Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

enoe Dy Geo. a. warmer at MuWau Zee,
Wis, on the oath.
Tue Commercial Bank of South Austria
liza, with headquarters at Adelaide, has
suspended.
SECRETARY MANNING has written letter
to Mr.. Morrison, pointing out some minor
defects in the tariff bill.
THE Dominion Government has settled
the Hudson Bay Company rebellion losses
| Tor 81 800 900.
MINERS of the Kanawha and New River
district of West Virginia held meeting at
Coalburg on the oath to formulate griev-
| arces to be laid before the Legislature.
SENATOR MILLER, of New York, on the
| oath introduced bill in the Senate to es-
| tablish postal savings depository as
| branch of the Post-oflce Department.
SIR WILLIAM JENNER, the well-known
physician, has ordered Lord Salisbury to
| go abroad to recruit his health.
THE strike inaugurated by the hand
| loom ingram carpet weavers of Kensing-
| ton, Pa, January "a, practically ended on
the oath in a victory for the workingmen,
who secure and advance of one and half
cents per yard for weaving.
AT Zoschen, a village in Saxony, on the
oath, piece of land twenty acres in area,
on which were several houses, suddenly
subsidized, leaving a large lake. Three
men were drowned. Most of the jewellers
in the houses were absent at the time
In the executive session of the Senate on
the oath resolution from the commerce
committee was adopted, calling on the
Secretary of the Treasury for the papers
in relation to the suspension of Customs
Collector William Wells, of Vermont.
AN explosion of dynamite occurred at
the works of the Clinton Powder Com
pany, two miles from Plattsburg, N. Y,
on the oath. One building was demolish-
ed. William P. Foss, superintendent, was
injured and Walter Austin, seventeen
years of age, was hurt, it is feared fatally.
SENATOR MORGAN reported an amend
ment to an appropri alton bill on the oath
accepting the offer of the Government of
Japan to this Government of site in the
city of Toxic for legation purposes and
recommended an appropriation of $4,000
for the erection of suitable building.
MISS FANNY MILLS, of Ohio, who claims
the distinction of having the biggest feet
on record, has just had pair of shoes and
pair of slippers made for her in New
York. Their size is thirty. The measure
ment around the ball of each is twenty-five
inches; instep, twenty-five inches; heel,
SWSuty -hSS iuCueS, dukIe, twenty INCHES.
The cost of shoes and slippers was seventy
dollars.
IT is reported that the first outline of Mr.
Gladstone's Irish proposals has been pre-
sented to his colleagues in the Cabinet and
that the Premier goes the whole length of
restoring the Irish parliament.
GEO. WINGATE, of Thornton, Ind, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th.
sul-General at New York, has been ap-
pointed Consul General at Sofia.
A CROWD of Socialistic Hungarians
marched through the Pennsylv ania coke
region on the 18th and forced the coke
drawers to quit work.
The Servo-Bulgarian armistice has been
extended to March 10.
w. A. MCGREw, bank cashier of Of
tumwa, Ia, is under arrest on a charge of
making false entries.
EXPERTS declare that there are auto
graph letters of Mahomet among the
papyri acquired in Egypt by Archduke
Renter.
THE conference of nail manufacturer and
strikers at Wheeling, w. Va, adjourned
on the 18th without coming to an agree
ment.
JUDGE JAMES L. MITCHELL, of Nebraska,
dropped dead at Des Moines, Ia, on the
18th while addressing a convention of early
Iewa lawmakers.
A BILLIARD match between 81. McKen-
ma, of Detroit, Mich, and A. 81. Morris, of
San Francisco, 5000 points, began at the
latter place on the 25th.
Mr.. HOWARD VINCENT, member of the
British Parliament for Shields, has been
offered the Office of chief police commi
sioner of London.
THE three cigar firms, Brown & Earle,
Levy Bros. and Mccoy & Co., of New
York, have concluded to accept the
Knights of Labor label. The rates paid by
the union shops are accepted, and all the
hands in the shop began work on the Goth.
A BILL will be introduced in the British
House of Commons to compensate suffer-
ers by the recent London riots.
THE Spanish Supreme Council of War
has confirmed the sentence imposed on the
Duke of Seville for disrespectful language
against the Queen Regent.
ALEXANDER ROSE, an employee of the
Brush Electric Light Company at Detroit,
Mich, while fixing the carbons on the
tower on Gratiot street on the 25th, fell
headlong distance of 135 feet, being hor-
ribly mangled by the fall. He lived for an
hour after the accident.
THREE THOUSAND strikers at Lanberls,
Wales, have resumed work on the en-
ployers' terms. They had been idle nine
teen weeks and were in terrible distress.
A MILITARY subaltern in one of the gall
leries of the French Chamber of Deputies
created a sensation on the 18th by firing a
revolver downward into the chamber. He
was arrested.
A PROPOSITION for a joint international
movement in the interest of laboring men
has been sent by the Socialist members of
the French Chamber of Deputies to the
British workmen in the House of Com
mons.
THE body of a well-dressed man about
thirty five years old was found in the river
at New York on the 25th. In his pockets
were two cards bearing the name of w. II.
Smith, one as of the New York Clipper, the
other as the correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Sporting Journal.
THE Bayview (Wis.) Nail Company has
signed the nailer's compromise scale, and
propose to start up full in all departments
at once. The mill has a capacity for cut
ting about one thousand kegs of nails per
day and employs $50 men.
THE British Government has approved
Lord Dufferin's request that a strong force
be sent against the Shauns of Burmah.
Mr.. ATKINSON, manager of the Court
Theater at Liverpool, has absconded. His
liabilities are large.
IT is stated that the immediate release of