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

| delivered on their respective sides.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
| JOHN NJ. THURSToN, Patrick Egan, r.
S. Norval and George Heist were, on the
10Th, chosen delegates -at-large from Ne
braska to the Republican National con-
| vention.
FRANK GoRMLEY, of Philadelphia,
| known to the sporting fraternity as the
Jumping Quaker" died, on the 18th, of
consumption. He was forty-seven years
| of age.
| STATE SENATOR A. J. STREEToR, of Illi-
nois, president of the Farmers Alliance,
was nominated for President by the
Union Labor convention at Cincinnati on
the 10Th.
SERGEANT PORTER WEBSTER, of Com
pany A, Twenty-fourth Infantry was
shot and instantly killed by Private Davis
| Simons, of the same company, at Fit.
| Reno, I. T. on the 18th. Simons had
| threatened the life of woman, and while
attempting to arrest him Webster was
shot
| MRS. BELvA LOCKWOOD will again make
| the race for President, this time as the
candidate of the Equal Rights party, hav
I ing received the nomination at Des
| Moines, Ia, on the 18th.
THE efforts at coalition between the
Union and United Labor conventions at
| Cincinnati proved failure, on the 10th,
the committee on platform being unable
| to harmOnize.
| by the Brazilian Parliament and approved
| by the Princess Regent on the 18th.
THE G.. A. r. memorial committee at
| New York City declined, on the 10th, to
give place in the Decoration Day parade
to Phil Sheridan Post No. 1, Independent
Army and Navy Veterans, on the ground
that being composed of Confederate as
well as Union veterans it is excluded by
the rules of the organization.
THE Leadville express on the Denver Sc
Rio Grande railroad was derailed seven
while running at a high rate of speed to
make up time. More than a dozen per-
sons were injured, a few Of them severely.
On the 18th, United States Senators
Jones and Stewart; Messrs. Sharon and
Hamilton, of Storey; Williams, of Orms-
| by, and Foley, of Eureka, were chosen by
| the Republican State convention of Ne
vada as delegates to the National conven-
| ton at Chicago.
THE following bonds were offered to the
Government on the 10th: $225, 900feg-
| istered As, at 127 to 12S; $4,000 coupon
| As, at 127; S93,650 registered AIS, at 1869
| to 10S - total, 1925, $50 - of which the
| following were accepted: So, 800 regist-
| cred As, at 127; $4,000 coupon As, at 1877;
| $50, $50 registered AIS, at los, making a
| total of $195.650.
THE Tennessee delegates at-large to
the Chicago convention, chosen at Nash
vile, on the 10th, were unanimo usly in
structed to vote for Blaine.
THE appeal of Father McFadden, of
Dublin, from increased sentence i'm posed
on former appeal, was dismissed by the
Court of EXchequer, on the 18th, on the
ground that the magistrate was empow-
cred to increase sentences.
Two HUNDRED delegates to the Method
| list conference who had served under
General Grant during the rebellion made
a formal call upon Mrs. Grant, in New
| York City, on the 10Th, and were received
| by Mrs. Grant and Colonel Fred Grant
and w ife
A CONNECTION was created in the Repub-
| lican State convention at Nashville,
Tenn, at the night session on the 10th, by
a dispute ending in blows between Clerk
Baker and Delegate Garrett.
THE United Labor (single-tax) conven-
| ton at Cincinnati nominated Robert Fl.
Caudrey, of Chicago, on the 18th, for
President of the United States.
A PINKERToN detective, assaulted by
crowd of Brotherhood engineers at
at his assallants, fatally wounding one
| and seriously injuring two others. He
then made his escape.
THE Republican Territorial convention
| of New Mexico selected Thomas Catron,
! Of Santa Fee, and Francisco Chance, of
Valencia, on the 18th, as delegates to the
National convention.
WHILE crossing Conestoga creek, at
Graeff's Landing, near Lancaster, Pa, on
ho ir oP
| bridge that had been swept away, Cap
tain John B. McCaskey, principal of the
Lancaster High school, and seven pupils
were thrown into the water by the capsiz-
ing of the raft, and Willie Smith, aged
seventeN, was drowned. The other
pupils were rescued by the teacher.
THE jury in the trial of Patrick McGraw
for the murder of William j. Sloan, clerk
of the chief of police of Pittsburgh, Pa,
in August 1887, brought in q verdict, on
the 18th, of voluntary manslaughter.
THE following bonds were offered to the
Government on the 18th: $2,O05, $50, reg
istered As, at 127 to 12711; $4,000 coupon
As, at 1877; 900 registered AIS, at 1867.
Total, s, 097. $50. The following were
accepted: S14,15o registered As, at 127;
$29, 900 coupon As, at 12I; S1S0,0O0 regis
tered AIS. at 10S Total, $223.150
q TRAMP assaulted Mrs. NJ. Gall in her
nome near Lakeside, Mlch., on the 10th,
but after desperate struggle was beaten
off. Later he returned, and after nail
ing mp all the doors and windows. set
fire to the house and barn. The woman
saved herself and children by crawling
through window.
THE Supreme Court of Michigan, on the
18th, unanimously declared the Local
Option law unconstitutional
A PITTSBURGH (Pa.. dentist named
James Orr, whose mind had become I'M
balanced by domestic troubles, committed
suicide, on the 18th, by Inhalation of arti-
fetal gas.
NEWS was received from Tahiti, Poly
nesia, on the 18th, that band of natives |
had surprised the French patrol and |
killed marine officer and two sailors.
THE Kansas Democracy met in State |
convention at Wichita on the 18th and |
elected delegates to the st. Louis conven- |
ton.
By way of reprisal for Interference with |
Germans on the French side of the from
tier, a German rescript will be issued to
prevent, if possible, Frenchmen from
visiting Alsace Lorraine.