Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

nearly all destroyed by fire on the 18th
The damage is estimated at f40,00).
THE steam Touring mills of Jones &
Cheney, at Bonneville, O., were burned
| on the 18th. Loss, $4,000; no insurance
Incendiarism is suspected.
| In consequence, it is said, of business
troubles, Morris Jacobs, New York City
| tailor, forty-seven years of age, shot
himself in the head, on the 18th, and died
Immediately after.
| THE Supreme Court of Connecticut, on
the 18th, refused new trial in the case of
John II. Swift, sentenced to be hanged in
| April next for the murder of his wife,
THE Portland IN. W Indurated Fiber
Company absorbed it's strongest rival,
the Lockport Indurated Fiber Company,
on the 18th. The combination will re-or-
ganize as the United Fiber Company, with
a capital of 100000.
FRANK MILLER, aged twenty nine, and
single, went to a creek about mile from
Wilmot, O., on the 18th, removed his
clothing, tied his hands and feet with a
rope and drowned himself. The cause is
unknown.
Two HUNDRED candidates, including
Lord Russell, will be elected to member
ship in the National Liberal Club early
in January.
The force of Arabs investing Suakim
has been increased in number to 1000.
A DENSE fog prevailed throughout En-.
gland ON the 18th. The Queen was delayed
for two hours while on her way from
Windsor to Osborne.
THREE men were horribly burned by
molten metal in an explosion at the Edgar
Thomson Steel-works in Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 18th. They will probably die.
THREE men, named johnson, Oaks and
niclyor Ixxrbi 10 ci,r Fro
Iroquois, Ont, to the American side of
the river, on the night of the 18th.
A NOTABLE result of the Panama canal
collapse is that both in Paris and in the
French provinces all the anger and disap-
pointment of the investors is directed
against the Chamber of Deputies, while
sympathy is extended to NJ. de Lesseps.
THREE THOUSAND people met Bishop
Dwenger at the depot at Fort Wayne,
Ind, on the night of the 18th, to welcome
him home from Rome.
THE fate of the cocoanut vessels, Fred
erick Schepp and Nile, is still in doubt.
Both vessels are now nearly two weeks
overdue from Aspinwall, and it is feared
they are lost, with all on board.
ERLAND s. PARKER, sentenced October
Ii, 1872, from Erie County, N. Y, for MUIR
der in the second degree, to life imprison-
ment at Auburn prison, has been par
doned by Governor Hill.
GOVERNOR LOWRY of Mississippi had
no official advices, up to the 18th, of the
Wahalak tragedy The report that the
military had been ordered out is altogether
untrue.
MGR. KIRBY telegraphs to Archbishop
Walsh, at Dublin, from Rome, that the
story that the Pope refused to bless re-
hquaries sent to him by an Irish priest is
an impudent fabrication.
In communication to the House, Sec
rotary Fairchild, on the 18th, transmitted
the following additional estimates of APP
preparations: For Rock Island Arsenal,
5000; Rock Island bridge, 1856; st.
Louis Powder Depot, $13,S00; State or
Territorial homes for disabled soldiers
and sailors. 500, 200.
THE town of Iron Mountain, Mich, was
visited by most destructive confiagra-
tion ON the 18th.
THE Honorable Artillery Company of
London, the oldest military body in the
world, and portion of whose members
visited America recently, has been dis
handed
Ar a small place called Cain, in the
northwestern part of Nebraska, Stephen
Mead shot his wife dead with a revolver,
on the 18th, and then killed himself. Do
nestle difficulties led to the tragedy. They
had four small children.
TEE well-known comedian, Charles
Rodgers, whe has been for some time con-
fined to his bed in Chicago by consump-
ton, died ON Fort Wayne train on the
night of the 18th. He was on his wa.- to
Philadelphia in search of less rigorous
climate. Accompanying him was Mrs.
Rodgers, better known as Matte Vickers.
GENERAL CHARLES Ct. DAHLGREN died
on the morning of the 18th, in Brooklyn,
plicated by ether diseases. He was born
in Philadelphia in 1909, and served in the
Confederate army during the war, reach
ing the rank of Major General.
TICKET AGEST HARRIS at the Grand
Central Depot, New York, for the New
York, New Haven s. Hartford railroad, is
an absconder. The amount of his detail
cation has not been ascertained.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York, ON the
18th, granted requisition papers upon
Governor Seay of Alabama for Henry N.
Golf, who is wanted to answer charges of
forgery. Golf is wanted at Rochester,
Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and about TWEEN
ty other cities on similar charges.
ALEXANDER McPHETERs, rich farmer
of Vigo County, Ind, recognized in the
Of Henry Rice and Charles
under arrest at Detroit, Mich,
for confidence work, the men who swindled
him out Of 5000 year ago last October.
An indictment has been found against
them in Indiana, and the Governor has is
sued q requisition on the Governor OF
Michigan for the men.