Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-08

VIM. HEATH q Co.. a prominent Wall
street New York; firm, have made an
assignment.
QUIET seems to have been restored at
Montreal, and vaccination is proceeding.
GENERAL BLACK, Commissioner of Pen
| stons, returned to Washin ston from Ell =
mira, ILL.,, on the I'd, where he buried one
| of his children.
THE King of R oumania says he will re-
main strictly neutral.
| A PRIze-F.GHT at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the ID was abrubly terminated by the
friends of one of the contestants throwing
pepper into the eyes of the other.
IT is understood in German diplomatic
| circles that Austria is secretly supporting
Servia.
| GEORGE ARCHER, an old farmer of La
| donia, Tex, was conffden ced out of $500
| by stranger on the I'd.
| LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is at Dub
lin Castle inquiring into the condition Of
Ireland and the wants OF the people.
| w. A. LoNGMRE has sued the Missouri
Pacific Railroad for S., 00o damages for
personal injuries in Texas.
| CHARLES r. CALLAHAN & Co., stock
brokers of Kingston, N. Y, with several
branch ucket-shops throughout the
State, have failed.
PRINCE BISMARCK is giving counsel to
the Sultan. and it is expected the latter
will adopt policy in harmony with the
suggestions.
DAVID VINToN, aged fifty-eight years,
| of Southbridge, Mass, while under the
| influence of liquor, attacked his son. aged
| thirty five and was killed by the latter.
WILLIAM A. WEST, of Oxford Miss, has
al fho, - IL;
| Insp ctor, and entered upon the disch arge
| of his duties on the ID.
THE Greek Government has obtained
| f5O0, 900 loan for defensive operations, in
view of the possible spread of the Rou-
| melian ifficulty.
The Pennsylvania State Board of Char
tiles has made the discovery that the AL
legheny County Home at Woo1vlle il in
such a wretched condition that the in
mates are dying at the rate of one day
from typhoid fever and other infectious
diseases.
COLONEL KITCHENER, in his report on
the fall of Khartotm, attributes the dis
aster to the starved condition of the
troops and the desertion of their posts by
the native contingents.
BY the explosion of mud drum under
the boilers of the Sailor iron works at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the ID, sevent zen per-
sons were injured, several of them fatally.
PaILIPPOPOLIS adviceS state that the
Roumelians are greatly angered over the
reports that Russia wishes to dethrone
Alexander.
THE President and members of the
Cabinet will attend the Virginia st ate
Fair, to be held at Richmond, Va, on the
odd inst, if the pressure of public BUSH
ness does not prevent.
THE hostile attitude of Servia, with an
army in the field and the probability that
she will seize contiguous territory, it is
thought, will cause difficulty in the solu-
ton of the Balkan question.
THERE were Ill failures in the United
States during the seven days ended the
ID, as compared with 40 the preceding
week, and with 1SS, 100 and 122 respect
lively in the corresponding weeks of 1884,
1888 and 1882. About 81 per cent. were
those of small traders whose capital was
less than 5000. Canada had twenty
three. an increase of three.
EDWARD McSwEENEY, the Irish suspect,
who has been an applicant for position
in the customs service at San Francisco,
withdrew his papers from the Treasury
Department on the %, and says he will
make no 1urCner TO secure an
pointment under the Government.
CAPTAIN FRED M. CRANDALL of the
Twenty fourth Infantry has been direct
ed by the War Department to carry out
the instructions of the Secretary of the
Interior concerning the removal of I'M
authorized pers ons on the Cherokee lands
in the Indian Territory, west of the Ar
kansas River. The order refers particu-
larly to the removal of "boomers" and
squatters.
DR. THoRToN, of Portl and, Me-, has
been appointed Sanitary Inspector, and
ordered to report to Sergeant Austin, at
Moose River, Maine, on the Portland &
Quebec Railroad. This completes the or
ganization of the inspection service on the
Northern frontier.
THE Chicago Grand Jury has refused to
indict Jasper E. Sweet, who shot and
killed DR.. Waugh, who, he alleged, took
improper advantage of Mrs. Sweet, while
treating her professionally.