Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-06

was, on the 9th, temporarily settled.
THE survivors of the Engineers brigade
OF the Army of the Potomac held their
fifteenth annual reunion in Elmira, N.
Y, on the Both. Six hundred members
of the brigade were present
A PORTER at the German Embassy in
Paris was shot at, on the Goth, by a crazy
Frenchman named GARNER, who claimed
to have been ruined by the Franco Ger
man war. The porter was unhurt-
GENERAL HARRIsoN did nothing all day,
on the Both, but lounge around the porch
of the Middle Bass Island clubhouse and
stroll about the grounds. He was max
ing the most of his resting spell.
In an accident to Barnum g. Bailey's
circus train at Hampton, Ia, on the 31st,
a car containing i've lions was demolish-
ed and the animals liberated, but they
were all captured after an exciting chase.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND decided, on the
9th, not to accept the invitation to at
tend the Grangers' Interstate picnic
and exhibition at Williams Grove, Pa.
Representative VIM. Scott will be pres
emit
THE tenants on the several estates about
Kilmish. County Clare. Ireland, have
paid their rents upon the landlords
agreeing to Attachments amounting to
thirty per cent, the tenants paying all
costs.
THE losses by the forest fires around
Ishpeming, Mich, are estimated at S60, 600
to ST5 700. The homeless people are being
sheltered and fed by those who saved
their homes. They will require assistance
to rebuild.
IN
night of the 26th, stated that the war on
the Maxwell grant was over for the pres
emit The six deputy sheriffs who were
besieged in hotel by the mob had made
their escape.
The police seized and translated the
papers belonging to Hohenburg, the re-
tired German officer who was arrested at
Nice, France, on the Goth. The present is
the third time he has been arrested on
charges of espionage.
TROUBLE broke out, on the 31st, in Camp
Phil Sheridan. at Columbus, O., where
5000 State militia were encamped. All
the officers Of the Eighth regiment, from
the Colonel down to the captains. ten
dered their designations.
THERE are prospects for serious trouble
over the overnorship of the Chickasaw
Nation. On the face of the returns w. l..
Byrd appears to be elected, but the
friends of Governor Guy claim his re-
election by small majority.
THE President and Colonel Lamont, ac-
companied by Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Miller, left Washington. on the
9th, ON q fishing excursion to Clifton
Forge, in the Blue mountains, Virginia,
to be gone two or three days.
A DISASTROUS prairie fire is raging in
the ranges in Northern Montana, extend
ing from the Marias river to Sweet Grass
hills, distance OF fifty miles. The
winter range of the Benton & St Louis
Cattle Company has been destroyed.
TIE will of Charles Croker, of San
Francisco, was fled on the Goth. 1t APP
points his widow as executrfx, and dis
poses Of an estate worth SIS, 25o, 0Oo-one-
half Of which goes to his widow, the re-
mainder being divided between four
children.
CHAs. L DEBoUM. who ,absconded to
Canada about May 1, with $4,000 be-
longing to the Park National Bank OF
!, New York, has been arrested and in
dicted for forgery, and will be extradited
at once.
THE police of Wexford, Ireland, on the
9th, arrested Mr.. John Redmond, M. P.
for Wexford; his brother, Mr.. VIM. Red
mond, NJ. p. for Fermagh, and Mr.. Ed
ward Walsh. editor OF the Wexford Peo-
pie. They are charged with offenses un-
der the Crimes act.
REPORTS received from Egypt state
that the Egyptian corn crop has seriously
suffered. The reports also say that it will
be impossible to plant wheat in Upper
Egypt in 1889, and that the greater por-
ton OF the other cropscan only be Guilt
waited at an increased expense.
Ex- REPRESENTATIVE JOHN McCuL-
LoUGH, prominent Republican poll
tician OF Philadelphia, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head at
his residence in that city on the 9th
Domestic trouble is thought to have led
Mr.. Mccullough to commit the deed
JUDGE THURMAN decided, on the 31st,
to attend the grand Democratic DEM
onstration in New York. He will
leave Columbus on the 9Th, and speak in
Gilmore's Garden on the evening of tn 9
18th. The Judge is in vigorous health
since his return from the Northwest.
ApyrcEs received, on the 30th, from
: Lourenzo Marquez, q walled Portuguese
town in Africa. on the north side OF
Delagoa bay, say that mutlny had
broken out among tne soiuiors VI ene
garrison and that marines had been
landed from one of the war ships to queu
it Fighting was expected.
THE report of the worlds harvest conn
piled at Vienna, and issued on the 9th,
shows that the wheat crop In Italy,
France, Great Britain and Russian Po-
land is from 20 to 25 per cent. below the
average, and in Austro- Hungary, South
eastern Europe and Egypt from 2 to %
per cent. above the average.
TEE southern portion of Indiana was,
on the 18th, visited by much the severest
rains of the year. All the creeks and
rivers became great and destructive tor
rents, flooding corn fields, sweeping away
fences, stacks Of wheat and hay, and car
rying away great deal of valuable hard
wood timber. The fruit crop also suf-
fered.
THx question having been raised wheth
A. General w. IT. Seward, who was
chosen by the Now York Republican
STATE convention as an eiector-at-large.
5s Nv reason Of his d1rectorship in Ma
tionsl bank, disqualified to act as an
eleofor. he declared. on the o0fn, that u
& Wcrs necessary he would resign his
l,ixectorship.