Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| The National Federation of Miners of
the Unit~a States and Territories met in
/ annual convention at indianapolis, Ind,
on the 7th. Delegates were present from
| several States, with Ohio, Illinois and In
| diana particularly well represented.
ALL hope of a compromise between Par
nell and the British Government has been
abandoned.
| A SPECIAL meeting of the United States
| Brewers Association was held at Niagara
| Falls on the Sth.
| DIPLoMATES at Constantinople believe
that the Bulgarian Assembly will re-elect
Prince Alexander.
| WESTERN UNION reports a prosperous
business for the past quarter, but passes
the usual dividend.
| THE French Minister of Marine denies
| that forcible seizure of the Tahiti is
lands has been ordered.
| AT Montour, Pa, on the Sth, the wife
and child of L. L. Matthews were burned
to death in their home.
| T. j. LoTHRoP, of Taunton, was noml-
mated for Governor by the Massachusetts,
Prohibitionists.
A NOTE has been sent to the Powers by
the Porte praying them to prevent for
eign occupation of Bulgaria.
THE Republicans of the Eighteenth IIli-
nois Congressional district have nomi-
mated Hon. Jehu Baker.
| Posi- OFFICE INSPECTOR DARBEILAY, of
the Chicago division, arrested L. J. Sulli-
van and Charles Wyman at Cedar Rapids,
Ia, on the sth, on the charge of robbery
of the post-o offices at Minneapolis, North
wood and Gordonv vile, Mimi.
| THE efforts of Turkey to force Syrian
recruits into the Turkish army has almost
caused an instruction in Syria.
| Ed CURTIN, who recently escaped from
the Ohio State penitentiary, where he W as
serving sentence of ten years for arson,
| was captured at Philadelphia on the Sth,
as he was about to start for Sacramento.
| THE Federation of Coal Miners, in ses-
session at Indianapolis, refused by a unan-
| imous vote to unite with the Knights of
| Labor.
THOUSANDS of people lined the streets
| of Sofia to witness the departure of Prince
| Alexander. The people We're greatly af-
| fected.
THE NOuoe Vremyd, published at st.
Petersburg, urges a Russo-Turkish alli-
| ance, which, it says, would solve the Bull
garian question.
GENERAL SIR REDvERS BUTLER reports
that there is less serious state of law
lessness in the County Kerry and the
western portion of Cork than he expected
to find.
DIR. MENDENHALL, of the scientific de-
partment of the Signal Service bureau.
and who spent three years in organizing
the polytechnic department of the old I'M
iversity of Japan at Toxic, has accepted
the presidency of the Rose Polytechnic
Institute at Terre Haute, Ind.
A MISS AMELIA JACKSON, who has just
been appointed to a position in the Patent
Office, is said to be the daughter of the
Captain jackson who shot Ellsworth at
Alexandria on the oath of May, 1861.
THE treasury officials are pleased with
the success that has thus far attended
their invitations to holders of three per
cent. bonds to surrender them for redemp-
ton. OF the $10,00o,00O included in this
new form of call, about 100000 have
been presented for redemption.
AT a meeting of the British Association
on the sth Carvill Lewis said he was con-
WINGED that a search would reveal the
presence of diamonds in Ken lucky.
SOME disclosures are made at Washing
ton of very inefficient management in
drafting plans for the construction of
the new naval vessels.
ANOTHER case of Mexican oppression is
reported from Lower California, j. b.
Hanson, an American, being missing, two
Of his friends in Jail, and his property
being confiscated.
A COMPANY has been formed to work a
gold mine at Abingdon, Mass.
THE deaths from Asiatic cholera in Corea
number several hundred daily.
SLIGHT ShOckS of earthuu ka yyera felt
in portions of Missouri on the 9th.
TEwNTY soldiers have been placed I'M
der arrest at Birr, Ireland because they
refused to assist in the work of evictions.
RECENT reports of impending Indian
outbreaks at the West are not credited by
the authorities at Washington.
THE ST. Petersburg press generally take
the position that the present regency and
ministry of Bulgaria contain elements Of
fresh complications.
THE Brewers Association convention,
in session at Buffalo, adjourned to meet in
Baltimore on the second Wednesday in
May, 1887.
THE Porte, in its note to the Powers, says
it consents to A1exander's departure from
Bulgaria.
Ell COYOTE, the Mexican bandit, is re-
ported surrounded by the regular forces.
P. R. BKLTRAM, clerk in the Spanish
consulate at Hong Kong, forged the name
of the Spanish Consul to a bill of exchange
for $50, 900, and has disappeared.
THE scheme Of the Indian Commissioner
to allot Indian lands in severalty, it is
said, meets with great favor among the
various tribes.
ENVOY SEDGwIcK publishes a card in
the New York Ereaing Post, denying that
he had been guilty of improper conduct
while at the City of Mexico.
The failure of Megaw Brothers, corn
merchants, of Dublin, is announced. Their
liabilities amount to 100000.
PRINCE ALEXANDER was met at diff err
emit points on his way to Darmstadt by
crowds of people. At Turn SEVERN he
took final leave of his ministers and off,
GERS.
Mr.. LoUDEN, formerly prominent MEM
Der of the National Land League, accuses
the league of investing donations instead
of using the money to help evicted ten
ants.
THERE are signs that Austria intends to
oppose further extension of Russian in
fluence in Bulgaria. The decision is said
to be due to Hungarian agitation in favor
of resisting Russia.
Rev. EBENEzER W. BRADY, regular
army chaplain at Fort Russell, Wyo., died
suddenly at the fort on the 9th. Captain
Brady served through the war as chaplain
of an Iowa regiment. He was frequently
in battle with the regiment, was prisoner
'everal months, and was noted as a lee
tI,ref on ssT,ife in Tihartvs,