Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

senger rates from Kansas City to st. Paul
and Minneapolis to three dollars.
MOORISH troops have sacked and de-
stroyed the English factories at Cape
JUDY on the west coast of Africa.
THOMAS SEXTON scored the greatest
Parnellite victory of the British parlia-
mentary campaign, having defeated Has
let, Conservative, In the Belfast district.
A NEW trial has been refused Maxwell,
the st. Louis murderer. The case now
goes to the Supreme Court.
WIN. ENRIGHT was shot and killed by Au-
gust Scharf at Batavia, N. Y, on the 9Th.
JACOB ALEXANDER, lamplighter, was
attacked by two men at Glendale, O., on
the 18th, one of whom, Mike Fogarty, he
shot and killed.
EDWARD HARRIS, q prominent solicitor
of London, Ont, has disappeared, leaving
several funds IN which he was interested
in an entangled condition.
j. H. BURNS, of Holyoke, Mass, acct
dentally smothered his five-months' old
child on the 7th by throwing quilt over
it when he entered dark bedroom for a
nap.
A TERRIBLE fire which broke out at Brus-
sells, Belgium, on the 7th, destroyed the
greater part of the Brussels University.
1t began while the juries of professors
were examining the candidates for doc
torships.
TIMOTHY MEAD and Fritz Maxheimer,
aged respectively ten and fourteen years,
were drowned in the Allegheny river near
Kittaning, Pa, on the 9Th. Mead was
seized with cramps while bathing and
Maxheimer jumped in to rescue him.
THE Common Pleas Court of Clinton
County, Ohio, has ordered the Cincinnati
& Eastern railroad sold within sixty days
for not less than $4,000.
FOREST fires were reported raging in
Wisconsin and New Hampshire on the 9Th.
CARDINAL GUIBERT, Archbishop of Paris,
is dead.
THE window-glass workers were in con-
vention at Pittsburgh on the Sth.
THE number of Tories elected to the Brit
ish Parliament up to the evening of the
Sth equaled the entire number of that party
in the last Parliament.
SPRINGFIELD, O., contributes $500 to the
Irish parliamentary fund.
DURING riot at Cardiff, Wales, on the
Sth, the police charged the crowd, wound
ing over one hundred persons, many of
them seriously.
MIGUEL CHAcoN, the murderer, was
hanged at New York on the 9th.
REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM II. COLE, of
Maryland, died on the Sth.
THE Postal Clerks Brotherhood has is
sued a formal reply to the Postmaster
General.
THE thirteenth National Conference of
Charities and Correction meet at st. Paul,
Mimi, July II to 81
Dr. ROBERT TAYLOR, of New York, re-
ports the cure of a case of lock-jaw, the
only cure on record. 1t was accomplished
by the free use of alcoholic stimulants.
NEAR Princeton, Ind, on the sth, Mrs.
Turpin killed her two children. three and
seven years old, and committed suicide.
THE Conservatives, in order to have a
working majority in the British Parlia-
ment Independent of the Liberal Union
lists, must carry eighty two of the remain
ing 173 seats.
CONSIDERABLE uneasiness exists regard
ing the situation in the East. England is
preparing a note to Russia regarding the
closing of the port of Batoum.
OHIO Republican editors held conven-
ton at Columbus, on the sth, to express
their feelings concerning Senator Payne
and the manner of his election.
The half breeds in the Stony Mountain
penitentiary, who participated in the
Northwest rebellion. are to be granted full
amnesty by the Canadian Government.
THE use of natural gas in manufactures
at Pittsburgh, Pa, is said to have thrown
5000 men out of employment by lessening
the need for coal.
A PENsIoNER named Penland, living
at Belleville, Ont, on the Sth shot and
killed woman named Mack, seriously
wounded her husband, and committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
heart.
GEORGE WASHINGTON and W. Chase
Morton, of Virginia, went over to WASH
ington on the Sth to arrange a duel with
each other, but Were arrested and after
wards made an amicable settlement.
THE Senate committee on commerce on
the Sth reported adversely on the nominal
ton of Herbert F. Beecher to be collector
at Port Townsend, w. T.
THE King of Cambodia's brother, Swo-
tina, who had been the instigator of many
rebellions during the past twenty years,
has been captured and shot. Another
brother of the King has been beheaded.
THE New York grand jury found an in
dictment for murder in the first degree
against Dan Driscoll, the leader of the
Whyo gang, who shot and killed Bridget
Clarity a couple of weeks ago. Driscoll
pleaded not guilty in court.
PAPAL ALLOCATE O'BRYEN sailed from
Liverpool ON the Sth on the steamer Poly
nesian. In addition to the hat for Cardi-
nal Taschereau, he carries the pallium for
two Canadian Archbishops.
THE third tragedy within two weeks oc-
CURED at the Parker House, in Latrobe,
Pa, ON the night of the eth. During
quarrel a well-known character named
Palmer was shot and instantly killed by
person in the crowd. No arrests.
THE bodies of H A. Crommelin, secre-
tary of the Dutch Legation at Vienna, and
Margrare Pallavacini and their compan-
ions, who attempted to make the ascent of
the Gross Gloeckner Alp on June %, have
been found at the foot of Pasterze glacier,
at Gloeckerkaar-
SAMUEL ARCHER was hanged according
to programme at Shoals, Ind, on the 9Th
HERBERT GLADSTONE predicts a new
election within twelve months.
THE Senate in executive session on the
9th, rejected the nomination of Solicitor
General Goode.
TROOPS have been ordered to Rowan
County, Kentucky, to aid in enforcing the
law.
The Panama Canal Company have de-
cided to issue bonds instead of a lottery
loan.
BEAL & Co, the New York cotton brok-
ers who failed few days ago, have re-
sumed business.
SATISFACTORY negotiations regarding