Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| rated at Columbus, o.
The Abyssinian troops sent to relieve
| the garrison of Kassala, defeated the
| Arabs.
AN incipient rebellion against rigid dis
| cipline occurred on the oath in the Wiscon-
| sin State University at Madison.
STEINITz won the chess game at New
Orleans on the oath, leaving only one more
to win to secure the championship.
A REVOLT took place in the prison at
| Chalons, France, on the oath, caused by ILL
treatment of the prisoners.
MRS. MYERS, of Pittsburgh, Pa, has been
convicted of perjury for swearing another
woman's child was her own.
AT an Orange banquet in London on the
9th, several speakers predicted q repeti-
ton of the scenes of 1858.
THE man killed in the railway wreck
near Atlanta, Ca, some time since, has
been fully identified as James P. Weaver,
of Indianapolis.
HYDRoPHoBIA has materially decreased
in London since the enactment of the law
ordering the muzzling of dogs.
GENERAL BOOTH of the Salvation Army
has arrived at San Francisco from Aus
tralia.
SIXTY Burmese were killed in a recent
fight with British troops near Yemethen.
QUEEN VICTORIA assisted at the laying
of the corner stone of the examination hall
of the College of Surgeons, London, on the
oath.
EMPEROR WILLIAM publicly thanks the
people for their manifestations of affection
on the occasion of his birthday anniver-
sary.
PRINCE ALEXANDER refuses to accede to
iotS 70 INIT
placed on his title as Governor of Eastern
Roumelia.
A SENSATION was created in London on
thought to be an explosive into the Queens
carriage, but which proved to be only a
petition.
SIX hundred men have been discharged
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard for lack of
funds to pay them.
Ex-JUsTIcE WARD HUNT died at Wash
ington on the oath.
THE Supreme Court of Illinois decided
not to interfere in the case of Frank Null
kowski, under sentence of execution for
the murder of Mrs. Kleidziek in Chicago.
THE strike of the freight handlers of the
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee rail-
road, at Grand Haven, Mich, ended on the
oath by the company acceding to the de-
mands of the men, and work was resumed.
THE results on the 25th in the railroad
strike were the strike of switchmen and
yard hands in East st. Louis, and the send
ing out of a freight train over the Missouri
Pacific from st. Louis. There was some
excitement but no violence attending the
departure of the train, but a report was
received from Pacific to the effect that an
attempt had been made at that point to
throw the engine from the track.
CHARLES BROWN, who threw a petition
into Queen Victoria's carriage, has been
released by royal command.
TEXAS will quarantine against vessels
from infected countries after May 1.
EMMA MOORE shot and killed her di-
vorced husband, who was shamefully
abusing her, at Port Huron, Mich, ON the
25th.
THE strikes in Belgium are extending
and conflicts between the strikers and the
civic guards are frequent.
THERE is a fair prospect after all for the
organization of an Oklahoma Territory.
GUsTAvE MERCER, the defaulting bank
clerk and forger from Montreal, was ar
rested on the 25th in New York.
A FAMILY of four, named Sanderson, of
Marion County, Ind, were poisoned on the
25th by Rough on Rats in coffee.
THE Detroit Polish Church troubles have
been settled for a time, all concerned hav-
ing agreed to refer the matter to the Pope.
THE Countess De Chambord is dead. 1t
is stated in royal circles that the countess
has disinherited the French princes of the
family, leaving her fortune to Austrian
relatives, and that the former will there
fore not attend the funeral
THE Windsor Hotel, at Saleda, Col. was
completely destroyed by fire on the 25th.
The guests lost all their effects. Twenty
seven principal business houses and over
one-half of their contents were also de-
stroyed. Loss, $3.50, 900; insurance, $45, 900.
Two foreigners entered the store of a
diamond merchant named Tabuk, in Bel
grave street, London, on the 25th, beat him
with clubs until he fell unconscious, then
ransacked the store and made off with
$4,000 worth of diamonds. Tabuk's skull
was crushed in, but he was still living.
His assailants have been arrested.
THE mammoth barn at the Hopkins
stock farm in East Providence, r. l., was
totally destroyed by an incendiary fire on
the 18th. Sixty-ive head of cattle and
four head of horses were burned. The live
stock burned was valued at $4,000; the
barn at 900; insurance $4,000. Two re-
Gently discharged employees are suspected
of the crime.
THE United Ireland predicts that a fail
ure of Mr.. Gladstone to carry his irish
measures would be followed by horrible
and long suppressed civil war.
WHILE George Sample, clerk in the drug
store of Ball, Warfield & Co., at Ironton,
o., was making some sblue fire" on the
18th the composition exploded, blowing
Sample into atoms and wrecking the store,
causing damage of $1,000.
EXTENSIVE prairie fires were reported
on the Goth on the Crow reservation in
Montana.
A MOB broke into fire-arm manufac-
tory at Liege, Belgium, on the Goth, and
carried away it's contents.
THE grand national steeplechase for
1000 sovereigns, at Liverpool, on the 26th,
was won by Old Joe.
HENRY SINGER, formerly of st. Louis,
No., has been adjudged insane at San
Antonio, Tex.
ON the 26th the argus Office at Fargo,
Oak, was burned. Everything but the
forms on the press was destroyed. Loss,
0,0O0; insurance, 1000.
A MAN named Stevens was run over by a
passenger train near Henderson, KY, ON
the 26th. He was crossing the track when
the train struck him. He was badly man
gled and died soon after.
COLONEL WHITE, an insurance agent of
Tombstone, Ariz., who arrived from Fort
Huachuca on the Goth, reported that just
before he left there a courier arrived from
Lieutenant Maus' camp with the news that