Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


years old, single, an employee of the Bee
Line, was killed at indianapolis, Ind, on
/ the night of Goth by being run over by
an engine. His body was terribly man
gled, the head crushed, under jaw torn
| from the face, neck nearly severed, and
| the back, arms, legs and feet all broken.
| THE execution of Maxwell and the Chi
nese at st. Louis has been again post
| poned in order to allow time for tran.
scripts of their cases to be presented to the
| Supreme Court.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has sent ten
dollars to the pastor of the Emanuel
| African Methodist Episcopal Church at
Charleston, s. c., to aid in repairing the
church edifice.
THE Case School of Applied Science at
Cleveland, O., with its wealth of geolog-
| ical collections, apparatus, ETC., was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL was pre-
sented with four hundred addresses at
Bradford on his recent visit.
GREAT preparations were made for the
| unwilling of the Bartholdi statue at New
York on the 2Sth.
] AUSTRIAN newspapers are urging an al
| lance between Italy, England and Austro-
| Hungary.
GENERAL CLARK, clerk of the National
House of Representatives, figures on a
Democratic majority in the next Congress
| of twenty.
A CREDIT of 2,OOO, OOo francs for army
purposes will be asked by the French Min
lister of War.
N. KARAvELoFF, Bulgarian regent, re-
| fuses to go to Tirnova, and says it Is USE
! less to convoke the Sobranje in the face of
Russ ian opposition.
| A BIG smashup occurred on the Louis
| vile, New Albany & Chicago railroad on
| the 9th near Cedar Lake, Ind. Two
| train men are reported killed.
THE clause in the French primary edn-
cation bill providing that education in
| schools shall be intrustei exclusively to
the laity, is strongly opposed by the Vati-
can.
THE Bulgarian regency has been notified
by General Kaulbars that Russia will
have recourse to extreme measures if the
conspirators against Prince Alexander
are punished.
FIRE at Pocahontas, Va, on the 9th,
| destroyed sixteen buildings. George Bar
Der, of Lynchburg, persisted in the flames
and several other persons are missing.
COLONEL SIR JAMES FRAz Err, chief COM
missioner of the London police, has issued
orders forbidding the proposed Socialist
demonstration on Lord May r's day.
CYRUS W. FIELD gave a breakfast at
Delmonico's, New York, on the 81 tn, to
Count de Lesseps and his dau ghter and n
number of members of the French delega-
ton.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND issued a procla-
nation on the 9th suspending the impost
of discriminating duties against Spanish
vessels, a satisfactory arrangement hav-
ing been arrived at between the two coun-
tries.
A o. ODNER, cashier of the New Jersey
Extraction works, in Elizabeth, N. j.,
committed suicide on the 9th by hanging
himself to a chandelier in his boarding
house. Deceased was native of Sweden.
THEODORE BRONSON, we'll known in
society circles in New York, and about
| twenty-five years of age, committed sui
eide on the 9th at the family country
seat near Fairfield, Conn.,, by shooting
himself through the head with rifle.
GEORGE E, ATWOOD, purchasing agen
of the Ohio & Mississippi railroad at Gin
cinnati, committed suicide in a strange
manner at his suburban residence on the
9th. He shot himself in the mouth with
| pistol while preparing to go out with his
wife
BARrHoLDI's statue of "Liberty En-
tightening the World" was unveiled with
appropriate ceremonies at Liberty Island,
New York harbor, on the 2Sth.
AT Harvard, Neb., on the 2Sth, a stable
with TWENTY-FIVE horses was burned.
The Bulgarian Sobranje is preparing to
elect regent to replace Karaveloff.
SEVEN lives were lost by collision be-
tween two steamers on the river Thames,
England, on the 2Sth.
CONGRESSMAN A. NJ. DocKERY, of Mis-
| souri,, lost his only child on the 2sth.
Rev. JOHN ADAMS, of New York, died
suddenly in the pulpit while delivering a
sermon in chapel in Wales.
CARTER HARRISON declines to run for
Congress in the Third Illinois district.
A BoMBARDMENT of Varna is threatened
by the Russian Consul if the freedom of
Russian p .rtisians is interfered with.
Mon. PRESTON, of New York, says the
Catholic clergy are opposed to Henry
George.
MONTREAL, Canada, is greatly excited
over the alleged kidnapping and poison
ing of Mrs. Fannie w ard, which result ted
in her death.
SHERIFF MCMILLAN, at Victoria, B. c.,
was notified on the 2sth that the law must
take its course in Sproule's case. He was
to be executed on the 29th.
MISS LILLE Q UIcK, of Ithaca, N. Y.
fell off Lehigh Valley train at the Pat
tinburg tunnel on the 2Sth, and was
killed.
WIN. NJ. DUSTIN, banker, of Lincoln, ILL.,,
has failed, with liabilities amounting to
son, geo.
AN express train on the Chicago, Mil
| waukee & st. Paul railway, running at
high rate of speed, left the track through
an open switch at East Rio siding, Wis,
early On the morning of the 2sth, and was
badly wrecked. The train took fire and
twelve sleepers were burned, and in one of
them thirteen passengers were cremated.
The engineer, fireman aud baggageman
were badly injured.
An ore-bank owned by D. W. Cox, at
Hillsburg, Pa, caved in on the 18th, kill
ing two men and seriously injuring sev-
eral others
CHADwIcK's thread mills at Bolton, z n
gland. were partially destroyed by fire on
the 2Sth the damage amounting to $780,
O00
THE funeral of Mrs. Cornelia NJ. Stewart,
widow of A T.. Stewart, the New York
nj illionaire, occurred on the 2Sth.
AS parting shot at Justin McCar thy
Mr.. Lewis, the unseated Londonderry
mef1b err of Parliament, says he has been
received and enlisted in America by
Fenian dynamiters and advocates of MUIR
der.
The wife and five children and two1ady
rsc of William, q farmer livjn