Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TIE New York State convention Of the
United Labor party was held in New
York City on the 10th.
A BILL to authorize the Presi dent to
appoint General Rosecrans a Brigadier-
General on the retired list of the army
was introduced by Senator Henderson on
the 18th.
RECENT heavy rain-storms caused an
unprecedented rise in the small streams
Of New Jersey. Many bridges were
washed away and public roads damaged.
TWENTY deaths and 158 new cases
marked the 18th as the most terrible day
up to that date of the yellow fever vista
ton at Jacksonville, Fla
The Grand National Curling Club As
sociation of America met in its twenty
second annual session, in New York, on
the 18th. The next meeting will be at AL
bany.
THE Cherokee Strip Live Stock Associ-
alton adjourned its session at Caldwell,
Kas., on the 18th, after passing resolu-
tons turning over to the Cherokee Coun-
Gil all the Improvements, fences, ETC., in
the strip leased by the association.
JOHN G. WHITFIELD, the actor, has been
pronounced insane, and was removed
to an insane asylum on Wards Island,
N. Y. on the 10th.
HoHENBERG. the retired German officer
who was arrested at Nice, France, re-
Gently, on charge of espionage. was, on
the 18th, committed for trial.
In a speech at a conference of Radical
Unlonists at Bradford, England, on the
18th, Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain declared
that the Unionists would protect the
minority in Ireland, and preserve the
honor and integrity of the country.
Hon. GEORGE d. TILLMAN was renomi-
mated for Congress by the Second Ohio
district Democratic convention, on the
18th, after deadlock of nearly month.
during which over six hundred ballots
were taken.
THOMAS II. GREEvY was nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the TWEEN
tieth Pennsylvania district on the 10Th.
THE Democrats Of the First New Jersey
district, on the 10th, nominated General
VIM. Brindle for Congress.
THE Empress Victoria, widow of the
late Emperor Frederick of Germany, will
visit her royal mother, the Queen of En-
gland, at Balmoral, early in October.
THREE THOUSAND cases of flannel were
sold at auction in New York on the 10th.
The prices obtained averaged from 14k
to14K cents per yard.
The cotton operatives on strike in Boil
ton, England, accepted the masters
terms, on the 10Th, and resumed work.
CARL GOTTA, the Munich publisher, died
on the 10th.
The body of q German gendarme, with
q bullet-hole in the head, was found on
French territory on the 10th. 1t is though
that the man committed suicide.
ONE death from yellow fever occurred
at Decatur, Ala, on the Doth.
1t was rumored in Washington, on the
Goth, that the President was about to APP
point General John g. Parkhurst to sue
coed Lambert Tree as Minister to Rus
STA
The New York County Democracy held
a large ratification meeting at Cooper
Union, on the Goth, Hon. p. A. Collins,
Senator Blackburn and Congressman
O,Neil, Of st. Louis, being among the
speakers.
TIE New York Produce Exchange, on
the Goth. decided to make the opening
hour in that city each day 1880 a M, and
the closing hour 1:16 p. m.
THE Controller of the Currency, on the
Goth. appointed Mr.. John r. Lawrence, of
Grand Rapids, Mich, as receiver of the
Lowell National Bank, Of Lowell, Mich,
which closed its doors on the 11th inst.
THE Secretary of the Treasury decided,
on the Goth, that jute bagging exported as
covering OF cotton can not be e-import-
ed free Of duty. but is subject to q duty of
IL cents per pound, unless it is washing
bagging, and only st to be converted into
paper.
ALARGE number Of changes have re-
Gently been made in superintendents OF
the Railway Mail Service. but two Repub-
licans remaining in the ranks on the
Goth.
DURING political meeting in the
Bellevi1le Avenue Rink, at Newark. N. j..
on the night of the Goth, the music gallery
fell, injuring eleven men and boys. some
OF them seriously.
TEE United Labor State convention
held in New York, on the Goth, Endorsed
Werner Miller. the Republican candidate
TOR Governor.
CoUNT PARR, the Austrian Ambassador
TO the Vatican, is about TO retire
MAYOR LEE of Denver, Col, forwarded
1880 to Jacksonville, Fla. on the 10th,
being the amount subscribed Ia that city
for the aid OF the yellow fever sufferers.
FIRE destroyed the First Presbyterian
Church at New Brunswick, N. J., on the
18th. Loss. sS5. 900; Insurance.. $3l. 500