Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FIFTY DaleS OF c0tG0n on the German
steamer Hohenzollern, from Galveston to
Bremen, were damaged by fire.
WIN. GRAHAM, a bachelor, living five
miles south of Clinton, Wis, was confront
ed by pistol held by a masked man on the
night of the 21st and compelled to surren-
der $4,000 which he had in his house.
Harry Lawson, neighbor, has been ar
rested, accused of the robbery.
j. d. LONG, night Waterman at the Hen :
derson cotton mills, at Evansville, Ind,
while making his rounds on the morning
of the 22d, fell down the stairway, break
ing his arm and receiving what his phys
icians say are fatal internal injuries.
SECRETARY LAMAR is spending the holt
days at his home in Mississippi.
NUMEROUS arrests have been made at
Luxembourg, Germany, in connection with
Socialist plot which was recently discov-
cred.
EARL RosEBERRy, who was member of
Mr.. Gladstone's Cabinet, writes that he is
willing to concede home rule to Ireland on
condition that the Union be maintained.
The Chief of Engineers reports that the
celebrated Long Bridge over the Potoma &C
at Washington is an obstruction to naviga-
| ton, and ought to be removed.
| COLONEL s. A. MERRITT, of Salt Lake
City, ex-Delegate in Congress from Utah
Territory, had long interview with the
President on the 22d regarding Mormonism
and the present trouble in that Territory.
| Hon. ALLEN G. THURMAN has been Sc
lected as umpire before the Mining Arbi-
traitors Board at Columbus, o. The Judge
| was suggested by the miners and readily
| accepted by the operators. The commit
tee appointed to wait on him reported that
he would accept.
AN official dispatch from San Bartalome,
Peru, on the 22d, reported that fighting was
| going on at Ocatara, between Colonel Re-
| lays and the Government forces.
THE RepubliQue Francaise, at Paris, de-
| mics the truth of the report that M. Ferry
| is about to become the editor in-c chief of
| that journal.
THE Northern Pacific Directors are nego-
| tiating sale of 200 900 acres of land east
of the Missouri River to syndicate. This
| is in addition to the 3d. 900 acres sold for
| 100000 net last week to party headed by
Senator Sabin, of Minnesota.
NJ. FRANCOIS MARIE THEODORE LA
BRosTA, the well known French architect,
| is dead. He was born March q, 1779. In
1927 he carried off the grand prize for
architecture in the School of Fine Arts.
A FIRE broke out in the Chenango House
at Greene, Chenango County, N. Y, on the
ed, and destroyed nine buildings. Three
men were injured, one seriously, by an ex-
plosion. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000
GENERAL HENRY DRUMMoND WOLFF, the
British Commander in Egypt, has elaborat-
ed a scheme for reform in the management
Of Egyptian affairs, which will enable the
Egyptian Government to dispense with the
domain administration.
MURPHY & Dow's saw-mill and about
5000 barrels of salt located in sheds ad-
joining on an island in the Saginaw River
| near Bay City, Mich, were totally con-
sumed by fire on the 22d. The fire origi-
mated in the engine room. The estimated
loss is 100000, on which there is an insur-
ance of $50, 900.
THOMAS NJ. CLARK, father of Miss Jesse
Clark, who was shot and killed by Edward
McGhee, of Concordia, Miss, at Mckenzie,
Tenn, a few days since, will not prosecute
McGhee. 1t is understood he accepted as
true the statement made by McGhee that
the killing was accidental. McGhee ex-
hibits great remorse, and it is feared he
may attempt his own life.
BILL to prohibit newspapers from
publishing details of suicides is under
consideration in the Uruguayan Congress.
s. E. Brown, of New York, attorney
for several Eastern railways, was relieved
of 5000 by pickpockets at the Union Depot
at Kansas City on the 22d.
ROBERT SMITH, a coal miner of Coal VAL
ley, ILL.,, was run over and killed at that
village on the night Of the Dist by q Rock
Island & Peoria train. He had Just re-
turned from Rock Island and was badly
intoxicated.
Mr.. PARNELL has sent q letter to his COL
leagues with reference to the party's pro-
gramme. He says that it would be unwise
at present for the Nationalists to formulate
their demands, and that they will there
fore play waiting game, and watch the
course of events.
AUNT LYDIA, a colored woman at Phil
lipsburg, N. j., died on the 22d, aged 10
years.
MRS. LILLY MACK, colored, of La Junta,
Col, has been arrested for the horrible
butchery of her nine-year-old daughter.
THE latest revelations in the Knoch MUIR
der near Detroit, Mich, show that the VIC
TINS heads were split open with an axe.
A SCANDINAVIAN named P. Westin was
found dead on a farm at Cedar Mills,
Mimi, on the 23d. 1t is thought the man
died fro mstarvation.
olA inen were COHVlCJeu dG hlTkWal, ia
the Orkney Islands, for assaulting John
Fender, M. P, the telegraph magnate, dur
ing the recent election excitement.
A Dorset Underground Conduit agent
has sold out to an opposition company in
Milwaukee, and that city will do without
the Dorsett patent. The authorities are
indignant.
REMARKABLY warm weather is reported
from st. Paul, Mimi.
ISAAC SToDDARD, soldier, killed Agnes
Farrell at Winona, D. T., on the 22d. Jeal-
ousy prompted the deed. Miss Farrell was
known as woman of shady character,
and Stoddard was her lover.
A SNOW slide occurred in the San Juan
Mountains, near Clement Creek, Col, on
the 22d, filling up shaft in the Prodigal
Son mine, and burying Burke Hovey and
j. NJ. Skates, who were working in the
mine.
QUINN BoHANNAN, convicted of murder
at Lincoln, Neb., has been granted a writ
of error by Justice Miller, of the United
States Supreme Court, the man having
been tried for manslaughter previously.
Bohannan was to hang January 18th.
SPEAKER CARLISLE will spend the great
er part of the holiday recess in arranging
the House committees.
FRANK RICKETTS, and his son Frank
were caught under a falling wall at the
Blind Asylum at Columbus, O., on the 23d.
The boy was instantly killed and the father
seriously injured.
PETER KEIFFER has sued the st. Paul
Pioneer Press for 5000 for alleged libel.
MoUKHTAR PASTA, Turkish Commission
er to Egypt, started for Cairo on the 23d.