Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

three-wheeled machine from Archangel
strait through Russia to the Crimea, has
not been heard from since leaving New
York, and il is feared that the Russians
may have treated him as they did Thomas
Stevens on his bicycle, only little more
effectively.
GURDoN s. HUBBARD, the oldest resi-
dent of Chicago and one of the first white
pioneers to visit the present site of the
city, died there ON the 14th. He first
landed there in 1918, and has resided in
the city almost continuously ever since.
He established the first line of lake YES
sells from the port, and was active In nu-
| merous public enterprises.
FRANCE has notified the Vatican that
| she is willing to recall the French envoy
| from Pekin in order to facilitate the pro-
| gress of the negotiations and smooth the
way for a mutual understanding concern
| ing the appointment of French and papal
ENJOYS to China.
| On the 18th the race for the st. Leger
| stakes at the Doncaster spring meeting
| was won by the Duke of Westminster's
| bay colt Ormond.
JOHN r. BALLENTINE, managing editor
of the Chicago Ne,os, was married on tn Q
| night of the 18th, in st. Louis, to Miss
Augusta ComStock.
| THE tension between France and Ger
many, caused by the action of General
! Boulanger and French Chauvinists, has
| largely vanished.
AN Odd-Fellows' excursion party occu-
plying one hundred and fifty cars, leaves
Chicago on the 18th for Boston via the
Chicago & Grand Trunk road.
THE British are establishing a coaling
station on the island of Thaso, in the
Egean sea, and are giving other indica-
| tions of an intention to govern the island.
The committee authorized by the recent
meeting of citizens of Washington to ar
range for the proposed National drill to
be held there next MAY, held its first
meeting on the night of the 18th. 1t was
| decided to offer cash prizes of $4,000. A
number of militia companies have ex-
pressed desire to participate.
On the 18th the British steamer Strath-
nairn was sunk in collision on the Clyde.
THE probate of the will of Samuel j.
Tilden, which was set for the 18th, was adj
journed for a week in consequence of the
absence of Mrs. Carolina B. WhIttlesey,
who resides in Wisconsin. She is one of
the heirs and must be present or repre-
sented by counsel.
ing Coal & Iron Company's Merriam
breaker at Mt. Carmel, Pa, exploded on
the 10Th, wrecking four other boilers,
greatly damaging the boiler-house and
seriously injuring Jacob Shut, John
Crow and Michael Patrick. Five hundred
miners will be idle for week in con-
sequence of the explosion.
The icehouses and outbnldings Of the
Lakeview brewery in Buffalo, N. Y, were
burned on the 18th. The loss is covered
by insurance to the amount of $685. 900.
About $500 barrels of beer were ruined.
Four firemen were injured by the falling
of a floor, but not seriously.
SPARKS from a passing locomotive set
fire to the grain elevator of I. j. Holmes &
Son at Brooklyn, Ia, on the morning of
the 18th, and a disastrous conflagration
ensued, resulting in the destruction of the
greater portion of the business part of the
city, involving loss Of upward of $780,
600, with insurance of about one-half that
amount.
THE colored men of New England be-
gan conference in Boston on the 18th to
protest against determinations against
the race in society, business, politics, etc.
James M. Trotter, of Hyde Park, presi ded
and addressed the meeting. "These con-
ferences and conven tions," he said, "have
ceased to do any good toward ameliorat-
ing the lot of the co1ored men by acting
upon the sentiment of the white people of
the country"
The Pennsylvania State Greenback-
Labor convention met at Harrisburg on
the 10th.
THE German Reichstag was opened
the 18th.
The first National convention of the
anti-liquor Republicans met at Chicago
on the 18th.
THE corporation of Dublin voted against
presenting an address to the new Lord
Lieutenant.
ANOTHER victim, Henry Houck, has
been added the list of deaths from the Sill
yer Greek (Pa.) railway disaster. This
makes eighteen deaths thus far reported.
CARDINAL JACoBrNI, pontifical Secre-
tary of State, is seriously ill.
A LARGE saw mill at Chippewa Falls,
Wis, was destroyed by lightning on the
10th, with loss of $3.50, 900.
AT an informal meeting of the Parnell-
ties on the 10th it was agreed to abate
their obstruction tactics in the House of
Commons.
AN Illinois Central freight train plung-
ed through an open draw of the Dubuque
(Ia.) and Dunlieth bridge into twenty feet
of water, on the 10th. The engineer was
seriously injured.
MISS CHARLEsw ORTIZ, whose enlistment
in the Salvation Army created a sensa-
tion in London, has married General
Booths son.
In jackson County, West Virginia,
large rock rolled down a mountain, ON
the 10th, crushing the residence of Leslie
Cummins and killing two men.
THE storm of the 18th was quite general
property is reported from several points
where.
RUSSIA has demanded of the Corean
Government the harbor of Kankyek for a
naval station.
AN address to the Gear, praying for his
protection over the independence and lib
erty of Bulgaria, was adopted by the So
braEje on the 10th.
A RESOLUTION favoring the encourage
ment of German emigration to South Bra
zil and South Australia was passed by the
German Colonial congress.
FREIGHT train was thrown from the
track by train wreckers near South Lyon,
death of the fireman and fatally injuring
two other train hands.
In an interview with Bismarck on the
18th, NJ. De Giers, Russian Foreign Minis
ter, distinctly promised that Russia would
not occupy Bulgaria.
The Pope's course in favoring the