Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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an indisposition, after ten days rest,
was much better on the 18th, and re-
sumed the transaction of business.
VESSELS arriving at New York on the
18th reported unusually bad weather off
the coast. Seven pilot boats went ashore
during the 18th in the vicinity of New
York harbor.
AT the meeting of the directors of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company at
Baltimore, on the 14th, the following Off
GERS were confirmed: First vice presi-
dent, Orlando Smith; third vice presi-
dent, c. K. Lord; general freight traffic
manager, Frank Har1iott; general freight
agent, Charles E. Ways.
THE hearing of the Stewart will case
was commenced on the 18th in the New
York courts.
PRESIDENT CARNoT ordered that the
presidential reception to have been held
on the 10Th be cancelled on account of the
German Emperor's death.
AN Italian named Onarto was instantly
killed and two others were seriously hurt
by the explosion of dynamite blast in a
cut near Burgettstown, Pa, on the 14th.
A number of others received slight in
juries.
IT was stated on the 14th that the Ber-
gen Cut. on the Erie railroad, was so filed
force of men several days to dig it out.
GILBERT BURROWS, of Dayton, O., was
shocked into insensibility on the 18th,
from the phone Of a telephone which he
lad taken hold of to answer ring at the
instrument. Investigation showed that
the telephone wire was crossed with large
incandescent light wires.
JOHN II. SKINNER, alias Cox, an out
lawed and ostracised wretch, who on the
night of November Is, 1887, wantonly
shot down B. F. Torquean, an inoffensive
gentleman residing near Hopkinsyille,
KY, was taken from the Jail in that place
by an armed mob, on the 14th, to the
scene of his crime, and hanged to wild
cherry tree.
INTELLIGENCE was received at Victoria,
B. c., on the 14th, of the drowning in the
Skirna river, Alaska, on February 20, of
Rev. Mr.. Sheldon, Mrs. r. Cunningham
and two Indians. 1t is thought that the
Sheldon referred to is Rev. Sheldon Jack
son, the noted Indian missionary in
charge of the Indian schools in Alaska
under the dire ction of the Government.
COLONEL FINLEY ANDERSON, of New
York, who was on General Hancock's
staff during the war, addressed an open
letter to Senator ingalls,, on the 18th, in
which he defends the dead warrior from
the charge of having been an tally of the
Confederacy," and calls upon him to
make full retraction and apology in the
Senate chamber.
ALL the Western railroads except the
Burlington had agreed on the 14th, to give
notice of an advance in freight rates, tax.
ing effect March g. The Burlington peo-
pie still stood out and refused to give the
notice, and the railroad managers had
little hope of being able to bring about
an advance unless the BurlIngt ton sur
rendered.
A READING railroad pas senger train
ran off the track, ON the 18th, near Mi ddle-
port, Pa, kill ing one passenger and in
Juring number of others.
THE local elections which were to have
been held in many New Jersey towns on
the 18th were prevented by the great
storm.
STOCKHOLDERS of the Metropolitan Bank
of Cincinnati circulated a petition to
Comptroller Trenholm on the 14th that
the money in the hands of the receiver be
applied to the payment of claims against
the bank, and that the receiver be dis
charged. 1t was asserted that there was
more than enough money ON hand to pay
all claims.
The ice in the Upper Missouri is rapidly
breaking up, and flood is already in
progress.
On the 14th Presiden of the Senate In
gals announced Senators Hale, Mander-
son, Chace, Spooner, Blackburn, Daniel
and Blodgett as the special committee to
alleged violations of the
Civil-Service law and interference of
Federal officers in political campaigns
and nom mating conventions.
THE blockading of railroads and the
of telegraph lines leading out
of Boston was so complete on the 14th
that the only means of communication
with the outer world was by the Com
Cable Company's line to Rock.
port, Me-, and thence by cable to London.
PRINCE OSCAR of Sweden was married
TO his mothers maid of honor, Miss Ella
Munck. on the 18th.