Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-13

A GENERAL frost prevailed on low lands
throughout Cheshire County, N. H., on
the night of 9th.
A Observation-Disclosures boiler exploded
OF the farm of VIM. Bennett, in Jackson
County, Ind, or the 5th, causing the
death of three men and the serious injury
of five others.
LESTER WALLAcx. the theatrical man
ager, died at Stamford, Conu., on the 9th.
THE Dewey Stave Company's sactorp,
at Hoyt's Corners, o., the largest concern
of its kind in the West, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 5th.
Seventy five men were thrown out Of en-
p1oyment.
The Secretary of the Treasury, on the
18th, formally awarded the contract for
the erection of the Brooklyn Post-o Office to
Bernard Gallagher for $500, 900.
DUNCAN MCDoUGALL and John Tib-
belts, of the crew OF the schooner F. A.
Smith, were lost, on the It'll. by the cap
sizing of their boat while attending
travis on the Grand banks.
A YOUNG man named George Schon was
instantly killed, on the night of the 9th.
by jumping from a moving train at Le-
compton, Kas.
THE Trades Congress, assembled at
Bradford, England, has passed resolu-
ton favoring the exclusion from Great
Brita in of semi-pauper immigrants. un-
less they are skilled workers of some
kind.
MINISTER DENNY telegraphed from
Pekin, China. on the 9th: 'sTreaty post
poned for further consideration"
PRESIDENT HILL of the st. Paul, Min
neapolis & Manitoba railroad made his
daughter Mary, who was married, on the
9Th, to Mr.. Samuel Hill, of Minneapolis,
a wedding present of 100000.
GENERAL HORACE ELDRIDGE. a promi-
nent Mormon, aged seventy-two, died, on
the 9th, at Salt Lake City, mourned by
three wives and numerous posterity.
MAYOR HEWITT of New York received
1,06o.35 in subscriptions for the aid of
the fever-stricken Inhabitants Of Jack
sonville, Fla, on the 7th.
DESTRUCTIVE frosts visited portions of
Massachusetts, and Vermont on the night
of the 9th Ice formed in the former State.
HEAVY rains, on the night of the 9th,
wrought considerable damage in Sioux
Falls, Oak. and vicinity.
OWING to Teemer's inability or unwill-
ingness to secure backing for a race with
VIM. O'Connor, OF Toronto. Ont, the lat
ter, has claimed the title of champion of
America.
SECRETARY LAMONT, on the 7th, refused
to affirm or deny the statement credited
to ex-Representative Burleigh, of New
York, that President Cleveland had de-
termiped to modify his position in re-
gard to d reduction of the tariff to concii-
late the protectionist wing of the Demo-
cratic party.
WHILE swimming in the Hudson river
near Troy, n. Y, SOME boys were chased
by u crocodile which had evidently es-
capped from Imprisonment. The sreptile
was captured.
PHILIP A. HUBER, who stole 500, 900 from
the Adams Express Company at Sunbury
Pa, was, on the It'll, Senten ced to three
years imprisonment.
JUDGE THURMAN slept we'll all night att
er his attack at Gilmore's Garden New
York, on the 9th, and awoke much re-
freshed in the morning.
MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE is seri-
ously i'll at her summer residence in Sag
Harbor ". Y. She is in her seventy
seventh year.
THE betrothal of the Duke of Sparta,
the son of King George, to Princess
Sophie, Of Prussia, has filed Greece with
JOY.
Two candidates for Congress were
placed in nomination by the Tenth New
Jersey Congressional district Demo-
Gratis, on the 9th, as the result of an ire
split in the convention.
PRAIRIE fires are doing great damage in
Edmunds and Mcpherson counties, Oak.
The fire has burned strip twenty five
miles long and three miles wide. A large
number of farmers have lost their entire
crops and farm buildings.
THE early resignation Of Secretary
Whitney is looked for among high Gov
officials.
DR.. H. B. DEALs was horsewhipped by
DR.. McKone, a rival hos pital- physician
of Washington, on the 9th, for criticism
Of the latter's treatment of hospital cases.
THE Naval Appropiation!bill was signed
by the President on the 7ih.
TIL E spinners in the Narragansett mill
at Fall River, Mass, struck, on the It'll,
against working overtime to make up a
few lost moments.
REFUGEES from Jacksonville, Fla, will
not be allowed to enter Tennessee with
out q clean bill of health.
BARON OPPENHEIMER, of Cologne, Ger
many, has subscribed $4,000 marks to the
Emiu Bey relief expedition fund, stipu-
lating that the money shall be used for
relief aud not for colonization purposes.