Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| NEGRO convict named johnson, doing
q long term in the Riverside (Pa.) Peni-
tentiary, assaulted DR.. Mazinski and a
keeper on the 4th because the former re-.
fused to allow him to take medicine pre-
| scrlbed by another physician. DIR. Ma.
zinskl received painful injuries and the
keeper was knocked senseless. The latter
Is In serious condition. johnson was
placed in the dungeon.
LEVI BROWN, of Rockport, Miss, was
shot dead in his door by unknown parties
on the 9Th.
The Indiana Poultry and Pet Stock As
ISOLATION opened its annual exhibition
at indianapolis ON the 9Th.
inst.
A DIVIDEND Of one and half per cent
has been declared by the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe Railroad.
GoUNoD is to compose a mass in honor
of Joan of Arc.
THE snow storms and blockade in Colo
RADIO have been unusually severe.
THE Dacoits are annoying the British
about Mandalay.
THE Goodwin murder trial at Salem,
Mass, resulted in verdict of murder in
the second degree.
THE iron masters of Lancashire, En-
gland, have notified their employees Of a
proposed reduction in wages.
THE Surrogate of New York rendered a
decision on the 9th admitting to probate
the will Of Louis Chammersley, who died
in May, 1888, leaving an estate of about
$6,OOO,OOO to his wife. The will was con-
tested by relatives of the testator.
IT is stated that Servia, acting at the in
stigation of Austria, will refuse to discuss
terms of peace with Bulgaria except upon
the basis Of a return to status quo ante
aud the non-payment Of a war indem nity
by Servia.
AT Beamsville, Ontario, on the 9Th, John
Stone shot his niece, Miss Hodge, fatally
and then wounded himself.
THE jury in the case of Druggist Amende,
at Jersey City, N. j., charged with caus-
ing the death of Margaret and Ella Holtz,
by putting up prescription of morphine
instead Of quinine, and who, after discov-
ering his mistake, tried to commit suicide,
returned verdict of not guilty.
A GRANT is to be asked of the Canadian
Government to build a new wing to the
Manitoba Penitentiary
THE President on the 9Th transmitted to
Congress the draft of the bill formulated
by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in
tended to protect timber of Indian lands
from Spoiiation. In his letter of transmit
tai, the President says the subject is inn
portant and is commended to the early at
tention of Congress.
The executive committee of the Third
and Fourth class Postmasters' Conven-
ton, which meets in Chicago on February
18th, arrived at Washington on the 9th,
for the purpose of inviting Senators and
Representatives to address the conven-
ton. They intended to pay their respects
to the Postma ster- General before leaving
IT is feared that very heavy losses win
occur among the cattle in the ranges in
New Mexico this winter. The cattlemen,
anticipating an open winter, have gener-
ally retained fewer men than usual, and
on account of recent storms the cattle are
many of them already drifting from their
ranges.
A TERRIBLE state of wretchedness, filth
and disease has been disclosed in the Trim
ity Church tenements at New York.
THE stallion Sultan (record 2:24) was
purchased by e. Smith, of Lee, Mass, on
the 7th, for $1,000.
A FUND is being raised for the depend
ent relatives of the Nanticoke victims, and
search for their bodies is being prosecuted
A SENSATION has been caused at Cleve-
land, O., by the marriage OF Miss Ina Ner-
ton, pretty blonde, to a colored barber.
GENERAL DECoURCEY reports that the
rebels in Anam destroyed the Catholic
mission houses at Ughean the latter part
of December and killed 500 Christians.
THE Australian harvest is over. Ninety
thousand tons of wheat will be available
for export.
THE elevator of D. R. Putnam Nc
Gresor burned at Groton, OAK, on the
eth, with 1850 bushels of wheat.
DAVID GINDIN, a Polish Jew, attempted
to throw himself from the Brooklyn
bridge on the It'll, but was caught by the
heels and saved.
The docket of the Circuit Court, in ses-
sion at Henderson, Ind, contains ten muir
der cases, besides 80 minor criminal Of
tense
BAND of Nihilists recently broke into
the Post office at Rostoff, Russia, and
stole 1900 roubles and many important
letters.
A DISPATCH from Tamatave says: The
negotiations for the settlement of the diff
ference between France and Madagascar
are still in the elementary stage. The NAL
agassy officials stubbornly reject some of
France, and it is expected that the nego-
tiations will end in failure.
GABRIEL RAcHTER and his son Joseph,
aged fifteen were suffocated at Pittsburgh, |
Pa, on the night of the It'll, by gas from
coke stove used in drying plaster in new
houses.
A CAvE-IN occurred at Boston Run, near
City, Pa, on the 18th, and
block of houses went down out of sight |
The families living in the houses made a
narrow escape. The surface was still cav
ng, and five more blocks were expected to
90 down.
A FIRE occurred in Philadelphia, Pa, on
the eth, in the third story of No. 715 San
som street, and the adjoining house. A |
boy four years old, the son of Mrs. Hardin,
The janitress, persisted in the flames.
FIFTY men are engaged in building the
st. Paul (Minn.) ice castle.
THE failures in the United States during |
,he seven days ended the Sth numbered |
80.
A SLIGHT fire occurred on the Guion |
Line steamer Alaska at Liverpool on the |
sth
THE st. James Hotel at Batavia, NY, |
was destroyed by fire on the sth. Many of |
the inmates had narrow escapes.
THE new French Ministry appears to be |
to a majority of. the Paris |
THE guard over Garield's tomb is to be !
next Juno.
MRS. Rose MANcI, of New York, COM
nited suicide on the Sth from grief over
,he loss of child.
THE Canadian Government refuses TO