Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-18

(. d. BYLES, freight agent of the Mis-
rouri Pacific at Leavenworth, Kan, has
mysteriously disappeared.
The King of Denmark declines to allow
his son, Prince Waldemar, TO accept the
Bulgarian throne.
TIE Chicago Avenue Church, at Chi
cago. known as Moody's church, was dam
aged by fire on the 18th to the extent OF
81 600.
WILLIAM O'ERIEN, editor of United ire
land, declines to sit in Parliament fer the
South division of Sligo.
The Gamer on Lonsda,e opera troupe
has decided to return to England after
filling their New York and Brooklyn en-
gag ements.
RAIN amounting almost to deluge fell
| in France for four days en- ding the 18th
| causing great damage to property.
ABOUT eight hundred pounds of oleo-
margarine were seize at Davenport, Ia,
on the 18th. by the United States au-
thorities, the stamp law not having been
complied with.
AN Afghan General, sent to subdue the
Ghilz,i rebels, sent ten carloads of their
heads to Cabul as a token of the victory
his forces had won.
TIE platform adopted by the Farmers
Alliance at Chicago favors a union of
farmers with labor organizations, to
| ameliorate all evils expressing both class
es in common.
WILLIAM KENNEDY, aged fifty, fell
into e tub of boiling lime-water at the
Newark (O.) paper-mill on the 18th. He
was, it is thought, fatally scalded.
THE H arding Casino in Berlin took fire
on the night of the 18th, while a. ball was
in progress. Four persons were killed
and large number seriously injured.
The steamer Northerner was burned
near Sandusky, o., on the 18th. She was
valued at $4,000 and was insured, both
m arine or fire losses, for the amount
of "a 900.
DANIEL MCCORMICK, painter, sixty
three years of age. committed suicide in
New York, on the 18th, by throwing him
self into the cistern in the rear of his
house.
AN equestrian statue of Washing ton,
destined for the city of Philadelphia, has
just been finished at Berlin. 1t will be
shipped in December.
THE Government revenues in the first
half of this month aggregate $12, $50, 573.
The expenditures during the same pc
riod, including $3.50, 900 pension payments,
were 81, 056 063, being S., 800 Is OF less than
the receipts.
JUDGE CowING, in the New York Court
of General Sessions, on the 18th, disposed
of the case of "Boodle" Alderman Nc
Cabe, holding that he need not be sent to
an institution, but that he might be cared
for by his wife. The Judge ixed bail at
$4,000.
A SHOCK of earthqua Ike was experienced
in the province of Beirs, Portugal, on the
18th. Much alarm was felt in Lisbon in
consequence.
a DESTRUCTIVE fire was reported in the
village of Townshend, VT, on the 18th.
The post-office, two places of business and
several residences were destroyed and
number of others were momentarily ex-
pected to go.
c. B. CHATFIELD's large Touring mill
and elevator at Bay City, Mich, burned
on the 10Th, with 400 barrels of flour and
6,0C0 bushels of wheat. Loss, $50, 600; in
surance, So, 900.
EDWARD SHIELDS, an ironworker, died
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th from the
effects of injuries received in a saloon
brawl several weeks ago, when he re.
ceived a blow on the head from beer
glass, said to have been thrown by one
Henry Ford, who is now in Jail.
SHORTLY after midnight on the 18th a
fire broke out in st. Peters Roman Cath
Ollie pro-cathedral, in Allegheny City, Pa.
The fire had gained such Roadway when
fremen appeared on the scene that all eff
forts to extinguish it proved futile. The
edifice was totally destroyed. Loss esti-
mated at 100000, fully overed by insur-
ance.
PRoF. JOSEPH SCHRENK, the principal OF
the German academy at HoboSen, N. j.,
was arrested on the 18th upon charge of
cruelty beating Theodore Willisich, one of
his pupils. The boys body was shown in
court and was found to be covered with
black and blue welts. Schrenk was held
to answer to the grand jury.
IT is now sta ted that Russia favors the
Montenegro prince, Blazo Provitch, for
the Bulgarian throne.
THERE were 231 failures in the United
States and Canada during the seven days
ended the 10Th, as compared with q total
of 1876 for the preceding like period.