Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
| THERE was a surprise at the recent an
nual meeting of the stockholders of the
| Dover IN. H. Street Railway Company.
Mrs. Mary E. G. H. Dow, wealthy resi-
| dent and leading advocate of women's
rights, was elected president of the COM
pany and her husband was elected treas
| urer.
| THE Florence consulate incident has de-
| veloped into a serious state of affairs be-
tween the French and Italian govern
ments, and the breaking off of diplomatic
relations is among the possibilities.
THE New York Court of Appeals refused
| stay in the case of Daniel Driscoll, who
was sentenced to be hanged on the Goth,
| but Governor Hill granted respite OF
three days.
W. j. SWAN, an employee of Messrs.
Smith & Co., one of the largest jewelry
houses of Detroit, Mich, is said to have
been detected in stealing diamonds aud
other jewelry. The firm will not prose-
| cute, out of regard for his family.
THE Wabash second mortgage bond
holders have decided to push ferecl osure
as rapidly as possible.
THE National Democratic committee
meets. at Washington on February % to
select a place and date for holding the
presidential convention.
THE Iowa Legislature met in joint con-
vention on the 18th, canvassed the vote
for United States Senator, cast in each
house separately on the 18th, and declar-
ed James F. Wilson elected Senator.
LUMBER and starch poolers met at Gin
cinnati on the 18th to devise policies by
which the cost of these articles to con-
s. mers will be increased.
THE roundhouse, machine and black
smith shops of the Northern Pacific
Terminal Company at Albina, Ore, were
burned on the 18th. Loss, $40. 900; insur-
ance, 1000. Seven Oregon Railway and
Navigation locomotives We're damaged
and a passenger coach burned.
THE Pesther Lloyd says that Russia's
candidate for the Bulgarian throne is the
Volvode Marks Milanoff of Kucsl, a lead
ing Montenegrin commander. The paper
considers, however, that he has even less
chance of success than the Prince of Min
grelia-
AN early British Cabinet crisis is pre-
dicted at London.
JAMES GRINDER attacked his wife with
Ratchet, at Rochester, n. Y, on the
18th, infiicting three savage wounds in
her head. Thinking he had kill ed her, he
ran to the crossing of the Buffalo, Roch =
ester & Pittsburgh railway, and threw
locomotive. He was instantly killed. He
leaves nine children. Mrs. Grinder may
recover.
JOHN MATHIo, a Frenceman, and Bel
gian named Alix, a foreman at the Stand
ard Plate Glass Works at Butler, Pa,
were almost instantly killed while plac-
ing a sheet of glass in position on the
grinding-pla on the 18th.
EDWARD CoFFEY, the condemned muir
derer who cut his throat in his cell at the
Allegheny County (Pa.) jail on the 18th,
| was still living on the 10Th, and may re-
cover. His condition is much improved,
| but he is not out of danger, and a change
may come at any time either for better or
| worse.
MISS MARY A. Brown, a maiden lady,
residing in Norristown, Pa, and pos
| sessed of considerable property, has been
swindled out of $4,000 by Philadelphia
woman who made investments for WON
en-. She conducted a ''ladies' bank" and
promised large returns for every dollar
invested.
THE validity of the Bell telephone pat
ents We're established in Mexico on the
10Th by tie First District Court of the Re-
public.
THE Turner's at Green Bay, Wis, want
all Anarchists expelled from the North
American Turnerbund.
GENERAL GREsSER, project of police at
st. Petersburg states that the police are
convinced that there has been no organ
ICED plot against the Cars life recently.
But no police in the world, he says, can
prevent attempts of individual desper-
ADDE'S to kill the Car.
The house of August Wintross was
burned on the 18th, ten miles west of
Duluth, Mimi, and the family were
obliged to trudge nearly mile barefooted
and in the ir night clothes to neighbours
house. All were badly frozen. Farmer
Wintross will probably lose his feet and
was also seriously frozen.
GOVERNOR SEMPLE has signed the bill
giving the ballot to the women of Wash
ington Territory.
ROBERT ORME, farmer OF the township
of London, Ont, while returning home
from the city on the night of the 18th,
was waylaid. murdered and robbed.
There is no clew to the murderer.
BALFoUR was hooted and called liar
by the populace of Dublin on the 10Th.
PUBLIC indignation has been aroused
in the State of Puebla, Mexico, over the
assassination. within few months, in
remote part of that State of several Free
Masons whose political and religious ideas
were repugnant to the fautical clericals.
WHILE four thousand Chinese workmen
under command of several mandarins
were making breakwater to stem Hoang-
Ho floods they were engulfed by sudden
rush of water and only q few ESCAPED.