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

w. j. HAYES committed suicide at Rock
port, Ind, on the 10Th.
A MASSACRE of aged Indians and
squaws by Mexicans, at Sonora, Is re-
ported.
CARLoTTA PATTI is about to publish a
book OF personal "reminiscences of San Ar
| lists Tour Around the World"
EMPEROR WILLIAMS health is reported
greatly improved.
VOLUNTEER cholera relief parties are
| being formed in Italy to go to Spain.
| BARRED wire manufa cturers are COM
| bining to put up the price of that article.
THE mills of Rust. Eaton & Co., Zil-
| waukee, Mich, were stopped on the 18th
| by the violence of the strikers.
| In the Spanish provinces of Huesca the
people are in revolt against the excise
| laws.
| s., 00O, 900 of the new Egyptian loan will
be expended in irrigation works.
Two men were killed instantly and sew
eral wounded by the falling of a portion
| of rolling mill at South Wilmington
DEL, on the Goth.
THE Westinghouse Air Brake Company
have notified their Pittsburgh (Pa.) en-
ployes that they will reduce wages on an
average of twenty per cent. from August
1st.
VIsCoUNr BENNINGTON, N. P, has Great
ed a sensation in London by denouncing
the Government for trucking to the Par
nellite blackguards."
A PASSENGER train on the Chicago &
Indianapolis Air Line near Delphi, Ind,
ran into a herd of cattle on tae Goth, killing
eight head, and doing $40, 900 damage to
the company. No person hurt.
ACCORDING to the report of Parlia-
mentary committee, all industries in Ire
land except linen manufacture are in a
deplorable condition.
A COMMITTEE has been appointed to in
quire into the condition and education of
the blind in England. One of the COM
mittee will visit the United States.
7. L WILLIS, Secretary of the Iowa
Legion of Honor, his daughter and her
friend, Miss Null, of CEDAR Rapids, were
drowned in Cedar River, about fourteen
miles below Cedar Rapids, on the 29th.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at Manns-
vile, N. Y, on the 9th. Every store in
the town, nine dwellings and the Church
of the Disciples, were burned. The loss
is estimated at SIC, 900, and insurance $45,-
OOO
ATERRIBLE wind and rain storm &C
companied by lightning, ragged through
out Minnesota on the Goth. All telegr aph
wires between Chicago and Milwaukee
were temporarily Frustrated.
IN a frightful electric storm at st.
Paul, Mimi, on the 10Th, three houses
were struck by lightning and badly dam
aged. Michael Brzzler was struck in the
head by bolt OF lightning and instantly
killed. Trees were struck in various parts
of the city and demolished.
THE Royal Electric Light Company's
works and Nutter's box factory, at Mon
treal, Can, were burned on the Goth. Four
tenement houses were also burned. The
Electric Light Company lose about $780,
600; fully insured. The total loss will be
about $1OO, 900.
A SCHEME is on foot to divide the Terri
tories of Montana and Dakota so as to
make a embarrassing and agricultural
State.
THE committee appointed to investigate
the Pail Mall Gazette exposures report
that ON the whole they find the statements
substantially true.
The United States Consul at Denia,
Spain, reports to the State Department
by cable that cholera has been officially
declared at that port.
THE July payments made ON account of
pensions up to the 18th of the month
to $7,2So. 900.
7. z. MI LIS, reported drowned at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the Goth, was re
suscitated.
A SPLIT among the Tories in England
seems to be imminent
BROWN, BoNNELL & Co., of Cleveland,
O., have signed the wages scale of the
Anal amated Association.
JAMES MASON, a noted des perado of
the Indian Territory, was found guilty on
the Both of murder.
. The Porte has contracted with Krupp
for So, SOC, 900 worth of guns.
A. W. CoFFMAN, a wealthy citizen of
Avoca, Ia, is in Jail at Council Bluffs for
killing man.
TERRIBLE and destructive storms have !
prevailed in the southern provinces of
France.
THE committee Investigating the coast
and geodetic survey claim to have un-
earthed great deal of crookedness.
The Mahdi, just before death, enjoined |
his followers to keep up the fight against |
the Christians.
SH oENBERGER's iron and steel works at |
Pittsburgh, Pa, proposed to start up on |
August Sd, giving employment to 1000 |
men.
AT Rome it is given out that the Arch
bishop of Baltimore will be made a Cardi-
nal in September.
THE Virginia Democrats nominated
General Fitz Hugh Lee for Cover nor, Jas. /
E. Massey for Lieutenant Governor, and
R. E. Ayers for Attorney General
AT a banquet in London to the minis
ters on the 30th, Lord Salisbury said the
foreign policy of Mr.. Gladstone would be
carried out.
A LIGHTNING ROD and weather vane
sharp named Adam Wilson, is found to
have swindled Pennsylvania farm ers out
If several thousand dollars.
VERY Rev. PATRICK REILLY, Vicar
General of the Roman Catholic Church at
Nilmin gton, Del, died on the 30th.
THE Italian iron-clad Marosini was
aunched at Venice on the 30th in the
presence of King Humbert and a crowd
# dignitaries.
WHILE inquiring into the case of the
INITIATED female remains recently found
n the Charles River at Boston, the police
# the city have unearthed another MUIR
er.
Rus sIA fears that the death of FL Mahdi
nd the predominance of Conservative in
luence in Egypt may result adversely to
russian interests.
SENATOR MALONE has issued circular
o the ousted Virginia Postmasters, con-
aiming a series of questions to be an
wered by them, which he will use as a
asis for a fight in the Senate.
THE subscriptions to the Egg ptian loan
$45, 000, 900 have been closed. They ag-