Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-03-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Ar social entertainment in New York
on the 18th one woman stabbed another
with knife and then tried to cut her
throat with a corset steel and butt her
brains out.
VERMONT had its inning at the New Or
leans Exposition on the 18th.
LIEUTENANT JOHN W. RICHARDS, of the
Salvation Army, was arrested at North
Adams, Mass, on the 18th and indicted,
with three others, on the charge of OBJ
tainining $4,000 worth of goods from
merchants in different cities and disposing
of the goods for their own benefit.
THE Prince of Wales and his son left
London for Berlin on the 18th.
SUSAN WARNER, the novelist, died at
Newburgh, n. Y, on the 18th.
MRS. GENERAL TOM THUMB and Count
Rosebud will be married on Easter Mon
day.
A DISTINCT shock of earthquake was felt
at Contocook, n. H, on the 18th.
WIN. H. VANDERBILT had a short inter-
view with the President ON the 18th.
THERE came near being a free fight in
the Austrian Chamber of Representatives
on the 18Th.
A NUMBER of the Pennsylv ania striking
miners were arrested On the 18th.
The Holstein Cattle Breeders Associa-
ton o. America met at Chicago on the
18th.
IT is denied that Senator Stanford, of
California, is in bad health, as was re-
ported.
j. L. WEED, prominent citizen of Bing-
hamton, n. Y, was arrested on the 18th
on a charge of forgery.
The Arkansas Senate, on the 18th, passed
the bill to enlarge the powers and privi-
leges of married women.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was forty EIGHT
years old on the 1S-h, and received the
congratulations of numerous callers.
JAY GoULD's steam yacht arrived at
Charleston, S. c., on the 18th, with the
railroad owner and family on board.
WIN. MULCAHY was murdered in the
Essex County IN. j. Insane Asylum, on
the 1Stn, by Hermann Fuchs, another
patient.
The grain sections of California are
said to be suffering for the want of rain.
AN immense crowd in Louisville, KY,
on the 18th listened to infia mmatory
speeches made by Socialists AMI Auarch-
lists from Chicago and New York.
La LIBERTE states that France is willing
to abandon her claims to ind emnity ifChina
will execute the Tien Tsin treaty.
A SLAVE girl, in khartoum when the
city fell, states that q severe battle took
place between Gordon's troops and the
Arabs a fortnight before the city fell.
GEORGE GRAY has been duly declared
elected Senator from Delaware to succeed
Secretary Bayard.
A TANK in the oil-works of Zone &
Fleming, Newton Greek, n. V. exploded
the evening of the 18th, and 1000 barrels
of oil We're destroyed. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
WHEN the paraffine factory at Eliz abeth-
port, N. j., was fired on the 18th. the still
burst and the factory was totally de-
stroyed. The loss is $780, 900; no insur-
ance. The place employed fifty hands,
and was owned by Theophilus NJ. Marc.
Jessie Hall, very bright colored girl of
sixteen, died at Akron, O., on the 18th,
after having abstained from food for
seventy-five days, positively taking no
sustenance but small bits or oranges and
water, and these very seldom. Part of
the time the girl was in a comatoss state.
The physicians were completely baffied by
the case, and claim it to be one of the
most peculiar on record.
EX-CoNGREssMAN JEFFoRDS, of Misss-
sippi, died on the 18th.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS of Baltimore
called on President Cleveland on the 18th.
THE Figaro says that President Cleve-
land has requested Minister Morton to re-
main in Paris.
A BANQUET was given ex-Speaker Keifer
at Springfield, o., on the 10Th.
Mr.. GEORGE GRAY was sworn in as
United States Senator to succeed Mr..
Bayard on the 10Th.
FIRE in the glass-works of Francis
Storms, Brooklyn, on the 10Th, caused
loss of $1,000.
ROBBERS entered Donaldson & Co.'s
bank at Columbus, o., on the 18th, and
stole Il, 800.
THE Duke of Richmond, the largest own
ar of rented property in London, has re-
luced all his rents ten per cent.
STATE AUDITOR Brown of Iowa again
refused to vacate his office on the 18th, and
1nce mora was arrested.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked at Allie
,ripus, Pa, ON the 10Th. One man killed
and several seriously injured.
IT is said that Russian officers, at the
council of war to be held soon, will urge
IN advance upon Herat.
THE entire night force of The Bankers &
Merchants Telegraph Company at Bos-
ION, Mass, are on a strike.
A RUNAWAY love-couple from uffa' o,
Y. Y, en- route to st. Louis, were arrested
1T Cleveland on the 18th and placed in the |
ock-up.
LATEST advices from the Soudan report |
|, short engagement between the British
md the rebels, with small losses by each
tide.
THE Democratic State Convention of
Rhode Island met at Pro 7idence on the |
9th, nominated ticket and Endorsed the |
address of the President.
THE chief event at the New Orleans Ex- |
position on the 10Th was a balloon ascen- |
sion by Prof. Van Tassel, of California.
The residence of Lieutena Mt Thomas w. |
Fitch, General Sherman's son-in- law,) |
1t Cote Brilliante, suburb of st. Louis, |
No., was destroyed by fire on the 10Th. |
Loss, 10000; insured.
JOS. SKELrAN and Geo. K. Osborn are
Inder arrest at Chicago, charged with
and passing counterfeit
liver coin.
COMMISSIONER MILLER qualified on the |
9th, and entered upon his duties as head
# the Internal Revenue Bureau.
CARROLL D. WRIGHT, Commissioner of
labor, has submitted the outline of pro-
,Jsed investigation of the labor problem
o the Secretary of the Interior, which
meets the latter's hear ty approval
IT was stated in the British House of
Commons on the 18Th that the regular
rmy numbers 1874, $50 men and the volun-
eer force 20S,600. The newspapers are
. eased with the statement.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has is /