Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


eron, from the committee on naval affairs,
reported favorably his bill authorizing the
President to appoint from civil life an as
of 81 900 year.
CHARLES SIsK. of Newark, O., a con-
ductor of the Baltimore & Ohio railway,
was killed in collision near GAINESVILLE,
O., on the Sd.
LORD DUFFERIN has gone to Burmah to
arrange for the government of that king
dom.
In a row in a concert saloon at Balti-
more, Md, on the Sd, Mrs. Joseph Buch-
oltz, wife of the proprietor, was shot and
probably fatally wound ed.
A WOMAN and two children were burned
to death in their dwelling at Maestrict, a
town of the Netherlands, On the night of
the Cd.
A JUDGMENT of $1,000 has been rendered
against J. j. Gest, bondsman of Hon. Dav-
id H. Bailey while Consul General at
Hong Kong, China.
1T is rumored that the Liberal Cabin ct
will be reconstructed according to Queen
Victoria's wishes, should the makeup not
prove satisfactory to her.
BARON ARTAND HAUssMAN, the would
be murderer of Count Montauzan at Paris,
has been pronounced insane.
THE cotton weavers at st. Quentin,
France, are on a strike and engaged in
serious riotous demonstrations on the Sd.
THE trial of tie Crawford divorce cas- e
in London, in which Sir Charles Dixie is
correspondent, has been further delayed,
but will probably be begun on the sth.
THE Commissioner of Pensions esti-
mates that So, 900 will be required for
pensions the next fiscal year.
GEORGE LoRILLARD, the sportsman, died
at Nice, France, on the Sd.
A WOMAN was killed by a toboggan ac-
cident on the 4th at Toronto, Canada.
EIGHTEEN of the 2:30 trotters of last sea-
son are of unknown pedigree.
HIGHER water than ever known before
was recorded at Belleville, Ont, on the 4th.
JAMES Il. TEMPLE, of New York, offers
to back Vignaux against Schaeffer at bill
lizards for 800 side.
THE French crown jewels are to be sold
to provide fund for aged workmen.
LIEUrENANT-CoMMAN r. NJ. CURTIS,
q. S. N, died of internal hemorrhage at
San Francisco on the 4th.
JOAN VICTOR Won UNURcH, the cele-
brated Prussian statesman, is dead.
THE French Court of Appeals at Amiens
decides that Catholic priests may marry.
LIZZIE MAY ULMER, the actress, ('Dad's
Girl'') while playing at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the night of the Sd, tainted and went
blind.
A GERMAN, being put in the lookup at
Cressfeld, Nd, on the night of the Sd,
burned the house down and persisted in
the flames.
EDWARD CRowELL, who squandered his
mothers fortune, and is charged with for
gerry, is in jail at Cleveland, o. He was
captured at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
NJ. GOBLET, French Minister of Public
Instruction, made a speech on the 4th in
favor of elementary secular education.
A COMBINATION of the principal land
lords in Wales has been formed to resist
the demand for a reduction in rents.
Two brothers, named HARRISON, sold their
wheat at Bartlett, OAK, on the 1st, and
started home drunk and lost their way at
night. One brother froze to death and the
legs of the other have been amputated.
THE territorial normal school at Madi-
son, OAK, one of the finest brick structures
in the Territory, burned to the ground on
the night of the 4th. Loss, 10000; no in
surance.
A PRISONER named Jas. Clarke in tn g
Riverside (Pa.) Penitentiary on the 4th
assaulted and seriously injured three of
his guards, one mortally.
THE Sturgis (Mich.) Furniture Manufac-
turing Company's works, with contents,
was burned on the 4th. A workman was
standing in front of the stove when the
back of his coat caught fire. From the
coat the flames seized on the inflammable
oils, and the building was soon on fire.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, s. 900.
ALL signs on the night of the 4th indi-
cateed weakening among the coke-workers
in Pennsylvania. The break is princi-
pally south of Scottsdale. Many of the
plants about Connellsville were in opera
ton and others were preparing to resume.
The operators claimed that the strike was
broken and that nearly all the works would
be running by the Sth.
THE seventh annual National Sugar
growers convention met at st. Louis, Mo-,
on the 4th. Hon. Norman G.. Colman,
Commissioner of Agriculture, delivered
the annual address.
FIRE at Greenville, 8. c., on the 9TH de-
stroyed 900 worth of property.
FRED HALL, a boy of Empire City, Kas.,
fell down a mine shaft on the 9Th and was
drowned.
ALL manufacturers and merchantss I'M
derithe age of forty years have been order
ed to join the Servian army.
THE failures in the United States during
the seven days ended the 5th numbered
2SS; since the first of January, 1862.
THE strike of factory employees at st.
Quentin, France, is extending and serious
trouble is apprehended.
SIX persons who were enjoying a sleigh
ride were seriously injured by being run
into by train on the Lake Shore road at
Edgarton, o., on the 5th.
Mr.. j. Ceilings, whose amendment de-
feated the Salisbury ministry, has been
appointed secretary of the local govern
ment board under Gladstone.
ANNIE ROBERTS, Brooklyn IN. W do
m este, was badly scalded on the 9th by
the explosion of kitchen boiler.
THE Servian reply to the collective note
of the Powers demanding disarmament
simply says that Servia has taken cogni-
zance Of it's contents.
SOME of the members Of the French
Chamber of Deputies consider the time op-
perfume for bringing forward measure
for the expulsion of Orleans princes.
MICHAEL DAvIrr believes that Mr. Glad
stone is the only English statesman that
has the courage to grapple with the Irish
problem and establish peace between En-
gland and Ireland.
JOHN MCMAHON defaulting ex-collector
of revenue of Hoboken, N. j., was sem
fenced on the 9Th to Eve years in Stat
Prison.
DR.. ARMSTRONG was convicted by the
court at Atlanta, Ga, of vio-
Iation of his ordination vow.