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

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
DISASTROUS wreck on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, near Grafton, W. Va, with
heavy loss of life, was reported on the
18th.
SAM JONES, the eccentric evangelist,
says that Mr.. Cleveland will be renom-
mated, despite the scheming of Bill Scott,
Barnum and German, and elected, too.
After that, the Republicans will return to
power.
MISS MINNIE ROSE PARSONS, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, who was abducted and aban-
doned by Lieutenant Ryan, of the navy,
was found by the police in New York, on
the 18th, and returned to her home. She
will assist in prosecuting Ryan.
THE Woman's Board of Foreign Mis-
sions met in New York ON the 18th.
| GEORGE kENAMoRE and his fifteen-year-
old son were burned to death, in Greene
County, Mo-, on the 18th, in the destTuc-
ton of their home.
TYLER Bros, manufacturers of steel
tubing, New York and Boston, with mills
at South Boston, and half owners of the
Clristiana Rolling Mill at Wilmington,
600 capital.
| VIM. MILLMAN was hanged in the yard of
the Jail at Charlottetown, p. E. l.. Tues
day, for the murder of Mary Tuplin on
July last.
THE accounts of S. NJ. Weir, treasurer
of New Albany, Ind, have been found
$4,000 short.
Mr.. T. B. JOHNS, one of the most sue
| cesssfuI lumber merchants in the West,
died at his home, in Terre Haute, Ind, on
the 10th.
| CHRISTOPHER NUGENT, one of the best
| known men in Newark, n. j., and at one
time owner of the largest morocco manu-
factory in the world, died at his home
recently poor man.
OK the 18th DIR. c. T. Agnew was report
| ed seriously i'll of peritonitis, at his resi-
/ dence in New York.
| PRESIDENT FRANCIS l.. PATTON of
Princeton College was banqueted by the
| Princeton Alumni Association of Chicago
at the University Climb.
| THE fourteenth Iowa State encampment
of the G. A. R. was more largely attended
| than any previous one in the history of
| the association.
On the Erie railroad two locomotives
and 100 freight cars were piled up in
mass of ruins by collision, on the 18th.
! No one was hurt.
| On the 18th VIM. H. Barr, of Philadel-
phia, called at the New York City
| Coroner's office and identified the effects
of the young man who suicided at the Con-
tinental HOTEL on the 5th, as those of his
| son, James ii. Barr.
AT Youngstown, O., William Anson's
/ mower and reaper works were destroyed
by fire, entailing loss of $3.50, 200, on the
| 18th.
| UN the 10Th Ensign Ryan, of Philadel-
| phia, who enticed Miss Preston from her
home in Pittsburgh, Pa, and abandoned
| her in New York, agreed to make partial
| reparatiOn by marrying the wronged girl.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th, Geo. H.
| Aver called upon the superintendent of
! police, confessed to a robbery of his en-
ployers, Browning, King s. Co., of Phila-
delphia, of the sum of 5000, and surren-
dered himself.
| On the 9th an extra freight train on the
! Erie railroad was wrecked one mile east
| of CarroltOn, N. Y, by which a brakeman
| named Powell was instantly killed, and
| many other trainmen were hurt.
| THE April meeting of the General Ex-
| ecutive Board, Knights of Labor, con-
| vened in Philadelphia on the 10th, with a
| bare majority of the members present.
| 4 CowARDLY assault was made upon an
| editor of the Evansville Ind) Journal, on
| the 10th, by crowd of toughs whose &C
tons he had criticized.
Miss JENNIE STEVENS, q school-teacher,
| of Waterville, Conn.,, has been missing
| for several weeks, and it is feared she has
| met with foul play.
| pump-works, south of Muncie, Ind, on the
| 9th, a workman named Green was fatally
| injured.
| PRINCE BISMARCK held long confer
| ence with the Emperor on the 10th.
THERE is much curiosity in Paris as to
| whence the Boulanger party obtained the
| funds necessary to carry on such an ex-
| tensive campaign.
| CARDINAL HOWARD will reside in En-
| cr1a in ha f,1fnr nj
! Rome does not agree with him.
THE Prince of Wales has donated f100
for the relief of the sufferers by the floods
| in Germany.
THE late Emperor of Germany left the
! sum of thirty marks to each invalid SOL
| der of the war of 1870.
| In Philadelphia, on the 18th, Mrs. Hook
man, aged thirty-fve, was fatally injured
by jumping from a window of burning
building.
! Mr.. r. H. SoULE, general manager of
the New York, Lake Erie & Western rail-
road, has resigned his position, to take
| effect April 80.
AT Rome, N. Y, on the 18th Virginia
Jackson was found guilty of the murder
of Morton Metcalf and sentenced to be
| hanged on June 10.
On the 18th a bill was introduced in the
| Senate identical with the Bryce bill in the
House, to define and establish an anchor
age ground for vessels in the bay and
harbor of New York.
THE Oregon State Republican platform
denounces the tariff policy of the Presi-
dent.
On the 18th John L. Sullivan sailed from
Liverpool for America.
DURING the deadlock in the House bills |
having special assignments to days COW
cred by the time thus occupied lost their |
standing.
On the 18th there was some talk among j
Republicans of filibustering against the I
Tariff bill, but it was not general.
DR.. MACKENZIE has Dissolved that three |
tube in the Emperor's throat is defective, |
and has ordered new one.
On the 18th Mrs. Margaret McClain, Of |
Pittsburgh, Pa, brought suit against |
Christopher Lamb to recover $1,000 dam |
ages for the death of her son, with the |
murder of whom Lamb stands charged.
A TERRIBLE railroad accident was re- |
ported to have occurred at Avoca, Ia, on /
the 18th, but it proved to be a hoax.
In Russia, on the 18th, several persons
were killed by the explosion of a powder /
factory on the line of the st. Petersburg
& Moscow railroad.