Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ON the evening of the e2d the main
building and three annex buildings of the
Newburgh wooden mills, at West New
burgh, N. Y, were destroyed by fire.
One hundred and twenty five persons are
thrown out Of employment Loss esti-
mated at S100, COOS partly insured.
PATRICK McADAMs, an old miner. and
ever since its organization prominent
member of the order Of knights of Labor,
was instantly killed while at work in the
Nelson Coal Company's mines at Mont
gomery, Ind, on the % by the prematur
discharge cs blast placed by another
miner.
NEWS OF a horrible affair comes from
Catlettsburg, north of Chattanooga,
Tenn. A farmer named Thrower, while
driving some hogs. was attacked by
boar and torn to pieces. The Infatuated
| animal knocked the man down and seized
| him in the abdomen, tearing his body al
most In twain.
| A FAMILY of four persons living near
Breslau, Germany, were killed on the
night of the 22d by peasant, who entered
1 the house to rob it and, being dis covered,
| attacked the inmates with s. hatchet.
The lamps liz the torch sef the Liberty
| stasue at New York were again lighted
on the night Of the 22d, and will be hence
| forth kept burning by the lighthouse
| board.
/ BALDWIN GARDINER, president of the
4 Pacific Stock Board at San Francisco, and
a leading stock broker of the city, has dis
appeared. His liabilities are supposed to
be about 500, 900. mostly to customers
/ A GENERAL revolt of the natives of
Southeast Africa against the Portuguese
L =,
/ SENATOR EDMUNDs is to inaugurate a
4 war on the Administration for not en-
forcing the Civil-Service law to suit him.
THE report of the Austrian budget com
mittee has been amended SO as to contain
a mild censure of General Kaulbars-
/ WIN. REED, treasurer of a horse railroad
company at Bos ton, has been arrested on
a charge of embezzling cash and stock
am ounting to 5000, 200.
| SUIT has been brought against the Ohio
State journal Publishing Company for
$4,000 damages by DR.. c. R. Montgomery,
of st. Louis, for alleged libel.
| LETTERS making suggestions as to O
more perm anent ba sis for National banks
ARE being received from all parts of the
country by the Comptroller of the Treas
ury.
DATES have been fixed by Indian Com
missioner Atkins for hearing what St
Louis, Chicago, Kansas City and New
York have to say regarding the reno va
of the Indian warehouses from New Y York
to a point further west.
THE Marine Hospital Bureau is officially
advised of the prevalence of cholera in
Buenos Ayres.
ITALY desires European concert in main.
tanning peace on the basis of the Berlin
treaty and the independence of the Balkan
! States
THE Ghilzai rebels recently defeated
the Ameer of Afghanistan's troops, and
under the influence of religious fanatics
the rebellion is spreading.
Rev. JOSEPH PARKER, d. D., of London,
strongly opposes the inclusion in the Lib
eral party platform of a plank favoring
church observation-disclosures.
SIR CHARLES dixie says he will shortl y
bring another suit to establish his inno-
cence in connection with the Crawford
divorce scandal.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the California National Bank
of San Francisco to commence business
with a capital of $500, 900.
APPLICATION for a supersedeas, in the
cases of the convicted Chicago Anarch-
lists, was IN ade to Justice Scott, of the IL
linois Supreme Court, at Bloomin gton, ILL.,,
on the 23d.
| A SLIGHT fire occurred in the interior OF
the statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World on the 25tb
OLE ANDERSON, arrested near Bassett,
Neb., last week for numbering his wife
and throwing the remains in well, con-
fessed the crime on the sd. He says he
quarreled with her ecaUse she would not
consent to the sale of stock to pay debts.
LEVI STACKPooL, aged nine years, was
kill ed by calf at Auburn, N. Y, on the
23d. He was holding the animal by q
rope which, in play, he had tied around
his neck. The calf started off, threw the
boy down and dragged him until death
resulted from strangulation.
CLEMENT SNYDER, proprietor of a beer
garden, committed suicide by shooting a
Tiffin, o., ON the 25th.
Two CHILDREN named Meisal were
caught in the recent blizzard near Man.
} dan, Yak, and were frozen to death.
ERASTUS BROOKS, the veteran editor
died at his home on Staten Island, N. Y.
on the 25th.
THE forces of the Amer of Afghanistar
are gradually quelling the revolt of thu
Ghilzais.
25th loaded with employees of the Goulc
system to at end the funeral of the late H
NJ. Hoxie at Des MONIES, Ia.
A GREAT gale occurred on Lake Michigan
on the 25th, resulting, however, in littl
loss to shipp ing, as the navigation season
! is about over.
A SEVEN FOOT vein of coal has beer
struck at Omaha, Neb.
| FIVE men were instantly killed by tn
explosion of the boiler of the tugboat Sun
/ beam, at New Y ork, on the 25th.
SECRETARY WHITNEY is represented a
being especially well pleased with the bid
for the new cruisers.
NEW, ORLEANS fire insurance companies
have formed a combination and ad
vanced rates from ten to fifteen per cent.
II PRESIDENT CLEvELAND'S message i
i said to be we'll along toward completion
the principal portion being now in type.
A MOTION, largely reducing militar,
pensions, has been adopted by the Frenc!
Chamber of Deputies.
1 THE body of William Gaul, of Indian
apdlis, Ind, who was lost in the wood
near Ashland, Wis, on the 21st, was fount
on the 25th.
> JUDGE TURNER of the Federal Court a
San Antonio, Tex, held court on the 25tl
Thanksgiving Day. and excited mucl
critioism thereby.
Some New Orleans people are making
, fight on G onsul-General Porch at the Cit,
, of Mexico, the apparent object being Il
get in q man Of their own.
IT develop that Iowa oppositiou to Col