Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

lnsCltutlOn In washington, has been Sc
lected by the President for the vacant po-
sition of chief examiner of the Civil-Serv-
ice Commission.
The Anchor Line steamer Furnesia col
ided in the Clyde on the 10Th with the
Austrian steamer TIA. Both were badly
damaged.
SECRETARY MANNING progresses in his
convalescence, and his friends consider
his recovery a certainty. He has not yet
decided when he will leave Washington.
He drives out daily when the weather per-
mits, and is generally accompanied by
Mrs. Manning.
THE Pennsylvania railroad is making a
small experiment IN iron ties by laying
about two miles of them on the main line
in the Philadelphia yard. They are of in
verted channel-bar section and are made
by the New Jersey Steel and Iron Som
pany, of Trenton, n. j.
II. E. ASHENBY has been arrested and
will be tried May "a for unlawfully cutting
timber on the Crow Indian reservation in
Montana, and for defrauding the Crows.
Paul Van Lorn has been arrested for the
same offense and will be tried at the same
time.
The Western Nail Association, at its
regular monthly meeting at Cincinnati on
the 18th, adopted a resolution reducing
the price of nails to $2.15 per keg for los
ten cents per key off in carload lots, sixty
days, or two per cent. off for cash. The
association will meet in Chicago June 16.
THE city Of Xenfa O., stuff cred terribly
by the recent storm. Nearly hundred
buildings were swept from their founda-
tions, involving fearful loss of life. The
bodies of twenty-four of the victims were
recovered on the 18th, and there were still
more missing. The railways were badly
wrecked, and the nearest approach any
train could make to the city was three
miles.
DAYTON, O., and vicinity suffered very
severely by rain, hail and cyclones,
houses, barns, churches, ETC., being I'M
rooted, and partially or wholly demolish-
ed. Dayton itself was isolated by the
sudden rise of water in the Miami rivers.
Several other towns in Ohio and indiana
reported similar experiences in varying
degrees.
A. ALDER committed suicide at Omaha,
Neb., on the 18th.
REV. CHARLES FL. STURGEON, the emf
nent English divine, has the govt
THE Millers' National Association was
in session at Chicago on the 18th.
THE French minister sailed from Athens
for France on the 18th.
THE bishops of the Methodist Church be-
gan their semi annual meeting at Buffalo,
N. Y, on the 18th.
A HURRICANE swept through Spain on
the 18th, causing a hundred fatalities in
Madrid alone, besides injuring twice that
number.
A JUDGMENT in favor of the Government
for S116,55 has been rendered at Chicago
against General John Macarthur, ex-post-
master, for shortage in accounts.
CHAMBERLAIN's strength seems to be
growing, as indicated by a strong meeting
of the government opposition at his house
on the 18th.
AT Fort Niobrara, Neb., on the 18th, Il
private soldier killed a corporal and in
turn was killed by the guard.
SIR FREDERICK ROBERTS is to be re-
called from India to take command of En-
glish troops in Ireland.
Fl. Y. BEMIs, the Chicago brewer, has
been expelled from the National Trotting
Association for violation of rules.
Mr.. MORLEY and Lord Spencer, MEM
bers of the English Cabinet, are making
strenuous opposition to any concessions to
Chamberlain.
ARTHUR j. GLOVER, who murdered |
Granville Loomis near Bowling Green, O.,
in May, 1885, was executed at the Ohio |
Penitentiary at Columbus on the night of |
the 18th.
THE threatening attitude of the u ster |
loyalists is beginning to disturb the Brit !
ish Government. 1t is stated that many |
families are preparing to quit the province. |
Many agents of landlords are resigning |
under fear that rebellion is certain.
In the NJ. E. General Conference at |
Va, on the 18th, the commit |
tee on episcopacy reported in favor of |
electing four new bishops, and the report |
was adopted.
FoRTY-TwO of the required panel of for
ty-seven jurors had been obtained up to |
the evening of the 18th, in the Maxwell
Preller murder case at ST. Louis.
THE bricklayers' strike at Indianapolis,
Ind, for nine hours work and an in
crease of five cents per hour in wages, has
been successful and the men have returned
to work.
THE M. E. Church at McConnellsville,
Pa, was struck by lightning on the 18th,
the spire shattered and considerable dam
age done to the auditorium and lecture
room. Two men engaged in burning lime
were Frustrated by bolt and two horses
we're killed.
henry 81. MILLER. a Newaygo (Mich.)
farmer, aged seventy-one years, burned
Town his house and barn on the 18th and
hen blew off the right side of his head
with an old musket because his wife re-
used to mortgage the property now in her
lame. The couple had been married fifty
Years.
JOHN P. ROGERS, the husband of Min
lie Palmer, was bound in heavy sureties
1t London to keep the peace and refrain
rom killing, or challenging to a duel, Mr..
Charles Arnold, tn actor, whom Rogers
to mortal combat.
GOVERNOR GRAY of Indiana will not yet
lttempt to vacate the Office of Attorney
General, the present occupant of which is
insane.
JOHANN Mosr, the New York Anarchist,
las been released on bail.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
n Scotland on the 14th.
EVERY thing is quiet at Cincinnati, and
he militia has been sent home.
GREAT damage was caused by heavy
aims in Derbyshire, England, on the 14th.
GRAssHoPPERs have appeared in Adams
;ounty, Ind, in vast numbers.
Mr.. STEPHENS, the English bicyclist,
vas arrested while crossing the Afghan
rontier.
CORPORAL SCHoRDER, Of the Fourteenth
egiment, was drowned at Cincinnati on
he 14th while bathing.
WORK has been generally resumed in
he lumber yards at Chicago and at the
pullman car-works.