Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


and is very bad in Corea.
VIsCoUNT DUPPLIN, Earl of Kinnoul,
died at Monte Carlo on the 18th. It is ru-
mored that he committed suicide. owing to
losses at gambling. He had led a wild
and dissipated career and was thirty-sev-
en- years old.
A FIRE at McKeesport, Pa, on the 10th,
destroyed divers tailoring establishment,
Carr's cigar store, Brooks butcher shop
and the Times Office. Loss, $4,000; fully
insured.
P. N. PITMAN, an employe of g. w.
Moore, insurance agency of Detroit, Mich,
was arrested in Kalamazoo on the night
of the 9th on charge of embezzling ST.
900 from the New York Life Insurance
Company.
BRITISH seamen marched in procession at
London on the 10th to make a demonstra-
ton against the government for failing to
relieve trade depression.
AN examination of the books, concluded
on the 10th, shows an approximate short
age against County Treasurer Hollings-
worth of Knox County, Ind, of 1s,27s.33.
Everybody was dumbfounded and morti-
fed at this gigantic exposure. Hollings-
worth was prosperous and wealthy farm
urer's Office.
THE largest fire in Montreal for long
time occurred on the 10th and destroyed q
large number of business places, principal
ly wholesalers. The aggregate loss will
reach 500, 900; well insured. One fireman
is missing.
Mr.. TRENHOLM, one of the Civil-Service
commissioners, is to be appointed Comp
troller of the Currency.
In the billiard match at New York
Schaefer made 900 on the night of the 1Lth,
to 500 for Vignaux, making the total
score, Schaefer, 800; Vignaux, 1929.
farmer named Heenan was killed by
moonlighters the night of the 10th, at
Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland.
THE Dime Savings bank of New Bruins
wick, N. Y, closed its doors on the 18th,
pending an investigation of it's affairs.
There was great excitement among the
depositors.
AT at monster mass m Getting on the 18th,
the Loyalists of Sligo denounced the grant
ing of home rule to Ireland.
THE President on the 18th returned to
the Senate without his approval the bill to
quiet title of settlers on the Des Moines
river lands in Iowa.
THREE young men, stealing a ride in a
box car on the Decatur & Evansville rail-
road, on the 18th, engaged in fight, which
resulted in the fatal shooting of Edward
Ivey, one of the party.
THE Turco- Bulgarian treaty has been
accepted in its entirety by the conference
of the representatives of the powers.
THE Austrian Imperial Minister of War
has issued orders for the enforcement Of
the study Of German among all the troops.
THE two great powder mills of the Gam
DO Powder Company, eleven miles from
Portland, Me-, blew up on the 18th. There
was a large stock of material ON hand, and
the explosion was terrific. Clarence Clary,
of Gorham was killed and Henry Hooper
was terribly and fatally mangled.
THE Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Lieutenant
of ireland, attended meeting at the Man
sion House to devise means to relieve the
distress among the poor.
THE total values of the exports of bread
stuffs during eight months ended February
% last were $3.50 ,97S, against $110, 120 1872
the same time last year.
THE two hundred employees of Mcintosh,
Hemphil & Co., extensive foundrymen at
Pittsburgh, have been notified of an adj
vance in their wages of from five to fifteen
per cent, to take effect April Is. The ac-
ton of the firm was a surprise to the men.
No demand for an increase had been made.
1t is expected that the other foundrymen
in Pittsburgh will follow the example.
IT is stated that movement has been
organized in Russia to convert to the
Greek Church the Catholic Czechs in the
Austro- Hungarian empire.
THE Pope has sent to Berlin a courier
bearing letter to Prince Bismarck, thank
ing him for his eulogistic reference to his
Holiness at the recent German parliament
airy dinner.
A MOTION made in the British House of
Commons on the 18th by Mr.. Labouchere,
reducing the grants for maintaining the
royal parks, was carried after a lively con-
troversy.
THE cotton mills at Victory, N. Y, were
shut down on the 18th owing to strike of
operatives. The mills employ about five
hundred hands, and they all went out.
The men were refused an advance of ten
per cent. to their present wages.
THE London DAILY Ne,cs estimates the
number of deaths in the Monte Carlo rail-
way disaster on the 10th at forty, includ-
ing seven railway employees.
SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD has
disallowed two claims of John Roach, one
OF S3S, $40 for extra work on the United
States monitor Puritan, and the other of
S2O,24 for watching, care, towing and
pilotage of the monitor Roanoke from
March II, 1877, to September a, 1888.
A COMPROMISE has been effected between
the nailers and operators at the Falcon
nail-works at Niles, o., and fifteen of forty
four machines resumed on the 18th, after
an idleness of eleven months. The feeders
were dissatisfied with the terms, and re-
fused to go to work, and the machines
started were run by the nailers themselves.
THE trustees of the Mount Moriah Gem g.
terry at Philadelphia have presented the
Mccullough monument fund with a plot
of ground thirty feet square. They also
incur all the expense of the masonry
for vault and circular drive around
the plot. The offer has been accepted by
Mrs. Mccullough and the trustees.
THE Pope has appointed the Belgian pri-
mate, Mgr. Gossens, to be chief of the
clergy in the Congo State. A Catholic
seminary is being founded at Louvain,
Belgium, where students will be especial
ly trained for service in the Congo.
A FAMILY of nine at Lyons, Ind, are ill
with trichinosis.
THE custom house at Catalinas, South
America, was burned on the 11th; loss,
$5,0O0,0O0.
THE wholesale druggists of Western cities
were in session at Indianapolis, Ind, on
the 18th.
A FIRE at a railway station at Oldham,
England, on the 18th, destroyed S3J, 900
worth of cotton.
NAT c. GOODWIN and several other Stage