Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-07

COMMODORE G. z. GARRISON, OF New
FORK, died suddenly on the LIST.
Hon. JOHN GooDE, of Virginia, has beer
appointed Solicitor General.
GENERAL GRANT passed the 1st debating
to stenographer work for his book.
T. OSBORN, of Altoona, Ia, endeavoret
to commit suicide on the 1st by cutting hi:
| throat with a scytha
REV. JESSE Cook, colored, killed his wife
with an axe at Butler, Ga, on the 1st.
| THE government money aud securities
are being counted at Washington, and it's
no small job either.
| THE Des Moines Ia.) miners have
rea ched an agreement with the operators
and have resumed work.
| THE American Medical Association, in
session at New Orleans, adjourned on the
| LIST.
! THE British steamer Garnet sailed from
| Fortress Monroe for New York on the LIST.
E. j. HALE, of North Carolina, was APP
| pointed Consul to Manchester, England.
THE Ohio l. Legislature on the 1st passed
the registration law for Cincinnati and
Cleveland.
The Omaha police raided the Chinese
opium dens in that city ON the night of the
LIST, and made a number of arrests.
GENERAL DELIsLE telegraphs to Paris
that the Chinese are Loyalty fulfilling the
conditions ofpeace.
j. j. HANNA and Geo. W. Porter, st.
Louis, (Mo.) Post office inspectors, have
been removed.
IT is rumored that Russia has made
counter proposals to England that will
probably be accepted.
FRED STELBERG, of Rapid City, ILL.,,
blew out the gas at Omaha hotel on the
night of the 30th, and died from the re-
suits.
W. H. JONES, a locomotive engineer at
Macon, Ga, shot his wife and then killed
himself on the 1st.
HER Majesty the Queen of England has
a war ship called the Bull Frog, which ar
rived at Halifax, n. S., ON the 1st.
IT is said now that the King of Dem
mark will probably be selected to mediate
between England and Russia.
COLONEL SwITzLER, OF Missouri, has
been appointed Secretary of the Bureau of
Statistics in the Treasury Department.
CAPTAIN JOHN LA BARGE, a well-known
steamboat man, dropped dead in the pilot
house of a boat in Bismarck, OAK, on the
1st.
A BAGGAGE-MAsTER at the Pittsburgh
list that gave out suspicious odor, and
found the body of man badly decom-
posed.
INVESTIGATION shows that there is no
pieuro- pneumonia among the cattle of
Audrain County, Missouri.
jim HUNNICUTT, one of the members of
the notorious "Scyene gang" was SON.
fenced to the Penitentiary for life at
Dallas, Tex, on the LIST.
WIN. NJ. MERRIcK, of Maryland, received
the appointment of Associate Justice of
tue Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, vice Jud ge Wylie, resigned.
A STRIKE of seventy men at the South
Chicago rolling-m has caused the con-
Germ to shut down, throwing 1900 men out
of employment.
BRADSTREET's weekly trade review
shows that spring business is falling be-
hind. Failures for the seven days ended
the 1st, 167, as compared with 1913 during
the previous week.
AN enterprising baker of Chicago re-
Gently alarmed the people by posting the
word "bread" all over the city in large red
letters. 1t was regarded at first as the work
of Socialists.
stove plate workers, stopped work at
Rochester, n. Y, on the LIST on account of
a twelve and a half per cent. reduction.
Four foundries are idle. Steps are being
taken looking to an arrangement.
NAVAL CADET WIN. c. CALLAGHAN, of
Ohio, member of the third class, has re-
signed from the Naval Academy, at An
napolis.
THE executive committee of the Nation
al Civil Service Association has voted to
hold the next annual meeting in Newport,
R. l., in August. Mr.. George William
Curtis will preside and deliver the adj
dress.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, of Illinois, on the
lst ordered that four companies of the
Fourth Regiment State militia be sent to
Joliet at once to quell the riots among the
luarrymen at that place. Adjutant- Cen
eral Vance and Captain Bell left at once
for Joliet. The Sheriff of Will County
stated that threats were being made to
ourn Joliet.