Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

HE Farmers congress of the United
States began its sixth annual session at
st. Paul, Mimi, on the 18th.
AN extensive fire occurred on the 18th in
Liverpool.
JOSEPH Q. CANNON has been renominat-
ed for Congress by the Republicans Of the
Fifteenth Illinois distriet.
GLADsToNE left London on the 18th for
Germany for three weeks vacation.
GENERAL JOHN NEWTON, United States
army, has been selecsed to succeed Gen.
eral Squire as Commiss Toner of Public
Works of New York
A REDUCTION of wages has been resolved
upon by the master cotton-spinners of
Bolton, England.
REV. JAMES e. BEECHER, brother Of
Henry Ward Beecher, committed suicide
by shooting himself at Elnira, N. Y, on
the s5th.
WILLIE SELLS, the Usage Mission (Kan.)
boy murderer, has been senten ced to death
after imprisonment in the penitentiary
one year.
THE debate in the British House of Com
mons on the reply to the Queens speech
has taken a wide range and has grown
very bitter.
The events in Bulgaria seem to have
created more excitement in Eastern Rou-
melia than any place else.
OFFICERS interfered and prevented a
marriage on the 25th at Washington, d.
c., between a negro named Bradford and
a white girl named Tinny.
IT is now said that Russia's efforts are
directed towards localizirg the Bulgarian
affair, but will under no circumstance per-
NIT Alexander to return to the throne.
GOVERNOR GRAY of Indiana positively
declined to interfere with the execution of
Bates, the wife-murderer, sentenced to be
hanged on the 9th.
THE hernandez islands In the South
Pacific have been taken possession of in
the name of the British crown.
THE funeral of Manager Sam 'Colvil1e
occurred in New York on the 25th at the
"Little Church Around the Corner" and
was attended by great crowd, including
all the leading actors and actresses in the
city. A delegation of the order Of Elks
from Louisville was present
A CARRIAGE containing Senator Evarts,
of New York; Charles c. Perkins, of Bos-
ton, and Miss Matthews, daughter of Judge
Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, was over
turned at Windsor, VT, on the 25th. Mr..
Perkins was instantly killed, and Senator
Evarts and Miss Matthews were severely
bruised, though not seriously injured.
VICTORIA, Tex, issues call to the peo-
pie of the country for relief for restitution
caused by the recent storm.
JOHNNIE TowLE, aged fourteen years
(colored), was arrested at Boston on the
25th for attempting to kill his father by
administering rat poison. Mr.. Towle had
had been in the habit of chewing gum,
and Johnnie took advantage of this to
mix poison with it.
THE interna tional polo match between
the Hurlinham (English) and Westminster
(American) clubs came off at Newport, r.
L., on the 18th before a large crowd of
spectators. The Englishmen won easily
and rapidly by ten goals to four. Perry
Belmont, of the Americans, subsequ emily
dined both clubs.
THE Wisconsin Glass Company of Mil
waukee, assigned on the 25th for the bene-
fit of it's creditors. Assets, $125, 900; liza
bilities unknown. Numerous attachments
recently executed were the immediate
cause of the failure. About one hundred
men are thrown out of work.
"A. WOLFE was nominated for Cover
nor by the Pennsylvania Prohibitionists
on the Goth.
HOLLAND has increased the duty on for
eign raw sugar.
GOVERNOR ALBEIT of New Jersey has
taken m easnres to prevent the proposed
fight between Heard and Sullivan.
IT is how said that only twenty five per-
sons were drowned by the recent inunda-
ton at Mandalay, Burmah.
AN emigration bureau is to be opened
by the English Government in October.
CYRUS G. LUCE was nominated for Gov
ernor of Michigan by the State Republican
convention at Grand Rapids on the Goth.
THE longshoremen of New Y ork threaten
to strike if the striking boatmen's demands
are not met on or before Tuesday the 31st.
1T is considered now as almost GER
tainty that Prince Alexander will resume
the throne in Bulgaria.
EUGENE KETTELAS, wealthy New
Yorker, and brother-in-law of Governor
Wetmore of Rhode Island, died suddenly
on the Goth of heart disease.
THE English committee appointed to in
vestigate Pasteur's hydrophobia cure re-
port favorably.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND says he appoint.
ed Matthews Recorder of Deeds for the
District of Columbia because he was the
most fit colored man he knew.
DURING the absence from Washington
of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and
the assistant secretary of the same office,
Miss Minnie s. Cook is acting as the head
of the Indian Office.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has been ordered
by the Gear to sign the abdication or to be
forwarded to Kisseneff.
NATHANIEL r. BATES, who murdered his
wife at Hagerstown, Ind, on the 23d of
last March, was executed in the jail-yard
at Richmond, Ind, on the Goth. The exc
cution was witnessed by five hundred per-
sons.
1t is positively stated that Prince Alex
ander ON learning of the result of the
loyalist movement resolved to return to
Bulgaria. He was expected to arrive at
Rustchuck on the 9th, whence an army
would conduct him in triumph to Sofia.
THIRTY men convicted of participating
in the Belfast riots were, on the 26th, sem
fenced to various terms of Imprisonment.
THERE was recorded in the clerks office
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, on the 25th, a
mortgage from the Poughkeepsie Bridge
Company to the Mercantile Trust Com
pany of New York for 100000. The
mortgage covers bridge to be construct
ed over the Hudson at Poughkeepsie and
all the real estate approaches and other
property of the company now owned and
hereafter to be acquired by it.
THE dead body of an unknown man was
found on the Goth in the edge of a grave a
half mile from Manly Junction, Worth
County, Iowa. 1t was covered with blood
and clubs ly ing near were all stained with
gore. Three large cuts on the head pene-
trated the skull. The deceased was evil