Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

celve their delegation.
GENERAL w. r. RAwLEY, formerly mill
tary Secretary for General Grant, was re.
ported dying at Chicago on the 10Th.
JAMES 8. WHITE, ex-Comptroller Of
Milwaukee, Wis, was placed ON trial on
the 10th charged with embexsling city
bonds.
COWBOYS undertook to run the town of
Burlington, Tex, ON the Goth, and four of
them were killed by officers.
WIN. SHEEHAN, convicted Of the murder
of his mother, sister and brother, was
hanged at Cork, Ireland, on the Goth.
THE Queens speech, which was read at
the ministerial dinner in London on the
Goth, calls attention to the prevalence of
crime in Ireland, and the necessity for
strict enforcement of the law.
THE meeting of the Iowa State Temper
ance Alliance at Des Moines on the Goth
was failure as far as attendance was con-
cerned.
J.W. TURLAY, Land Commissioner of
the Illinois Central Railway, has not been
heard Of since January 7th, and his friends
are in distress.
THE steamer Crystal from Scotland ar
rived at New York on the goth with fire
among her cargo which had been burning
for several days.
THE Pope has conferred upon Senior Ca
novas Del Castillo, the Spanish Premier, q
decoration similar to that conferred upon
Prince Bismarck by his Holiness.
WAREHOUSE burned at Tompkinsville,
N. Y, ON the Goth, together with large
amount Of cotton, involving an aggregate
loss Of $4,000. For a time adjoining prop
erty of almost untold value was in great
peril.
WHILE cutting timber near Bedford, Ia,
on the Goth, Aaron Cox was struck across
the chest by falling tree and instantly
killed. He was about fifty five years old,
an old settler and a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic. He leaves a wife
and seven children.
THE annual show Of the Cincinnati Poul-
try and Pigeon Association began on the
Goth, with about one thousand entries from
different parts of the country.
BRADLEY STUART, of Monticello, a.,
seventy years old, recently married
lady of twenty-five. The boys thereupon
gave him an old-fashioned horning. He
was very angry, and ON the Doth arrested
the ringleaders for riot. He also brought
suit for 81 500. A settlement was affected
however, the defendants paying costs of
$125.
THE farmers of Northern Indiana are
being outrageously swindled by the Be-
hemian oats scheme. On the Goth two
smooth -tongued strangers approached Lou
Bailey and Chris Putnam, prominent
farmers Of Lagro Township, Wabash Coun-
ty, and obtained their signatures to con-
tracts for $1,000 worth of oats. Two of
their neighbors signed notes for similar
amounts, and the sharps then skipped.
The innocent grangers will lose the entire
sum.
JOSEPH WAINsCoTT, of Newcastle, Ind,
was arrested on the Goth and taken to In
dianapolis by Federal officers on a charge
of sending confidence circulars through the
mails.
ETHEL SPooNER obtained a verdict for
$4,000 against the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western Railway in New York on the
goth for the loss of leg by an accident on
the company's tracks by her foot catching
in rail.
THOs. STAFFORD, Of Petersburg, w.
Va, fatally shot his sister on the 21st dur
ing a quarrel, and then made his escape.
MRS. LAWRENCE OLIPHANT, wife of this
English author of that name, is dead.
THE ship Frank N. Thayer, from Manila
to New York is reported burned at sea.
MRS. URIAH GORDON, of Rushville, Ind,
committed suicide on the 21st by hanging.
j. B. OLIVER & Co., one of the oldest
grain commission firms in Milwaukee,
Wis, have failed.
WORK is to be resumed at the Edgar
Thompson Steel-works at Pittsburgh, Pa,
the strike being ended.
By an explosion of a boiler at Terre
Haute, Ind, on the 21st, six men were ia
tally and five others seriously injured.
AT Dawson, Pa, on the 21st., a young
man named Marshall and young lady
named Risen were drowned while skating.
AN explosion occurred in the shaft of the
Newburg Oriel Coal Company's mine at
Newburg, w. Va, ON the 21st, by which
thirty miners were killed or imprisoned in
the burning pit.
MRS. MARY HANSEN, VIGOROUSLY bold
confidence woman of many aliases, was
arrested in Jersey City, N. j.. on the 21st,
On the complaint of Fred. Bohmert, sa-
oon-keeper, whom she succeeded in
aeecing out of about ST. 500.
IT is rumored that a revolutionary expe- |
iition against Spain is being prepared in |
France and that it will depart from Mar
settles. |
THE Coroner's inquest at Detroit, Mich, |
over the remains of Frank Knoch. his wife |
and their two children, whose charred |
bodies were found in the ruins of their
nome, December 10Th, ended on the 21st, |
he verdict being that the parents came to
heir death by a revolver in the hands of |
persons, and the children came |
20 their death by unknown means.
The Delaware Oil Works at Chester, Pa, |
we're almost entirely burned out on the |
hight of the Goth. The fire started from |
IN explosion, and burned all night. Near |
y all the buildings employed in the man
fracture of lubricating and paraffine wax
we're burned. Loss, about $500
TIE Grover Cleveland won the iceboat
ace for the commodore's pennant at Red |
Bank, N. j., covering the fifteen mile
course on the Shrewsbury River in thirty |
Tx minutes.
IT is claimed that the maintenance of |
British army in Egypt is too costly an ex-
pertinent.
Dr.. Won SCHoLTz, Prussian Minister of |
has declared tn at Germany will |
uphold mono-metalism.
,istern at Louisville, KY, on the 22d, with
Ter babe In her arms and both were
drowned. An accumulation of troubles
had un settled her reason.
A REA R-KND collision occurred at Oak
iale Station, Pa, on the Baltimore & Ohio
abroad, on the 22d, by which q caboose
md seven cars Of freight were wrecked,
hree men killed and others injured.
DURING q quarrel over a religious dis
.ussion at Chicago on the night of the