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

THE Freemaa's Journal, of Dublin, con
tinues to urge the Irish people to receive
the decree of the Vatican with the respec
which is due the supreme pastor of the
church. This advice Is said to be inspired
by Archbishop Croke.
THE Second (Mich.) District Republic
ans instructed their delegates to the
Chicago convention for Alger.
THE residence Of Mr.. Frank McClintock
lawyer of Erie, Pa, was blown up by
dynamite on the night of the LIST. The
crime is attributed to saloon-keepers OF
roughs whom he had prosecuted.
QUITE aheavy snow-storm prevailed IL
portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota or
the I'd. At Superior, Wis, over fou
inches of snow had fallen up to the eve.
ming of the I'd.
THE Secretary of the Treasury received
bond-sale proposals, on the I'd, as fol-
lows: $305, 100 registered As, at prices
ranging from 1868 to 12T; SITS, 800 cou-
pons As, at $1261s to 126s4; $191, 700 regis
tered AIS, at 107@; and 800, 800 coupons
AIS, at 1919 to 1919, and made the fol-
lowing purchases: $3.50, 100 registered As,
at 1868: $4S, 500 coupons As, at 1861; SIT,
200 registered AIS, at 1914, and $500 cou-
pons AIS, at $1071s.
THE President vetoed the act for the re-
lief of HI. B. Wilson, a surety on the bond
I'd. ' ~ '-' ''-'
THE London Star of the 1st says that Mr..
Chamberlain took the opportunity at a
large dinner party which he gave recently
to declare emphatically that he was en-
gagged to Miss Endicott.
THE Connecticut State Democratic con-
vention was held at Hartford on the ID
The Due DeGramont was slightly
wounded in a duel with M. Rambeaud,
near Paris, on the I'd. The duel grew out
of a dispute over turf matters.
The 2,000-guineas race run at Newman
ket, England, on the I'd, was won by the
Duke of Portland's brown colt AYRSHIRE;
the same owners brown colt, Johnny
Morgan, second, and the Duke of West
minister's chestnut colt, Orbit third.
THE anti-saloon Republican convention
met in New York on the I'd. Albert Grit
fin, of Kansas, occupied the chair.
The attempt to make rails with the
new hands at the Edgar Thomson Steel
works, on the I'd, is declared by Sheriff
McCandless of Allegheny County to have
been a success, Notwithstanding the con-
trary report by striking Knights of Labor.
THE Hennepin County (Minn.) Repub-
lican convention, on the I'd, declared for
Blaine.
SIX HUNDRED enthusiastic delegates
were in attendance on the Pennsylvania
State Prohibition convention at Harris
burg ON the I'd.
MAURICE B. FLYNN, the New York poll
tician and contractor, was arrested in
Va, on the I'd, ON an abscond-
ing debtors warrant.
THE Iowa State Democratic convention
was held at Dubuque, on the I'd, for the
selection of delegates to the st. Louis con-
vention.
JOHN STEINER, Cleveland co. saloon
keeper, was fined So and costs and sem
fenced to thirty days in the work house,
on the Cd, for violating the Sunday law.
A CONVENTION to form a farmers trust
convened in Topeka, Kas., on the LIST.
About 200 delegates were present.
REPRESENTATIVE THos. REED, of Maine,
was renominated for Congress by the First
district Republicans on the I'd.
A REPORT from st. Paul, Mimi, on the
Sd, says: The Bad river is again out of
its banks, and the drives of the loggers
who are coming down the swollen stream
are greatly endangered.
The Treasury Department reports the
net increase in circulation during the
month of April to have been So, 260, 526.
MINNIE FoRsYTHE, a Mt. Vernon CO.,
girl, eighteen years old, tried to murder
her father, on the Sd, by beating him over
the head with club. She broke his arm
and fractured his skull.
THE Idaho Republican Territorial con-
vention met in Boise City, ON the Sd, and
chose Blaine delegates to the Chicago
BILLY CARSON SHOT, in se1f-defense, and
killed Thomas J. Tobins, a former COM
panion of his father-the famous scout
Kit Carson, at Fort Garland, Cal, on
the 3d.
THE strike at the Edgar Thomson Steel
works ended, on the Sd, in the defeat of
the strikers.
THE President sent the following nomi-
nation to the Senate on the Sd: Henry
George, of Kentucky, to be agent for the
Indians of the Colorado River Agency in
Arizona.
AN arch in the new Board of Trade
building in course of erection at Column
bus, O., fell and killed two workmen on
the Sd.
THE Pope has decided that Archbishop
W alsh shall remain at Dublin.
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts
confirmed the conviction of Mrs. Robin
son, the wholesale poisoner, on the Sd.
THE Secretary of the Treasury received
Dond-sale proposals, on the Sd, as fol-
ows: $1,1S 900 registered As, at prices
ranging from 1861 to 127; 1854, 100 cou-
pom As, at 1867 to 1877; S1,779, $50 regis
ered AIS, at 107ai to 1913; and LAT, $50
coupon ass, at 107sf, and made the fol-
owing purchases: 500, 800 registered As,
1T 126h; $4,000 coupon IS, at 126ls: $729,-
80 registered As, at 107&, and $500 cou-
BON AIS, at 1914.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN started on a spree on
he night of the 1st, in Boston, and landed
n the station-house about daylight the
text morning.
A WARRANT was issued at st. Paul,
linn, on the 4th, for the arrest of Charles
fcGeachy, a theatrical agent, for crimi-
lal libel in making damaging statements
bout a rival play.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed the
of the trial court in the case of
William George, the murderer, and sem
enced him to hang on the 18th.
L. W. HOLMAN, of Boston, was arrest
d, on the Sd, charged with conspiracy to !
lurder his half-sister, Miss Emehne D.
[olman, of Worcester Mass.
The entire day, on ne 4th, was devoted |
y the Methodist conference, in session I
i New York, to debate on the report ex-
uding women delegates. The debate !
as still pending at adjournment.