Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


of the Senate, 249 were caused by remov
ais of postmasters. By the LIST of Decem
Der there viii be nearly 100 vacancies il
the Presidential offices caused by the ex
pirations of commissions and designations
THERE is a rumor that Mr.. Chas. r
Cadman, of Boston, has accepted the pIac'
of Civil Service Comm ISIS Toner, to be va
Gated on November LIST by Dorman b
Eaton.
| ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT, of New York
Augustus S. Merriman, of North Carolina
and VIM. Stevenson, of Pennsylvania
have been appointed commission to ex
anime and report upon twenty five miles
of the Northern Pacific Railroad lying
between Eagle gorge, Wyoming Territory,
and the south bank of the Pujalluk River.
DIR. PAAREN, State Veterinarian of Hi
nois, has recently killed twenty three
horses in that State which were suffer
ing from CHAMBERS.
| DIPHTHERIA in a malignant form is rag
| ing at Eau Claire, Wis.
IT is intimated that the Indianapolis
mayoralty elect will be contested.
FIVE Cinnamon were burned to death
in laundry at Oakland, Cal, on the 14th.
| COLONEL SwIrzLER, Chief of the Bureau
of s. statistics, has returned to Washington
| and resumed MS OIlCldl
IT is reported at Quebec til at Archbishop
Taschereau of that place and Archbishop
| Gibbons OF Baltimore are TO be ere ated
! Cardinals.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
of five per cent.
CHURC HILL, Salisbury and Dufferin dis.
agree in regard TO Burmese affairs, and it
| = nha I'm will h. o5 f,o,,,
| his post as Viceroy of India.
PoSTMA STER-GENER Villas says he
has seventy-five cases of Post office
changes now waiting the Presidents &C.
ton.
LATEST reports from the Ohio electi on
indicated that returns were being held
back and doctored in Hamilton County,
and citizens committee had been formed
to unearth all irregularities, one Of its
members volunteering to stand all the ex-
pense if neces sary.
The Elizabeth coal mines, in Pennsyl-
vania, are to be started up at the three
cent rate demanded by the strikers:
OWING to MISUNDERSTANDING between
King Thebaw of Burmah and the chief
Commissioner for British Burmah, the
latter has asked reinforcements before
sending an ultimatum to the King.
THE New York Board of Trade and
Transportation, at a meeting on the 14th,
adopted a mem orial to President Cleve-
land recIting the nece ssity for a National
bankrupt law and urging him to recon-
mend such measure to Congress in his
next message.
NEARLY the entire business portion of
the town of Sandbank, Oswego County,
N. Y, was burned on the night of the
18th. Two churches were destroyed.
H. W. SHAW, better known as "Josh
Billings. the humorist, died at the Del
monte Hotel, Monterey, Cal, on the 14th,
of apoplexy.
GREAT activity prevails in Turkish mil
itary circles. Large bodies of troops are
being concentrated on the frontier, and
the Sultan has determined to fight against
further ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Turkey.
The barges BEAUFORT and Adventure
were reported sunk in the st. Lawrence
River on the 18th, and it was feared that
the crew of the Adventure had been lost.
THE tenth annual Congress of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church of the United
States will be held in New Haven, Conn.,,
October Goth to 23d. Archdeacons Farrar
and Vesey, of England,wi attend the ses-
sions
MISS FOLSOM, whom the gossips have
been ying President Cleveland was to
marry, has sailed for Europe.
THE Rockford stock farm, near Cedar
Rapids, Ia, had a closing out sale on the
18th, previous to changing hands. The
amount realized was So, 200.
LEWIS WEBSTER, for the murder of Per-
ry Harrington at Geneva, O., in December
last, has been sentenced to hang February
9th, 1886.
INFLUENCE is being brought to bear on
the Creek Indians, by the Cherokees, ad
verse TO the selling to the Government of
their interests in Oklahoma.
THE meeting held in Rome to adjust the
Caroline Islands question was disposed to
admit Spain's sovereignty, while deeming
the German occupancy excusable, owing
to sappreheuSions which existed.
ADvICES received at the Post-offi 20 De-
partment on the 14th indicated general
washout of railroads in Georgia, and in
corruption of mails, through heavy rains.
Florida and Cuban mails were delayed,
but it was hoped that arrangements could
be made to get the mails through with out
serious delay.
ANOTHER high tide swept over Rack
away Beach, N. Y, on the night of the
18th, doing much damage. A portion of
the iron pier was carried away.
MARY ALLEN, the colored woman WHO
put poison in oatmeal and fed it to child
of Emanuel Deroy, at Pittsburgh, Pa,
has been convicted of murder in the
second de gree.
A NATURAL gas well was struck by q
party boring for water in Kossuth Coun-
ty, Iowa, at a depth of forty eight feet.
The gas took fire from lantern and sent
up six-foot flame with a roaring noise
and emitting an odor like gasoline.
j. N. WALTON, of Arkansas, has been
appointed special agent to take charge
of the Indians on Tongue River in Mon
tana.
GREAT damage has been caused to far
mers near Battleford, N. w. T., by prairie
fires.
The Porte, in circular to the powers,
says the armament of Greece is menace
to peace.
ANNIE MCKEMP, fourteen-ye old
school girl, was brutality assaulted by two
white boys and one colored at Oakdale.
Pa. Lynching looked probable.
The Land Office has received a COM
stating that DR.. Powers, who
was a Government witness in the prosecu-
ton of a fraudulent land case in Califor-
mia, has been slain by T. F. Pruett, one of
the defendants.
ROCKFORD FARM, near Cedar Rapids,
Ia, was bought by VIM. Roxbury, of Glas-
gov, Scotland, for $50, 900.
THE Post-oftice Department has been in
formed that the Post-ofice at Waverly,
O., was broken open by burglars the night
of the 14sh and robbed of 1900 in postal