Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10

AN explosion occurred III s. Tunnel IN
| process of excavation near Messina,
| Italy, on the 4th. Six workmen were
! killed outright, and large number in
| jured, some fatally.
GEORGE SUTTON, a master mechanic,
| was killed, and Michael Curran, labor
| er, had his jaw and back broken, by being
struck by train on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad, while work.
| ing on the new bridge at Rye, N. Y, on
the 4th.
PROF. G. F. STANLEY HALL, of Johns
Hopkins University, has formally accept
| ed the Office of president of Clark Uni
versity, lately founded in Worcester,
Mass, by Jonas G.. Clark.
THE New York State Board of Arbitra-
ton concluded its investigation of the
| brewers lockout on the 4th, and prom
ised an early report.
THE lockout of ordinary business by
the tariff discussion, in the House, is en-
gaging the serious attention of Speaker
Carlisle and other members of the COM
mittee on rules.
ROBERT NJ. THOMPSON, an absconding
guardian, convicted at Memphis, in May,
1856, of withholding 81, SAG pension money
from the children of Thomas Mccall, was
arrested near Goldsberg, N. c., on the
4th. was committed to Jail in Washington
by United States Commissioner Bundy.
JAMES II. HUNTING, an unsuccessful
stock broker of New York, shot himself
dead, ON the 4th, after inditing request
to Cyrus W. Field, his only friend, to
send his body home for burial as cheaply
as possible.
THE officers of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad Company, denied, on
the 4th, the report that that company had
absorbed the st. LOUIS & San Francisco
railroad.
NEW YORK friends Of Mr.. Blaine an
nounce that they can state positively that
AIr. Blaine will consent to be a candidate
for the presidency if such proves to be the
unmistakable desire of the party.
F. L. GROUSE, of Easton, O., committed
suicide in Cincinnati, on the 4th, by hang
ing.
In speech to his constituents at din
ner given by his brother, on the Sd, Mr..
Joseph Chamberlain took formal and
final leave of his former colleagues of the
Liberal party.
THE revolt against the late decree of the
Vatican is rapidly spreading throughout
Ireland.
THE Dublin authorities are anxious for
a visit from the Queen, believing that her
presence would elicit more and deeper
expressions of loyalty from the people
than any thing else that could be con-
ceived.
Mr.. w. H. SMITH, replying to Lord
Charles Baresford, on the 4th, refuted the
assertion that the English army and navy
are in dangerously inefficient condi-
ton.
THOMAS G. WooLFoRD, chief clerk in the
State Comptroler's Office, at Annapolis,
Nd, hanged himself on the 4th.
a. m
gressional district of Massachusetts,, on
the 18th. chose delegates to st. Louis, and
adopted resolutions in favor of Cleveland
for President and General Stevenson, of
Illinois, for Vice-President.
The employees of two large brickyards
in Springfield, Mass, struck for ten hours
on the 4th.
Mrs. HARRIET RICHMOND, an ex-em-
ploye of the Treasury Department at
Washington, was arrested and locked up
in Baltimore, Nd, on the 4th. She is q
native of Detroit, and the daughter of
prominent parents, but says that liquor
has always been her curse.
On the 4th, Generals Schoield and
Slocum and other members of the Army
of the Potomac, memorialized Congress,
asking an appropriation of SO, 900 to aid
in defraying the cost of the fraternal re-
union of survivors of the Army of the
Potomac and the armies of Northern Vir-
ginia, to be held on the battle field of
Gettysburg in July next, to commemorate
the twenty-ffth anniversary of the battle.
THE new Egyptian loan has been sub
scribed for in London in nearly twelve
times the sum required.
The Emperor of Germany dined with
the Crown Prince on the 4th.
CARL SCHURz dined, on the 9Th, at the
residence of Prince Bismarck.
A LARGE meeting was held at Cooper
Union, New York, on the 4th, to express
satisfaction at Mayor Hewltt's bold stand
that none but American flags should wave
over the public buildings of that city.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA is reported among
the cattle at Maple Creek, Mont. 1t is
claimed that the disease has also appeared
at Woodpecker.
THE House committee on manufactures
the trust investigation, on the
4th, subject to call of the chairman.
Mrs. Villas, wife of the Secretary of the
Interior, will go to Atlantic City, N. j.,
early in the season, and spend part of the
season there, in search of health.