Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-07

THE Toledo, Cincinnati & ST. Louis Rail
road was sold under foreclosure of mort
gage at Indianapolis on the 3Oth, and was
bought by Sylvester H. Kneeland, of New
| York.
THE body of Alfred Thorn was found in
a hay loft at Rocky River, near Cleveland,
O., on the 30th. Thorn was fifty -one years
old and it is thought was from Syracuse.
N. Y. Suicide was the manner of death
CONTRIBUTIONS are being solicited to aid
those dependent for support upon the
miners entombed in the Nanticoke pa.
coal shaft.
| Nj. DELESsEPs has been assured that q
majority of the French Senate and
| chamber OF Deputies will vote in favor of
MS lottery scheme in aid of the Panama
Canal.
THE total number of hogs packed in the
West from November LIST to December attn
was 100000 against 1865 600 for the same
time last year.
JAMES ELDER, Postmaster at Richmond,
Ind, dropped dead ON the 31st.
PAsTEUR has concluded his treatment of
the four children from Newark, N. J.
| JAMES KINKADE was fatally shot by q
| burglar at Mahoningtown, Pa, on the
| night of the 31st.
The suspension is announced of the
| First National Bank of Lake City, Mimi.
A CoNsISTORY for creating Bishops will
| be held by the Pope at the end of Jan
uary,
THE actual count of Vanderbilt's securi.
| ties showed an aggregate of $780,, 900, 900
KING LEOPOLD of Belgium received
Lieutenant Taunt, U. S. N, on the 1st, who
has been exploring the Congo region.
AN American Institute of Hydrophobia
| on the Pasteur plan, Is to be established in
New York.
I. d. SULLIVAN, the new Lord Mayor OF
Dublin, was installed ON the 1st with much
ceremony and great enthusiasm.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED bales of cotton were
burned in the warehouse of j. S. Stewart &
Son at Macoa, Ca, on the 1st.
ENGLAND cedes to China part of Upper
Burmah in order to make the Chinese and
Indian frontiers contiguous.
PROF. c. c. GEoRGEsoN, of Texas, has
been appointed Professor in the State Col
lege at Toxic, Japan.
RELIGIOUS sect at Palmyra, Wis, are
on the point of starvation in their belief
that they will obtain "power' by fasting
EFFORTS will be made to issue a loan OF
$175, 100000 in London, to provide China
with ornaments and railways.
JOHN TERwELL threw a Ratchet at his
son in Chicago on the 3lst, and slightly
wounded his daughter. Mortified at what
he had done he attempted suicide by cut.
ting his throat with razor.
THE presents of many years have been
converted by the Pope into money and
presented TO the College of the Propa-
ganda.
Tue proclamation announcing the an.
nexatiOn of Burmah to the British Empire
has reached Rangoon.
DEFINING & WAISTS agricultural ware
house at Edinburg, Ind, burned on the 1st.
BISHOP HANNINGToE, engaged in mis-
slonary services in Central Africa, has
been seized by King Mombasa, and will
probably be put to death.
UNITED STATES CoUNsEL-GENERAL
WALLER gave brilliant New Years re-
ception at the rooms of the st. Georges
Club at London. A great many notables
were among the callers.
AT Sidney, Neb., Jim Reynolds was
found guilty of murder in the first degree
for the murder of James and John Pink.
ston, Of Fairville, Salem County, Mo.
IT is intimated that the British Govern
ment will oppose the revival of the bill for
the construction of a tunnel under the
English Channel, between England and
France.
FITzHUGH LEE was inaugurated on the
1st as Governor of Virginia with much
pomp and ceremony.
FERRY'S seed warehouse and Whites
Grand Opera House, with djacent struct-
ures, in Detroit, Mich, burned on the 1st,
involving loss of nearly $2,00o000 with
insurance of about $S)0, 900. Captain r. Fell
ban, fireman, was crushed to death by a
falling wall.
Miss Elizabeth B. Van Verst, lost her life
in New York on the 1,t by her clothing
taking fire at an open CRATE. She was sixty
five years of age.
C. B. MAURER's Touring mill at Tall
madge, o., was entirely destroyed by fire
at an early hour on the 1st. The loss or
the building and machinery is 10000, and
on stock 5000 to $1,000. There is an in
surance of $17,250 on the building, and
s. 900 on stock, distributed among dozen
or more companies.