Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
THE prosidsn. went to church on Thanks

THE prosiden. went to church on Thanks
| giving Day.
AT ameeting in Paris, on the 30th ult.,
of the Panama Canal Company, the price
of shares was lowered thirty five francs.
| II less than 400, 600 shares are applied for,
| the issue will be cancelled.
STUNG by the inglorious defeat of the
State oyster navy several days ago, the
authorities of Maryland propose to in
augIrate vigorous campaign and drive
| the piratical dredgers from the oyster
beds.
| A GANG of Italian 1aborers who were
| digging trench for a sewer in Pbiladel-
! phia, on the 30th ult., were caught under q
caving bank. One man was killed, anoth-
er fatally injured, and the others suffered
fractures of limbs.
THE Mombassa Arabs have been paid
f35, 900 by the British company for the
fugitive slaves harbored by the British
mission at that place.
| COLONEL SToEFFEL, formerly military
attache of the French Embassy at Berlin,
| was expelled from Alsace on the Both ult.
| THE friends of John Bright, the English
economist, are much panied that the Glad
stonians have selected Lord Compton, re-
Gently defeated in the Holborn district OF
Finsbury, to contest his seat after his
death, which they assume to be only a
question of a few days.
| WILL ScHRrEBER, teller of the First Ma.
tional Bank Of Columbus, Ind, has gone
| to Canada, carrying with him S., 500 of the
banks money, which he distracted from
| the safe on the 18th ult.
A DUEL between NJ. Paul Deroulered
and M. Reinach, editor of the Repubkqte
| FRANCHISE, took place near Paris, on the
| 30th ult. Pistols were used. -Four shots
were exchanged, but neither combatant
| was hurt
1T is stated that large number of reg.
| istered letters from Western Canada and
| the United States have been missed at
Ottawa, Ont, and that there has recent
ly been wholesale robbery of the mails
going into that city over the Grand Trunk
railway.
THE house of Mrs. julius Beck, of Plain
field, N. j., was totally destroyed by an
incendiary fire on the 30th. Loss, ST. 900.
1t had first been robbed by the incen-
diaries.
THE schooner Dallas Hill, of st. John.
n. B., was wrecked on Heron Island in
the late storm. The crew are missing,
and are supposed to have been lost.
THE marriage engagement was an
nounced, on the 3Gth, of Prince Henry Of
fleSS, dn dUtdcue OIL luo LIHDdSS
in Paris, to O. Baltimore lady now sojourn
ing in that city.
MRS. THOMPSON, a New York dealer in
ladies' hair goods, has made an assign
ment, and gives as one of the reasons for
her failure the fact that since Mrs. Lang
try set the fashion of wearing her hair
natural, the business Of supply waves,
bangs, rats, ETC., has fallen off, and the
stock of those goods on hand has been
rendered worthless.
A. 3. UPsHAw, Assistant Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, Interior Department,
resigned on the 30th.
THE Arid Works at Titusville, Pa, were
burned on the 3Oth. An explosion of gas
was the cause. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
SCI, 900.
THE Reading (Pa.) Coal & Iron Com
pany announced, on the 18th, that it would
make no change in the price of anthracite
coal for December. 1t will shut down
eighteen colleries, and run about thirty
seven on three-quarters time.
THE cabbage growers near Findlay,
O., formed trust, and refused to sell any
of their product for less than five cents
head in the field, but buyers declined to
purchase at these figures, and the trust
failed.
IT is reported that Count Tolstoi is af-
ucteQ Win SOIteulng Oh the Drain, ana
will, in consequence, resign his portfolio
in the Russian cabinet.
THE Car of Russia has sanctioned the
marriage of his brother, the Grand Duke
Alexis to Princess Helena, daughter of
the Comtede Paris.
The Russians are throwing a pontoon
bridge across the Rene river in readiness
to bridge the Danube when occasion re-
quires. This will form point of attack
on Bulgaria.
CALUMET 6 HEcLA stock fell forty-six
points, on the 30th, in consequence Of the
news of fire in the mine.
CHARLES T. WINCHELL, treasurer of
Sphinx, Oak, has left for parts unknown,
and is defaulter. A letter was received
by his deputy, on the 30th, evidently
mailed at or near ST. Paul, saying that he
is short in his accounts, and had not the
courage to face the music. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
JOHN BOWMAN, the wealthy ex-brewer
of Marshalltown, Ia. who was recently en-
joined by the United States District Court
from selling liquor in the original pack
age and fined 81 900, has been committed
to jail for isobeyinG the injunction.