Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

A CONVENTION of railway commissioners
of various Western States began its ses-
sion at Des Moines, Ia, on the 18th.
FOLLOWING the lead of the Eas tern coal
monopohsts, the Illinois operators have
taken advantage of temporary short
supply to advance the price of soft coal
twenty cents per ton at the mines.
AN examination of election frauds is
going on before the United States Com
missioner at Indianapolis.
SERIOUS dissensions hare arisen in the
b ritish Cabinet in regard to the enforce
ment of coercion in Ireland.
THE third annual convention of the In
ternationa Association of Fairs and Elk
positions began its sessions at Chicago on
the 18th
PATTI seats at the City of Mexico sold
enormously in spite of the recent swindle,
and at large prices.
AN organized band of colored thieves
and murderers has been discovered in
York County, S. c., and twenty-six ar
rests have been made.
FAIR women, hot coffee and sandwiches,
and the prayers of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union carried the day for
prohibition in Worcester, Mass.
THE walls of a building in process of
demolition on the site of the proposed new
Congressional Library building in Wash
SCdn 1eu on Tue 10tn, pTeclplCaUluS sew
eral workmen to the basement, all of
whom were more or less seriously injured
by the falling debris.
VIM. DAILY, reported lost among the vic
tins of the Mississippi steamer J. NJ.
White disaster, is supposed to be ex-
United States Marshal Daily, of Nebraska,
his home being at Peru, Neb. He left
home recently for a Southern trip. He
was prominent politician, farmer and
cattle-raiser.
THE will of the late Richard Perkins, of
Boston, provides for requests to educa-
tional and charitable institutions of $751;
600. The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology gets 5000
THE Ohio Supreme Court has decided the
Dow law constitutional.
SECRETARY MANNING has directed the
payment, without rebate, of the interest
amounting to about 50, 600, 0OO-due January
l, 1887, on the four per cent. loan of 1907,
and ON Pacific railroad bonds.
THE statement that Prince Ferdinand Of
SAKE Coburg had been asked to accept the
Bulgarian throne is officially denied.
THE farmers Of North Wales have ex-
PEELED the church bailiffs and escorted
them out Of the district. There is thought
to be trouble ahead.
LABoRERs on Aqui1la Laferty's farm in
Pike County, Ind, dug up the headless re-
mains of colored man, the supposed
victim OF striking miners, whose places
were taken by negroes from the South.
Mr.. AND MRS. HAMILTON FISH celebrated
their golden wedding at New York on the
10th.
T COUNSEL for ex-Alderman McQuade of
New York, the convicted bribe-taker, will
s'boodle'' cases will be taken up this
month.
A BAND of Dacoits numbering 700 were
recently pursued by British troops in Bur
nah and 200 of them wore killed.
PART Of the letters stolen from the Os-
tend express in Belgium, recently. were
found in the Grand Hotel at Brussels.
THE Bombay Gazette charges that the
French are actively intriguing against the
British in the Somali country, East Africa.
IT was estimated at Washington, on a
review Of the field on the 10th, that the
proposition to take up the tariff bill for
consideration would be defeated by from
three to five votes.
THE announcement on the 10th of the
failure Of Charles Winchester, of Ash
burnham, Mass, for $50O, 900, and the pos
sible embarrassment of several banks in
consequence, caused sensation in bust
ness circles.
Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER died at his
residence at Roxbury, Mass, on the 10th.
He had just passed his eighty-eighth birth
day. Mr.. W ilder had for many years been
one of the most prominent pomologists
and horticulturists of the country. He
was president of the American Pomologic-
al Society and was making active prepara-
tions for meeting of that society in Bos-
ton, in 1887 at the time of his death.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK says complete
accord exists between Germany, England
and France concerning the relations be-
tween Germany and the Sultan of Zanzi-
bar.
SECRETARY WHITNEY and the President
himself, it is also understood, have given
emphatic Indication of their desire to have
the House pass as speedily as possible the
bill consolidating the bureaus of the Navy
Department.
THE Washington Star says it is probable
that Comptroller Durham will disallow
the usual expenses of justices of the Su-
preme Court on New Years Day. 1t has
been customary to pay for their carriages
and gloves used IN making New Years
calls, but it is very doubtful if the time
honored custom will be .countenanced.
JUDGE THURNAN's friends say he is out
of politics forever.
JAMER d. WARREN, proprietor of the
Buffalo Commercial, died on the 18th.
THE blooded stock belonging to Fred
Archer, the late English jockey, was sold
at auction on the 18th for e., 5S5.
THE whaling bark Atlantic was wrecked
off San Francisco ON the 18th with large
loss of life.
FRIDAY, the 18th, was John G. Whittier's
seventy-ninth birthday, and was appro-
priateIy celebrated.
THE sentence of McQuade, the convicted
of New York, was deferred
to Monday, the Goth.
CHARLES ANDERSON goes to the peniten-
tiary from Clinton, Ill, for fourteen years
for forgery.
JUDGE COOLEY has notified Judge Gresh-
am of his acceptance of the Wabash re-
GRATIoT WAsHBURNE, son of Hon. E. B.
dropped dead at the Gait
House, Louisville, KY, ON the 18th.
CARDINAL GIBBONS and Archbishops
Corrigan and Ryan had . conference at
On the 18th, supposedly on
the labor question.
SYLVESTER GRANDA, who was arrested
at Kansas City, Mo-, for completely in the
Haddock murder, has made confession.
A LOCOMOTIVE was ditched on the Gin
Southern railroad al Pine Knot,
Tenn, en- the 18th, by the breaking of an
axle, and the engineer and fireman were
Killed.
An injunction has been issued restrain
ing the Csnard and White Star Steamship
limos from refusing 10 carry any mails of |
fered for American ports. |
JAKE ScuAEFER beat Slosson in the |
billiard match in Chicago on the night of |
the 18th by a score of 800 points to $50.
THE trampinsurrection at the Lancaster, |
PAP workhouse is at an end, the men re- !
summing work st the stonebreaking on the |
9Th, after having been deprived of food |
or thirty-six hours.