Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-25
PERsoNALANp GENERAL.

called on the 18th, We're adjourned for q
week, the prisoners being allowed to give
bail.
RED EAGLES young Indian from the
Philadelphia training school, died of con-
sumption, at Chicago on the 18th while on
his way to his home as Pine Ridge agency,
Dakota.
THE National committee of the Postmas-
ters' Association decided to hold their next
convention at Chicago, on the second
Wednesday in June, 1887.
RUSSIA agrees with the Porte in the
agreement between Bulgaria and Turkey
excepting the article concerning the mill d.
tary convention. ve-~-s -z,=E>e--'zz
TIE body of Peter Higgins, of Echo
township, Antrim County, Mich, was
found on the 18th under a manure heap
with several gashes in the head. His
brother and wife were arrested on suspi-
cion. -....
A LARGE portion of the business section
of Augusta, Wis, was destroyed by fire at
an early hour on the 17th. a hotel and
the post-ofice is included in the list of
burned buildings. The loss is about $40,-
900; insurance half that sum.
ABOUT ten thousand dollars has been
raised for the monument to John McCul-
Tough. This is about half the amount
needed, and it is thought the balance will
soon be subscribed.
THE difficulty at the silk mill at Canton,
Mass, where five hundred weavers struck
has been settled by arbitration. The en-
ployes are to get q ten per cent. advance
and are all at work.
SIMON LOCK, a banker of Soleure, Swift
zerland, recently failed, with liabilities Of
1000 ,000f. Hundreds of small depositors
were ruined by the failure. Lock has been
arrested on the charge of fraud.
JEAN LEBERSAyG committed suicide at
New York ON the 18th by inhaling gas.
THE Parnellites are said to be content
with Gladstone's slate.
THE American Institute of Mining En-
gineers was in session at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 18th.
QUEEN VICTORIA will go to Riviera in
April with Prince Christian.
A SINGULAR legal contest took place at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th, over baby,
two mothers claiming it.
TIE Pail Mall Gazette says Chamberlain
is to resign from the British Cabinet.
EIGHT sheep herders have recently been
killed by Apaches in the Escadillo noun
tains of New Mexico.
THE steamer OxenhoIme, from Baltimore
to Liverpool, lost ninety two head of cattle
on the passage.
GEORGE NJ. THOMPSON, local cash Ter of
the Pullman Car Company at Cincinnati,
was robbed of S415 in cash, which he laid
on his desk while writing a check in the
Citizens National Bank on the 18th.
Count DE SoTo, Spanish Minister to
Switzerland, has been recalled on account
of disreputable conduct.
FIRE broke out in the shops at the Ohio
penitentiary at midnight on the 18th.
Brown, Hinman & Co.'s rake shop, and
the Ohio Tool Company's plane shop were
destroyed, with an estimated loss of Sa5,-
600.
WESLEY RICHARDS and wife, colored,
left their home at BridgeviIle, Del, a day
or two ago, leaving their children, aged
respectively seven, five and three years,
alone. The wife returned four hours later
and found the eldest child burned to death
and the second at the point of death. 1t
died in an hour.
JOHN BELL, aged sixty-five, and m en-
her of q well-known upholstery firm,
was decoyed into a "bunco" room at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th, and became
so pleased with the workings of the
game that he went to a bank, drew 5000
and returned. He was knocked down, and
when he recovered found money and
thieves gone.
The viii Of Joseph Milmore, who died in
Geneva, Mass, recently will be contested
by Charles, his only remaining brother. It
was made October 2, and left over S150,000
to his wife, formerly Mary L. Longfellow,
and beside only $50 to an aunt and her
children. The contest is likely to develop
a great scandal.
MRS. BARTLETT and Mr.. Dyson were
committed for trial on the 18th charged
with the murder of Mr.. Bartlett at Pimlico,
London.
CHARLES CROKER has devoted $33 900
to the Boys and Girls Aid Society of San
Francisco for the construction of a build
ing on an $11 900 lot donated by Senator
Fair.
JOHN DOYLE put too much opium in his
whisky at Holland, Mich, on the 10Th, and
died from its effects.
SERvIA is negotiating with Turkey for a
union of Bosnia and Servia.
ORDERS were issued at Washington on
the 18th closing the departments on Wash
ington's birthday.
MoUKHrAR PASTA, the Turkish Commits
sioner, advises the reoccupation Of the
province of Dongola.
r. E. LUCAS, an insurance agent Of
Cler Gland, O., was arrested at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 10Th, charged with embezzling
1000.
PRINCE NICOLAS of Montenegro denies
that there is discord between him and the
Austrian Government.
NEARLY all of the mills on the Concord
river, in Massachusetts,, which were
stopped by the high water, started ON full
time on the 18th.
A NIHILIsT circular has been discovered
by the police at Moscow, in which it il
stated that several Russian mobiles viii
| soon be put to death.
SIR CHARLES dixie declares that he has
no intention of resigning his seat in the
House of Commons, and has resolved to
live down the public clamor against him.
THE Indiana Supreme Court has con-
| frmed the sentence of Wiebern Wartena,
| Governor interferes.
MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY of the
Knights of Labor was at Montreal on the
| 10th, comforting with the Roman Catholic
| bishop, who was consi dering the propriety
| of denouncing the order.
Bishop SPALDING of Peoria is to be the
| rector of the Catholic National Univ ersity
| to be established at Washington. .
JOE BURNS, who assaulted Miss Felters
| at Martinsburg, W. Va, few weeks ago,
was taken from jail on the 18th and
lynched-
THE remains of David Sholty, the Bloom
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