Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-24

THE California Democratic State con-
vention was held at Los Angeles on the
18th. Delegates to the National conven-
| ton at st. Louis We're chosen and a plat
form adopted strongly indorsiEg Pres1-
dent Cleveland's administration.
WILLIAM GEORGE, the GAINESVILLE muir
derer, was hanged at Columbus, o., at
LII a. M, on the 18th.
THE bark Jessie Moneys, which arrived
at Quebec, Canada, on the 18th, brought
two brothers named Fleming, who were
picked up on the banks after floating
twelve days in a dory without food, hav-
ing been lost from the French fishing
schooner Jubilee, of St Johns, N. F.
A CAUCUS of the Republican Senators
was held, on the 18th, which lasted four
hours. Discussions on the Fisheries
treaty, the Mills proposition on the Tariff
bill and general politics, including &as
Southern investigation, took place.
QUEEN NATALIE of Servia and her son
arrived in Weisbaden on the 18TH Before
she left Vienna it was practically settled
| that the Queen should go to Belgrade ION
her return from Weisbaden.
On the 18th, at Llanefidd, Wales the
1.-THE collectors and the police. who were
protecting them, were attacked by the
people. A general riot ensued, in which
| thirty five persons were injured, seven
of them severely.
AS the west-bound Boston express due
at 10 a. m, on the 18th, was running on
the drawbridge at Norwalk, Conn.,, the
rails spread and the locomotive and five
| cars ran the length of the bridge on the
| ties. The locomotive stopped within six
inches of the edge OF the bridge. The es-
cape from a terrible disaster was miracu-
| lous.
SENATOR VESTS resolution to investi-
gate the alleged Meat Trust does not create
any furry among the Chicago cattle butch
ers or dressed-beef men. They express
| themselves willing to give the commission
all the information in their possession
| whenever the Senators will come to in
vestigate.
THE American Baptist Publication So
ciety held it's sixiy-fourth annual meeting
| in W ashington on the 18th. The total re-
ceipts from all sources for the past year
were $685., 400. One hundred and twelve
new publications have been added to the
society's catalogue, and 29,307,S 07 PAM
phlets and tracts we're printed during the
year.
Mrs. PARNELL, mother of the great
Irish leader, has declared her intention
of returning to end her days in her old
home in America.
the only point of interest in the Parnellite
manifesto is that while MIR. Parnel de-
clares the party to be entire strangers to
the plan OF campaign, forty members of
the party meet and justify it.
IT was stated, on the 18th, that Mr.. Will
fred Blunt had written to the Mayor of
Cork that he had heard, on very high
authority, that it is most unlikely that any
further action will be taken by Rome in
regard to Irish affairs.
THE records of Fremont County, Ia,
were partially destroyed by the burning
of thes court house in Sidney on the 18th.
Hon. CHARLES L. JEwETT, of New AL
bany, was elected chairman of the In
diana Democratic State Central commit
tee, to succeed John R. Gordon, deceased,
on the 18th.
WHILE trying to start fire with kero-
sene, on the 18th, Mrs. Matilda Larson, Of
Omaha, Neb., was fatally burned.
FRED HAMBURG and Charles Sunberg
were killed by an explosion of dynamite
at the Palmer mine, at Cascade. Mich,
shortly after midnight, on the 18th. They
were in a small powder house, and appear
to have been in the act of running, as the
staple from the door was driven into the
back of one of them. The cause of the ex-
plosion is unknown. Both men leave
families.
SAMUEL J. TILDEN, of Columbia County,
N. Y, nephew of the late Ex-Governor
Tilden, has been offered the position of
Superintendent of Railway Mail Service,
and will probably accept.
THOMAS JONES fatally shot his wife at
Dunlap, Ia, and being pursued by mob,
sent a bullet through his own head, in
f1icting fatal wound. The murder was
the result of an old family quarrel.
DIR. FRITzoFF NAUzEN, of Stockholm,
Sweden, with four Norwegians and two
Laplanders, has started for Greenland to
explore the east coast of that country.
Mr.. JOSEPH r. ANDERSON, Prohibition
nominee for Governor of Tennessee and
president OF the Bristol National Bank,
died in Bristol, on the 18th, at the age of
SiXty-Seven.
THE General Term of the New York Su-
preme Court decided, on the 18th, that the
Third Avenue Railroad Company, of New
York City, being by its charter forbidden
to use steam as a motive power, can not
substitute the cable system in place of
horses.