Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Governorship.
SIR JOHN CHAMPION, formerly British
Minister at Washington, died on the Sth.
THERE was another panic on the Eastern
oil exchanges on the Sth, and big break
in prices resulted.
The Western Union directors, at their
quarterly meeting on the Sth, decided to
pass the dividend
EMPLOYEES in the freight department OF
the Panhandle road are in future to be
paid extra for all over time.
In the Campbell divorce suit in London
on the Sth, the defendant was forced into
making some damaging admissions.
ROBERT GARRETT has been reelected
president by the directors of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad.
COLONEL THOMAS MOONLIGHT, of Leaven-
worth. Kas, has been nominated by the
| President as Governor of Wyoming Ter
ritory.
| DAVID NERO, the religious imposter, was
| sentenced at Stafford, England, on the Sth,
to six months imprisonment at hard Ia
| Dor.
TIL. McDUFFY, who stole $1,000 from
bucket-shop firm of Waxahachie, Tex: has
been brought to BAY at Toronto, Ont.
a CATHOLIC parade at Lurgan. Ireland,
on the Sth, was attacked by Orangemen
and several hours rioting ensued. many
persons being wounded. A detachment Of
dragons was called out to dispense the
rioters.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has transmitted
to Congress the correspondence relative to
the rights of American fishermen in North
American waters
THE District of Columbia Commissioners
have appointed Colonel William G. Moore
| to be Major and chief of police III place of
Major Walker, resigned. Colonel Moore
is the commanding officer of the Washing
| ton Light Infantry corps and at present
| holds a prominent position in the National
Metropolitan Bank of Washington. He
was private secretary to ex-President
| johnson.
! LEE SHELLENBURGER, convicted at Ne
braska City, Neb, of killing his daughter,
has been sentenced to death, with execu-
| ton set for March %, 1887.
| FIRST OFFICER BARTHOLOMEW and four
of the crew of the steamer Knickerbocker,
| plying between New York and New Or
| leans, were drowned while trying to aid
a disabled schooner.
THE Commissioner of the General Land
Office has recommended that proceedings
| be commenced to compel the removal of
fences unlawfully inclosing public land in
Colfax County, n. NJ, amounting to about
! 165,000 acres.
| THE Union Pacific has adopted the
twenty-four o'clock system on all its lines.
| MICHIGAN has declared strict quarantine
against Chicago live stock.
| FRANCIS RENAUD, a Cuban mulatto, COM
mitted suicide at Baltimore because, while
having plenty of money, he was denied en-
tertainment on account of his color.
| LORD LONDONDERRY, Viceroy of Ireland
! has appointed Mr.. Sexton to the shrievalty
| of Dublin and James O'Mara to that of
| Limerick.
THE trades conference at Columbus, O.,
| finished it's work on the 9th and ad-
journed.
| THE trials of the agrarian cases at Sligo,
Ireland, have been postponed.
| BRIDGET MCCARTHY and John Toole
were killed by railway accident at Brad
dock, Pa, on the 9th.
| WHOLESALE arrests of Socialists are be-
ing made in Germany.
| IT is said the boot and shoe boycott
| against a number of Chicago firms is to be
begun again.
FORTY-Two persons are reported drown
ed by maritime collision off Queensland.
REV. VIM. DUNCAN, British missionary,
| gives a glowing account of the progress
of the Indians in British Columbia.
| THE conferees from both houses of Con-
gress have reconciled their differences and
agreed on the Interstate Commerce bill.
| GREAT BRITAIN has begun proceedings
| against the steamship lines to force them
| to carry the American mails.
| REPLIES have been received by the Porte
from the Powers in response to the cir
Gu lar recently issued asking advice ON the
| Bulgarian ques ton.
THE report of the past years operations
of the Mississippi River Commission was
laid before the House of Representatives
on the 9th.
THE boiler OF the Union Flour mill near
Canal Fulton, O., exploded on the 9th,
wrecking the building, killing the head
miller, name unknown, and severely in
juring several other people.
INDIANA refuses to give up McCaw.
wanted at Lincoln. Ill, for murder, but
| will try him herself on a similar charge.
President CLEvELAND's expression of a
desire for the negotiation of a new COM
mercial treaty with Mexico has been well
received by the press and government of
that country.
Two THOUSAND Punjab police have been
ordered from the Punjab, Northwest Brit
ish India, to Burmah, and 5000 more will
probably be added to this number by sub
sequent order.
SENATOR c.. W. JONES, of Florida, and
his son, who arrived in Detroit, Mich, on
the 9th, from Columbia college, were out
riding on that day, when a runaway threw
the Senator out of the carriage, badly
straining his side He will be laid up for
some time, but expects to be in Washing
ton after the holidays.
| PRINCE ALEXANDER had q private au-
dience with the Queen at Win dsor on the
9th, and remains Her Majesty's guest at
! the castle. At his brothers request he
has become sponsor of Princess Be4trice' S
| baby, which was christened with water
| brought expressly from the River Jordan.
THE importation of gold from Europe
into this country still continues, and there
is now at the New York assay Office 49,
0O0, 900 in bullion against S31 100000 in Au-
gust. The former amount does not much
exceed what was On hand last year at this
time.
FIRE at Attica, o., on the 10th, destroyed
a whole block in the business part of the
town.
THE Salvation Army attack on Sedalia,
Mo-, is marked by some very lively and
exciting scenes.
i A CRUSADE against underground insur-
ance companies has been inaugurated at
| Chicago.
/ CAPTAIN WEED of the bark Cremona,
(which was lost at sea on the Sth inst, has
i arrived at New York
/ j. W. BROWN, Canadian Orangeman, is
| thought to have meet with foul play in
| Paris, France.
| OSCAR A. SIM6sSSs, president of the First
| Naaaonal Bank at Fort Wayne, Ind, COM
mitted suicide onthe 10th.
| Mr.. GLADsTo%EElas expressed his disap-
provai of the anti-rent campaign being
conducted by the National League in Ire.
land.
/ CONGRESSMAN AHEAM DowDSEY- of New
| York dzed at his residence in New York
/ City OF the morning OF the 10th of apo