Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
AT Marshfield, Ind, on the 9Th, DR.. Grin
Abern, mailman, seriously wounded hii
friend. DR.. Boyer, and killed himself.
ALL imports from French and Spanish
Mediterranean ports have been prohibited
by Holland until the cholera has disap.
peared.
THE Grand Trunk Railway agents re.
port crops in Western Ontario in splendid
condition, and the outlook for a bountiful
harvest was never more promising.
The Indian budget shows a deficit OF
Fl OBS, 900, which Lord Randolph Church.
ill says could have been saved if the late
government had not abandoned the Duet
ia railway.
SIR MOSES MoNrEFIoRE's will was exc
cuted personally in 1882. He bequeathed
large sums Of money to various charitable
institutions and left numerous legacies to
faithful servants.
UP to the time of closing the doors of
the City Hall in New York on the night
of the 9th, 1852, 900 persons had viewed the
remains of General Grant.
RICHARD JOHNSON, colored, was hanged
at Viola, La, on the 7th.
THE French general elections will he
held on the 4th of October next.
A CYCLONE on the 18th almost demolished
the town of Ord, Nebraska.
HERAT is being rapidly fortified against
possible Russian advance.
FAILURES for the seven days ended the
9Th in the United States and Canada were
1875.
CHOLERA is taking off people in Spain
at the rate OF over 1000 a day.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad expects
to secure an entrance into Chicago.
MRS. WALSH, an aged widow, was found
dead in her room in Chicago on the 7th
with her hands tied behind her, evidently
murdered.
A NEW trial has been refused in the case
of Crown Solicitor Bolton at Dublin
against William O'Brien, editor of United
Ireland.
ROBERT L. OWEN, Of the Indian Terri
tory, has been appointed Indian agent at
the Union Agency. He succeeds Agent
Tufts.
CARELESsNESs aud inertness of the Of
ficials at MarseiIles in the cholera matter
is severely denounced.
GENERAL Potter writes from Fort
Supply to General Miles at Fort Leaven-
worth on account of the finding of the
body of Little Medicine, a son of Chey
enne chief, who had been killed.
IT is rumored in Paris that England
and China have formed an alliance for
mutual action in case of war between
England and Russia
BERTHA LEHMAN, a Chicago girl, ag ed
sixteen, who mysteriously disappeared
June 30th, has been found and tells a
b horrible tale of abduction and forcible de-
tention. The accused parties have been
arrested.
A MAN named Dempsey, his sister,
Mrs. Frank Sanders, and her six-year -old
son, while crossing a railroad track at st.
Thomas. Ontario, on the 7th, were struck
by a train and killed.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
estimates that the total receipts from all
sources of internal revenue for the fiscal
y ear will be about Sis, 900, 600.
The Cunard steamer Etruria arrived off
Fastnet Light ON the 7th in six days. five
hours and thirty-fve minutes from New
York-the fastest time ever made.
Hon. EDWARD HENRY SMITH died at
his residence at Shutdown, Long Island,
on the eth, of old age. He was a Con-
gresham during the war.
CHARLES T. SKINNER, of Maryland, and
VIM. b. Scott, of Michigan, have been
disbarre1 from further practice before the
Treasury Department
WHILE Emperor William was on his
way to visit Emperor Francis Joseph at
Gastien on the 7th, he tripped on a stair
rase and fell heavily. He rose in an in
slant, however, without apparent injury.
MINISTER KELLEY will return to the
United States. 1t is understood he will
soon res sign his present office and that he
will not be appointed to another foreign
mission.
The President has amended rule seven
Of the Civil Service act defining the class
Of officers excepted from examination, SO
as to make it read that medical examiners
are ''not" to be classed as professional
persons excepted from examination.
THE total number of dangerous thieves
put out of the way of doing harm among
,he crowds in New York was eighty five
Up to midnight on the 7th. This number
vas probably largely increased before the
,rowds began to gather by strict sur
reliance of incoming trains and boats.