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

THE latest accounts show that ten white
and twenty two colored persons were
killed by the earthquake at Charleston.
The suffering and dana ae to property are
even greater than at first reported.
The wholesale stores OF j.. T. & B. Gar,
ret, dealers in paper and printin materials
at Syracuse, n. Y, were burned out on
the I'd. Loss, So, 600; well insured.
JEROME r. HURD, a farmer living In
Greene County, Mich, was killed on the
Cd by the accidental explosion of dyna.
mite cartridges he was carrying in
basket. His limbs and neck were broker
and his body was horribly mutilated.
THERE was a shortage in the supply OF
natural gas on the south side of Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the I'd. and several fac
tories suspended operations. Some people
attribute the decrease in the flow to the
earthquake, and officials of the companies
are investi eating.
AN official of the coast survey has been
sent to Charleston to make soundings of
the harbor and adjacent coast in order to
see whether any remarkable depressions
or elevations of the bottom of the ocean
have been caused by the earthquake.
MINISTER ROMERO denies that Mexico
wants to sell any of her territory.
A VIOLENT outbreak of cholera is report
ed near Naples.
THE revolutionary regiments at Sofia
have surrendered Internationally to
Prince Alexander.
SEVEN Hungarians were burned to death
in shanty near Sonestown, Pa, on the
night of the Cd.
A COLLISION on the New York Central
railroad at Marcellus, N. Y, on the Sd,
caused loss of $3.50, 900.
IT is reported that the Cars reply to
Prince Alexander has paralyzed the move
ment in favor of the latter in Bulgaria.
AT Washington the authorities discredit
the story telegraphed from Arizona of
Geronimo's escape and collision with
Mexican troops.
PRINCE ALFxANDER's letter to the Car
is generally conceded to be a mistake, and
the opinion is expressed that his abdica-
ton must follow.
ROBERT A. TODD. of Milwaukee, Wis,
was viciously, and it is thought fatally,
assaulted on the Sd by his son Robert, who
is insane.
WILLIAM r. KUEPP, of Kansas City, Mo-,
has sued Colonel E. H. Phelps for $25, 600
damages for alleged defamation of char
acter.
LEXINGTON. Mo-, is making great prep
arations for the coming celebration of the
twenty-ffth anniversary of the battle
there.
THE will of the late Joseph T. Temple,
of Philadelphia, probated on the Sd, be-
queaths over 100000 to public institu-
tions.
THE Standard Oil Company will build a
large refinery at Lima, O., where it has
struck both oil and gas. The works will
be on the line of the New York, Lake Erie
& Western railway.
FIRE destroyed twelve houses at Mount
Carmel, Pa, on the Sd. One woman and
child are thought to have been burned.
A SOUTH BEND Und.) dis aatch of the 80
says Mrs. Emma Molloy attempted to COM
NIT suicide at that place by drowning.
MRS. ELIZABETH BUNNELL, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, was arrested on the Sd on a
charge of administering poison to Edward
S. Shaw, nephew of Mr.. Shaw, the rail-
road magnate. Mrs. Bunnell strongly
protests her innocence.
GENERAL B. F. CHEATHAM, the famous
ex-Confederate general aud postmaster.
died at Nashville, Tenn, on the Sd. He
was appointed postmaster at Nashville by
frmed by the Senate.
JOHN WALSH, aged seventeen, was in
stantlv killed in the Union Foundry and
Machine Com pany's works, Allegheny,
Pa, shortly before noon on the I'd. He was
caught in the betting and his body was
terribly mangled, nearly every bone being
broken.
AN agreement was reached at Whining
ton, Del, on the 81, by which the striking
morocco workers formerly in the employ
of w. ]. McClary will be taken back as
they are needed, at an advance of about
fifty cents per week in wages. The aver
age advance struck for was about thirty.
four per cent.
THERE is trouble threatened among the
Baltimore & Ohio miners. The difficulty
is that there is no uniformity in the wages
paid, each operator fixing a scale for HIM
self Secret meetings were in progress on
the Sd, and arrangements making for a
mass-convention. They will probably in
sist on the Columbus scale.