Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-06-07

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JOhn Bright's chances of recovery.
COLONEL AARON K. DUNKEL. of Penn.
sylvania, ex-State enaior and ex-Secre-
tary of Interna, Affairs, died at Phila-
phia. on the s1st, aged fifty-one years.
FRANCE, which is hardly over the
Boulanger scare, is now having a hard
time over the coming exhibition. England
refuses official recognition, Germany and
Austria decline to take part, and now
Hungary withdraws. Tne Ministry, how
ever, hail with delight a trouble which
assails them from without, as serving to
draw attention away from internal
alarms.
The nomination of Mr.. Fuller to the
Chief Justiceship was again before the
Senate committee on the judiciary, on
the LIST, but no conclusion was reached.
BRAKEMAN WOLF was killed and Con-
ductor Everett seriously injured in
wreck on the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad, near Shamokin, Pa, on the 31st.
Forty cars of merchandise were smashed
to pieces.
JOHN M. SCOTT, a moulder, of Reading,
Pa, during a quarrel with his wife, on
the LIST, cut her throat, and then drew the
blade of the same weapon-a large BUTCH
er knife-across his own throat. Both are
in a critical condition.
THE boiler of the steamer Fulton ex-
ploded while the steamer was in the gulf,
at the mouth of the Mississippi river, on
the 31st, instantly killing the pilot, Ed
ward Perkins, fatally wounding Captain
w. H. Riddle and two colored deck hands,
and demolishing the boat.
BARON Won MEHRENHEIM, the Russian
Ambassador to Paris, gave banquet and
reception in honor of President Carnot on
he. nf f1oC 10 OF MiniSfarS and
many prominent statesmen and diplomats
were present.
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER put himself on
record, on the 3lst, as Sherman mana
William Tecumseh Sherman man. He
said General Sher man would prove a
sure winner if run by the Republican
party; and that he would possess safe
counselor in his brother John.
THREE seats were sold in the New York
Exchange on the LIST. The prices obtained
were 1910, 1850 and 1855. A few years ago
memberships in the Exchange were worth
$4,000.
DR.. MACKENZIE introduced to his royal
patient, on the 31st, a six-year- old lad on
whom he had performed the operation of
tracheotomy year ago. A "fellow feel
ing" made the Emperor "wondrous kind".
He loaded his little visitor with presents
and invited him to call again.
w. H. MOORE, cashier and general man
ager of the Bank of Socorro, N. NJ, is
short in his accounts and has gone to
Mexico. The bank has closed it's doors.
The amount of the defalcation is not
known.
ADMIRAL SToSCH has been appointed to
succeed Count Won Stolberg- Wernigerode
as Grand Chamberlain of the German
court.
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a sentence of imprisonment Fat Clonmel,
Ireland, for offenses committed under the
Crimes act, was released on the 31st. He
was met by a large crowd and heartily
cheered.
Mr.. TAULBEE, of Kentucky, announced
in the House, on the 1st, that he did not
propose to be bound by party caucus. At
the proper time he would move an amend
ment to the Tariff bill putting lumber on
the dutiable list at 10 per cent. ad va
loren.
A MEETING of Mr.. Blaine's friends was
held in New York City, on the LIST, to con-
slider the situation created by that gentle
mans late peremptory declination.
MRS. ELLEN MARTIN and her sixteen
year old daughter were struck by train
and instantly killed at Bristol, Pa, on the
LIST.
GENERAL HENRY BIERGE died of apo
plexy in New York on the LIST.
AN explosion from an unknown cause
occurred in the Eureka Iron-works, at
Wyandotte, Mich, on the LIST, by which
three employees lost their lives.
THE Queen Regent of Spain unvailed
the new statue of Columbus at Barcelona,
on the LIST, amid great rejoicing.
MINISTER PHELPS will sail from New
York for England on the 18th.
THE body of Miss Adele Menard, of
Minneapolis, Mimi, who committed sui
cide ON the 2Sth, because her father
had whipped her, was found floating in
the Mississippi river on the 31st.
THE House passed the Senate bill to re-
vive the rank of General of the Army on
the 1st. 1t was soon after signed by the
President, who immediately sent the NOM
ination of Philip Henry Sheridan for the
position to the Senate. The Senate con-
frmed the appointment and notified the
President of it's action. During the after
noon Senators Hawley and Henderson
called and placed the Generals commits
sion in the hands of his wife.