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

Dougherty, aged seven; John Dougherty,
aged six, and Ellen Dougherty, aged three
years, were suffocated in a sand pile
which caved In on them at Scranton, Pa,
on the evening of the LIST.
j. c. KIRKPATRICK, formerly of Shreve-
port, La, was shot and killed at Crescent
Hall, in New Orleans, on the ID, by DR.. T.
G. Ford, of Shreveport. The shooting was
the result of family troubles.
ELECTION day was characterized by fine
weather in nearly every section OF the
country and by an almost unheard-o of
amount of scratching of candidates, maxi
ing tedious work for the canvassers of the
votes.
JOHN c. FARRELL, an election judge in
st. Louis, was taken suddenly ill at the
polls on the I'd and was removed to his
home, where he died in few minutes.
AUGUST BRENTANo, elder member of the
firm of newsdealers of Chicago, New York
and Washington, died in Chicago on the
ID of pneumon ia.
A LARGE white whale, about thirty-fve
feet long, has been making himself quite
familiar of late in the neighborhood of
Long Branch, N. j., and several parties
have been badly scared by coming in
proximity to him while DO ating or fishing.
THE Baltimore (Md.) Horseshoe Com
pany's works at Baltimore were totally
destroyed by fire on the Sd. The works
had just been placed in the hands of an
assisnee; loss, between 200 and 800,
600.
Hon. WIN. R MORRISON was defeated in
the election for Congressman in the Eight
zenith Illinois district by Hon. Jehu Baker,
his Repuplica n antagonist.
ONLY two members of the Cabinet,
Messrs. Whitney and Villas, went home to
vote. There were much fewer absentess
from the departments than has been usual
at previous elections.
HoN. JOHN g. CARLISLE, present Speak
er of the National House of Representa-
tives, is reported to have failed in secur-
ing reelection to Congress in the Sixth
entucky district. The official count is
required to verify the story.
MISS VIRGINIA DELANEY KEARNEY,
daughter of Admiral and Mrs Upshur,
and Lieutenant Ridgeley Hunt, q. S. N,
were married in Washington on the Sd.
THE Pipher House at Loogootee, Ind,
was destroyed by fire ON the night of the
ID, and ohm G.. Gates, the newly elected
county treasurer, and John Burch were
burned to death. Several others, includ-
ing Mr.. Pipher, were severely burned.
MISS EMMA DEUsTER, daughter of ex-
Congressman Deuster, of Wisconsin, and
Baron Paul Won Paumgarten, secretary of
the Austro- Hungarian legation at Wash
ington, have been formally betrothed, but
the nuptials will not be celebrated until
next summer.
NINE. GRRsTER GARDINI has become in
sane in consequence, it is reported, of the
loss of her voice after her recent confne-
ment.
Mr.. HENRY W. CANNON, who resigned
the position of Comptroller of the Cur
rency to become vice-president of the
National Bank of the Republic, has been
selected for the presidency of a National
bank in New York City.
A TRAIN on the Erie road ran into a
party Of Italian laborers at Hawkins, n.
Y, on the Sd, killing two and fatally
wounding two others.
Mr.. SEXTON has been declared elected to
the British Parliament for the Western
division of Belfast, the petition of Mr..
Haslett, Conservative candidate, to have
the seat vacated on the ground of bribery
having been denied.
PAsTKUR has informed the French Aca-
denny of Science that he has treated dur
ing the past year 2, 400 persons who have
been bitten by animals, and that only ten
have died.
THE German Aid Society of Wisconsin
are agitating the question Of securing an
amendment to the American Constitution
requiring all foreign born persons to re-
eide in this country five years before be-
| ing allowed to formally declare their in
tentions of becoming citizens.
ALL the great lights Of the British Lib
| eral party were at Leeds on the Sd in at
| tendance upon the meeting of the National
| Liberal Federation. Mr.. Gladstone's
| health would not permit him to participate
| and he was represented by Sir William
Vernon Harcourt.
| FIVE HU NDRED miners struck for an al
vance of wages at Mt. Carmel, Pa, on the
4th.
| A MEETING of the American Sunday
| School Union began at Cedar Rapids, Ia.
| on the 4th.
| A NEW question is raised in the cleo
margarine seizures, as to what shall b.
done with the stuff.
CRIME is said to have decreased il
Kerry, Irel and, owing to a reduction o
rents and General Buffers system 0
watching suspects.
| DIX OF the crew OF the Dark Tres AurOr
from Barcelona for Havana, were picke'
up by the schooner Annie B. Hutchinson
and were landed at New York on the Sd.
The Tres Auroras sunk October 10.
THE strike and lockout in the August
(Ga.1 factories involving three thousan
hands has been terminated.
THE sloop yacht Atlantic, built at cos
of So, 900, to compete for the Queens cup
has been sold for $500.
| SIX persons were killed and thirty 9th
ers were more or less seriously injured b.
the explosion of the boiler on the steame
Cartogo Nova, at Newcastle, England, O.
the 4th.
T. v. PowDHRLY denies the recent
published statement that he is a free
trader, and says he is a protectionis
from the top of his head to the sole Of hi
foot.
MARIANA BARcENA, an eminent engi
neer. has been sent by the Mexica
Government to study the cause of tn
continued eruption of the volcano q
Colima.
JOHN BRIGHT refuses to accept the prin
ciple Of political clubs "that wherever tn
leader of party goes the whole party
bound to follow"
VINcENrE RRsENDEs, the Mexican VIII
, killed his wife q few days since on tn
Mexican National railroad, was execute
without trial at New Laredo.
A FIRE at Memphis, Tenn, or the 4tf
: destroyed the Chickasaw Cooperage Com
pany's works, entailing q loss of abor
S1eo 900. insured for O0OO Eight