Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


struck Sheriff Degman on the head with q
scantling on the 18th, killing him.
THE Earl Of Carnarvon, Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, will soon resign.
A STATE Pharmaceutical Association of
Indiana has been organized and incorpo-
rated.
A DISASTROUS cyclone passed over the
middle counties Of England on the 18th.
The reported seizure af Samoa by repre-
sentatives of Germany has been fully con-
frmed.
A BOILER exploded in the basement of
ot. Mays Catholic Church at Fort Wayne,
IND, on the 18th. killing the engineer and
. little girl.
JOSEPH DoEscH, Of Lancaster, Pa, at
tempted to assassinate Judge J. B. Living
ston at that place on the 18th, but fortu-
nately failed.
FARMERS in Wales are demanding a per-
manent reduction in rents and other con-
cessions.
A BILL providing for an increase In the
duty on cotton has been introduced in the
Belgian Chamber Of Deputies.
EDGAR McALLIsTER, Abner Owings and
Duncan s. Gage have been bound over at
Santa Fe, N. NJ, on charge of perjury in
WIN. E. LEcKY, the historian, in q letter
on the Irish question, says: ITO set up an
Irish Parliament would be an act of wick
edness unparalleled even in Irish his
tory"
GREECE will say, in reply to the powe RS,
that it is impossible for her to disband her
forces unless she is guaranteed an extern
sion of territory.
THE Committee on Commerce in the
House has decided to hear an argument by
DIR. Holt, of New Orleans, favoring a gov
Ornamental investigation as to the efficacy
of the Brazilian discovery of prophylac-
tic for yellow fever by incubation with
yellow fever virus in an attenuated form.
THE four-story brick establishment Of
Sevey & Co., manufacturers of stamped
tin and ironware, at Cambridgeport,
Mass, burned the night of the 18th. The
loss will'reach $4,000 on stock and ma
chinery and $4,000 On building; insurance,
So, 900 on building and $50 900 on machin
cry and stock.
JAMES SHAFFERT and Frank Eek, while
working in a slope 200 feet deep, exca-
waiting ore, near the Catasauqua and Fog
elsville Railroad at Reading, Pa, on the
18th, were crushed to death by a rock,
weighing about ten tons, falling on them.
IT is now stated that the British Govern
men Irish measure may not appear during
the session of Parliament the Parnelites
not being eager to force the government.
JOHN MAGEE, who was charged at Lon
don with attempting to blackmail the
Prince Of Wales, pleaded guilty on the
18th and said his charges were false.
IT was rumored in Washington on the
18th that the President had offered the
position of subTreasurer at New York to
o. E. Graves, Superintendent of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing. Mr.. Graves
was formerly Assistant Treasurer of the
United States.
ADMIRAL PORTER is seriously ill at
Washington.
EMPEROR WILLIAM opened the Prussian
Diet in person on the 18th.
THE ner-stone was laid on the night
of the 18th of the ice palace at st. Paul,
Mimi. The ceremonies were very impos-
ing.
MICHAEL DAvITr approves the PROPOSE
ton to buy out the Irish landlords.
KATE MCCARTNEY, sixty years of age,
was burned to death at Lewiston, Me-, on
the 14th.
LATEST reports show that nineteen
deaths occurred from the recent blizzard
in Kansas.
FIVE HUNDRED cigar-makers went on a
strike at Levy Brothers factory, New
York, on the 14th.
THE schooner Mabel Dilloway, of Glou-
cester, Mass, with a crew Of sixteen men,
is reported as lost.
M. BARRIM, Project of the Department
of Eure, in France, was murdered and
thrown from a railway train on the 14th.
SENATOR SHERMAN was welcomed to
Columbus, O., on the 14th, in an address
ON behalf of both branches of the Legisla
ture.
SEVERAL Mexican editors have recently
been imprisoned for making libelous at
tacks on the authorities.
SECRETARY LAMAR decides that the Gov
ernment should enter into suit to test the
validity of the Bell telephone patent.
THE revolutionists at Catagena charge
that Senior Ruiz Gorilla concocted the plot
to seize Fort st. Julian.
IT is officially announced at Berlin that
the German Government has no intention
of annexing the Samoan Islands.
AN audience was given to United S tate
Minister Bell on the 18th by the King and
Queen of the Netherlands.
WILEY B. BRYAN was convicted at
Nashville, Tenn, on the 14th of sending
obscene matter through the mail and gets
three years in the Penitentiary.
THE Kentucky Court of Appeals sus-
tanned the conviction and sentence of Rob-
ert Fowler, who murdered his niece near
Henderson, and he will have to hang.
A CONNECTICUT woman placed her child
in an oven to keep it warm on the 14th.
Her husband returning in her absence and
not knowiuU tha fact mada hot fro and
the child was roasted to death.
THE imports of dry goods at New York
during the seveh days ended the 18th were
valued at 81 ,93c, 6e5.
ZUKERToRT won the third game in the
chess contest with Steinitz at New York
ON the 18th.
THE failures in the United States and
Canada for the seven days ended the 18th
numbered 33i, against 1856 the preceding
week.
GREAT distress is felt in some parts of
Ireland, and famine is feared.
Mr.. WINSTON, Minister to Persia, sailed
from New York on the steamship Aurania
on the 10th.
TIE Presidential succession bill was
passed by the National House of Repre-
sentatives on the 18th precisely as passed
by the Senate.
TWELVE bishops were appointed at the
Papal Consistory at Rome on the 18th.
THE Anti-Coolie league of California viii
ask Cong to abrogate the Burlinga
treaty.
A MAIL driver in Kerry was stopped by
masked men on the night of the 14th, and
the mail searched for writs of election.
SAMUEL ROBINSON was assaulted and
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