Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Ontario, on the 18th. The trick elephant
iom Thumb also had a leg broken.
A CALCULATION made at the Treasury
department shows that the standard sill
yer dollar Is now worth only eighty
cents, and the value still depreciating.
The joint Western classification com.
mittee at st. Paul, Mimi, refused to grant
tne request OF Chicago and st. Louis mer-
chants for abolishing carload rates.
The Black Flags in Tonquin are prepar-
ing for an active guerrilla war on the
| French troops.
The mission of Sir Henry Drummond
Wolff from England to Turkey has failed.
No information had been received at
the Navy Department on the 10Th con-
corning the reported cholera on the United
States ship Ossipee, at Nagasaki, Japan.
The celebration of Mexican indepen-
dence, at the City of Mexico on the 18th
was a brilliant affair.
The Chinese consuls have gone to Rock
| Springs from San Francisco to investi =
gate the recent massacre of Cinnamon at
| that place.
ENGLAND will not support Germany in
the Carol ines affair, but is willing to me .
diate.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, has quarantined
against vessels oming from Italian ports
on account of cholera.
A FIRE at Nashville, Tenn, on the 10th
| consumed 5000, 900 feet of LUMBER the
Southern Pump Company's phil, Rhea &
Sons grain elevator, the gas works, an
ice factory and other property. Loss,
100000; insurance, 100000.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN of the Agricul-
! tural Department went to Falls Chur CHI,
Va, to attend the fair of the Virginia
grangers. He made a speech, but not
! upon political subjects.
THE Mexican Congress convened on the
10Th, and the railway representatives ex-
pect that recommendation restoring the
subsidies will be made.
A TRANSFER of the North Shore line of
the Grand Trunk Railway to the Cana
dian Pacific, has been arranged.
DR.. L. D. Downs, a well known dentist
at Davenport, Ia, attempted suicide the
night of the 18th by shooting himself in
the chest. He was still living but his re-
covery was doubtful.
THE body of Charles Hass, aged seven
ty-eight years, was found hanging in his
barn at Davenport, Ia, on the 10th. He
was pros porous farmer, and no cause is
known for the suicide.
The Democratic conferences of the
Nineteenth Congressional District of
Pennsylvania met at Mt. Holy Springs on
the 10th and unanimously nominated John
A Swope, of Gettysburg, the present in
cumbent.
AT Butte, Mont, on the 18th, three lives
were lost by a mine accident.
IT is reported that the Baltimore &
Ohio Railway Company will build new
to
The subject of Sunday labor in Ger
many is being officially investi gated.
The ninth annual reunion of the Army
of West Virginia was held at Portsmouth,
O., on the 18th.
GENERAL OBERNITz has been decorated
with the Black Eagle by Emperor Will
liam.
The procession at the Louisville
(Ky.) tobacco celebration on the 18th is
reported to have been eight miles long.
JOHN MORLEY says separation would
be a disaster to Ireland and disgrace to
England"
A COLLISION on the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad on tn 18th caused an
oil fire which resulted in 500, 1000 loss.
THE Dublin paper, United Ireland, makes
savage threats contingent on the carrying
out of Chamberlain's policy.
The stock of nails at Pittsburgh, Pa,
and the West has been almost exhausted
by the long strike of the nailers.
OCTOBER 18th is the date to which Riel
was reprieved so that his appeal could be
heard by the Imperial Privy Council.
A BANQUET was given on the 18th to the
delegates to the International Telegraph
conference by DR.. Stephen, President OF
the meeting, and the latter was presented
with a costly punch bowl, made of silver
and crystal.
REPRESENTATIVE WARNER, of Ohio, is
in Washington in connection with his
proposed silver compromise bill.
AFTER the suppression of a free fight
at a political meeting at Paris, on the
18th, fusion of the Orleanists and
Bonapartists was effected.
AT the election for School Commiss ION
ers at Binghamton, N. Y, on the 18th,
the women generally voted, and the
scenes at the polls were novel.
THE shaft of the Oakwell coIliery at
Inkstone, England, was blocked by an &C.
cident on the 18th, and 800 miners were
entombed. 1t was thought they would all
be saved.
AN unknown tug boat col1ided with the
schooner Ed win Post at New York on the
18th. The schooner sank Immediately,
carrying down the steward and captain.
JUDGE CLoUGH of the California Su-
perior Court became insane and resigned.
Another judge was appointed. Then
Clough recovered, had no recollection of
and the court is all tangle ed up
By the upsetting of yacht near Lam
caster, Ont, on the 18th, three persons
were thrown into the water and after re-
pai ha chit and Aoatiup all niobf
two of them died from exposure and the
third was in a precarious condition.
THE Tanners and Hide and Leather AS
ISOLATION have decided to organize a CO.
operative insurance company, to insure
their own risks.
COLONEL T. F. BARR, who has for many
years been military secretary to the Sec
rotary of War, has been ordered to Fort
will not retain the services of military
secretary.
AS Patrick Naughton, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home at Washington, D. c.,
was being taken to the lookup by Ser
geant Edward Alexander, for being drunk,
on the Itch, he stabbed the officer twice
with a pocket-knife, the second blow in
ficting such a serious wound that Alex
ander died from its effects.
THE plans for the Garfield monument at |
Cleveland, O., are now completed and the |
architect is in Cleveland. The committee |
will open the bids for building the monu- |
ment September 30th.
DIR. j. B. HAMILTON has rendered his |
as Surgeon General OF the |
Marine Hospital service, to take effect |
November 1st, but is willing to remain in