Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

until her death ten years ago.
SHORTLY after the workmen quit worl
at the Union Oil Company's building al
Newark, N. j., ON the 22d, one of the small
oil tanks exploded, setting fire to the build
ing. The damage to building and works
was $4,000; insurance not known.
ORGANIZED gangs of thieves are operat-
ing in Wheeling, W. Va, and vicinity.
HARRIGAs & Harris Theatre Comique
on Broadway, New York, was destroyed
by fire ON the 23d; no insurance.
SEVERAL members of the Salvation
Army We're arrested at New Haven, Conn.,,
on the 23d, for parading the streets with
out license.
is no land within the boundaries of the In
dian Territory subject to settlement.
THE election in the Nineteenth Pennsyl-
vania District for Congressman on the 2sd
resulted in the choice of DR.. John A.
Swope, Democrat.
1T is understood that France has rejected
England's proposals with reference to the
financial difficulties of Egypt. ~
| II is thought that the Emperor of Ger
many will remit the sentence of death
passed upon two of the Anarchists at
Leipsic.
w. B. THOMPSON, late Superintendent of
the Railway Mail Service, was confirmed
on the 23d as Second Assistant Postmaster
| General.
| w. K. AcKERMAN, formerly President of
tie Illinois Central Railroad, has been APP
pointed Western agent of the Baltimore 6,
Ohio at Chicago.
THE Monongahela River coal miners
| strike seems to be failure, as many of
the men refuse to quite work and others
are returning to the pits.
COMMODORE WINFIELD S. SCHLEY has
been appointed chief of the bureau of
equipment and recruitins of the navy, with
| the rank of Commodore.
| TIE general passenger agents of the
| Ohio River pool lines met at indianapolis,
Ind, on the 23d, to consider differential
rate matters, but were unable to agree.
RUDOLPH SCHICHE, of Cincinnati, O.,
was arrested in his employers place of
business on the 23d OH a charge of embez-
element of money. He asked to go into
closet, and on coming out dropped dead
from the effects of poison he had provided
in anticipation of arrest. He was to have
been married the same day.
THE International Sanitary Conference
will meet in Rome in February or March.
BoULwARE, alias John RosaIine, who
broke Jail some six months ago at Hamil-
ton, Ia, where he was confined on charge
of rape, was arrested at Chillicothe, O., on
the I'D.
HENRY STRONG and VIM. IRVINE, while
driving in sleigh, at Mt Carmel, Pa, on
the 23d, were hurled over an embankment
and killed.
DIR. FoRCKENBECK, well-known Ger
man Liberal, has been elected to the
Reichstas for Sagan.
MoRRIsoN's spinning mill at Dundee,
Scotland, was destroyed by fire on the 23d.
Loss, $4,000.
A MAN answering the description of
Kline, the train robber, was seen on the
23d at GAINESVILLE, Ark. A large party
started from Little Rock in pursuit of him.
GoPHERs inserted a pound of powder in
the safe doors of P. E. Gilbert, at Dayton,
O., during the night of the 22d, and fear
full explosion blew the doors twenty feet.
They got sixty cents for their trouble.
MICHAEL BECK, an inmate of charita-
BILE institution of Detroit, Mich, was
struck by train on the Esd, and fatally
injured. He only lived short time.
CHARLES LINDEN, former resident of
Atchison, Kas., was murdered on the 23d
IN Boulder, Col, while attempting to way
Linden drew a revolver and ordered the
person to deliver, when the latter grabbed
the weapon and struck Linden over the
head with the butt, which caused his
death.
MARCH 10TH will be pennsylvania Day"
at the New Orleans Exposition.
THE celebrated Sharon divorce case at |
San Francisco has been decided in favor |
of the plaintiff. An appeal will be taken.
MINNEAPOLIS was visited by a 100000 |
conflagration Christmas afternoon.
TRAFFIC on the railroad lines in Oregon |
was reported on the 18th still blocked on |
account of the heavy snow.
The mortality among the French troops |
in Tonquin is said to be increasing. |
COLD, drizzling rain caused rather a |
small attendance Christmas Day at the
Worlds Fair in New Orleans. |
A DRUNKEN man caused a panic in a !
New Haven (Conn.) museum on the 10Th |
by yelling Sire" No one was seriously |
injured.
The liabilities of the Bohemian Credit |
Company are 23,0OO,000 forms. Many |
small banks are involved and some are |
ruined.
THERE was dull Christmas in Vienna,
owing to the depression in business.
The Laporte Qnd.) Savings Bank closed |
its doors on the 9th. Liabilities, about |
$75, 600; assets estimated at 500, 600.
w. G. HARVEY, of Panora, Ia, was shot, |
badly injured and robbed of 1000 that he |
was carrying home with him for safe keep
ing-it being after banking hours-on the
evening of the oath.
SANFORD SIsCo, the negro whom Abram
Garnee, of Park Ridge, N. j., declared as
saulted and robbed him ON the 23d, was ar
rested on the 25th.
NEW YORK stock brokers spent the day
on the 9th in athletic sports, using silk
hats of the members for footballs. Fish
horns furnished the music.
THE steamer Chetudra and the bark
collided off Eddystone, on
the south coast of England, ON the 25th,
and both sunk. The crews escaped in
boats.
BURT SEABoLDT, conductor, and II. e.
engineer of a work train of
the Denver s. Rio Grande Railway in the
recent collision, were held at Salt Lake
City, Utah, at the conclusion of their ex-
in $1,000 each for criminal
negligence.
A BENEVOLENT Boston lady proposes to
give GOO towards a fund to be used for
the care of the teeth of children in public
schools.
THREE HUNDRED men and boys are
thrown out of employment by the burning
of the machinery and engine-rooms of a
colliery ut Mineral Spring, Pa.
JOHN GoETz, JR., who was injured by q
explosion at Butler, Pa, died
on the 9th after terrihla sufar;po (,na |