Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

has been incorporated at New York.
SPECIAL private inquiry into the Pail
Mall Gazette's publications was begun on
the 1ath. N
INDIANS recently killed two cowboys
and staked them to the ground on the
Cherokee strip.
JAMES REILLY, driv er OF Richball, was
killed by John Bunch in a stable at the
Pittsburgh (Pa-) Driving Park on the
10Th.
THE office and dwelling of the American
Consul at Nassau, n. p, were burned on
the 10th. 5
TT. O,BR1EN fell from a two story win
dow at Davenport. Ia, on the 10th, and
fractured his skull.
TaERE was unusual agitation on che
London stock market on the 10Th on ac-
count of Russian news.
DELos DoRRANcE, one of the oldest pi-
lots on the Mississippi, died at LIE Claire,
Ia, ON the 10Th.
THE failure of the Munster Bank has
created great excitement in all the large
cities of Ireland.
REPORTS of warlike action of the Rus
slams in Persia have created great excite
ment in London.
A DESPERATE encounter took place at
Cleveland, on the 18th, between strikers
and police, in which many on both sides
were badly hurt
HANNAH PIGorT, an Irish girl just
landed, longed for green fields and her
native land so intently that she became a
raving maniac.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are to be taken up
among the common people in Canada for
Reils defense
EDWARD WErHERs, of the Halifax IN.
81 Custom-house, killed his daughter and
himself on the 18th. He was insane.
EARTHQUAKE shocks Of great force oc-
Cured at midnight of the 14th at Smyrna
and at Chesme, in Asia Minor.
EXCITEMENT is intense in Ecuador over
the Santos case. Threats are made to blow
the American feet out of the water.
THE number Of new cases of cholera in
the whole of Spain on the 14th was 1,66s;
the number of deaths was 673.
A FIRE at Oakdale, CAL, the night OF
the 14th, destroyed eight business build
ings with their contents. Loss estimated,
$4,000; partially insured. Much excite
ment prevails, as it is believed the fire
was the work of a n incendiary.
JOSEPH PALMER was hanged at Cincin-
natl on the 18th, for murder. Hereafter
all executions in Ohio must take place at
the Penitentiary at Columbus.
j. W. Stout, farmer living six miles
southeast of Greenfield, O., was shot and
instantly killed by Elijah Nevin, a neigh
Dor, during an alteration, on the 14th.
GENERAL HOWARD reports an intensely
bitter state of feeling at Salt Lake be-
tween Mormons and Gentiles. He says
bloodshed may be looked for.
CHEF JUsTIcE WAITE, of the United
States Supreme Court, is ruraliz ing in
Scotland.
THE first session of the Master House
Painters Association of the United Stata
and Canada convened at Chicago on thir
18th, with sixty delegates in attendance
A MRS. JONES, of Buffalo, who was with
party of ladies at Bath Island, Niagara.
on the 18th, fell into the stream and was
carried over the American falls.
On the afternoon of the 14th. at De-
busk's ranch, twenty miles from Trinidad,
Col, twelve out of a herd Of eighteen
horses in pasture were killed by light
ming. A hail storm had driven the horses
against a barb-wire fence, which con-
Quoted the lightning through the herd.
DURING the first quarter of the year 1885
the net earnings of the New York Central
decreased $50 per cent; Pennsylvania,
1913, and Erie, 43.6 per cent, the effect
produced by the rate war.
TIE Directors of the Illinois Central
Railroad Company have declared the
usual semi annual dividend of four per
cent, pay able in cash, on September LIST,
to the stockholders, as registered at the
closing of the transfer books August 18th
The books close August 18th and open
September 4th.
GoRsUCH, the Communi st who was ar
rested in Cleveland on the 18th, was re-
leased on the 18th on $1,000 bail, and it is
said he in stigated the attack on that day
which brought on the fight.
JOSEPH TAYLOR was hanged at Phila =
delphia, Pa, on the 10th, for murder.
REPORTS received at Cairo say the
Mahdi is really dead.
THE buildings of the Philadelphia Rub
Der Works were destroyed by fire on the
10Th.
THE relations between England and
Russia are growing critical again.
j. N. LYNCH, of Gibson County, Indi =
ana, is suspected of poisoning his children
by scattering arsenic on pie. He can
not be found.
A TERRIBLE famine is said to be raging
in Kordofan.
Two Norwegians were suffocated in dig
ging a well at Pleasant Valley, Wis, and
a third came near losing his life in recov-
ering the bodies.
AN incendiary fire on the lumber docks
at Bay City, Mich, on the 10th, was
checked in its incipiency.
TIE Pail Mall Gazette continues to fur
nish evidence in support of its exposition
of vice in London.
JEROME HILL, of st. Louis, Mo-, was
elected Vice President of the National
Cotton Exchange.
MISS AGNES Roe, John Hedden and
William Tickenor, of Patchogue, L. l.,
were accidentally knocked from a yacht
on the 10th and drowned.
A PUBLIC meeting at Toronto, Ont. on
the 10th, protested against the further ad-
mission of Chinese into Canada.
A CHAIR car in the Denver & Rio
Grande yards at Denver, Col, was
wrecked on the 10th and the switchmen
slightly injured. Dynamite had been
placed on the rails, and caused the acci-
dent. s-. ......., L.
Russia promises to Investigate the re-
cent fiogging by Russian officials Of q
British Consul's clerk. ..-
THE Dresden police summarily stopped
q Socialist project to raise funds for So :
cialist candidates in French elections.
sHoLMAN's In dian com.
mi ttee will recommend the concentration
of the unsettled Sioux and Grow tribes In
the Indian Territory, and the purchase of
tn Q Sioux reservation in Dakota by the
Government
Ar Covington, Ind. on the 10th, fire de-
stroyed most of the buildings on the north.
an st sido of the public square. The total