Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

visit to his mother. He was accompanied
by his brother, Colonel Mike Sheridan.
The day being the occasion of the reunion
of the Thirty-frst Ohio regiment, a public
reception was accorded the visitors. Il
WILLIAM JACKSON, colored, aged seven
teen, stole a couple of buggies at Kans as
City to sell to get money to pay the minis
ter and other incidentals connected w5th
his proposed marriage, but Justice Wor-
then sent the would-b be husband up for six
months.
MINISTER JAcKsoN's resignation has not
been receiv ed at the State Department.
A HURRICANE swept over Nancy, France,
on the 18th, doing great damage.
Ex-MINIsTER J. W. FOSTER says the i'm
portance of the Cutting case has been ex-
aggerated.
MINISTER PENDLETON has received
furlough from his duties at Berlin and will
visit Switzerland.
SECRETARY BAYARD and Minister Ro-
m ero seem to agree that there is not the
least probability of war.
SURGEON BILLINGS, of the United States
army, lectured at the meeting of the Brit
ish Medical Society on the 18th.
The condition of the wheat trade in the
as dog days"
MINISTER Cox has protested to the
Porte against the closing of American
mission schools in Syria.
THE annual convention of the National
Association of American Bankers began
at Boston on the 18th.
A CONVENTION terminating the religious
controversy between Prussia and the Vat
lean has been signed.
THE Western Nail Association, at its
regular meeting at Cincinnati on the 18th,
ordered that the price of nails remain I'M
changed.
Mr. MATHEWS, British Home Secretary,
was reelected in Birmingham on the 18th,
Mr.. Cook, Gladstonian, withdrawing at
the last moment.
THE steam yacht Y osemite, built by John
Roach as pleasure boat in 1880, has been
sold to the Canadian Government.
Kelly has finally been provided with
an office. He is the American member of
tho international court that sits at Cairo,
Egypt, and his salary is $500 year.
j. F. BRADLEY, ex-manager of the Pull
man works at Pullman, Ill, and ]. c.
Atcheson, manager of the Hotel Florence
at the same place, are mysteriously miss
ing.
THE Postmaster-Gene has issued an
order directing that hereafter all mails for
Mexico be sent by rail, crossing the bor-
der at Ell Paso, Tex.
FIVE local landlords have been de-
nounced by the Longford Ureland) Board
of Guardians for the heartless eviction of
fifty-six families.
A DEPUTATIoN of imperial Federalists
waited on Lord Salisbury on the 18th to
urge closer federation of the states COM
posing the British empire.
SERGEANT WIN. THoMA, United States
army, committed suicide at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 18th, by shooting himself.
Two freight trains on the Buffalo, Roch-
ester & Pittsburgh railroad collided near
Falls Creek, Pa, on the 18th. Both trains
were badly wrecked. and Engineer Ed
ward Arms was instantly killed. The
conductor and brakeman escaped by
jumping.
AT Conneaut, o., on the 18th Mrs. Slough,
the wife of laborer, went to the river to
wash, taking her three children with her.
One of the little ones fell into the water
and in the effort to rescue it the mother
and all the children were drowned. The
bodies were found close together in six
feet of water.
THREE daughters Iof Henry Wyman, a
fisherman of Far Rockaway, N. Y, were
drowned off Breeze Point on the 11th.
They were Nellie, aged twelve; Lizzie,
aged ten, and Sadie, aged eight.
WEATHERALD 6 WALLS window and
glass factory at Massillon, O., burned on
the 18th. Loss, $4,000; insured.
VIM. BOYD, an aged millionaire, was
struck by train on the Panhandle road
at Walkers Mills, Pa, on the night of the
18th and was almost instantly killed.
LOUISE MICHEL, the French Communist,
has been sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment and to pay a fine of 100f.
GEORGE COLLINS, a miner, whose par
ents reside in st. Louis, was accidentally
killed on the 10Th while working in mine
near Chattanooga, Col.
Two hundred and ten new cases and
ninety five deaths from cholera were re-
ported in Italy on the 18th.
ACTING-SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has is
sued a call for $4,000, 900 of the three per-
cent. loan of 1882.
EXECUTION of the award has been stayed
in the Field-Bennet libel case at London,
pending judgment ON the appeal.
THE case of Rollin NJ. Squire and Mau :
rice B. Flynn has been set for trial at New
York. September 5.
THE Irish Times is reliably informed
that Lord Randolph Churchill is drafting
bill intended to solve the Irish problem.
MICHAEL METZ was hanged at Union
town, Pa, on the 10Th, for the murder of
companion named Cassidente.
AN Orange procession at Londonderry
on the 18th stoned by mob. An
Episcopal clergyman and several citizens
were wounded
The Bankers convention at Boston
passed resolutions urging a suspension of
the coinage of silver dollars
ORDERS have been issued by the Cana
dian Government prohibiting American
vessels from entering the Bay of Chateau,
on pain of instant seizure.
THE charges made against the Home
Club are being investigated by committee
of the knights Of Labor.
THE forest fires in Northern Wisconsin
are dying out, material on which to feed
having become exhausted.
THOMAS BRADY, inspector of Irish fisher
les, has been congratulated by the West
port Poor Law guardians on his accession
to the honor of knighthood.
The United IrelGad, referring to Sails
bury's speech at the recent lord mayors
banqcet, says: "Our race is accustomed to
resist tyranny. War, let it be, in the n anne
of God"
MISS CARRIE, of Ishpeming, Mich,
espoused the Jewish faith and was mar
ried at ST. Paul, Mimi, On the 18th, to AL
bert Rulienberg.
FIRE Oh the 18th at KoscIusko, Mich, de-
stroyed twenty stores and offices. Loss,
$4,000; insslrance light.