Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-08-23

| steamship Geiser, of the Scandinavian
line, had been sunk off Sable Island, on
the 14th, by collision with the Thingvalla,
Of the same line, a nd 119 of her passen-
/ gers and crew were lost.
Mr. BLAINE Will mako his mex. speech
at Bangor. Me-, on the Odd
ANDREW GARRETT. the last survivor OF
the original manufactu-ers-of reapers and
| mowers. died al his home in Shelby, O.,
on the 10th, aged seventy-six.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
issued n notice, OR the 10th, announcing
an advance on Its Western lines in
! dressed beef aud livestock rates to tho
East
school committee were in session at
Chautauqua, N. Y. on the 18th and 18th.
IT was reported, on the 18th, that the
/ French employers had determined to Of =
fer an advance in wages in order to end
the great strike in Paris.
IT was stated AID denied, on the 18th,
| that Chairman Brice had been practically
deposed from the charm anship of the
National Democratic campaign commit
tee by President Cleveland owing to lack
OF energy in pushing the campaign ON the
tariff reduction lines laid down in the
,, Presidents message.
THos. L. KIMBALL, general manager
OF the Union Pacific railroad, who has
| been i'll for several days, at Omaha, Neh,
was reported as much worse on the 18th.
A REPORT from Jacksonville, Fla, Oh
| the 18th, says: The general feeling in
| this city is growing more cheerful every
hour, and it is believed that the energetic
measures taken toward dlsinfect1 have
been successful, and that the yellow fever
is now under control
THE farmers around Montpelier, Ind,
are panic stricken owing to q break, on
| the 18th, in a powerful gas and oil gush or
we'll which saturated the fields and out
standing crops for half mile around
| with oil. 1t is believed that the striking
of match would fire the whole district.
Mr.. WILLIAM HENRY HuRLBUr, former
| ly editor in chief of the New York
World, in a letter to the London Times,
on the 18th, defended President Cleve-
land and the Democratic party against
the charge Of favoring England and
English manufacturers in their tariff
views.
c. L. VAN REEDS large paper mill near
Reading, Pa, was burned on the 18th.
Loss, $50, 600; partially insured.
The English Conservatives contem-
plate raising a fund to guarantee the
London Times against loss in it's defense
of the Parnell suit.
THE Sultan Of Zanzibar has officially
transferred the administration Of the
coast line to the German Company, whose
flag, jointly with the Sultan's, has been
raised over fourteen ports.
THE surplus in the United States Treas
ury at the close of business, on the 18th,
was Sl13,0O0,O00.
The President remained at Oak View all
day on the 18th, engaged. it was said, on
the preparation Of his letter of accept
ance.
THE fine new saw-mill at James David
sons ship-yard. in West B ay City, Mich,
was burned, on the 18th, entailing loss Of
s35. 600, without insurance.
PROF. ELISHA JONES, of the Michigan
University, died at Denver, Col, on the
18th.
THE disabled steamship ThingvaIla,
which, after collision with the Geiser off
Sable Island, on the 14th, headed for Hal
flax, N. s., reached that port on the 18th.
PROMPTED by jealousy, Adolph Hol-
man shot and wounded his mother-in-
law, killed his wife, and then committed
suicide at picnic at Long Branch, N. j.,
on the 10th.
MISS MATILDA P. ELLISON, of Philadel-
phia- was struck by apassing locomotive
on the Pennsylvania railroad, on the 18th.
and instantly killed.
UNITED STATES TREASURER HYATT re-
turned to Washington from his vacation
on the 18th.
THE Interstate Commission, upon In
vestigation, failed to find any sufficient
season for a change in the rates COM
planned of by the Board of Trade Of Lin
coin, Neb., against the Burlington & Mis-
souri, River Railroad Company, and the
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.
In q conference with prominent Repub-
Hcans in Washington, on the 18th, ex-
Senator Malone claimed that Virginia
will give 10000 Republican majority in
the coming election.
REPORTS received, on the 10th, from thir-
ty-nine towns in Northeastern Nebraska,
show that the small grain is q bad fall
ure.
Four new cases Of small pox and sew.
eral suspected cases were reported at
Buffalo N. Y, on the 18th.
The New Jersey State Repub1i lean Con-
.vention to nominate presidential elect
ors will be held at Trenton on September
81