Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-08-02

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THE Senate, on the 23d, adopted tn,
conference report on the River and Har
Dor bill, which practically passed tn
measure and left it ready for the Presi
dents signature.
THE Southern Railway & Steamship
Association, on the 18th, resolved to re-
new their present neutral agreement fol
the maintenance of rates, for another
year from August 1.
A SERIOUS break occurred in the three.
mile level of the Erie Canal at Brighton
N. Y, on the 9th. Several boats were
broken in two, and all of the east-bound
boats were delayed.
MAJOR Downs, of New York City, who
began the crusade against the bobtail
car by refusing to put his fare in the box,
was fined one dollar on the 26th. The
case will be appealed.
THE Secretary of the Treasury, on the
23d, dismissed Charles P. Smith. light
house-keeper at Fire Island, N. Y, and
Edward j. Udahl, his assistant, for care
lessness and negligence.
THE object of the plot which was re-
Gently discovered at Rustchuk, Bulgaria,
was to murder Prince Ferdinand. Two
Oh the rlngleauefS, bOyetOH anu IVduOU,
were arrested on the 18th.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, accompanied by
King Oscar and Crown Prince Gustaf of
Sweden. Prince Henry of Prussia and
Count Herbert Bismarck, took an extern
sive drive in Stockholm on the 9th.
MAJoR-GENERAL MARsENA r. PATRICK,
Governor of the Central Branch Soldiers
Home at dayton, O., died on the 9th.
He was Provost Marshal-General of the
Army Of the Potomac during the war.
A LYNN (Mass.) shoe manufacturing
firm recently received from Mrs. Cleve-
land an order for three pairs of Edson's
shoes. The interesting fact is learned
that Mrs. Cleveland wears a No. 5 B
shoe.
A BRONZE statue, nine feet high, of Gen.
era1 Moses C1eave1and was unvailed in
the public square at Cleveland, O.. on the
23d, by the Early Settlers Association.
General Cleaveland founded that city in
1876.
THE monster steamboat Puritan, Blu lid
ing at Chester, Pa, for the Fall River
line, was launched on the 25th. She is
the largest vessel of her class in the
world, and will cost, when completed,
91,5OO,000.
A GERMAN named Clotten was arrested
In London. on the 26th, charged with
sending letter to Mr.. Gladstone, threat
ening to murder him because the latter's
wife had mislaid a manuscript Clotten
had sent her.
NATHAN MYRIcK began suit in the
United States Court at st. Paul, Mimi, on
the 26th, for interest on $11 1921, the pur-
chase price of a bill of goods sold by
plaintiff to the Sioux Indians in 1851, but
which was not Hq Undated until 1885.
EDWARD KEARNEY resigned. on the oath,
from the County Democratic organization
and as member of the New York DEM
ocratic State committee. He says that
he intends TO act Independently in local
matters in the coming political canvass.
A HORRIBLE suicide was reported from
Morley's station, near Redding, Cal, on
the oath. James Mason, an old stage
driver, sat on a fifty pound box of giant
powder and touched it off. Twenty
pounds of his body was picked up in a
basket.
A REPORTER formerly employed on the
st. Louis Post Dispatch states that while
at the depot of the Santa Fee railroad in
Los Angeles, Cal, on the 9th, he saw
Editor Henry w. Moore and Mrs. John
W. Norton seated in one Of the cars of q
Inbound train.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK, who accom-
panied the Emperor Of Germany on his
visit to Russia, was granted an audience
of an hour and q quarter by the Gar on
the ed. The Car bestowed upon the
Count the brilliant decoration of the
Order of St Alexander Newski.
ONE HUNDRED settlers rode to the
rancho of George Blosser, near Ra1on,
Col, on the 23d, and reinstated him in
possession of his property, which, during
the absence of Blosser and family from
home, had been turned over to the repre-
sentatives Of the Maxwell Grant
A COMPANY of militia, on the 26th, at
tackled, routed and captured nineteen of a
band of bold, bad tramps, who, armed
with revolvers, were making life burden
to farmers and others in the neighbour
hood of Ashtabula o. They had pre-
viously routed the local police.
Ar Fleetwood Park, New York City, on
the 23d, Maud s. trotted a mile in 2:12H,
the fastest time ever made on the Fleet
wood track. Mr.. Bonner is having the
mare put in condition to beat her record
of 2:0S x in case he should decide to have
her do o this summer or autumn.
THE Wisconsin Editorial Asso citation
held its annual meeting at Milwaukee on
the oath. After the formal business OF
the convention was finished. the members
OF the association made an excursion to
Sault Ste. Marie, over the Lake Shore q
Western and Sault Ste. Marie roads.
HENRY s. IVES, of New York, supposed
to be in Canada. UNEXPECTEDLY surren-
dered himself in Judge Schr oeder's court
in Cincinnati, on the oath, to answer to
IN Indictment against him, charging en-
bezzlement from the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton railroad. George Staynor,
ex-president of the company, also surren-
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