Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11

i - : - St'a hb VI 1uItiSs NED, was ar
rested, on the 4th, on complaint OF Frank
Hollingsworth, of Hastings, charged with
obtaining SO 900 worth of merchandise
/ on fraudulent title papers to section of
i land
The County Democracy of New York
definitely decided, on the Sd, to renomi-
/ nate Mr.. Hewitt Tor mayor.
/ The Union Carriage Works, owned by
Fitzgibbons & Crisp, of Trenton, N. J.,
was destroyed by fire on the 4th. Loss
| abou; 800, 600; insured.
The funeral OF Richmond A. Elmer,
president of the American Surety Com
pany and formerly Second Assistant
Postmaster General, took place, on the
4th. at New York.
THERE was q slight frost at Mobile,
| Ala, on the morning of the 4th.
| JOHN +. ANDREW was nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the Third
| Massachusetts district on the 4th
The situation at Jacksonville, Fla, was
] reported, on the 4th, as more hopeful.
The weather was quite warm, but delight
| full.
MANY families have been rendered
homeless by recent extensive floods in
the region of the Alps and the Jura in
| Switzerland.
AN international congress will be held
1
| for the suppression of immoral litera-
| ture.
THE Mexican rains have completely
| ceased. The losses throughout the
country by cyclone and floods exceed
So, 900 900.
PRINCESS MoNNssER, sister of the Khe-
dive of Egypt, died on the 4th.
THE big fair of the Bay State Aricult-
ural Society opened at Springfield, Mass,
on the 4th, under the most fattering
| auspices.
EXTERIOR WILLIAM and the Crown
| Prince of Austria went deer stalking in
| the Lainzier Thiergarten on the 9TH.
| THE Sixty Third Indiana Volunteer In
| fantry held their ninth annual reunion at
| Covington, Ind, on the 4th. About 800
members were present.
THE New York Hail and Express, which
| had been a ''rat' office since 1883, dis
charged its non-union printers. on the
5th. and appointed member of Typo
graphical Union No. as foreman of the
new force.
through Pittsburgh, Pa, on the night of
the 5th, on his way to Washington. To a
Times reporter he said that the Demo-
Gratis would carry New York and Indiana
in November.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND returned to
Washington from his nearby fishing ex-
cursion, on the 9Th, with a fine basket of
fish.
THE August statement of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad shows
decrease in gross earnings Of $l0S,699, an
increase in operating expenses of $751;
115, and a decrease of net earnings of
1915, 515.
BEFORE the over worked and UNDER
paid employees of the North Side Chicago
street-car men had actually quit work,
scabs were hurrying from all parts of the
country to secure their places.
DIR. E WILLIAMS, the eminent oculist
of Cincinnati, died at Lakewood, Pa, on
the 9th, aged sixty six.
THE Americanist Congress will hold it's
next meeting at Paris in 1889.
Two students in Vienna, being hope
lessly embarrassed financially, shot
themselves dead by mutual agreement,
in the suburbs of that city, on the 9TH.
Neither of them had available assets, and
both resolved to die rather than face their
creditors.
THE situation in the Engl ish collieries
is becoming critical. The 800, 900 miners
insist on the ten per cent advance in
wages, and threaten to strike unless their
demand is complied with. Meantime the
price Of coal is steadily increasing.
CAPTAIN BENZ. BIRDsALL, a veteran
commander in the White Star Line, died
on his steamship, the Germanic, on the
first day out for New York, where she
landed on the 5th.
A TREMENDOUS sensation was created
in Vienna by the fact that Emperor Will
lam neglected to confer decorations upon
the Hungarian Premier Tissea, while
several minor officers were Unexpectedly
decorated The callSe of the KaiSersS
snubbing Tissea is a mystery. unless it be
the recollection of his old speeches in
sympathy with the young mans father,
the late Emperor Frederick.
INDICATIONS point to the stormiest ses-
sion of the British Parliament that has
been witnessed for years.
The French press generally justify
President Carnot's order requiring the
registration and declaration of intentions
of all foreigners residing in France.
THE British royal yacht Victoria and
Albert will arrive at Flushing on Novem-
Der u to convey Empress Victoria to En-
gland.