Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE Union League Club of New York
ChiefJustice Waite by Elwood E. Thorne,
an old and intimate friend of the illustri-
Gus dead.
The passenger committee of the trunk
lines agreed, on the 2Sth, on rates of one
fare for the round trip to excursionists to
the National political conventions and
the Knights of Pythias National conven-
ton.
GENERAL SANMARSANo telegraphs from
Massowah, that at three O'Clock on the
morning of the 2Sth the Italians had a
half hour skirnlish with the advancing
Abyssinians and checked their advance.
Large bodies of Abyssinians were in
sight, but at 5 p. M. the situation re-
manned unchanged, and it was then
thought the enemy did not contemplate an
immediate attack.
THE Pal lIdE Gazette of the 2Sth de-
c1ares that the Cover election was the most
important victory the Tories have had
since Doncaster. The result dismays the
Liberals.
THE bill passed by the Nova Scotian
House of Assembly, providing for the
abolition of the Legislative Council, was
defeated by the latter body by vote of
II to 8, on the 28th.
THE Dominion Government has declined
to interfere with the prohibitory liquor
law in the Northwest Territory, beyond
giving permission for the licensing of
the brewing and sale of malt bever-
ages.
GREAT floods, caused by ice gorges at
several points in the Upper Missouri, are
driving settlers in the bottom lands from
their homes.
A UNIFORM system of returns to be an
nually made to the Inter State Commerce
Commission was adopted by convention
of railroad auditors and comptrolers held
in Washington on the 2Sth.
CLAUS SPRECKELS, the sacharine king
of the Pacific coast, arrived in Baltimore
| Oh the 18th, to inspect the advantages Of
fered by that city for his proposed sugar
refinery.
A RUMoR was current at engineer head
quarters, in Chicago on the 2Sth, that Chief
Arthur was seriously considering the
matter of resigning his office, and that a
thorough reorganization of the Brother
hood would be the result.
More than two hundred houses were de-
stroyed by fire in Kikinda, Austria, on the
18th.
THE Maryland House of Represent
fbIlNCSs oil lIlS -ctIi, petSScu JILL
by the Knights of Labor to pro-
hibit the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany from compelling its employees to
join the relief association
THE jury in the famous Patterson muir
der case at Cheyenne, Wyo., was dis
charged on the Goth, after being out eighty
one hours without coming to an agree
ment.
THE funeral services over the remains
of exLieutenant-G Governor Dorsheimer
were held in Grace Church, New York
City, on the 31st.
DISPATCHES from all parts of the State
of Alabama, on the Goth, reported floods
and washouts, with much damage. All
railroad travel was suspended.
The State central committee of the Pro-
hibition party of Connecticut voted on the
Doth to call a convention at Hartford,
about August 1, to nominate State ticket.
MALCOLM w. FORD has been restored as
an amateur athlete by the National Asso-
citation. He had been pronounced ineligi-
BILE for alleged participation in profess
sional games in 1856.
SIMON O'NEILL, an old soldier, who en-
tered the army in 1857, and served through
the civil and three Indian wars, suicided
by hanging at Detroit, Mich, on the Doth.
NJ. Fl. SIDEBoTroM, of Somerset, KY,
the murder and robbery, on the 2Sth, of
Thomas Wilson, an old soldier who had
gone to that place to collect proof to aid
him in getting pension.
THE New York jury in the case of Law
yer Sewell, who was charged by his cook,
Ellen Foye, with assault, rendered YER
dict, on the Doth, in favor of the defendant
and awarded him $500 for counsel fees
THOS. ii. SKILLdAN, of Plainville, n. j.
cut his throat in the presence of his pa
rents and other relatives on the 10Th, and
instantly expired. He had been driven
insane by the report that he was suspect
ed of murder.
THE Crosby High License bill passed
the New York Assembly by vote of &C to
81 on the Goth.
GOOD FRIDAY was generally observed by
business men throughout the country by
the closing of boards of trade and COM
mercial chambers.
A MONTREAL Cam detective was on the
10Th sentenced to fourteen years. impris-
onment IN the penitentiary for robbing
Grand Trunk railroad offices.
JAS. L. WALKER, an aristocratic young
counterfeiter Of New York City, was on
the Goth, sentenced to three years in the
penltentiary with hard labor.
AN Eastern combination of manufacture
erS OF doors, sash and blinds, to advance
prices and control production, was formed
at Boston, ON the 2Sth.
The military barracks at Posen, Prussia,
have been thrown open for the shelter of
people rendered homeless by the floods.
TIE marble-workers' strike at Boston
was declared off on the 30th, by the State
Board Knights of Labor.
HARDY LovETT, of Philadelphia, was
killed On the 30th at Lynn, Mass, by an
electric shock while experimenting in an |
electric cempany's works.
o. j. CoUGHLIN, publisher Of the Bing-
namton IN. " Dispatch, was arrested on
the 30th on a charge of criminal libel in |
alleging that Police Officer Donely had
ed girls astray.