Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-16

| of Athens, and Hon. VIM. Mckinney. In
the afternoon there was parade of vet
Grams, in which General P. III. Sheridan
rode, wearing the uniform of his rank.
Ex-President Hayes rode in a carriage
/ with General Sheridan.
| THE second race between the Galatea
| and Mayfower was started on the 9th.
and a portion of it sailed, with the advan-
tage in favor of the Mayflower. The race
was, however, finally abandoned, on ac-
count of the dense fog, which made it inn
possible to sail the race satisfactorily.
| GOLDEN SMITH, young business man.
| attempted suicide at Avondale, O., on the
10th.
PRINCE ALEXANDER arrived at Darn.
| stadt on the 10th.
Mrs. FRESHMAN, of Philadelphia, is
charged with forming conspiracy tc
murder her lover.
! MARQUIS TsENG SAYS the Russo Chinese
difficulty has vanished.
| Two Italian officers have been arrested
at Savoy for sketching French forts.
| READIND. Pa, celebrated the one hund.
red and third anniversary of its incorpor.
alton as a borough on the 10th.
| JACOB REESE, inventor of the Basic
| steel process, has won a suit against the
Bessemer Steel Company.
The work of renovation and recoEstruc-
ton is actively progressing at Charleston,
and the city presents a scene of great ac-
tivity.
! Miss Lulu BATES, of Cincinnati, made
a balloon ascension at Charlottesville.
Ind, on the 10th, and had a narrow escape
from death, owing to the collapse of the
balloon at height of three hundred feet.
| PosTMAsTER-GENERAL Villas, who is
| spending a vacation in Wisconsin, was
rendered reception at Milwaukee on the
night of the 10th by the Juneau Demo-
cratic club at their rooms. He will return
to Washington this week.
| Mrs. PICKETT, widow of the Confeder-
ate General who made the famous charge
at Gettysburg, has been appointed to a
position in the Interior Department..
| HOFFMAN & Co., fancy dry goods inn
! porters, San Francisco, made an assign
ment on the 10th for the benefit of their
| creditors. Their liabilities are about $780,
| O0D
SHAW and Harrison, Pittsburgh police
officers charged wit assault and kidnap-
ing, have Eeen acquitted.
On the 10th the main building of the
M ttoon Furniture Company's factory at
Shebovgan, Wis, burned. Loss, betwee n
So 200 and go, 900; insurance between $780,
OC0 and $4,000. Three hundred and fifty
men are made idle by the fire.
JOHN SHAY, in drunken quarrel with
anoth her man at Lowell, Mass, on the 10th,
threw a Trick at him, but hit his own son,
four years old, on the head, crushing the
skull. He was arrested.
JOHN BACgMAN, of Reading, Pa, aged
sixteen, playfully pointed a revolver at
his brother Francis, aged eighteen, snap
ping it several times, when cartridge
was exploded, the ball striking Francis
just below the eye and inf1icting mortal
wound. He did not know it was loaded.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT BELL granted
request of the mayor of Charleston that
Inspector Pierce be permitted to remain in
Charleston another week from the 10th to
assist in the work of examining into the
condition of damaged buildings.
The Secretary of State, notwithstand-
ing the release of Cutting, will, it is said,
insist upon the abrogation of article 166 of
the Mexican penal code, which confers
upon Mexican courts jurisdiction under
certain circumstances over foreigners for
offenses committed outside of NJ axican ter
ritory.
ACoURIER arrived at New Laredo, Mex,
on the 10th, from the frontier with re-
port that Ell Coyotes gang was surround
ed by three detachments of troops, one
regiment of artillery and two of infantry
from the City of Mexico, and two cavalry
reg iments from San Luis Potosi were ex-
pected to arrive in Saltillo within a few
days for service on the frontier.
THE two $4,000 bonds, the bank books
and other papers belonging to the Second
Presbyterian Church, of Newark, N. j.,
which were stolen from the office of Treas
urer j. G. Harrison on the 9th, were found
on the 10th. The thief, finding himself un
able to negotiate the papers, placed them
on a pile of feed bags in Mr.. Harrison's
store.
A PARTY of Southern gentlemen arrived
at Aberdeen, Oak, on the 10rh, with the
remains Of c. Hooper Phillips, ex-mayoI
of Nashville, Tenn. He was accidentally
shot by James Rains at Nine-Mie lake
north of Britain, OAK, while duck hunt
ing.