Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| pounds or beef In cans, to be put up in the
special can adopted for use by the French
army. This is stated to be the largest in
dividual contract ever awarded to one firm
4 in the meat-packing industry.
PEOPLE of Vincennes, Ind, are incensed
against Edward Taylor, superintendent
| of public schools, for allowing a colored
| girl to participate in comm encement exer-
| cisss.
LORD RosEBERY, British Foreign Secre-
tary, will recommend that the Powers
raise the blockade on Greek ports and
withdraw the foreign fleet from Suda
| bay.
SMALLPOX has broken out at Guaymas,
Mexico. Eighteen cases up to the 26th
were reported and six had already proved
fatal.
| In the Maxwell trial at ST. Louis on tn
9th the defendant continued his state
ment from the witness stand and subse-
quently submitted to rigid cross-ex-
animation by the prosecution, the outcome
of which was that he established himself
as fraud, liar and q thief, and wholly
unworthy of belief.
HERR MoST's trial was continued in
New York on the 9th.
! CHOLERA is said to be increasing in the
southern part CT Japan.
THE First NJ. E. Church of Elmira, n. Y,
| burned on the 9th.
REV. MR.. STURGEON publishes an attack
on Mr.. Gladstone's Home-Rule BILL
TWENTY-FIVE Chicago Anarchists have
been indicted.
A CHILD was killed and several persons
injured at Bordeaux, France, on the 9th,
by falling hailstones.
JOHN c. HENNING was hanged for
murder at Crawfordville, Ind, on the
9th.
THE lava from Mt. Etna was within one
kilometer of Nicolosi on the 9th, and the
adjacent country was also menaced.
A RESOLUTION in favor of the separa-
ton of church and state has been intro
duced in the French Chamber of Depu-
ties.
AS result of the Liberal meeting called
by Mr.. Gladstone a number of the radi-
cal members have returned to the party
fold.
ALBERT ST. JOHN was shot and killed
at Alexander, 1. T., on the 9th by Acting
Agent Knight, of Muskogee.
JAMES G. BLAINE, Steve Elkins and 9TH
ers are to start an independently oil re-
finery at Washington, Pa
PoRK-HoUsE employees at Indianapolis
are demanding more wa geS.
A GOVERNMENT bill for the expulsion of
all members of families which formerly
reigned in France was submitted to the
French Chamber of Deputies on the 9th.
THE steamer Francis A. Hall, having on
board thirty five strawberry pickers, cap
sized on the 9th in the Magothy river in
Maryland, and two of the pickers were
drowned.
~, III
Havre, May 3, went ashore at West Scat
cry, near Louisberg, N. S., on the Goth,
and is total loss. Two seamen were
drowned. She was valued at $4,000.
ABOUT four hundred employees of the
Pennsylvania Tube Works at Pittsburgh,
Pa, have struck and the mill has closed
down. The shutdown was occasioned by
the manager refusing to explain the rea-
son for dischargin workman.
AT meeting Of Ulster Protestants at
Dungannon on the 9th, resolutions were
adopted expressing gratitude to Mr.. Glad
stone, hoping that he will be successful
and promising him support in the event of
a new election.
THE factory of the Royal Electric Light
Company at Montreal, Can, was damaged
to the extent of $50 900 by fire on the 9th;
fully insured.
AT Down Patrick, Ulster, on the 9th.
four boys were sentenced to three months
Imprisonment under the act of Edward
III. for disorderly shouting and cheering
for home rule at late hour of the night.
THE clearinghouse of the United States
Dynamite Company at Toms River, n. J.,
was blown to pieces on the 9th by an ex-
plosion, and Atwood Hyers and John Ora.
ham, who were working in the building,
were instantly killed, portions of their
bodies being scattered in all directions.
Window glass was broken at Forked Riv-
er, thirteen miles distant, and doors were
forced open by the conclusion at Ware
town, seventeen miles away.
THE LordLieutenant and Lady Aber-
deem visited Queens College, Cork, on the
9th, and were enthusiastically received
by the students. Cheers were given for
Gladstone, Parnell and home rule, fol-
lowed by groans for the Queen.
ALL the executive departments were
represented at the Cabinet meeting in
Washington on the 9th. The session last
ed about three hours and was mainly de-
voted to the consideration of the Canadian
fisheries troubles, naval affairs and the
proposition to construct a railroad through
the Indian Territory.
IT is stated that Brooks, alias Maxwell,
who slew his frien d Preller in the South
ern Hotel, st. Louis-accdental or other
wlSe-ln view of the course the trial is
taking, has lost his interest in the ladies'
spring bonnets, and now devotes much
time and attention to a careful study of
the evolution of the neck-tie, from the
tiny seed through its various stages of
plant growth and after preparation until
it finally develops into the we'll defined
moose so suggestive of rapidtransit to
those found worthy to wear it.
DRY GOODS valued at 81, 729, 305 were i'm
ported into New York last week.
R. d. LANCASTER has been confirmed as
collector of the port of ST. Louis.
DoN CARLOS left Lucerne suddenly on
the 18th and is said to have gone to Aus
tria.
AUSTIN BALDWIN, the prominent politi-
clan and business man, died at New York
on the 18th.
The Austrian press is greatly excited
over the recent utterances at Moscow.
The potato crop in the Kildysart dis
trict, Ireland, has been destroyed by frost
and hail storms.
FIRE in the tobacco and cigar factories
of l. Lesvis and II. Watkyne, in New
York, on the night of the 2Sth, did $50 900 |
damage. Four fremen We're overcome
by the tobacco smoke and We're taken to |
the hospital.
Dr. R. W. PEAsE, of Syracuse, n. Y, a |
noted surgeon, who was prominent in the |
army during the war, died suddenly from |