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


required constant attention. The case
was remarked as peculiarly sad in all of
its details
RUSSIAN newspapers affect to have great
fears concerning the fate of Bulgaria.
The Nocoe Vrenaya declares that Prince
Alexander must be prevented from return
ing to Sofia.
HENRY REEDE, a farmer living two
miles north of Davenport, Ia, drowned
himself in tank for watering stock on the
night of the 30th.
CONGRESS directed the publication in
the records of the rebellion of a vast
amount of material relatin to the trial of
Fitz John Porter, and supplementary
edition of volume twelve will shortly be
issued containing this matter.
THE commission of Thomas E. Benedict
as Public Printer has been received at
| Washington, bearing the Presidents sig
nature of date the Goth of August. 1t is
understood that the new Public Printer
will relieve Mr.. Rounds about the 10Th
inst.
THE police have resumed riot duty along
the Shank Hill road at Belfast.
BUFFALO, N. Y, telegraphed Chicago
on the list, asking the arrest of four sailors
on the schooner Halstead, wanted for
murder.
A MOUNTAIN on the Island of Galita in
the Mediterranean is in state of erup-
tion.
PRINCE ALExANDER's name has been
stricken from the Prussian army roll.
REPUBLICANS of the First Iowa district
nominated Ex-Governor John 81. Gear for
Congress.
THE Pope has accepted Frances propo-
sition regarding the papal nuncioship in
China.
PREPARATIONS were in progress at Sofia
for joyful welcome of Alexander. He
expected to reach there on the Sd.
ZANKoEA, a Russian, and the leading
spirit in the Bulgarian revolution, has
been arrested at Sofia.
THE Illinois Republican State conven-
ton nominated John r. Tanner, of Clay
County, for State Treasurer, and Richard
Edwards, of Bureau, for Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
THE Russian newspapers declare that
the Bulgarian nation must belong to the
Russian party.
In the single scull race between Hanlan
and Courtney at Jamaica Bay, Long
Island. on the LIST, for a purse of $1,000,
Hanlan won with ease by ten lengths.
Hanlan has cabled $500 forfeit to London
for a match with Beach on the Tyne.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Hesse, father of
Alexander of Bulgaria, declares that Bull
garia will resist any attempt of Russia to
occupy the country.
JUDGE POTTER, of the New York Su-
preme Court, has granted an absolute di-
vorce to Edwin Mayo, the actor, from his
wife Jennie, to whom he was married
February IS, 1888. They separated in Au-
gust, 1894. Mr.. Mayo charges his wife
with infidelity. She did not appear to de-
fend the suit.
THE Cincinnati & Eastern railroad was
sold by order of court on the 1st for $780,
$50, to Stephen Felke, Geo. Briger and AL
bert Meter, who composed a purchas-
ing committee representing majority of
the bondholders.
THE revolutionary troops at Sofia have
surrendered to the loyalist troops and
their officers have been placed under ar
| rest.
CHARLESTON. s. c., suffered the most
severely by the earthquake of the 31st and
1st, and the destruction of life and prop
erty in that city was appalling. Thou
sands of people are homeless and many
thousands more were afraid to re-enter
their homes by reason of their insecure
condition.
ONE of the most extensive parades ever
seen in Cincinnati was witnessed on the
LIST by 100000 people. 1t was on the occa-
sion of the opening of the exposition. The
procession was made up of military, civil
societies and industrial exhibits. 1t re-
quired nearly three hours to pass given
point.
THE reduction of the public debt during
August was $1,910, 699.02. The small re-
duction is attributed to the heavy extra
ordinary payments authorized by Con-
gress, but on the other hand the receipts
have exceeded the average for August by
| nearly $5,OOO,00O.
THE annual convention of the National
Tanners and Hide and Leather Dealers
Association opened at Boston on the 1st.
James E. Mooney, of Chicago, presided.
A PLUMBERS lockout is in progress at
New York. Tt is not their season, any
how.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt at Malaga
and other points in Spain on the 1st.
JUDGE j. R. STEWART is the Democratic
nominee for Congress in the Fifth Georgia
dist riot.
THE Indiana Republican State conven-
nominations and adopted platform.
THE conference for the protection of
literary property will reassemble at Berne,
Switzerland, September 6.
s. M. STocKsLAGER, assistant Commits
sioner of the General Land Office, has with
drawn from the congressional race in In
diana.
ANDREW CARNEGIE offers $125 900 for the
adjustment of free library at Edin-
burgh, Scotland, ON certain conditions.
THE Republicans of the Seventeenth
Illinois district nominated Major Robert
McWilliams for Congress.
SIX master builders were injured at
Barcelona, Spain, on the I'd, by explo-
sives placed under the tables where they
were holding a meeting.
Two men were killed in a collision on a
logging railroad, near Crawling, Mich, on
the I'd.
PHILIPPoPoILs was gaily decorated on
the I'd in honor of the return of Prince
Alexander. The latter started the pre-
vious evening for Sofia, where he was
warmly received.
AT Pesth, on the I'd, the centennial
anniversary of the retaking of that city
from the Turks by the Austrians was
celebrated in magnificent style.
THE new silver certificates will be ready
for issue by the Government on the 1st of
next month
loyalist troops at Radomir, in Eastern
Roumelia on the ID, resulted in the defeat
of the revolutionists with heavy loss.
A. N. WILSON, the Atlanta (Ga.) ex-
postmaster who refused to be removed,