Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

II has been decided by the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad officials that the recent ac-
cident near Connellsville was caused by a
defective frog.
WHILE repairing one of the blast fur
naces of the Cambria Iron Company at
Johnstown, Pa, on the 18th j. B. Smith
was overcome by foul gas and fell head
long into the furnace on top of the lamp
ing. He was literally baked, and seven
teen workmen were successfully overcome
by the gas and dragged away from the
mouth of the furnace before his body could
be recovered.
J.. H. MITCHELL has been elected Senator
from Oregon.
BLOODY business is expected when the
British reach Mandalay.
SLossoN won the third game of the bill
lard tournament at Chicago on the 18th,
defeating Schaefer.
QUEEN VICTORIA has signed proclama-
ton dissolving Parliament.
FRANK TREss was fatally stabbed at q
German Catholic ball at Beaver Falls, Pa,
on the evening of the 18th.
SERvIAN reports say that King Milan
was welcomed as the "Liberator" on his
arrival at Tzaribrod.
MISS M. BEGAN, Milton Began and
Joseph Berkeley were drowned near Ba-
tavia, o.. on the 18th, by their team going
over the abutment of an old bridge.
THERE has been desperate fighting in
Bulgaria, but reports as to which army
was victorious are contradictory. The
Servians, however, seem to have the best
of it so far.
JOHN E. WETHERBEE, a prominent law
yer of Boston, committed suicide on the
18th by taking cyanide of potassium.
Six persons We're fatally burned by the
explosion of an oil tank at the works of the
Lubricating Oil Company at Philadelphia,
Pa, on the 18th.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has declined the ova-
ton in honor of the twenty fifth anniver-
sary of his accession to the throne of Prus-
STA.
A PROPOSITION is made by the Ohio &
Mississippi Road to locate it's machine
shops at Washington, Ind, if a sufficient
donation is made.
THE Journal de St. Petersburg advises
Prince Alexander to conform with the Sui
tan's reply to his request for assistance.
THE ninth annual meeting of the Ameri
can Humane Society began in st. Louis on
the 18th.
A FREIGHT train of eighteen cars and an
engine went through bridge on the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton g. Dayton Railway,
near Indianapolis, on the 18th, fatally in
juring the engineer and dangerously in
juring the conductor, fireman and brake
man.
IN note to the powers the Porte pro-
tests against the Servian invasion of Bull
garia and reserves the right to take mill
tary action in the matter.
NJ. PHILEMON, Mayor of Athens, in an
interview with M. DeFreycinet referred to
the Balkan question but the latter declined
to discuss the subject
THE agent of the estates of the Earl of
Kenmore, in Ireland, was terribly beaten
ON the 18th by men supposed to be tenants
On the estates.
o. B. THAYER, formerly of Clinton, ILL.,,
now of Nebraska, has been suspended from
the Presbyterian ministry. The charge
against him was practising fraud.
AFTER three hours fighting the British
forces in Burmah carried the forts of
Minhla and captured the city, thus clear
ing the way for an advance to Mandalay.
THE second annual convention of the
Western Association of Architects met in
st. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th, with ninety
Il1sley called the Convention to order.
AGENT ARMSTRONG of the Crow Agency
in Montana, has telegraphed the Interior
Department that the Indians on Tongue
River are properly supplied with rations
and in no danger of starvation.
THE old naval retiring board has been
dissolved and a new one formed, composed
of Rear-Admiral John L. Worden, Captain
A w. Weaver, Medical Directors Thomas
J. Turner and William T. Hood, and Cap
tain Richard w. Meade.
AN International single scull race is to
be arranged for the championship of the
world between Beach, of Australia, and
Hanlan. The challenge issued by r. K.
Fox, offering to match Han1an against
Beach for 5000 side, has been accepted
by VIM. Decide, Beach's hacker, and he
has written to the Police Gazette that he
will cover the forfeit. The match is to take
place two months hence.
SPEAKER CARLISLE and family are in
Washington.
SERvIAN official reports deny the state
ment of Bulgarian successes near Sliv-
nitza.
Ex-STATE SENATOR ANDREWS, of New
York, died on he 10Th.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY lectured in Edin-
burgh, Scotland on the night of the 18th.
THE nailers at Wheeling, w. Va, pro-
pose to hold out for better rate OF wages.
A NUMBER of disasters are reported ON
Lake Michigan from the recent storm.
CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS was inaugu
rated President of Cornell University on
the 10Th.
Two battalions of Bulgarians were de-
feated by the Servians on the 10Th on the
road between Bresnik and Pernik.
DIR. WILLIAM FRorHINGHAM, one of the
best known physicians of New York, was
killed on the 10Th by the accidental dis
charge of pistol he was cleaning.
ANDERSON, who eloped with Miss Ridge
way, an English ward in chancery, got
one months imprisonment for it.
A POOR demented woman named Mrs.
Johnston smothered her child to death at
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 10Th.
THREE banditti were recently killed near
Santa Clara, Cuba, by volunteers. One
of the volunteers was mortally wounded.
THE barbed wire manufacturers, in con-
Eentien at Chicago, agreed to advance
prices.
TUE resurrection story sent out from
Portland, Me-, recently proves to have
been a fabrication.
AT Sherbrooke, Quebec, an attempt was
made by a mob on the night of the 10th to
barn in effigy Sir John Macdonald The
attempt was frustrated by the authoriti es.
Several arrests were made.
MR..DoRMAN B. EATON will, it is said,
remain on the Civil Service Commission
till the end of the coming session of Con-
gress.
Two noted horse-thieves, John Truston
and Silas Davis, were captured in the In