Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| and elsewhere, was killed by a fearful ex-
| plosion which occurred in his house Will g
he was packing boxes. His mother was
also killed and the roof of the house was
| blown of.
| GENERAL Crook reports that a consid-
| cradle time will elapse before the expedi-
| tion now in pursuit of the Indians can be
heard from.
THE new English ministry visited the
| Queen at Windsor on the oath and formal
ly received the seals of Office.
THE American society of civil engineers
began its annual convention at Deer Park,
Md, on the 24sh.
SECRET Russian gun factories are re-
| ported in operation ut Batoum, IN Asia
| Minor.
| Mr.. BURCHARD, Director of the Mint,
refuses to resign, and will test the power
| of the President to remove him.
THE Russian Government has issued an
order forbidding the newspapers to make
any reference whatever to the action of
Russia in the Afghan affair.
DR.. SAMUEL DAVID FERGUSON, colored,
was consecrated bishop of the Episcopal
Church, at Grace Church, New York, ON
the oath.
DR. WALSH, President of Maynooth
College, has been appointed Archb bishop
of Dublin.
A RuMoR has reached Cairo that Kas-
sala has not fallen. The garrison, it is
asserted, still refuses to surrender to tn
forces of the MahdL
CoRNELIUL B. DEMARssr cut his throa
from ear to ear with q carving knife at
New Haven, Conn, on the oath. Tempo
rary insanity from nervous prostration Is
the alleged cause
COLES eieph ant Samson went on the
| rampage at Lapeer. Mich, on the oath, at
circus performance, stampeded the au-
dience, played havoc generally and got
five bullets in his hide for his fun.
THE carpet weavers' strike at Yonkers,
N. Y, which has lasted sever al months, has
ended. The operatives resume work on
the basis Of a ten per cent increase of
wages.
COLONEL DENNY, United States Min
lister to China, had an interview with
the President and Secretary of State on
the oath prior to his departure for China.
Mr.. ADAMS and Miss Coleridge were
married in London on the oath. The other
members of the bridal family were con-
spicusus by their abs ence.
THE Treasury Department ON the oath
purchased 295, 900 ounces of silver, for de =
livery at the Philadelphia mint for coin =
age into standard dollars.
THE National Association of Master
Plumbers held two business sessions at ST.
Louis on the oath, and enjoyed a steam
boat excursion on the river in the evening.
ADRIAN JOHNSON and John Melin fell
from a windlass at the Ludington mine at
Iron Mountain, Mi ch., on the oath. Melin
was killed and Johnson fatally hurt.
Melin was falling and johnson tried to
save him.
A FEARFUL explosion occurred on the
oath in a powder mill at Lucca, Italy. A
number of people were at work at the time
and very few escaped death or serious in
juries. The bodies of twelve of the killed
were recovered.
| the degree of Doctor Of Laws conferred
upon him by the Wisconsin State Uni
versity.
STEPS are being taken to place John
Mccullough, the tragedian, in an insane
asylum.
The De partment of State has received
notice through the Belgian legation at
Washington that an international con-
gress of commercial law will be held at
Antwerp in September. An invitation is
rendered to this Government to send a
representative to the Congress.
In Madrid on the oath four sporadic
cases were reported; in the town of Va
lencia, thirty-seven new cases and six
teen deaths; in the province of Alicante,
forty EIGHT new cases and forty deaths.
There were also some deaths in Saragossa.
A DISPATCH has been received at the
State Department announcing the death
on the oath of S. L. Phelps, ex-United
States Minister to Peru. Mr.. Phelps
died at Lima He was about sixty years
of age and entered the navy in 1871, con-
tinuing in its service until 1864
OCEAN travel this season is reported as
extremely light, while American watering
places and summer resorts open up with
an unusually heavy run of business.
THE Harvard Columbia boat race on the
25th was woa by Harvard by six lengths
Rev. WIN. De WITT HYDE has been ches-
en- President of Bowdon College.
THE present Indian troubles in Colorado
are now generally attributed to cowboy
cussedness.
ADMIRAL CoURBEr will be buried from
| the Hotel des Invalides, Paris.
Iowa Democrats will hold their State
convention at Cedar Rapids August 10Th.
OFFICIAL reports of the ravages of
| cholera in Spain on the Oath show total
| OF ,02o new cases and 512 deaths. In AL
icante alone on the 25th there were forty =
eight new cases and forty deaths.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were experienced
| in Scotland on the 18th.
JAMES ALLISON, of Cincinnati, is the
new President of the Master Plumbers
| National Association.
BOTH Houses of the British! Parliam ent
| adjourned on the 25th until July 9Th.
ADMIRAL CALDER, French Minister of
| Marine, threatens to resign.
THIRTY-sIx deaf and dumb immigra ants
arrived at Montreal, Can, on the 25th.
BLEEcKER BANKS, Mayor of Albany, is
said to aspire to the Governorship of New
York
A FAMILY named burst was accidentally
| poisoned at Plymouth, Wis, ON the 25th,
by the accidental use of arsenic for baking
powder. One death resulted, and others
were in precarious condition.
THE Commercial Travellers Protec tive
Association began its annual convention
at Buffalo on the 25th.
TIE contest for territorial officers seems
to be the topic of chief interest now at
Washington.
The differences betw cen Turkey and
Russia have been amicably settled.
TREASURER ANDERSON of West Hobok-
en-, N. lis charged with being So, 900 be-
hind in his accounts.
A MAN named Carpenter, on trial at
New York for wife murder, tried to COM
init suicide on the 25th, but failed.
FIFTY Irish detectives who have been
doing duty in London have been ordered
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