Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

| THE Pope received six hundred Rhenish
! pilgrims on the Doth, including the Arch
bishop of Mayence and three members of
| the Reichstag.
| UNEXPECTED opposition to the nomna-
ton of Mr.. Rathbone as Consul General t O
| Paris developed in the secret session OF
| the Senate on the Goth.
| AN appeal for aid for the striking rail-
| road employees of the Reading system was
| sent out on the 1st to every assembly of
| organized labor in the United States.
Mr.. KIRKPATRICK introduced a bill in
the Dominion Parliament, on the 1st, to
| allow Am erican vessels to render aid to
| vessels wrecked in Canadian waters.
| THE Bay men of Southampton, l.. l.,
| made descent, on the 2Sth, on the watch
man guarding the work on the canal in
| process of construction connecting Shin
necock bay with the ocean, drove him
away and undid all the work that had
been done on the canal.
| IT has been discovered that tho fire in
the Union Square Theater, New York, was
| caused by the joists supporting a gallery
| of the theater interse citing the party wall
| between the theater and the Morton House
| at point where f1ue existed. This
| serious defect has existed for years,
constantly endangering the lives of the
| patrons of the theater and CUES is of the
| hotel.
| AN avalanche overwhelmed the village
| of Sterphone, Italy, on the Goth. Thirty
| bodies have been recovered.
| IT is said that the deficit of the Nor
| quay Harrison Government of Manitoba
| will reach 81, $50, 900.
| FRED. A. HALE, a Denver architect,
| shot and instantly killed NJ. F. O'Reillv,
| contractor on the courthouse in that city
on the Goth. OReilly was the aggressor,
| and the coroner exonerated the architect
| and gave him his liberty.
| A FATAL affray took place at Culpepper
| Va, on the 1st, between Edwin Barbour,
| editor of the Piedmont AdUdnce, and Elias
| b. Williams, editor of the Culpepper En-
! ponent. Williams was killed, and Bar
| bour was seriously wounded. The trouble
| originated in a journalistic controversy.
A DISPATCH from San Reno Italy, on
| the 1st, says that owing to the depression
| exhibited by the Crown Prince his physi-
| clans now take q gloomy view of his case.
THE London Lancet comments upon the
omission Of the official bulletins regard
ing the condition of the Crown Prince,
and regrets that it is forced to the con-
clusion that the royal patient is proceed
ing from bad to worse.
THE opinion prevails in London finan-
cial circles that Russia's heavy purchases
of gold are for war purposes.
THE firm of Seckendorf, Levine & Co,
hop merchants, having houses in New
York, London, Saczs, Bohemia, and
Nuremberg, Bavaria, failed for six million
marks on the 1st
THE credit of $4,000 for expenses of
Mr.. Chamberlain's mission to Washing
ton was approved on the LIST in the Brit
ish House of Commons.
IN the trial of Flynn and Squires for
conspiracy to corruptly manage the New
York Department of Public WORKS, on the
1st, the jury were ins tructed to bring in a
verdict of not guilty. the only evidence
against the defendants consisting of adj
missions made by them after the alleged
conspiracy had been effected.
MRS. WIN. j. MILLER, q young married
woman, was brutality assaulted in her
own home, in Reading, Pa, on the Goth,
by an unknown man, who choked and
kicked her into insensibility, and then
robbed her of her beautiful brown hair.
By far the worst storm of the present
winter at Duluth, Mimi, set in during the
night of the 10Th. High winds prevailed
and thick, whirling snow rendered it
impossible to see across the street.
FOUR colored men were drowned at Old
town Creek, Miss, recently The first to
to lose his life was one who attempted to
ford the stream and was drowned. Three
uunQreu negroes were searching for his
badly, when canoe containing six of
them was capsized and three of its occu-
pants were drowned.
MILLION dollar fire occurred in New
York on the 1st.
The Pdrtido Liberal. of the capital of
Mexico, says that the days of bull-ffght-
ing in progressive Mexico are numbered.
A petition for the prohibition of the bar
barous slime in the federal district has
been signed by nearly 5000 people, and
will De presented to Congress next month.
THE London Chronicle OF the 1st saws
that while the Prince of Wales was
yachting at San Reno he was pursued nv
Fenians in steam yacht bearing the
American colors. A British gunboat saw
the Princes danger, and went to the res
cue. The yacht hoisted the Irish flag, and
after long chase escaped.
The Mills Tariff bill was reported bv
the subcommittee to the committee on
ways and means on the Ist. 1t adds be-
tween two and three hundred articles to
the free list, effecting a reduction of rev.
enue of So, 25O, 900, and reduces the duty
on other articles to the amount of S32, $780,
600, aggregating total reduction of
S55. 000, 900.