Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Trade" the latter seems to be on top.
The Ference cotton mill near Paisley,
England, burned on the Goth. A thousand
employees were thrown out of work.
ENGLAND has secured a new opium
treaty with China.
The Pittsburgh (Pa.) Oil Exchange is
about to close up business permanently.
GEORGE CALDWELL was acquitted at
Philadelphia, Pa, for the killing of Wal
ter Scott Brown. Caldwell is eleven years
old and Brown was eight.
CHARLES P. BOYD, a forger, has been
arrested at Columbia, s. c., and taken to
| SteubenviI1e, O., the scene of his exploits.
| THE body of Amouroux, the Communist
killed in the recent Paris riot, was fol-
| lowed to Pere la Chaise on the Goth by an
immense crowd.
C. w. JOHNSON wrote unpleasant things
| for the newspapers about the Salvation
Army at Gloversville, N. Y, and as a
| result was severely cowhided by Prof.
West.
| JOSEPH WOODEN, Democratic negro
recently given a watchman's position at
Washington, has gone crazy, said to be
the result of terror caused by threats from
his own race, who dislike his politics.
PATTI has been engaged for the seas on
| of 1856 by the director of the Stadt
| Theater, Hamburg, and will make tours in
Europe.
THE hundredth anniversary of the first
| balloon ascension of Jeffries and Blanch-
ard was celebrated at Boulogne, France,
ON the 26th.
| ENGLISH troops of the Second Corps at
Simla, India, have been notified that they
will not be required for immediate serv-
| ice.
THE clothing manufacturers, follow
ing suit with other trades, held a conven-
ton in New York on the 9th.
| SECRETARY LAMAR is reported ill.
| VICTOR HUGo's funeral occurs Monday,
| June LIST.
MILLIONS of young grasshoppers have
appeared in Colorado.
| FIFTEEN hundred New York police had
their usual annual parade on the 9th.
| EDWARD MARSHAL, JR., has been ap-
pointed Marshal for Southern Iowa.
| SHEIKH MELT has been appointed Gov
ernor of Dongola-
! THE insurgents are said to be concen-
| trating for an attack on La Liber tad, San
| Salvador.
THE Dodge telephone bill was defeated
| in the Michigan Legislature on the 9th.
Four persons were killed by the falling
of an old tenement house in Jersey City
NJ.
THERE is more talk of dynamiters in
Lausanne, Geneva and Paris.
W. P. BENTLEY, had an interview with
the President on the 9th on the Washing
ton Territory Governorship.
The property of the Postal Telegraph
and Gable Company has been levied upon
at Philadelphia.
THE relations between Italy and Abys-
sinia are reported of the most cordial ma
ture.
LORD EDWARD FIrzMAURIcE, British
under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, will
soon resign.
ENGLISH proposals for Turkish occupa-
ton of the Soudan have been declined by
the Porte.
The trial of John W. Drew at Washing
ton, D. c., on charge of presenting false
vouchers against the Navy Department,
began on the 9th.
THE General Synod of the Lutheran
Church met in the Thirty second biennial
convention at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 9th.
THE Fren Oh Minister of Marine favors
the continued building of ironclads and
torpedo boats for the navy.
THE Baptist Home Mission Society met
in annual session ct Saratoga on the 9th.
CHARLES C. THOMAS, now at Kansas
City, confirms the stories recently told of
ill treatment of Americans in Guatemala.
MARGARET BROOKS was convicted at
Philadelphia, Pa, on the 9th, Of being a
common scold and was sentenced to four
months imprisonment.
DAMAGE to the extent of $350,OO0 was
caused and 500 workmen made idle by the
burning of New York furn iture factory
On the 9th.
FOUR miners were killed at Charlesto
W. Va, on the 9th, by the swapping of
the brake band of an incline, letting the
car go at great speed.
WILLIE PRENTIss killed his father at
Orange, Mass, on the 9th. The man was
drunk and, placing a cup on his head,
ordered the boy to shoot at it.
MEN who hold official positions and edit
newspapers that printed the scandal cir
culated about Cleveland during the cam
paign, are to be removed ON the ground of
indecency.
VICTOR HUao's death has revived the
sad romance of his daughter Adele, now
in an insane asylum either in Boston or
New York.
THE remains of Jas. Fl. Mills, of New
York, were cremated at Lancaster, Pa, on
the 2sth.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has returned to
Washington.
THE Marquis of Harrington in sick in
Dublin.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Medford,
Wis, on the 18th.
TIE Franco-Chinese treaty of peace has
been completed.
THE coal miners at Mt Carmel, Pa, are
demanding more wages.
JOHN STUMPH died suddenly on the
street at indianapolis, Ind, on the 2sth.
ALL is quiet in Cuba, the ilibusters
having fed to the mountains.
THE inter State Commerce Committee
held session in Philadelphia, Pa, on the
18th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and four of his
Cabinet went to New York to participate
in the Decoration Day exercises.
REPORTS to the War Department at
tribute the Apache outbreak to whisky.
THE trial of Slugger Sullivan's divorce
suit was the leading attraction in Boston
on the 2Sth.
REV. OSCAR F. BROWN, who disappeared
from his home in New York recently, has
returned.
JAMES LEE was caught on the 18th in
the act of initiating OdIum's leap from the |
Brooklyn bridge, and was locked up
FREDERICK A. PALMER, formerly audi
tor Of Newark, N. J., died in State Prison |
at Trenton, on the 18th.
JOSEPH BLANKENSoP was killed at
Wheeling, w. Va, on the 18th by the
bursting OF an emery wheel
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