Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
as Miss ionary Bishop of Utah and Nevada
at Christ Episcopal Church, st. Louis, on
the 25th.
E. 7. CoNEFF. the Irish amateur run-
ner, and a half dozen other prospective
contestants at the Madison Square Gar
den six-days' walk. arrived at New York
in the Servia on the oath. The Duke of
Newcastle arrived on the Celtic.
A FIRE at 90, So and 81 William street,
New York, on the night of the 18th, re-
suited in the destruction of property of
the value of 100000.
THE Frenc Government, contrary to
custom, has consented to offer reward
for the discovery of the murderers of
Archibald Mcneil, the English sporting
reporter, whose body was found on the
beach at Boulogne.
THE lockout at the Central Glass Works
of Wheeling, w. Va, was ended on the
25th by the decision of the arbitrators to
whom it was referred in favor of the
operatives.
BOTH houses of the Iowa Legislature
met at noon on the 18th, and, after COM
pairing journals on the vote for United
States Senator, President Hull declared
James Wilson elected Senator from Iowa
for six years, beginning March 4, 1889.
DURING the great snow storm in Nova
Scotia on the night of the oath, the post
Office at Annapolis was burglarized of
$4,000. A dwelling house at Boul a nders
was burned and three persons lost their
lives by the fire.
Hon. CHARLES ?. DAILY, pres ident of the
American Geographical Society, was be-
fore the Senate committee on foreign re-
lations on the 18th, and made an argu-
ment in support of the bill introduced by
Senator Edmuuds, to incorporate the
Maritime Canal Company Of Nicaragua
PROF. NATHAN SHEPPARD, of Saratoga,
N. Y, fell dead from apoplexy in the post
Office in New York City on the oath.
THE celebrated trotting stallion Happy
Medium, valued at $4,000, died at Lex
ington, KY, on the 18th. He was foaled
in 1868. Thirty mine of his get have rec
ords of 2:3o or lower. He was owned by
General w. T. Withers.
Two persons died of starvation in Belle
vue Hospital, New York, on the night of
the 25th, Peter Flynn, aged sixty-six, who
deliberately starved himself to death, and
Francis Steffenbach. aged seventy, who
was without food and too proud to ask
for aims. They were too far gone to re-
cover before their condition was discov-
cred.
THE fire that broke out at Newark, O.,
on the night of the oath, was got under
control at three O'Clock the next morning,
and was entirely subdued by daylight.
Besides the complete destruction of o. G.
Kings hat and shoe store, considerable
damage was done to Sprague's jewelry
store, D. L. Jones, hardware, and Crane
Bros, millinery. The total loss is esti-
mated at 500, 900
RUSSIAN papers deny that the effort of
the government to secure a new loan is to
raise funds for a warlike object.
In the Massachusetts, House of Repre-
sentatives, on the 25th, the constitutions al
prohibition resolution was passed to be
engrossed, in concurrence with the Senate,
by vote of 100 to 20, with one pair, being
six more than the necessary two thirds.
UNITED STATES TREASURER HYATT says
that arrangements have been made with
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing SO
as to have by the end of the month sup
ply of one, two and five-dollar silver GER
tificates sufficient to meet in part the
present heavy demand for small notes in
business centers.
Mr. KENNEDY and Mr.. Fitzgibbon, of
Tarbert, County Kerry, Ireland, have
been sentenced tc six weeks each at hard
labor for acting as president and secre-
tary respectively of a proclaimed Ma
tional League meeting at Tarbert in
November last.
Miss SHATTUCK, the young Nebraska
school teacher who was so badly frozen
during the recent blizzard, has had both
of her lower limbs amputated.
THE Mexican presidential campaign is
fully inaugurated. Diaz appears to have
the lead in the race.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND alphabetically
denies the report that he would like to
have the Democratic National convention
held in New York.
THE bill to create an executive depart
ment of agriculture and labor, which
failed last year for want of time and the
Presidents signature, has been approved
by the House committee on agriculture,
and will be reported very early.
THE President has approved the postal
convention recently concluded between
the United States and Canada.
NEARLY one hundred bodies have been
taken from the Wellington (B. CO. mine
of the Dunsmuir colliery, where the ez-
plosion occurred on the oath.
THE New York Central station at Niaga-
ra Falls, n. Y, containing the American
express, baggage, carriage offices and the
farmhouse, caught fire at / p. m. on the
Goth, and was burned to the ground, in
volving a loss of $50, 900.
THE schooner j. Kennedy arrived at
Newport, r. l., during the night of the
18th. Her captain reported that there
were about fifty vessels m the ice on the
shoals. 1t is feared that they all went
ashore.
SIG. CRIsPI, italian Prime Minis Ger, re-
Diving to an Interpolation in the Cham
Der of Deputies on the 26th, said there
was no truth in, the statement that the
French Government had discharged all
Italians employed in the national fac
cries.