Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

QUEEN NATALIE has declined to consent
to King Milan's request to become recon :
ciled with him, and has determined to
proceed with her petition for divorce.
Two killings occurred in Ell Paso, Tex,
on the LIST.
FIVE prisoners in the county Jail al
Wooster, o., escaped, on the 1st, by pry-
ing off the bars and gaining entrance to
the corridor, where the floor was pried up
and an opening made to the cellar.
PROF. JACKSON, the colored pugilist of
Australia, went into training at San
Francisco, on the Sd, for his fight with
Godfrey, of Boston. The battle will take
place in August.
THOMAS CARSON, of Philadelphia,
brother of Major John NJ. Carson, CORE
spondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, was
taken suddenly i'll at the latter's nome
with heart disease, on the LIST, and died the
following morning at three O'Clock.
THE Bulgarian Government has pur-
chased the Varna- Rustchuk railway.
Mrs. GOLDEN had a narrow escape from
death the LIST, in the burning of her
hus oanu's house, one mile south of Ionia,
Mich. She is in a critical condition,
being insane from the effects of fright.
GENERAL HARRISON received from Col
onel Fred Morley, OF Detroit, Mich, on the
4th, the original manuscript of President
William Henry Harrison's Inaugural adj
dress. 1t is musty, we1l-worn document
of twenty-five closely written pages,
neatly tied together with narrow blue
ribbons.
The Liberal successes in the municipal
elections in Italy have alarmed the Vati-
can. The Pope, who proposed interven-
tion by the clergy, will counsel them to
abstain from interference in future cleo
tions.
THE Car, accompanied by his family,
left st. Petersburg, on the Sd, for yacht
ing tour in the waters of Finland.
THE Theatre des Bouffes, at Bordeaux,
France, has been destroyed by fire, caus-
ing loss of 1,0o0,000f. Nobody was in
jured.
GENERALS Won WERDER AND Valdez
SEE, who are attached to the Emperor of
Germany's military suite, are visiting the
Gear.
ANTHONY HOFFMAN, of Philadelphia,
and G. c. Burkhardt, of Brooklyn, were
remanded in the Tombs. Police Court in
New York City, on the 4th, charged with
breaking into clothing store, on the I'd,
and stealing over $1,000 worth of silk.
The Holtenbach mine, operated by the
Lehigh & Wilkes barre (Pa.) Coal Com
pany,was on fire, on the Sd, and consider
able damage was done.
7HE English and French governments
have agreed to work jointly on and after
January 1, 1889, the submarine cables be-
tween France and England. The tariff
will be twenty confines aword. A direct
cable between Liverpool and Havre will
be established under the arrangement.
MRS. DAVID STONE, OF New York,
jumped from a window of her room, on
the second floor of the fashionable Ken
of no in, hrr
daylight. She died, on the Sd, from a
broken spine. She was popular and
wealthy.
The jury in the suit Of Mr.. O'Donnell
against the London Times, returned
verdict for the newspaper ON the 5th.
KING MILAN has applied to the Church
Synod for a judicial separation from his
wife, Queen Natalie. on the ground Of an
insuperable aversion to her. General
Protic has gone to Wiesbaden to bring
the young Crown Prince back to Servia.
The boy, who is twelve years old, is at
Wiesbaden with his mother.
A LARGE new stone block Of stores and
several other buildings in Flagstaff,
Ariz, were destroyed by fire on the I'd.
AT Trafalgar, johnson County, Ind,
on the Sd, s. w. Henderson shot
and killed his divorced wife, and then
killed himself. The couple were divorced
September last. Henderson then mar
ried another woman, with whom he was
living at the time of his death.
COLONEL HANNEFoRD'S eight-year- old
son had his right hand blown off at Cedar
Rapids, Ia, by a giant fre-cracker on
the 4th. He thought it q roman candle.
HERMAN COOPER, of Des Moines, Ia,
saw his son wading in the Des Moines
river, and when the boy stepped out of
his depth his father jumped in to save
him and was drowned, but the boy was
rescued by others near.
ROBERT W. FLACK, Of Syracuse, N. Y,
lost his life at Niagara Falls, on the 4th,
in an unsuccessful attempt to shoot the
rapids in 1.-THE Phantom" life boat of
his own construction, which Flack
claimed would right itself in any sea. HIS
object in making TIE perilous journey was
20 show this and to introduce his boat.
JAKE Mil LIGAN, fourteen years old, had
his head blown off at Indianapolis, Ind,
,n the 4th, by the premature explosion of
= lot of powder that he had placed in
in can.
American party met at San Francisco, ON |
he 5th, and after the appointment of tie |
Usual committees, adjourned until the 9Th, !
when delegates were elected TO Ma |
ional convention to nominate candidates |
or President and Vice-Presiient.
CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, of Woodbridge, !
I. j., and E B. Anderson, of New York, |
fere driving across the railroad track at /
voodbridge, on the 4th, wheE their vehicle |
7as struck by a train and smashed to
pliuters. Both men were instantly killed