Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

VIhSSiNH. SH'NS
DENNIS McGRAw and his wife, of Lima,
O., were found dead in their bed on the
morning of the 21st from the effects of
natural gas.
WHEN the striking miners at Mount
Carmel, Pa, decided to return to work on
the 21st, they were surprised to find many
of their places filed. Ono hundred were
turned away from Alaska colliery, and
many from the Reliance and Locust
Springs collieries.
BURGLARS entered the Office of the
Burlington & Missouri River passenger
depot at Nebraska City, Neb., on the 21st.
They failed to break open the steel CASH
box, and secured but little of value.
THE city marshal of Carbon, Ind, shot
and killed miner while trying to quell g
disturbance, on the 21st.
The execution of Luther j. Shaffer, Of
Lock Haven, Pa, has been fixed for
April 4.
On the 21st General Won Werder ar
rived in st. Petersburgh, as 1.-THE bearer of
an autograph letter from Emperor Will
lam to the Car.
ITALY has agreed, it is said, to cooper
ate with England and Austria in any
action they may take in regard to Bull
garia.
THE London Glob e is of the opinion that
fisheries conference, and asks: "Wnl
the Canadians be satisfiedw
THE House committee on rivers and lar-
bors, having spent six weeks in listening
to arguments from interested delegations,
are now prepared to settle down to con-
sderation of the bill.
On the 22d Mr.. Gray, representing the
Chicago syndicate to purchase Libby
pr ison, arrived in Richmand Va, to close
the option of purchase.
On the 22d the doctors all agreed that
the Improvement in the cond ition of the
Crown Prince was maintained, and that
his symptoms were encouraging.
1t is sa id that General Boulanger pro-
tests against the use of his name a
candidate for the Chamber of Deputies,
a reactionary movement intended to
discredt him.
AT Alliance, O., Charles Wingard and
his niece, Miss Anna Fox, an clipping
couple from Monroe, Mich, were arrested
and placed in Jail, where they committed
suicide on the morning of the 22d.
On the 22d the Fisheries treaty was care
fully examined and approved by Lord
Salisbury.
In New York City the Catholic trustees
of Calvary Cemetery refused to allow
the interment of dead parishioner of st.
Stephens Church because Of his sympa
thy with DIR. McGlynn.
On the 22d the English and American
students at the University of Berlin met
for the purpose of forming a club exclu-
sively of students of their own national
ties.
On the ODD the Board of Trade of Beat
rice. Neb.. met and photographed 800 to the
ycIone sufferers of Mt. Vernon, Ill.
On the 21st Speak er and Mrs. Carlisle
left Washington for Wichita, Kan, to
visit the bedside of sick son.
AT the National capital and other large
cities of the country the one hundred and
fifty-sixth anniversary of the birthday of
George Washington was very generally
observed.
On the 22d a col ored hero of Paducah,
KY, named Tom Burdette, whose boat
sprung a leak in mids tream while cross
ing Bee creek, jumped into the water and
succeeded in saving his passengers, a Mrs.
Hays and her child, but lost his own life
in the noble work. He leaves widow and
four children, for whose benefit a fund is
being raised.
REPRESENTATIVE of wholesale preserv-
ing firms from all parts of the country
met in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 23d, to form
a National association and then petition
Congress to take off the duty on sugar.
THE President and party visited the
Florida Exposition at Jacksonville on the
23d, and were much pleased with the ex.
hibits and the attention paid them. The
public were excluded during the visit.
Doc WILSON, of barb wire fame, ETC.,
sailed for London on the Esd with
boun tiful letter of credit.
LEWIS MOORE, colored, who was hanged
at Atlanta, Ga, on the 23d, made a con-
fession of his crime on the scaffold, and
said that whisky was the cause of it.
THE bark Arizona, from Ilolio, reports
February 20, in lat. 1925 north, long. 20
west, passing a small spar with the dead
body of a man dashed to it.
THE bark Archer from Portland, Me.
for Guadalupe, passed January %, in
lat. 81 north, long. 60.5S west, large
number of logs supposed to be portion
Of the great raft lost at sea.
Four Cinnamon arrived at Boston on
the 23d, from Liverpool, on the steamer
Michigan. They all had passports show
ing that they had been in this country
before, but the paper held by one of them
was not properly filled out. He will bs
kept on board the steamer until his cass
has been passed upon by the authorities
at Washington. His companions Were
allowed to land.
Mrs. GARFIELD and her daughter, Miss
Mollie, will soon return to America on the
steamship Trave. sailing from Bremen.