Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

E.ti on the 1Sth.
MOST of the tenants Of the Marquis of
Sligo in County Mayo, Ireland, have pur-
chased their holdings.
THREE fremen were fatally injured at a
Baltimore fire on the 18th by the capsizing
of ladder truck.
A PATENT has been taken out in Canada
for a process for removing the objectiona-
BILE features of Canadian petroleum.
THE Sioux City Ua-) grand jury is still
investigating the Haddock murder case.
SEVERAL disasters are reported on Lake
Michigan on account of the recent storm,
accompanied by serious loss of life.
Two women died of actual starvation
on farm of David Sherlock, Kings
County, Ireland, some fowl, their only
subsistence, having been seized for rent.
ArToRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND has
written to District-Attorney Bliss to keep
a watchful eye on the filibusters.
Sioux CITY, Ia, has made such vigor-
GUS war on the saloons tha they are near
ly all closed.
A LOAN of y ,090, 900 marks to balance
the German imperial budget will, it is
thought, be necessar
THE trial of the second action for libel
against Lord Chief Justice Coleridge by
his son-in-law, Charles W. Adams, was
commenced in London on the 18th.
A HALF-BREED Indian boy, who had
been serving a sentence at the reform
school at Detroit, Mich, and had started
home to Muskogee, I. T., died on the train
| near Litchfeld, Ill, on the 18th.
ATToRNEY-GENERALG GARLAND has de-
cided that five days pay is as much as
supervisors of election are entitled to.
THE Railway Passenger and Freight
Conductors Mutual Aid and Benefit Assoc
citation of the United States and Canada
met in convention in Chicago on the 18th.
There were 125 delegates in attendance.
THOMAS WILSON, superintendent of the
Fox Hill granite quarries, at Reading,
Pa, went to Wilmington, Del, about the
18th and drew $1,000, with which to pay
the employees. and up to the 18th he had
not been heard of.
WIN. Pope, colored, was convicted at
Washington ON the 18th of an attempt to
murder General G. c. Anger. The General
objected to Pope acting in noisy manner
in front of the formers residence and
struck the prisoner, who in turn inflicted
four pistol bullet wounds in the Generals
legs.
GEO. j. WEST, counsel for Levi Wilson,
concluded his argument in the Wilson,
Moen case at Boston, on the 18th, and
the case was given to the jury, who
brought in a verdict in favor of Moen, the
defendant, for $96,522, being the amount of
Wilson'S notes for $4,000 held by Moen,
| with interest.
LOUISE MICHEL, the French Anarchist
has been officially pardoned, the unex-
pired portion of her term of sentence be-
| ing Cancelled.
| CHESTER BELLOWS was convicted on
| the 18th of murder at Charles City, Ia,
and sentenced to death for the killing of
his niece last July because she refused to
| marry him. If hanged he will be the
second to be hanged in Iowa in twenty
years.
| A TRAIN with one hundred passengers
| ON board was reported on the 18th as
showed in eleven miles west of Canton,
Oak. The passengers were being fed from
| a small station near by. The Milwaukee
railway was lined with dead engines in
| drift.
| MEcENAs E. BENTON is again United
States district attorney for the Western
district of Missouri. The President re-
voked his order of suspension on the 18th
and this restores Mr.. Benton to his office
without any further action.
| AREPoRT of the Ontario Bureau of In
dustry shows that the wheat yield of the
| province of Ontario for the past season
| was $500, 900 bushels less than the average
of the past five years; barley, $4,000
bushels less; oats, 5, 800 900 more; pease,
5000, 900 more, and corn, 100000 less.
| IT is reported in labor circles that
Henry George is going to Ireland in a
| short time to speak in behalf of home
rule.
EX-PRESIDENT CHESTER A. ARTHUR
died at his residence in New Y ork on tn e
morning of the 18th as the result of a
stroke of apoplexy caused by a burstin G
blood vessel
CLEVELAND, O., is threatened with a
coal famine as the result of lack of trans
portation facilities, presumably brought
about by monopolis tic combination.
A LIFE insurance company for horses
has been organized at New York.
THE Indiana Odd Fellows will erect q
statue and monument to Schuyler Colfax
at Indianapolis.
MANY buildings were wrecked and one
man was killed by cyclone in the Wyo.
ming valley, Pennsylvania, on the 18th.
| APARIs workman created a sensation
on the 18th by firing five shots at the en-
trance to the Chamber of Deputies.
HON. ALoNzo HAwLEY, of Hinsdale, N.
Y, formerly member of the New York
Legislature, died at Chillicothe, No., or
the 18th.
/ THE prosecution of the constables
charged with murder in connection with
the Belfast riots, has been abandoned.
/ THE Greek Legislative Assembly wa:
dissolved on the 18th.
THE vitriol works of the John l.. Thomp.
son Chemical Company near West Troy
i N. Y, were destroy ed by a cyclone on the
18th.
i TIE British Government'has refused the
;Erequest of the Scotch crofters that the mil
itary be withdrawn from Skye.
/ THE residence of James johnson al
sLandesville, Ind, was burned on the
Smorning of the 18th and his two daugh-
ters, Ella and Minnie, persisted in the
flames.
| PATRICK GRAVES, charged with the muir
der of Jane WHEELER, at Cleveland, O.,
proved an alibi, and was discharged from
custody.
THREE 'trackmen were struck BY snow
plew on the Fonda Narrow-gaugeb branch
of the Wabash road in Iowa on the 18th,
| two Of whom have died from their in
juries-
IT was reported that Lord Salisbury
would remain in Londen on the 21st to
receive the deputation of unenrployed
| workmen-
| A PET parrot attacked James Lawson's
| babe, six weeks of age, in its cradle, at
Marion. Ind, on the 18th, and picked a
hole through its skEll, through which the
brain oozed. The injuries are probably
fatal