Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-19

IN a long conference in Commissioner
Fi1.k's Office, in New York City, on the
18th, the Trunk-line presidents failed to
agree upon a revision of rates on export
freight shipped through inland cities.
THE report from San Francisco refer
ring to an alliance between the Canadian
Pacific and the Spreckels Sugar Refinery
is denied by President Van Horne
of the Canadian Pacific railroad.
THE California House and twenty other
buildings in Depre, Wis, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th.
Four men were killed and several in
jured by the wrecking of a construction
train on the Kansas City, Memphis &
Birmingham railroad, sixty miles west OF
Birmingham, Ala, on the 18th.
THE First National Bank of st. Johns
vile, N. Y, was robbed, on the night of
the 18th, of 10000.
DAVID WALKER, the Bald-Knobber
chief, was found guilty at Ozark, Mo-, on
the 18th, and sentenced to be hanged.
A RECEIVER was appointed and an ac-
counting ordered of the assets of lmre
Kiralfy, on the 18th, by Judge Bookstaver,
of New York City, at the suit of David
Goodman.
GENERAL W. H. GIBSON and E. j. Trot-
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the National Republican convention on
the 18th. They are both enthusiastic
Sherman men.
A MOB of farmers took negro named
Jerry Smith out of the Memphis Glenn
Jail, on the 18th, and lynched him. He
was charged with attempted assault on a
white girl.
BREADsTUFFs exports from the United
States during March, 1888, aggregated
50, 040, I43, falling off from last year of
So, 060,330.
JOHN R. LOGAN (colored) pleaded guilty,
at Topeka, Kas., on the 18th, to falsely i'm
personating Government official, ano
was sentenced to two years 'imprisonment
THE Owens Sunday bill passed the Ohio
Legislature, on the 18th, and went to the
Governor for his signature.
A FOREST fire which started near Fall
mouth, Mass, on the 18th, threatened to
lay that town in ashes, and caused great
CONSERVATION among the inhabitants, who
fastened to the scene to fight the flames.
THE strike of Italian laborers on the
Meriden & Waterbury railroad, was end
ed, on the 18th, by the company paying of
the men and discharging them.
THE buildings of the Liberal Club, erect
ed in Birmingham, England, in 1876, at
cost of f64,000 we're sold at auction on the
of the ground upon which they were
erected.
CHARLIE, the seven-year-old son of Jo-
sepll Campbell, of Rolla, Mo-, while try
ing to effect an entrance to an Outbuildin2
in the yard of his fathers residence, fell,
and his head and neck being caught in
partly-opened door fastened by stout
cord, he was strangled to death before as
sistance could be rendered.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by District
Assembly No. 81, knights of Labor, OF
Philadelphia, to the friends of organized
labor, asking. for contributions to assist
in paying off the Indebtedness incurred in
the late strike in the Lehigh Valley coal
region.
THE maryland Republican League met
in Baltimore on the 18th. 1t is said to
have been in the hands of Mr.. Blaine's
friends.
BUSINESS failures for the week ending
on the 18th, as reported by r. G.. Dun &
Co., were: For the United States, 200; for
Canada, %; total, 222, as compared with
221 the previous week, and 175 for the cor
responding week of last year.
FIRE in Nanticoke, Pa, on the 18th, de-
stroyed number of buildings, and at one
time threatened the existence of the town.
Mr.. GoDKIN has reiterated his charges
against misunderstanding Maynard, of
interference in the custom-house man
agement to accomplish political ends, and
has offered to produce the witnesses.
EX-MAYOR GRACE of New York has been
actively engaged, during his brief stay in
London, in interviewing prominent bank
ers and politicians, and has become quite
social lion.
TWENTY meetings proposed to be held
in County Glare, Ireland, on the 18th, I'M
der the auspices of the National League.
were proclaimed by the British Govern
ment.
THE Chicago & Atlantic railroad re-
duced its passenger rat from Chicago to
Boston, from nineteen to seventeen dol
lars, on the 18th.
MINISTER PHELPS arrived from England
on the steamer Aller on the 18th. He
said he had not been recalled and the
hief-Justiceship had not been offered to
him.
ALL of the correspon dents to the Lon
don papers agree that the crisis over the
of Prince Alexander to Princess
Victoria has been settled amicably, and
that there will be no political change.