Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

aoi otatc treasurer, FScelVeQ plurality OF
about s. 900.
THE Walkup case was given to the jury
at Emporia, Kas., on the 4th. The opinion
seemed to be general that the jury would
disagree.
GOVERNOR HILLS plurality in New York
is now figured at about IL 900. The State
Legislature is Republican on joint ballot
by majority of thirty-six.
EX-SENATOR SHARON, of Nevada, was
reported on the 4th to be lying at the
point of death at San Francisco, Cal.
THE Pittsburgh (Pa.) miners have weak
ened and gone to work again.
THE Turkish War Office continues active
warlike preparations.
LENToN Bros cutlery works at Canton,
O., were destroyed by fire on the 4th.
THE Montreal municipal authorities still
have trouble dealing with smallpox pa
tients.
Morning Sun and will run a Republican
paper.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER, who is at
Washington, is credited with saying that
he still had confidence in Judge Vincent.
A NEW natural gas company is being
formed at Pittsburgh, Pa, with capital
of over 81 100000.
CAPTAIN W. P. MCCAIN, U. S. N, has
been appointed President of the Naval Adj
visory Board, to succeed Admiral Simp-
son, and was ordered to duty at once.
THE Courthouse of Cumberland County,
ILL.,, burned on the 4th with all the records.
MONEY is being raised for Parnen by the
Ottawa (Ont.) branch of the Irish National
League.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE is at Constan-
tinople, presumably at the invitation of
the Sultan, who has great confidence in
General Wallace's judgment and advice.
GENERAL FITzHUGH LEES majority in
Virginia is figured out at $4,000, and the
Legislature is heavily Democratic.
JULIUS RABINER, New York grocery
man, pounded VIM. Silverman, a boy, to
death with a cane on the 4th.
CHARLES T. DAVIS, of the District of
Columbia. has resigned his special agency
of the Labor Bureau, having completed
his investigations in Great Britain.
DANIEL BURGESS attempted to shoot an
enemy in the Creek Nation on the 4th, but
missed him, and was shot and killed by his
intended victim.
IT is stated that the New York Central
and Pennsylvania roads will withdraw
their fast passenger trains between Chi
cago and New York.
GENERAL HANCOCK has notified the New
York Park Commissioners that the Gov
eminent will at once proceed to erect conf
Portable winter barracks for the soldiers on
guard at General Grants tomb.
A STRIKE of musicians against a nom
union performer is causing serious trouble
to the Thomas concerts in New York.
The President has appointed Alfred P.
Edgerton, of Fort Wayne, Ind, Civil
Service Commissioner in place of Donna n
3. Eaton, resigned, and VIM. I. Tren-
holm, of Charleston, S. c., in the place of
John M. Gregory, resigned.
CHAs. A. HULL, supposed to be from De-
ruyter, N. Y, was knocked from trestle
and killed by freight train near Sails
bury, Mo-, on the 4th.
THE japanese Minister gave banquet
on the night of the 4th at Wizards, WASH
ington, D. c., to the Diplomatic Corps in
honor of the birthday of the Mikado of
Japan. Twenty-Five diplomates were in
attendance.
MISS EMMA ABBOTT has added "The
Mikado" to her operate repertoire, and
the critics in describing her impersonation
of the leading female role unanimously
agree that she is just "Yum YUM"
SIXTY Cinnamon made desperate at
tack on the 4th ON NJ. L. White, foreman of
a raisin ranch near Los Angeles, Cal, but
were repulsed.
THE Indiana department of Union Vet
Grams met in annual session at Indianapo-
lis on the 9Th.
STATE SENATOR ERNST, of Indiana, re-
signed to accept the Postmastership at
Sullivan, that State.
NJ. De RENDE, Papal Nuncio at Paris,
has been recalled to Rome and will prob
ably be made a Cardinal.
y GERMAN commission will shortly be
dispatched to Brazil to secure suitable To-
calities for German settlements.
WESLEY BURCHARD, cashier of the Farm
ers' National Bank at Grass Lake, Mich, is
a defaulter to the amount of $4,000.
MIR. PARNELL protests against the selec-
tiop of Mr.. Phillip Callan as the National
ist candidate for Louth.
THE monetary conference at Paris has
closed.
PRINCE ALExANDER's name has been
stricken from the Russian army list.
THE German Government will prosecute
the Berlin Volks Zeitung for libeling the
Car of Russia.
RIGHT REV. DAVID ANDERSON, formerly
Bishop of Rupert's Land, and later Chan
cellor of st. Paul's Cathedral, London, is
dead. He was seventy lone years of age
Mrs. MARY SLOWER, a blind woman at
Benton Ridge, Hancock County, o., was
burned to death ON the 9TH, her clothing
taking fire while she was working about a
stove. Her husband, also blind, was Sc
verely burned while trying to save his
wife.
JAMES DANA, a brother of Charles A..
Dana, of the New York San, was out hunt
ing on the 9TH on North Fork, near Thorpe,
Wis, with E. Vantrot, prominent mer-
chant of Durant. The hunters separated
for time and Dana mistook Vantrot for a
deer and shot him in the back, the ball
coming out in front. He will recover.
By an explosion of natural gas at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 9Th, Peter Mccarthy
was fatally injured and Michael Wood
quite seriously burned. The men were
digging trench and had just lit lamp
to work by when the accident occurred :.
The explosion was caused by the light
coming in contact with a gas leak from
the pipes along the street.
THE Register of the Treasury, in his an
nual report to the Secretary, suggests
the construction of fire-proof fle-rooms,
covering the whole interior courts of the
Treasury building, now grass-covered
areas, by which means, he says, the de-
partment will have about $50 900 cubic feet
of additional file space.
MRS. WALKUP was acquitted of the muir
der of her husband at Emporia, Kas., on
the 9th.
Ex-JUDGH ALBERT CARDozo died at New
York on the 9Th.
GENERAL DE CoURcEY telegraphs from