Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-03

| CN the Goth the Maine Republicans met
| in State convention at Bangor, elected
| presidential electors at-large and dele
gates -at-large to the Chicago convention,
and in their resolutions heartily Endorsed
Mr.. Blaine.
| FUNERAL services over the remains OF
| the late Ex-Governor Hoffman were held
in Grace Church, New York, on the 9th,
after which the body was taken to Sing
| Sing for interment.
| CONFEDERATE Memorial Day (April 27)
was observed at Atlanta, Ga, and other
points by a general suspension of bust
| ness, parades, addresses and decorations.
| At Washington, Ga, a beautiful monu-
| ment of General Robert Toombs was dedi-
| Gated.
| THE statement that the Pope had issued
a decree condemning the ''plan of cam
paign," afterward denied, was confirmed
| on the 9th
| FRED CARROLL, catcher for the Allie
| gheny Baseball Club, and Ed William
son, short-stop for the Chicagos, were ar
rested in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Goth, for
! 'intoxication and disorderly conduct.
| Carroll was fined $40 and costs, but Will
hanson forfeited his deposit of $50.
Young BOYDsToN, VINO recently shot
Miss Lulu Frazier, near Cooper, Tex.
and then committed suicide, left letter
| in which he said it was desperate love and
evil tongues that caused him to commit
| the awful deed.
| GENERAL BOULANGER, responding to a
toast to his health at banquet given in
his honor at the Cafe Richie, on the 9th,
said he desired to protest in the most en-
phstic manner against the charge that he
aspired to the dictatorship. Moreover,
he declared if the question was raised in
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abolish the presidency.
| a BANQUET was rendered to Miss Clara
| Barton, president of the organization, by
the Red Cross Society of Philadelphia, on
| the 9th.
JOHN DILLON, addressing large meet.
| ing at Herbertstown, Ireland, on the 9th,
maintained the justice of the "plan of
campaign" Notwithstanding the inhibi-
| ton of the Pope.
| DR.. n. P. POTTER, of Bridseton, Me-,
who lately returned from Europe, says he
saw Mr.. Blaine at Naples, and he was
looking finely and in the best spirits. He
spoke of the coming election, and said the
! Democrats could not succeed without New
| York. He showed no signs of ill-health.
| THE Fl. Madison Ua.) Lumber Com
pany's saw-mills were burned on the 9th,
entailing a loss of $4,000 The fire caught
| from SDttIkS from d lOcOHlOllNe.
EX-CoNGREssMAN FREDERICK E. WooD-
BRIDGE died at Vergennes, VT, on the
| 9th, aged seventy years.
| ALFRED T. PHILLIPS, the actor, died at
| the Gilsey House, New York, on the 9th,
! of pneumonia. He was thirty-four years
| old, and we'll known to the profession,
having played with the Henry Irving and
| Madison Square companies.
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| Bedford, Mass, for the murder of his in
| FAINT child, was declared not guilty by the
! jury on the 9th.
| Hon. r. r. HIT was renominated for
| Congress from the Sixth Ill.) Congress
sional district by reclamation on the 9th.
| THE London Times Rome correspond
| ent. on the 9th, ass erted that the Pope's
decree against the plan of campaign had
| already been sent to the Irish bishops,
and would be published in England and
| Ireland in about ten days.
! EMPEROR FREDERICK held a conference
| of an hours duration with Prince Bis
marck, on the 9th, and afterward gave au-
dience to other visitors.
ERNST KLEESCHULTE shot and killed his
| wife and one of her sons, and desp erately
| wounded the remaining son at their Sc
Guided country home near O'Fallon, Mo-,
| on the 9th. The murderer soon after
| took his own life. The couple had lived
| apart for two years.
JIM BRoCKLEMAN and Mike Dunn fought
| fourteen rounds to draw in Westcheste1
County, N. Y, on the 9th. The purse was
! divided.
THE horses of the late ex-senator Conk-
ling were sold under the hammer on the
9th. They brought respectively, $1,000,
81, 800 and 81, $50.
Mr.. BLAINE was enthusiastically in
dorsed for the presidency by the Seventh
District Republican convention of Maine.
on the 9th.
FIVE additional Newark IN. j. brewers,
making fourteen in all, signed the con-
tract proposed by the journeymen on the
9th.
THREE negroes were hanged at Fort
Smith. Ark. on the 9th.
OVER 1000 feet of snow-sheds on the
Northern Pacific railroad were burned
near Mullen Tunnel, Mont, on the 9th.
The fire was started by sparks fro m
paSSinp engine.