Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Oh having murdered James klncaide, of
Mahonington, Pa, last December, and
also for the killing of a young girl near
Mansfield, O., in September. A colored
man named Jasper says Kelly confessed
both murders to him.
THE sheep butchers strike in New York
is apparently as far from a settlement as
it ever was. In the meantime the price of
mutton has gone up two or three cents a
pound and large numbers of sheep in the
slaughter-houses are dying.
A DESTRUCTIVE hail-storm passed
through Little Horse Creek Valley, fifty
miles north of Cheyenne, Wyo., on the
10th. Hail-stones enormous in size and
oblong in shape were furiously driven,
fences battered down and vegetation OBJ
liberated. Iron roofs of houses were
pierced and cattle killed. The destruction
of crops is complete.
UNITED STATES troops will be removed
from General Grants tomb at Riverside
Park after June 80.
NATURAL gas has been discovered in
Lexington, Ind.
A MOB took Eli Owens from the Jail at
Hebron, Neb., on the 18th and lynched him.
PARNELL is preparing an election mani
festo which will be addressed to the n
glish people.
CINCINNATI protests against the new st.
Louis Merchants Exchange bridge.
Two six-year-old boys while playing in
a corn-bin at Dana, Ind, on the 18th,
were buried under the grain and smoth-
cred.
DOCUMENTS and afidavits have been
submitted to the Bavarian Diet to prove
the insanity of the late King Ludwig.
THE Senate at Washington has passed
the bill authorizing an inquiry into the
claim of the Christian Brothers, of St.
Louis.
BILL VAILY, a notorious character, shot
himself fatally at Superior, Wis. on the
18th, after an unsuccessful attempt to kill
his wife.
Mr.. GAME, in manifesto to his constit-
uents, says he will oppose any scheme to
buy out the Irish landlords with English
money.
CANADA, in Difference, it is said, to the
wishes of the imperial government, has
cancelled the instructions regarding the
seizure of American fishing vessels.
JOHN BURNETT, farmer living at Y ork,
Mich, on the 18th shot and mortally
wounded his wife and dangerously
wounded Mrs. Jackson, his mother in
law.
NJ. GOBLET, French minister of public
instruction, has prohibited the meeting of
the Catholic church congress at Toulouse,
and the Archbishop of Toulouse an
nounces that inasmuch as it is merely de-
votional gathering it will be held despite
NJ. Goblet's orders.
NIEUwENHUIS, the Socialist leader at
The Hague, has been sentenced to solitary
confinement for one year for insulting the
King of the Netherlands in outrageous
publications.
A FIRE which broke out in the piano fac
tory and salesroom of Antisel & Co., San
Francisco, on the 18th, caused loss of
500, 900 to their stock; insurance, 100000.
The loss to the furniture stock of Henry
& Co, adjoining, is $4,000; covered by
insurance.
HONORARY degrees were conferred upon
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes at Cambridge,
Eng, on the 18th, in the presence of a bril-
liant assemblage.
HON. MILTON j. DURHAM, First Comp
troller of the Currency, was married on
the evening of the 18th to Mrs. Margaret
Letcher Carter, of Kentucky. The we'd
ding was private, at the house of the
BRIDES sister in Washington.
AT the Church of st. Martins in the
Fields London, on the 18th, Miss Coffin,
daughter of Commander Coffin, of the
United States steamer Quinnebaug, who
commanded the Alert in the Greeley Re-
lief expedition, was married to DIR. Frank
Anderson, of the United States navy.
Mr.. GLADSTONE on taking his departure
for Scotland on the 18th to conduct his
election campaign was met at st. Pancras
station by 10000 people, who cheered him
to the echo. He received ovations all along
the route.
A HANDSOME bronze statue of Daniel
Webster, resting upon a solid granite
base, was dedicated at Concord, N. H., on
the 18th. This tribute to New Hampshire's
great statesman was the gift to the State
of Mr.. Benjamin Pierce Cheney, of Bos-
ton. The ceremonies We're witnessed by
an assemblage of fully $4,000 people, in
GLIDING many of the notable men from adj
joining States and elsewhere.
THE American Association of Nursery
men, in session at Washington, passed res
olutions highly eulogistic of Norman J.
Commissioner of Agriculture.
JOHN MORLEY, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, announced in the House of Commons
cided to appoint commission to inquire
into the Belfast riots.
JOSEPH HART, seventeen years of age
accidentally shot ana killed himself at
New Y ork on the 18th.
GEO. c. CHARLES, an actor and play
wright, committed suicide at Philadelphia,
being unable longer to endure the excru-
ciating agony of an attack of sciatica.
A MEETING at Birmingham, Eng, on the
18th, in favor of Irish home rule was ad-
dressed by Mr.. Cowen, NJ. p.
DIR. 8. A. RICHMOND shot and killed
Colonel j. W. Strong at st. Joseph, No.,
on the 18th, and then wounded himself in
the head
Mr.. Gladstone spoke at Music Hall,
on the night of the 18th, to an
immense audience, who cheered him en-
The Lebanon (Ky.) Democratic conven-
ton nominated Hon. Joseph Barbour for
judge of the Superior Court.
THE Canadian Pacific railway contrib
uted So, 900 in aid of the fire sufferers at
b c.
THE Missouri Car and Foundry Com
pany's works at st. Louis were DESTROY
ed by fire on the night of the 18th, to-
gether with forty cars and 10000 feet of
lumber. The loss will approximate $780,
600; fully insured.
Mr.. BRYCE, Under Foreign Secretary,
stated in the House of Commons on the
18th that France had ordered the French
flag to be pulled down forthwith if it had
been hoisted over the New Hebrides.
In a recent fight between prison guards
mud ct