Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THE delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton chosen by the Massachusetts Re-
publican State convention at Boston, on
the 18th, while not instructed, are said to
be strongly for Blaine.
| GENERAL MANAGER ROSWELL MILLER
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
| railroad was elected president of the
road, on the 25th, to succeed the late
Alexander Mitchell.
THE Indiana (Pa.) town election officers
were, on the 26th, sentenced to one years
Imprisonment for election frauds.
| REV. DR.. COURTNEY, late of Boston, was
consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia on the
Goth.
On the 25th, Samuel Dew, a dissipated
young man of Jacksonville. O., shot and
instantly killed Assistant City Marshal
Edward II. Davis, who had recently ar
rested him for fast driving. After walk
ing few rods away the murderer put the
| pistol to his own head and blew out his
brains.
JUDGE PATTERSON, on the 25th, denied
the motion to quash the Indictment
against Thomas A. Kerr, of the Broadway
Surface railroad, on the charge of bribery
| in connection with the Doodle Board of
Aldermen, of New York, and ordered the
| trial to proceed.
| JOHN THORNwALD claims to have dis
covered a rich deposit of silver ore within
twenty miles of Bismarck, Oak. He re-
fuses to divulge the location of the mine.
but exhibits rich specimens in proof of
| his assertions.
1T is estimated that between $4,000 and
100000 persons visited Charlottenburg, on
the Goth, to get look at the Queen of En-
| gland.
! G. HALL, brakeman, obtained a ver-
| dict for 200 damages at Mobile, Ala,
on the Goth, against the Louisville & Nash
| vile Railroad Company for the loss of
| foot by being knocked off of a freight
| train by low bridge.
CONDUCTOR WEsTHAM and brakeman
were killed in a collision between two
coal trains on the Reading railroad, near
| Yardly,' Pa, on the Goth.
MRS. JULIA RAYNoR, of Brooklyn, was
thrown from her carriage, and run over and
killed by train on the Atlantic Avenue
railroad on the Goth.
! LYNCHBURGH, VA, was visited by heavy
| trosts on the nights of the oath and 25th,
| and it is feared that fruit in that vicinity
is badly damaged.
! GENERAL ABRAHAM MERRITT, of Nyack,
| n. Y, committed suicide by swallowing
a dose of laudanum at the Fifth Avenue
| Hotel, SnOrtly aIIer mlunlSlC on the morn
| ing of the Goth.
| The Standard, Henry Georges paper,
on the Goth, advocated as the Democratic
ticket, Grover Cleveland for President,
and Roger Q. Mills for President
| B. S. ROBBINS, Assistant United States
district attorney for Colorado, cut his
! throat at Denver, on the Goth, but Will
probably recover. He was Respondent
over private troubles. Mr.. Robbins was
| formerly prominent politician in Ken
| lucky.
JAKE KILRAIN wired from London, on
| the Goth, an acceptance of John l.. Sulli-
vans $4,000 challenge.
| THE American Tin-Plate Association
reports that the block-tin output of this
| country is now almost exclusively con-
| troled by n French syndicate working in
harmony with the copper syndicate.
A PIECE of slate weighing ten tons fell
on miner at DAYTON, Tenn, on the Goth,
crushing his body into jelly.
THE steamship Maine, from Bremen,
with LOO passengers, was quarantined at
Baltimore on the Goth, having a case of
| smallpox on board.
THE Crosby High-License bill was
passed by the New York Senate on the
26th.
| TWENTY persons were injured by the
| collapse of platform, while President
| Carnot was laying the cornerstone of
| new lyceum at Agen, on the Goth.
| N. B. WELLS, the Seneca Falls IN. W
bank defaulter, was jailed, on the 18th, in
default of S., 900 bail.
AN immi grafton association has been
formed, with headquarters in New York,
the object of which is to populate the
South with Roman Catholic immigrants.
Mr.. MANLEY, of Bangor, Me-, says that
Chaxx &c, toll oh Plofp n3c
being i'll. Mr.. Manley shows letters from
Mr.. Blaine as late as April u, stating that
he is in excellent health.
DIR. CLEMENCE SOPHIA LoZIER died at
her home in New York on the Goth. She
graduated from the Syracuse Medical
College in 1853 with high honors.
ONE man was killed and five persons
were seriously injured by the derailing of
sleeping car, near Orleans, Neb., on the
9th.
JASPER DAVIS was hanged at Anderson,
S. c., on the 9th, for the murder of his
wife. He was undoubtedly insane before,
if not at the time of committing the deed.
CLAUS SPREcKELs will soon move his
family to Philadelphia, which city he de-
| signs to make his future home.
HARRY COOKE, the young man who re-
Gently disappeared on the eve of his mar
riage, in New York, to Miss Jeanette
| Minor, was found by his father on the
9th, wandering aim1essly about the
| streets in a demented condition.
In overruling the motion for a new
trial in the Billings murder case, at
| Waverly, Ia, on the 9th, Judge Rudick
said: 81 think the jury made a mistake
in the verdict; it should have been muir
| der in the first instead of the second de-
gree" He then sentenced the prisoner to
the penitentiary for life at hard labor.
A SERIOUS riot occurred in Lyons,
| France, on the 9th, in consequence of
strikers trying to intimidate those of their
number trying to resume work. The lae-
| ter were attacked with stones, and many
1 severely wounded. The police inter-
| fered, and several of these, too, were
! hurt. but the rioters were finally sIbdued,
and six of the ringleaders arrested.
| JACK PRATER, colored, was hanged at
/ Orangeburgh, s. c., on the 9th, for the
murder of Andrew Jackson, also colored.
| On the Goth the Indiana Democratic
State convention at Indianapolis nomi-
mated CORTLAND C. Matson for Governor
and W. r. Myers for Lieutenant-G Governor,
and FULL State ticket.