Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE working time of the English cotton
spinners in the Bolton district has been
reduced to three days weekly in conse-
quence of disputes between masters and
operatives.
THE President, on the 18th, approved the
act for the building of the bridge at La
Crosse, Wis.
cE-PREsIDENT-ELEcr LEVY P. NOR
TON and wife left New York for Indian
apolis on the 18th.
ADMIRAL TCHIKHATCHEFF has been ap-
pointed Russian Minister of Marine, in
place of Admiral Chestakoff, deceased.
1T was announced in Berne, Switzer-
land, on the 18th, that Italy will construct
railroad on the Italian side of the Simp-
Ion Tunnel, and will grant a subvention
of several million francs in connection
with that work.
RAILROAD conductors in the Southwest
are dissatisfied with the Order of Railway
Conductors, and have formed new
brotherhood of Conductors of the United
States and Canada"
STREET SUPERINTENDENT WALLACE, of
Auburn, N. Y, who recently discharged
an old soldier from the street department,
was, on the 18th, convicted of violating the
G.. A. R. law and fined 500 and costs, and
committed until the fine is paid.
MRS. THEODORE B. WILCOX, daughter Of
Judge Dangerfield, of San Francisco, Cal,
was killed in a rear-end collision at
Puyallup Station, w. T., on the 10th.
A RUMoR is current in Wilmington,
Del, that the Diamond Match Company
plant has been sold to syndicate of CAPT.
talists.
THE French Chamber of Deputies, on
the 18th, by a vote of 545 to 9, adopted the
extra budget for 1889, the estimates being
fixed at S27,6O0,0O0.
LORD HARRINGTON resigned from the
National Liberal Club of London on the
18th.
PRINCE BISMARCK suffered from severe
attack of neuralgia ON the 18th.
THE strikes which prevailed in various
parts of Belgium showed signs of COLLAPSE
ing on the 18th.
SIX gypsies were frozen to death, re-
Gently, in Boskowitz, Austria.
THE Bank of France announces that the
subscriptions for the New Russian loan
amount to 2,5O0, 200 bonds, or ,25O, 900 600
francs nominal. The subscribers will
probably receive twenty or twenty-five
per cent. of the amount applied for.
D. H. BALDWIN & Co.'s music store in
Memphis, Tenn, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 18th; loss, 900.
The wrestling match at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, ON the 18th, between Duncan Ross
and Captain James c. Daily, was won by
Ross, three falls out of five. George
Ross, of Boston, has challenged DAILY to
wrestle for = 600.
A MEETING of the Senate committee on
education and labor was held, on the 18th,
to listen to arguments by delegates to the
Sabbath convention, being held in that
city, on the Sunday Observance bill pend
ing n the committee.
TUE Rerlin National Zojfun0 dapiaS tho
sinister reports that have been circu-
lated regarding the health of Emperor
William.
AN explosion in shaft No. of the Can
field coal mine at Canyon City, Col. on
tie 18th, killed Henry Wallace, the mine
foreman, and Peter Galloway, a miner.
About dozen others were seriously hurt.
The mine had been on fire for several
days, and the men had gone down TO try
to extin guish the flames when the explo-
sion occurred.
EBER DURHAM, aged thirty-fiv of
Salisburyville, Chester County, Pa, was
caster, on the 18th. The night previou she
built a fire and lay beside tree. The
tree was burned down and fell upon him,
crushing him to death.
SHERIFF SMITH of Jefferson County,
Ala, was again arrested at Birmlng CHAM,
On the 18th, on a new charge of murder.
The lawbreakers seem determined to
make it warm for him.
The patients at Mrs. DR.. Meyers hos
ri!al, at Youngstown, o., had a narrow
escape from death by fire in the burning
of the institution on the 18th.
THOMAS D. WINCHESTER, for many years
well known as a hotel proprietor in New
York City, died at the Ninety ninth Street
Hospital, on the 18th, of apoplexy.
The murdered body of United States
Deputy Marshal Goodson, who left Eliza
bethton, Tenn, November so, to serve
papers on a gang of desperate moonshin-
ers, was found, on the 18th, in a laurel
thicket at the foot of Roam mountain.
MISS BYNUM, twenty-year-old school
teacher, and Miss Lewis, aged eighteen,
while crossing long, high trestle, near
Alexander, N. c., on the 18th. were struck
by railroad train and instantly killed.
THE jewelry store Of Smith French, at
Wabash, Ind, was burglarized to the ex-
tent of $500, on the night Of the 18th,
while the proprietor was absent taking
tea.