Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-26


18th, to attend the celebr ations of tn,
revolution.
The next State convention os the Amer.
ican Mechanics of Pennsylvania. viii: b.
held at Harrisburg, on the third Tuesday
in july, 1880.
THE Grant Locomotive works at Pater.
son, n. j., shut down on the 10th, being
unable to compete with similar eAtab
lishments elsewhere.
THE Maharajah Holkar of Indore ha'
just married damsel in her Twelfth
year, and thus excited the keen indigna
ton OF his other wives.
A BUSINESS block in the center of Aber
deem, Oak, was set ON fire. ON the 18th
by incendiaries, who made an unsuccess
full attempt to break open a safe during
the fire.
MRS. Lucy SEpGwIcK CHURCH died a
Hartford, Conn, on the 18th, aged eighty
nine years, leaving an estate valued a
$1,000 She had no children and mad'
no will.
THE Posrmaster-Generalr received no.
fice, on the 10th, that the German posta
department has forwarded to this country
several cases Of exhibits for the Cincin
natl Exhibition.
THE richest discovery of gold ever
made outside of the Comstock lode, wa
made at the Lake Superior Iron Com
pany's shat, seven miles from Ishpeming
Mich, ON the Goth.
A GANG of highwaymen known as the
Sawyer brothers, who recently killed q
man named James Carter, at Nashville
Tenn, was broken up, on the 18th, by the
arrest Of the leaders.
MRS. P. J. FULLY, a young married
woman, was carried over the American
falls at Niagara and lost while out boat
ing with the son OF her landlady, unknown
to her husband, on the 18th.
SENATOR FRYE said, on the 18th, that
when the time arrives for action on the
nomination of Mr.. Fuller to be Chief
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, he will be confirmed
GENERAL ANNENKoPF, the constructor
of the Trans Caspian railway, received
the decoration of the order of Alexander
Nevsky, on the 10Th, in recognition of his
services in building the line.
THE National centennial of the origin
of civil government in the Northwest, at
Marietta, O., closed, on the 10th, with
"Ohio Day." the most numerously attend
cd and enthusiastic of the celebration.
MAGISTRATE O'RE1LLY, of st. Johns, N.
F., on ths 18th, fined the captains of the
French ''bankers" Virginia and Amaz on
twenty dollars each, besides confiscating
the schooners, for violating the Bait act.
THE remains of the late Hon. Roscoe
Conkling were removed, on the 18th, from
the receiving vault and inferred in the
Seymour lot in Forest Hill Cemetery at
Utica, N. Y. The casket was not opened.
The Nordhdusen Gazette of Berlin was
confiscated, on the 10Th, on account of its
answer to articles referring to Dowager
Empress Victoria which had appeared in
French papers. The editor will be prose-
cuted.
THE population of California at the
present time is placed at over a million
and a half by the State Gazetteer for 1898,
just issued. The official census of 1880
placed the population at about half that
number.
IT was reported. on the 18th. that mu-
tiny had occurred on the National Line
steamer Erin, which arrived in New
York on the 14th, on her voyage across
the Atlantic, and that two of her sailors
had been killed.
GOVERNOR JACKSON of Maryland, on the
18th, pardoned George w. Hazeltine, of
jamestown, N. Y, who was serving an
eight-year sentence for the killing of
Mamie Thorpe, of Long Island, in Balti-
more, July 10. 1884.
On the 18th, the Senate, by vote of %
to 81, passed the bill placing John c. FIRE.
mont on the retired list of the army as
Major General. Five Democratic Sena-
farc-Pnf1ar Call (Iihsnn
Hearst-voted for the bill.
The steamer Leander Choate, which
makes trips between Oshkosh and New
London, was burned to the waters edge
at Northport, Wis, on the 10Th. The hull
will be lowed to Oshkosh, and Is is in
tended to rebuild the boat.
LIBRARIAN SroFFoRD says that when the
Congressional Library building is COM
pleted it will have a capacity for accom-
modating over ten million volumes, which
is about fokr times the number now coll
lected in the largest library in the world.
SAM JoHEs, in a sermon at Chautauqua,
N. Y, on the 18th, said: "The difference
between the Democrats and Republicans
is that the Democrats come right out and
say, we favor whisky The Republicans
don't say so, but they are there just the
same"
SISTER MARY FRANCES CLARE CUsAcK,
better known as the 'sNun of Kenmare,"
writing from Florence, Mass, on the
10Th. denies that she has left the Catholic
church, and demands the name of the
person who started the report, which, she
says, Is false.
R. A. MCDONALD, indicted for perjury
in connection with his suit against the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad.
appeared before Judge SHREDDER, of Gin
cinnati, on the 18th, and gave bond in the
sum of 8, 500, with W. B. Smith and AL
bert Meter as sureties.
The German yacht Hohenzollern, with
Emperor William aboard, entered the
Roads at Cronstadt, Russia, on the 10th,
amid voileys of salutes from war ships
ana forts. The Hohenzollern was re-
ceived by the Russian yacht Dierava. ON
board of which was the Car.
SENATOR SHERMAN, Senator Daniels. of
virginia; General j. s. Robinson, Gem
eral Ihomas Ewing, General c. 81.
Grosyenor and score of other distin-
guished persons arrived at Marietta. o..
on the 18th, to participate in the exer-
cises Of the centennial celebration.
The great double-scul race between
Teemer and Hamm and Gaudaur and Nc
Kay will be rowed ON the Round Bav
course, Severn river, near Baltimore.
Md, August ] or 8. The managers of the
course are to offer purses to be contested
for by other oarsmen on the same day.
STORIES of General Harrison,s severe
illness are not well founded. He had a
neuralgia attack on the 14th, for which
hypodermic injection of morphine was
given. This had the effect of nrodISking