went trapping for bears
near Granville, Vt, got caught in his own
trap and nearly starved to death.
A RUMoR is in circulation, originated at
Saratoga, that Villas is to go as Minister
to Austria, and Postmaster Pearson is to
go into Cleveland's Cabinet
THERE was a run on the Spring Garden
Bank at Philadelphia on the Doth. All
demands were being met. and the Presi-
dent declared the Institution to be entire
ly solvent.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
conve ntion nominated Conrad B. Day for
State Treasurer by reclamation, and,
after adopting platform, adjourned sine
die.
PARNELL's speech to the Irish Nation
alists in Dublin has thoroughly aroused
the Conservatives.
BRADLAUaH is stirring up his friends
and urging them to send him back to
Parliament that he may again be kicked
out.
VALUES of exports Of breadstuffs from
ILL sA@I
July, 1885, So, ia, 305; July, 1884, So, 371,-
754. Seven months ended July 31st, 1885,
SS5,55S, 0S2; seven months ended July 31st,
1884. $50, 546, 13l.
Two thieves named Frank Elwood and
Joe Wilson, under arrest in New York,
have been identified as participants in
burglaries committed in Toledo, Detroit,
st. Paul and other places.
GoUNoD'S new oratorio sMors ct Vita"
was rendered at the Birmingham (Eng.)
authors masterpiece.
FIFTY delegates from Mexico will attend
the st. Louis cattle convention.
THE Marine Hospital Bureau is notified
that $50 cases of small pox, and LIS deaths
have occurred in Toronto, Ont, since Au-
gust 1st.
Pythias at Rocky River, O., on the 26th,
81. T. Sandman, of Cincinnati, and g. II.
Farnan, OF Covington, KY, were drowned
while bathing in Lake Erie. Farnan's
body could not be recovered.
1T Is reported that Don Carlos has Of
fered the Spanish Government the servi-
ces of 100, 900 Carlists to vindicate the
National honor against Germany.
THE plumbago crucible works at Rat.
tersea, on the Thames, were destroyed by
fire on the 26th. The loss Is $500, OOO
FIRE destroyed the Glenwood distillery
at Lawrenceburg, Ind, on the 27th.
The body OF Joseph B. Kealy, a
wealthy citizen Of Burlington, Ia, was
found in the river at that place on the
9th.
THE steampship VIM. Lawrence, from
Baltimore, reached Savannah, Ga, on
the Goth, after losing overheard all the
trunks of the passengers and all the cargo
between decks, part being swept away
and part being thrown over to tighten the
vessel. The second mate, Schauer, of
Baltimore, was washed overheard and
lost The vessel had ten feet of water in
her hold and her fires out for twelve
hours. The loss financially is very
heavy.
THE Lafayette, Newtown & Wabash
River Railway Company, capital $780,
600, has been Incorporated at Indianap-
oils, Ind.
SEVERAL militiameu were severely
wounded in a collision on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railway at Corning,
Ia, on the 9th.
The Earl of Devon, has offered to sell
hiS fenaDts tn cir hoIdin Os on his estatas in