Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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| GENERAL CROOK says hunting Apaches
! is like chasing crows with cavalry.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has written to the
officers in charge of the work on the new
| naval cruisers calling attention to the
delay in completing the Atlanta, and ask
ing that she be put in condition for sea
as soon as possible.
| BECK, German pretender to the Danish
throne, has arrived in Copenhagen. He
| claims direct descent from the House OF
| Oldenburg. He strikingly resembles the
late Gar Alexander II.
THE remains of Wendell Phillips were
removed on the 2Sth from the family tomb
in the old Granary burying ground at Bos-
ton, where they were inferred at the time
of his death, and with those of his wife,
who died recently, were inferred at Mil
ton, where they have found their last rest
ing place.
| SUPERINTENDENT JOHNSTON of the Pitts
| burgh & Western railroad has settled the
| question of runs and wages with the COM
mittee of engineers and firemen. He re-
| adjusted the runs and arranged to pay the
men by the mile, between three and four
cents mile for engineers and two cents
mile for firemen.
| HON. MOSQUE SONkLlNG lnduo an eldD-
/ crate argument on the 18th before Acting
Secretary Fairchild against a reopening
of the old contest over the admission of
Apollinaris water free of duty. Con-
gresham Collins and Messrs. Brooks and
| Waterbury appeared to ask reconsidera-
ton of the decision admitting such water
free of duty.
THE street car drivers and conductors of
Buffalo have made demand for a reduc-
| ton of the hours of work from sixteen to
twelve per day, and an increase of pay for
conductors from one dollar and eighty
cents to two dollars per day.
| A PASTORAL letter was received at Mont
real on the 2Sth from Cardinal Tasche-
reau condemning the Knights of Labor as
| secret organization, inimical to the in
| terests of religion and good morals.
| MISS ROSE CLEVELAND is now at her old
home in Holland Patent, N. Y, and is not
| expected to return to Washington until
| the latter part of next week.
| THE Bank of Marietta, O., has made an
| assignment.
OUTRAGES by Indians against whites
continue in Southern Arizona.
EDHEM PAsHA, special Turkish envoy,
had an audience with the Car at Y alta,
| in the Crimea, on the Goth.
MORMONS are emigrating from New Mex
| leo and Arizona to Mexico.
THERE is dissension in the Spanish Cab
| met owing to the demands of the Finance
Minister for economy in the budget.
RECENT reports of a battle with bandits
| in Mexico are now denied.
THE marriage at Strasbourg on the Goth
| of French officer attired in uniform was
| the occasion of a demonstration by the
| French residents.
| JOHN MCCULLoUGH's personal estate
| has been inventored at $37, 747.49.
| THE Pope, it is said, in the event of es-
| tablishing diplomatic relations with
| China, will appoint French prelate to be
papal nunco at Pekin.
THE Senate commerce committee have
decided to report favorably on the Eads
| Ship Railway bill.
| THE French Ambassador at Athens has
| been instructed to make fresh efforts to eff
| feet peaceable settlement between Greece
| and Turkey.
FIRE destroyed Wilkinson's mills and
many other buildings in Nottingham
shire, England, on the Goth, causing a loss
! of $3.50, 900 and throwing 1000 persons out
| of employment.
Two men named 10y and Noble fell
down a shaft of the Granite Mountain
mine, Phillipsburg, Mont, on the Goth, and
were killed.
A MEMORIAL from the Legislature of
Iowa demonstrating against the cancella-
ton of the bonded Indebtedness of the
Union Pacific railroad was presented in
| the Senate on the Doth.
EDWARD KINANE, a clever swindler, who
| victimized a number of Philadelphia mer-
Ioto ,,fc t1r- tod Ia" hno1
w. Va, on the Goth.
| GovERoR HILL of New York signed Mr..
| Cantor's Saturday Half Holiday bill on
| the Goth. The Standard Gas bill became
| a law without the Governors signature,
| the time having expired.
| THE master bakers of New York have
| determined that any demands of journey
men below twelve hours per day would be
resisted.
| THE fires in the O'Hara Glass works at
| Pittsburgh, Pa, were drawn on the Goth,
and the factory closed down indefinitely
on account of wages differences between
| the firm and some of their employees. Over
| three hundred men will be thrown out of
| employment.
AN attempt was made on the Goth by
| five prisoners to break out of the peniten-
tiary at Stalco, w. T. The guard fired,
killing Wise and MORALLY wounding Car
| roll, convicts. Karney and Moore We're
| caught and later escaped.
HARRY Brown was captured at Omaha,
Neb, on the Doth and taken back to New
York on a charge of robbery.
JOHN PLANKENToN & Co.'s packing es-
| Establishment at Milwaukee, Wis, was shut
down on the 29th, throwing five hundred
| men out of employment. Patrick Cudahy,
Mr.. Plankenton's partner, sal d: eve have
shut down, and will not resume operations
| until after the labor situation becomes
settled" No demands had been made by
the employees.
REV. DIR. A. LEONARD, rector of st.
Johns Episcopal Church at Washington,
| was summoned on the Goth to New York to
see ex-President Arthur. General Arthur
always attended old st. Johns church
when President, and held DR.. Leonard in
high esteem.
LOUIS SoMERFIELD and Richard Lee paid
the penalty of their crimes with their lives
| at Washington, D. c., on the 30th. Both
were executed at the same time and on
the same scaffold.
In the efforts to secure shorter hours of
labor by the various trades and callings,
the heads of the various central labor I'M
ions discountenance resort to strikes to
secure that end, preferring to rely rather
upon the general but gradual public awak-
ening to the needs of the times.
THE post -office and ten other buildings
were destroyed by fire at Keystone, Ia