Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

THE acting Secretary of War has asked
Congress to appropriate $50, 900 for the
establishment of a light and fog signal
on Oyster Bed shoals, opposite Rockland
Lake Park. Hudson river. N. Y.
THE anniversary of the admission Of
California into the Union was generally
celebrated in that State on the 10th.
TEN men were killed and five others
seriously wounded by the explosion of a
giant cap in Wicke's tunnel. on the Mon
tana Central railroad, near Helena,
Mont. on the 18th.
The present Congress has been in ses.
sion for over go days. With one excep.
ton this is the longest continuous session
OF any in the history of the Government
The exception was the Thirty first Con-
gress, when Howell Cobb, of Georgia, was
Speaker.
EMPEROR WILLIAM arrived at Bremen
haven on the 18th. The streets were
thronged, and there was great enthusi-
asm.
THIRTEEN Missouri Pacific cars were
wrecked at Weeping Water, Neb., on the
10th.
j. COLBY DREW, the self confe ssed
forger, was arraigned at Lynn, Mass, on
the 18th, and pleaded mot guilty." He
was held in $1,000 bail for the grand jury.
The Portuguese gunboat Bengo arrived
at Tangier. on the 18th, to support Portu-
gals claims against the Sultan of Mo-
rocco.
LIEUTENANT-CoLONE HORACE B. BURN
HAM, Deputy Judge Advoc ate General,
has been placed on the retired list of the
army on account of old age.
IT is learned that Senator Beck, who
was expected to prepare the minority re-
port on the Senate Tariff bill, is detained
at Fortress Monroe by advice of his
physicians, and will probably not return
to Washington during the session.
LORD CALTHoRP'S Sea Breeze won the
st. Leger stakes at Doncaster, England,
on the 18th.
THE elegant summer residence of John
Johnson, the well-known banker of Mil
waukee, Wis, and all the farm buildings
and crops at Bracken Brae, his country
seat, few miles southwest of Milwaukee,
| were destroyed by fire on the 18th.
THE pas sengers of the disabled steam
| ship Nevada sailed from New Y ork for
Europe, on the 18th, on the steamship
Alaska.
Two men were killed and several Sc
vere1y injured, on the 18th, by the col .
lapse of wall of the old hospital build
| ing at the Soldiers Home in Dayton, O.,
| which workmen were engaged in tearing
| down.
THE entire business portion Of the town
| of Harper, Ia, with the exception of one
store and an implement house, was de-
| stroyed by fire on the 18th.
THE committee on foreign relations
| had, up to the 18th, received no response
| from the Secretary Of State to Senator
Hoar's resolution asking for copies of
protests made by the Administration, Il
any had been made, against the outrages
perpetrated by the Canadian authorities
upon American fishermen. Considera-
| ton of the Retaliation bill awaited the in.
| formation asked for.
| THE President has appointed A. j.
STAGE, of Indiana, to be assistant to the
United States Commissioner-Ge General to
the International Exposition at Paris.
Hon. CALVIN s. BRIcE, chairman of the
National Democratic campaign commit
tee, attended the reunion of his old regi-
| ment the Eighteenth Ohio. at the Ma
tional Encampment q. A. R, at Column
bus. O.. on the 18th.
DIR. P. NJ. LEONARD, a prominent physi-
clan of Ft. Wayne, Ind. made a brutal
assault upon his own daughter, on the
18th, repeatedly striking her over the head
with the heavy end of buggy whip, and
only desisting when her screams brought
assistance.
THE debts of the late King Ludwig have
been almost all cleared up. There is a
good prospect of rebuilding the royal
fortune.
A TELEPHONE line has been opened be-
tween Berlin and Breslau 1t Is the long,
est line in Germany.
j. NEWTON GoTrHoLD, the well -known
theatrical manager. actor and elocution-
list, died at his residence, Sewicxiy, Pa,
on the 18th. OF Bright's disease.
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