Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


the provinces OF Biendinh and Phu Yen.
r. G. GocDING, agent at Chicago for the
Hektograph Company, of New York, Ii
said to be a fugitive and short So, 500 In
his accounts.
PETER De CouRcEY was killed and
Thos. Mccain and Mike Cusick seriously
wounded on the 18th by the caving of an
| earth bank at Louisville, KY.
MISS Sewers, living near Dallas, Tex,
kindled a fire on the 18th with kerosene
She is dead and her mother and two sis
tiers were burned beyond recovery.
HINE AND STEWART POND. while leading
Holstein bull to their farm near St.iPaul
Mimi, on the 18th, were attacked by the
animal and killed.
TEN white men and two negroes, con-
nected with a circus committed brutal
| assault on country girl named Flora
Morrison at Huntington, Pa, on the 11th.
BILLS in equity, praying for an in
| junction to restrain the American Bene
| fit Society and the American Benefit AS
| ISOLATION from doing business in VIOLA
ton of law were presented in the Su-
preme Court at Boston on the 18th.
| TwENrY-THREE miners were killed by
| an accumulation of gas in working OF
the West End Coal Company at Mocanaque
| Pa, on the 18th.
| Clarion, Pa, for forgery, committed sui .
| eide on the 11th by hanging himself in his
| cell.
THE wife Of G. W. Colbert, of Dawes
Ferry, Ca, gave birth on the 11th to a
| twenty five pound baby. 1t is the biggest
on record in Georgia
THE operations of the National Geolog-
ical Survey are to be Investigated.
THE Chicago Grant monument fund had
exceeded $4O,0 900 on the 18th.
CHOLERA has reached Odessa There is
a panic at MarseiIles.
THERE was serious rioting on the 18th
at Bay City, Mich, among the strikers.
BILLY BURNS, famous burglar, was
captured on the 18th at Detroit, Mich.
THE half-yearly report of the Union
Pacific Railway shows a deficit of $427, =
122.
A VEIN of natural gas has been struck
near Port Colborn, Ontario.
THE Grand Council of the Loyal Orange
Br 9th erh God began its session at Toronto,
Ont, on the 18th.
HAMBURGHERT'S tannery at Oswego
Falls, n. Y, burned on the 18th. Loss,
$50, 900.
1t is reasserted that England and China
have formed an alliance against Russia.
THE family of Daniel Ashbaugh were
poisoned at New Philadelphia, o., on the
10Th, by eating toadstools.
FRENCH protective legislation has failed
to keep foreign sugar out of thta country.
RUSSIA has dispatched fifty torpedo
boats to the Black Sea-
THOMAS SKEELs was killed with a knife
by a man named Lagrange, near Evans
vile, Ind, on the 18th.
THE Marquis of Buoyonafanti, the ex-
p1orer, and Mr.. Cosmas, chief of the
Equator station, have died on the Upper
Congo.
CHARLES WRIGHT, of Wethersfield,
Conn.,, seventy years old, was found
dead in his barn the night of the 18th.
Mr.. Wright was one of the leading bo-
tanists of the country. He was en-
ployed by the Government in an expedi-
tion to Texas and Arizona, and had also
explored Cuba for the Spanish Govern
ment.
SEVERAL persons were drowned and
great damage was done by a waterspout
near Deadwood, Oak, on the 18th.
FRANK AND JOHN DoNoHUE were buried
beneath fall Of earth in a stone quarry
at Youn gstown. O., on the 10Th. Frank
was killed and John was fatally injured
The bonded Indebtedness of the Bank
ers' and Merchants Telegraph Company
will be reduced from $40, Oo0,O)0 to $780,
600 under the organization scheme.
In the reorganization of the pension ex-
aiming force Missouri district has
been establ ished with headquarters at st.
Louis.
MRS. MARK PArrIsoN, Sir Charles
Dukes betrothed, publicly announces that
she will stand by him.
ANOTHER scandal in high life in London
is made public. A seducer was publicly
logged on the 18th by the victims father.
A CYCLONE struck the village of Nor
wood, N. Y, on the 18th, destroying sew
eral houses, taking off church steeples
and demolishing one church edifice Eight
persons were killed and several fatally
and otherwise injured.
THE Sturtevaut Lumber Company of
Cleveland, O., lost 500, 900 by the burning
of their planning mill ON the night of the
10Th.
MRS. HELEN HUNT JACKSON, the we'll
known authoress, died in San Francisco
CAL, the evening of the 18th, Of cancer in
the stomach.
Troy, N. Y, on the 18th, for wife murder.
Texas has quarantined against Vera
Cruz, on account of yellow fever.
LEWIS HARTMANN, a farmer of Fayette
County, Indiana, committed suicide on
the 18th, and Morton Hull followed suit at
Dubuque, Ia.
SMALLPOX has been declared epidemic
at Montreal, Can.
IT is said in London that a new Atlantic
cable is projected.
A MEETING of Associated Bessemer
Steel manufacturers was held at Long
Branch, N. j., on the 18th.
THE property of the Alabama Great
Southern Railway has been attached by
creditors.
FRENCH newspapers complain of the
great number of German spies in France.
A NUMBER of tenement houses were
burned at Jersey City, N. j., on the 18th.
Forty families were rendered homeless.
CHOLERA has received a fresh impetus
in Marseilles, owing to the extreme heat.
JAY GOULD has started on two
weeks cruise on the New England and
Nova Scotia coast in the yacht Atlanta.
THERE were 4, 4s3 new cases Of cholera
throughout Spain on the 18th,
and ], 64S deaths from the disease.
The city of Philippopolis, Roumelia,
was the scene of great conflagration on
the 18th. Forty-five houses were burned
to the ground and two pers ons lost their
lives. The damage is immense
The golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Langworthy was celebrated at
Dubuque, Ia, on the 18th. Mr.. and Mrs.
were the first couple joined
in wedlock in Dubuque, and they have re-
sided there ever since.