Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

THE passage of the Conversion bill by
the British Parliament is said to have been
assured by the adoption, ON the Goth, of the
provision for the payment of Is Cd on each
f100 of stock converted by bankers.
The Milan Lombard learns that ar
engagements have been completed for the
marriage of the Prince of Naples, son OF
King Humbert and heir to the throne of
Italy, to Princess Sophia Dorothy, third
daughter of Emperor Frederick of Ger
many.
E. n. SHAW, formerly managing editor
of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Dispatch, with a
proprietary interest, died, after pro.
longed illness. on the Goth.
JAY GOULD and his party arrived at
Jacksonville, Fla, on the Goth.
1T was stated on the Goth that the EN-
peror of Germany would proclaim extern
sive amnesty to political and other Of
tenders.
1t is claimed that Otto Hegener, the
ten-year-old musical prodigy of London,
is the equal, if not the superior, of the
German wonder, young Holman.
THE ward meetings of the Liberal AS
sociations held in Birmingham, Eng, on
fthe Goth, indicate an astonishing increase
of Mr.. Gladstone's strength.
The Massachusetts, House of Repre-
sentatives, by vote of 100 to 81, on tn
Goth, passed a bill granting women tn
right to vote ON the question of granting
liquor licenses.
a COKE train on the Pittsburgh, Vir-
ginia s. Charleston railroad, ran into a
rock near Green Springs, ten miles from
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 21st, and the en-
tire train was preeipitated over an en-
bankment into the river, distance of fif-
teen feet. Several train hands were Sc
verely injured.
DETECTIVE HUME, of Wells, Fargo &
Co., San Francisco, was advised on
the 21st that after the STEMS Pass train
robbers had been killed by the Mexican
troops, recently, all the stolen diamonds,
jewelry and money except one hundred
dollars We're recovered from the bodies.
A REJECTED lover named Andrew Rob-
erts, living near Henry's Crossroads,
Tenn, shot himself in the head with a
pistol on the Goth.
THE annual report of the New York Board
of immigration shows the total number
of migrants landed at that port during
the past year to have been 450,S45.
A STORM of great severity prevailed ON
the Atlantic coast on the 21st.
OVER one hundred of the striking weav-
ers of the Salmon Falls IN. HI Cotton
Mills returned to work on the 21st.
The water in the Delaware river is
frozen to the bottom, and any sudden
rise will force the water into new chan
nels.
NEW JERSEY CENTRAL and Morris &
Essex trains were submerged at various
points along the roads by heavy rains on
the 21st.
The argument in the contest of the will
of, Samuel j. Tilden was begun on the
21st in the Supreme Court of New York,
I'd T
opened the argument for George Tilden,
the contes tant.
The steamer Pomona, which was
spoken at sea on the 18th inst, under sail,
with her propeller gone, had not yet ar
rived on the 21st. Fears are entertained
for her safety.
GENERAL GEORGE W. CAss died at his
residence in New York on the 2st.
A DEVASTATING cyclone passed over
portions of the State of Georgia on the
10Th, spreading death and destruction in
all directions.
THE cigar manufacturers of Boston,
a capital of 100000 and en-
Dloying five thousand men, threaten to
remove their business to New York be-
cause of the S trike of their hands.
THE Ontario branch of the Dominion
temperance Alliance, in session at To-
onto, ON the .21st, in dorsed the PROPOSE
ion for national convent ton to form a
Prohibition or third party.
The annual meeting of the Holsteiu-
Freisian Cattle Breeders Association &C.
'urred at Buffalo, n. Y. on the 21st.
IT transpired on the 21st that general |
ie-up of the Northwestern roads was !
'nly prevented by Chief Arthur's coun- |
ell. The men hae been on the point of |
triking for some time, but were unwill- |
ng to take the responsibility of doing so |
without the approval of the grand Off |
ers and the support OF the whole Broth
rhood.
AiMISS. GRUNDY"-Miss Austine Sneed-
led in Washington, ef pneumonia, on
be I'D.
INTELLIGENCE was received on the 21st |
hat Lieuten ant Colonel Gonzales, with I
force under his command, had a battle
nth a band of Yaqui Indians III the
.atinijo mountains, on the 10th. Two In
ians were killed and several wounded. |
N the same day, at a point called
guajo de Los Burras, the same officer
ncountered another band of Indians,
nd had fight, in which he succeeded in
outing them.
JAY GOULD and family left Jackson
lie. Fla, for New York on the 22d.
THE performance at the New York
cademy of Music on the 22d for the BEN
it of Tony Hart, netted about $4,000.
THE death of Chief-Justice Waite
used a sudden fall in Bell Telephone
ock. -