Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

gan a three-days' session in Cincinnati on
the 18th. About two hundred delegates
were present. After Introductory adj
dresses, reports of officers We're heard
and resolutions to be referred to commit
tees were introduced. A number of ladies
accompany the delegates.
JAKE fuller, a farmer of Bolivar
County, Miss, shot and killed his son on
the 7th, for attempting to interfere when
he was beating his wife.
THE sexton of Presbyterian church in
Louisville, KY, has been dismissed for
conducting a poker-room in the tower of
the church edifice.
JAMES DODSON, a notorious counter
feiter, was arrested in Cumberland
County, Tenn, on the It'll, and committed
to Jail. The evidence against him is very
strong.
SEVERAL arrests growing out of the
late Solar Iron Works riots at Pittsburgh,
Pa, have been effected. The police are still
guarding the works, but every thing is
quiet.
The Knights of Labor and Amalga-
mated Association are preparing to make
a strong fight for possession of another
large mill-the Wheeling Steel plant, at
Benwood, w. Va.
AN Indiana fugitive from justice, resid-
ing in Southern California, to escape the
penalty for illigitemate parentage, ran
into cactus thicket while suffering from
delirium, recently, and met with horrible
death.
The Car of Russia has declared his
assent to the morganatic marriage of the
Grand Duke Nichoalvitch.
THE working contract between the Bal
timore & Ohio Railroad Company and
the Western Union Telegraph Company
was ratified at the monthly meeting of
the directors of the road on the Sth.
THREE feet of snow fell in CONSTANT
nople on the Sth, compelling the COM
plete suspension of business.
THE German Military bill was passed
by the Reichstag on the 9Th without
change.
THE prosecution of NJ. Wilson for the
military decorations frauds has been set
for February 49, at Paris.
A WEALTHY and eccentric En- glishman
proposes to build a Sc, 100000 palace at
Guanajuata, Mexico.
JOHN WEISSER, a wealthy farmer of
O'Hara township, near. Pitts urgh, Pa.
committed suicide on the Sth by hanging.
The deceased was worth at least 500, 900,
and the verdict of the coroner's jury was
that his mind became impaired on &C.
count of his having too much money.
The receipts of contributions for the
striking miners and railroad men of the
Reading system have reached very graft
flying proportions. The single State of
New York sent in nineteen hundred dol
lars in one day.
Ri. REV. INNOCENT WOLF Abbott of At
Gibson, kas., was chosen Arch Abbott of
the Benedictine order of monks on the Sth,
to succeed Arch-Abbott WINNER, de-
ceased.
THE birth of Samuel j. Tilden was cele-
brated by the Kings County IN. W DEM
ocratc Club by a banquet given at the
Academy of Music on the evening of the
9th.
GEORGE DUNHAM, who was convicted
at Woodbury., N. j., on the 5th, of the
murder of his mother-in-law, Barbara
HANDLE, has been sentenced to be hacged
on Thursday, March 20.
CHARLES STEWART, alias Tate, a Ken
lucky murderer, was sent to the peniten-
tiary from Owensboro, KY, a few days
ago, for steal ing hogs.
CONSIDERATION of the British extradi-
ton treaty by the Senate has been post
poned until December, which is regarded
as equivalent to its final rejection.
THE House committee on the liquor
traffic gave a hearing to a large number
of temperance advocates from all parts of
the United States, on the 9th, in favor of
a commission to Investigate the traffic.
JOHN HoPP, his daughter, aged fifteen,
and a son aged mine years, were burned
to death in the des truction of their home
at Kutztown, Pa, on the 9th.
ITALY claims not 10 be bound by the
treaty of the triple alliance to act against
Russia if the latter invades Bulgaria.
LATER particulars of the wreck of the
Abercorn near the mouth of the Columbia
river, Washington Territory, on the night
of the 9th, place the number of the lost at
twenty-five.
THE Secretary of the Navy has issued
telegraphic orders for the United States
steamer Alert, now at Panama, to pro-
coed to Callao, Peru, to look after the
American interests in that vicinity, re-
ported to be in danger by reason OF local
disturbances.
A. LOCOMOTIVE has been sent by the
King of the Beigians to Tangiers as
present to,the Sultan of Morocco singu-
iarIy inappropriate gift, considering that
there is not q yard of railway or tram
line within the dominions of the latter.