Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


John Hoffman and Jos. Helser, employees
of Franks chemical factory, were fatally
| burned by an explo sion the 10th. A
dozen other employees, who were working
in the building at the time, escaped unin-
jured. Loss, 1000.
| THE Assembly of Crete has voted an adj
dress to the foreign consuls residing at
Gambia, affirming Cretan loyalty to Tur-
key and expressing hope that the Porte
| will increase the privileges of Crete.
IT is reported that a seizure of another
| American schooner was made in the Bay
| of Fundy on the 18th by the steamer Lans-
| downe. but no reliable information has yet
been received.
OVER a million bushels of grain are re-
| ported to be en- route from Chicago to
Montreal, and the prospect for large grain
shipments from Montreal is regarded as
good.
JOHN BRIGHT says the powers of mon
archs are Iessening and the influence of
| the aristocracy is fading away; the only
| power that is growing is the power of the
people.
Mr. GIFFEN, statistician of the London
Board of Trade, made an elaborate argu-
ment against bi-metallism before the
British bankers organization on the 10Th.
| PATTI anG Nicolini are to be married in
June.
COLONEL JOHN B, FOLSOM, grandfather
of Miss frankie Folsom, died at Folsom
| dale, n. Y, on the 10Th.
| PROF. THEODORE DWIGHT was unani-
mously elected president of Yale College.
| SMALLPOX has again made it's appear
ance in Montreal.
THE Senate amendments to the POST
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the House ON the Goth by vote of IFS to
so.
| Mrs. ALICE PENDLEToN, wife of Hon.
her carriage in Central Park, New York,
on the Goth, and striking upon her head,
was almost instantly killed. Her daugh-
ter Fanny, who accompanied her, was Sc
riously injured.
| AN indictment has been found against
Melville P. Walsh, ex-coroner of Gage
/ County, Neb., for accepting bride.
THE new heir to the Spanish throne and
| its attendant tribulations has been named
| Alfonso.
GOVERNOR FORAKER of Ohio has trans
mitted to the United States Senate an en-
crossed copy of resolution passed by the
lower house of the Ohio Legislature, pre-
ferring formal charges against Senator H.
B. Payne in connection with his election
| as United States Senator.
| LOUIS WILLETT, alias Charles Crosby,
was hanged in the Jail at Kingston, n. Y,
on the Goth, for the murder of Edwin Kel-
land on January I, 1884.
PARSONS, the Chicago Anarchist, has
been located in the Mahoning valley by a
| Pittsburgh detective.
| THE Arms act passed to second reading
in the British:House of Commons on the
! Goth by a vote of 3o3 to 80.
| CHARLES H. REED, "Guiteau's lawyer"
| has left New York, presumably for Cana
da, to avoid further proceedings for mis-
appropriation of funds realized for clients.
| REPORTS from the River Tanna district,
| in East Africa, states that Missionary
Houghton and wife had been murdered by
natives
| ONE of the Chinese imperial palaces, To-
Gated about forty miles from Pekin, is re-
ported to have been burned recently, in
volving loss of over s., 100000. The pal
| ace was built in 1850.
| WILKES W. FoRNEY, postmaster at Lee
tonia, O., was arrested on the Goth for mis-
| appropriating Government funds.
| EUGENE TAYLOR, a young farmer living
near Greenfield, Mass, in fit of despond-
| ency killed his two and a half-year- old
son with strychnine and endeavored to
take his own life, first with poison and
then by cutting his throat, in which effort
he miserably failed.
| GEORGE j. GOULD has been promoted to
the position of acting president of the
Missouri Pacific Railway Company.
| PROF. w. R. HARPER, of Chicago, has
| been chosen to fill the new chair of Sc
| mitic languages, recently created at Yale
college.
THE New York Broadway surface rail-
way officers refuse to recognize Receiver
O'Brien, recently appointed to wind up
! the affairs of the concern.
| JOHN H. O'NEALL, of w Washington, Ind,
received the congressional nomination by
| the Democrats of the Second District of
Indiana on the Goth.
THE eruption of Mt. Etna is increasing
| in violence and the town of Monte Rosso
4 is in imminent danger.
Ex-ALDERMAN JAEHNE has been con-
signed to the laundry department at Sing
| Sing.
A BILL has been adopted by the German
| Reichstag fixing duty on beet sugar and
| a bounty on exports.
AT Apple Grove, w. Va, on the Dist
James Guerin killed his aunt, Mrs.
Thomas, and was in turn shot to death by
the murdered woman's daughter.
THE delegates to the National Viticultur-
al convention called at the White House
| on the 21st in a body and paid their re-
spects to the President.
PLACARDs have been posted throughout
the town of Tipperary, Ireland, demand
ing twenty-five per cent. reduction in
house rents.
DR.. Do LEWIS, author and reformer,
died at his home at Yonkers, N. Y, on
the 21st, after an illness of two or three
days from erysipelas.
THE President has approved the bill pro-
viding for the study of the nature of al
coholc drinks and narcotics, and their eff
fects, in the public schools of the District
of Columbia, the Territories, etc.
THE worst gale for years passed over
portions of Maine on the 21st, from north
west to southeast, accompanied by ter
rife hailstorm of brief duration. There
are reports of damage from all directions.
THE Greek commander has been ordered
by the government to avoid provoking
hostilities, but to assume the offensive if
the Turks are the aggressors.
GLADSTONE has decided to convene a
m Getting of the Liberal party before the
Home Rule debate is concluded to con-
slider the differences that have arisen.
NJ TRICoUP1S has formed new Greek
ministry. In an interview he declared the
policy of the new government would be