Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09

A FIRE in Sloss Bros millinery es-
tablishment at Cleveland, O., ON the night
of the LIST, destroyed $4,000 worth OF
feathers, flowers, etc. Insured for 50. 600.
w. G. Bell, jeweler, lost $1,000, and Hull,
a dealer In rubber goods, $1,000. Fully
insured.
The case of Adolph B. 8 preckels, charg.
ed with assault to murder n. II. De
Young, proprietor of the San francisco
Chronicle, on trial for several weeks past,
was given to the jury on the 1st, and 9
verdict Of mot guilty" was returned.
A NEWS agency will be established at
London by the Conservatives to spread
their doctrines among the people.
! DR.. BRowN Sc GUARD has been awarded
the prize of s., 600 by the French Institute
for discoveries in physiology.
THE Ohio Prohibitionists have put full
ticket in the field, headed by DR.. A. B.
Leonard.
TIE Gordon memorial fund now amounts
to f1s,03l.
| GENERAL WoLsELEY and staff have left
Cairo for England.
FIRE destroyed So, 900 worth of property
at Peshtigo, Wis, on the I'd.
THE inaugural dinner of the Imperial
| and American Club took place in London
| on the I'd.
MADAGASCAR is threatened with famine,
| therice crop having failed.
THE English Cabinet is considering the
question of trade depression.
No more furloughs will be allowed In
India until the Afghan question is settled.
The League of American Wheelmen
began its annual cow ention in Buffalo,
N. Y. on the I'd.
The aggregate miles of railroad built in
the United States this year up to July 1st,
is 1855.
MINISTER ROBERTS had an audienc.
with the President of Chill on the ID.
GREAT damage to crops and other prop
erty is reported from Southeastern Kan
sas, where violent storms have been rag
ing.
NEW steamship line will be estab-
lished between Germany, East Africa and
Australia.
MRS. LEWIS STEELE, a newly married
lady, committed suicide at Utica, N. Y,
on the I'd.
FUND is to he raised for the mainten-
ance of torpedo service for coast defense
in England.
MRS. DUDLEY has been committed to
the asylum for the insane at Middleto
N. Y.
Two men have been caught sketching
the Notifications at Boulogne. They are
thought to be German spies.
THE people of Southern Colorado are
greatly alarmed over the threatening at
titude of the Indians.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has presented
6SS volumes of rare books picked up
abroad to Harvard University.
Iur; i, @ho<
of Illinois, will succeed First Assistant
Postmaster General Hay.
WoRKMEN of Wolverhampton, Eng,
complain to Premier Salisbury that they
are in a starving condition.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany have taken steps to put their wires
under ground in Washington, d. c.
CHAs. A. LIBBY, who disappeared from
Chicago ONE time ago, and whose wife
committed suicide afterward, has turned
up at Boston. He had been on a protract-
ed spree.
SERIOUS trouble was expected the
morning of the Sd in Chicago, when an
effsrt was to be made to run street cars.
The entire police force of the city were
were detailed to take q hand in the bust
ness.
THE South American Commission from
the United States has made it's report on
Chilli. 1t received very little encourage
ment there-a chilly greeting, SO to speak.
Mr.. KIMBALL, the new Director of the
Mint, entered on discharge of the duties of
that office on the I'd.
WIN. ME1SHcKs was hanged in the jail
yard at Binghamton, N. Y, on the I'd,
for the murder of Katie Bredhoff.
EDWARD HALL and Isaac Lawrence
were convicted in the United States Court
in New York, on the I'd, of conspiring to
counterfeit Guatemalan currency.
EUGENE SALISBURY, who killed Peter
Miller at Union City, Mich, in May. has
been convicted of manslaughter, and sem
fenced to ten years in the States prison at
Jackson.
A BANQUET in honor of Judge J. B.
Stallo, recently appointed Minister to
Italy, will be given at Cincinnati, O., on
the 7th, under the auspices of the Ohio
Club, the same organization which hon.
ored Minister Pendleton in a similar way.