Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-20

A NEW mahdi recently appeared in the
Soudon and defeated Turkish detach.
ment, but was subsequently overthrow1
and seven of his followers were beheaded-
THE imports of dry goods at the port OF
New York during the week ended the
14th were valued at 81 ,632, 126 and the
amount thrown on the market at 81 $685.
507.
TEE death list from the Kansas City cy-
clone foots up thirty so far as heard from
up to the 10Th, and it was thought there
were others whose remains would yet be
found.
THE trouble at the Norwood (Pa.)
coke-works has been settled and the min
ers have resumed work. All the large
works are now running and no general
strike is expected.
A SECRET meeting of Parnellites was
held in the House of Commons on the 14th
to consider communications from Glad
stone regarding further notifications of
the Home-Rule bill
THE Chicago police claim to have under
arrest. beyond peradventure, the man who
threw the bomb ON the night of the hay -
market riot when so many of their COM
rades were killed and wounded.
c. F. WoERIsHoEFFER died suddenly at
the residence of his father-in-law, Oswald
Ottendorfer, editor of the New York Stats
Zeitung, in Manhattanville, on the 10th.
Mr.. Woerishoeffer was the leading bear
operator in Wall street.
THE business failures occurr in e through
out the country during the seven days
ended the 18th, number for the U nited
States 156, and for Canada 90, as against
a total of 1872 the previous week, and 2O7
the preceding like period.
THE Supreme Court of the United States
has dismissed the three Snow polygamy
cases for want of jurisdiction. 1t has also
recalled the mandate in the Cannon
polygamy case, set aside the former judg-
ment and dismissed it for want of juris-
diction.
THE 1 800 Golfers employed in the pits
along the Youghiogheny river, and also
at the mines of Hon. w. L. Scott, at Scott
Haven, Pa, resumed work on the 10th at
the advance in wages demanded. The
men struck two months previously and
had been idle ever since.
THE Queen returned to Windsor Castle
on the 18th. She expressed herself highly
gratified by the reception extended to her
at Liverpool. Her Majesty sent costly
presents to Mayor Radcliffe at Liverpool
and to his wife, and also $500 to be dis
tributed among the poor.
A MONUMENT has been erected at Glas-
neville, 1r Gland, in memory of Joseph
O'Donnell, who was executed for the MUIR
der of Carey, the informer. The stone
bears an inscription stating that O'Don-
nell "died for Ireland" and the expense
of its erection was betrayed chiefly by
Irish Americans.
THE May crop report of the Department
of Agriculture, issued on the 10th, indi-
Gates an improvement during April of two
points, with a general average condition
at ninety-five. There is no marked change
anywhere, but a slight advance is noted in
the Ohio valley, Missouri, Texas and Ten
nessee, the Carolinas, Virginia and Mary
land.
INcEssANT rains were reported in the
north of England on the 18th, causing
rivers to overflow their banks. Sheffield,
Doncaster and other towns wereIpartly in
undated. At Rotterdam the railway steel
works, many houses and thousands of
acres of land were submerged and 1000
workmen temporarily thrown out of EN-.
ployment.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany completed the extension of it's
telegraph line to Lafayette, Ind,
on the 10Th. The business men
of Lafayette gave it warm well
hafb of+ ho
line it has just constructed and the reduc-
to sixty per cent.
A CYCLONE struck Colfax, near La
fayette, Ind, on the 18th, completely de-
molishing the residences of w. D. Clark,
Isaac Derkes, James Leslie and Jasper
Hill, and badly wrecking those of j. E.
Milburn and j. L. Reckard, the latter &C.
cupied by John Thompson. Quite a num-
Der of barns and other outbuildings were
blown away. No person seriously injured.
GOVERNOR SwINEFoRD of Alaska, in adj
vocating a Territorial government for
Alaska, told some wonderful stories of the
resources of the country to the House COM
mittee on Territories on the 18th. He says
there is gold and timber in abundance, and
salmon fishing of almost unlimited extent.
He wanted the committee to go back to
Alaska with him, promising to show them
some eye-openers.
A SPECIAL courier from Barnetta, Ariz.,
q rancho twenty-five miles southwest of
OF Nogales, Ariz.. arrived at that place on
the 18th with news of the killing of Chas.
Murray and Thomas Shaw Geronimo's |
entire band is supposed to be in that local
ity. Two hundred troops were in close |
pursuit. Both Murray and Shaw were |
prominent among the volunteers from !
Nogales when the Indians raided Vera |
Cruz valley.
THE Secretary of State has received a |
preliminary report from Consul Brigham |
at Paso del Norte, Mexico, in regard to the |
killing of Captain Crawford, U. S. A., by /
Mexican soldiers in January last. He says |
there is no way of obtaining definite in
formation, owing to the absence of wit
nesses to the tragedy, but adds that it is
on both sides that the attack was
made by irregular Mexican troops en-
pIoyed by the State of chihuahua, through
an unfortunate accident and without
malice.