Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

dozen bodies had been taken from the
| wreck.
| The National convention of the Phi
Kappi Psi college fraternity was in ses-
| sion at indianapolis on the 7th.
THE glassmakers of Belgium have in
| creased the price of window-glass owing
to the outlay in repairing damages done
by strikers.
| FOUR men suspected of being engaged in
plot to blow up the train on which the
Car of Russia was travelling en- route to
| the Crimea were arrested at Charkoff on
the eth.
MASTER WORKMAN POwDERLY says the
general board could do nothing but what
| they did after being treated as they were
! by Mr.. Hoxie.
| r. S. BENHAM, superintendent of the
| Copper Queen Mining Company at Can
aneas, Sonora, Mexico, is reported to have
been shot dead by his coachman.
| MoHAMMEDAN fanatics on the island of
Mindanao, one of the Philippines, recently
burned large amount of church proper
ty. Twelve of them were killed and many
wounded by Spanish troops.
| AN order of Land Commissioner Sparks
suspending final action upon entries upon
public lands has been revoked by the Sec
rotary of the Interior.
A DoRY, containing two dead men and
two living, but almost exhausted, drifted
ashore at Guyon island, Cape Breton, on
the It'll, after being eight days adrift.
AT indianapolis the Central Telephone
Company is taking out it's instruments and
! shipping them to Boston, the business be-
ing left to private lines.
The boiler of the British steamer En-
chantress, ashore on Frying Pan Shoals,
exploded on the night of the 9th. Three
wreckers were badly scalded, one danger
ously.
MARRIED woman, named Mclaughlin,
died of starvation in the village of Tar
nyslinn, six miles south of Westport,
County Mayo, Ireland.
SENATOR BLAIR introduced bill on the
18th providing for only eight hours work
day for letter-carriers.
THE family of Mrs. James G.. bort con-
sisting of herself and three grown children
at Omaha, Neb., was mysteriously poi
soned on the It'll. All were taken sick ten
minutes after eating breakfast. The
mother died in great agony, but the chill
dren will recover. Their food was ana
lyZed, but no traces of poison could be
found.
A PETITION, signed by lawyers and citi-
ZeHS, HdS Deen ldiu before tne bar ASSOcl a
ton of New FORK, and is under considera-
ton, looking to the impeachment of Judge
Charles Donahue, of the Supreme Court
The charges are the misuse of judicial
powers.
ROBERT u. PHILLIPS, the wife murderer,
was hanged at Indianapolis on the Sth.
THE italian ministry have resigned.
SEVEN men were killed and fifteen
wounded in riot at Laredo, Tex, on the
Sth.
A MURDERER was guillotined at Paris on
the Sth.
NOT for century have the people of
London been treated to such a sensation
as they experienced on the Sth.
SENATOR VEST is improving slowly and
expects to resume his seat in the Senate in |
a few days.
THE Khedive of Egypt has subscribed |
5000 pounds sterling to assist Turkey in
defending her religion against Greece.
THE st. Louis (Mo.) Fair Association |
presents bill for $19S,54O to the Govern
ment for rental during the war.
DWIGHT H. MOODY is to be invited to
visit Chicago and continue the work begun |
by Sam Jones and Sam Small.
GLADSTONE laid his Irish policy before |
the House of Commons on the Sth and |
spoke for three hours in explanation of its |
features.
THE London Morning Post admits that |
Gladstone's speech was great oratorical
effort, but says there is not the remotest
chance of his scheme being sanctioned by
Parliament.
MANY valuable pictures were burned and
pieces of statuary damaged by a fire in
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
at Philadelphia on the sth.
AN unknown schooner went ashore dur
ing the storm at South West Harbor, Me-.
on the Sth, and her entire crew is supposed
to have been drowned.
The House committee on mines and
mining on the Sth agreed to report favora-
bly, bill to refer the McGarrahan claim
to the Court of Claims.
THE body of Carl Bender was found on
the 4th at the head of Prairie Gulch, near
Townsend, NJ. T. He had been working in
a quartz mill near Townsend, and was
paid off on the I'd, when he started for
Radaersburg. He persisted a severe storm
which ragged on the ID and Sd.
A MAIL car on Lake Shore train No. 4,
with mail matter from the West for all
important points east of Toledo, caught
fire just west of Oak Harbor, O., on the
tracked at Oak Harbor, but the flames had
such control that the car and its contents
were entirely consumed. Cause of fire
unknown.
THE boycott Of the Knights of Labor
against Christian Schneider, Hartford
Comm baker, who refused to sign the
a agreement by which the journeymen bak-
ers' strike was compromised, will be ex-
tended to the town Poor house, where
Schneider delivers large quantity of
bread. In case the authorities refuse to
accede the Knights will be called upon to
boycott the kindling wood teams which
the town farm sends out, and which con-
stitute the business enterprise connected
with the farm.
THE strike at East st. Louis culmin ated
on the 9th in terrible tragedy. A wordy
between some of the mob and
a party of special deputy sheriffs led to
hostile demonstration, which was quickly
followed by pistol shot from one of the
less cool -headed deputies, and one of the ,
crowd fell dead in his tracks. This mad
densd the already excited mob, who made
a rush for the deputies, who then opened .
fire with their Winchesters, with the result |
that six men and one woman were shot to
death, and a reign of terror inaugurated
which with the dawning of the 10th (
showed a scene of ruin and devastation
calling to mind that OF Pittsburgh a few
years ago. a large force of militia was I
hurried to the scene and at latest accounts | g.,