Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

compelled to take refuge in a cab.
THE marines stationed at the arsenal il
Constantinople, revo1ted on the 9th, be.
cause of arrears in their stipends. :
sharp but bloodless fight ensued. which
was ended by the arrest of ring-leaders.
Mr.. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN and hi
American bride arrived in Birmingham
England, on the 9th.
THE Argentine Republic has joined the
international telegraphic convention.
JOHN A. YATES, journalist well known
in New York and Brooklyn for the pas
thirty years, was found dead in his bed il
the latter city, on the 24th, having die
of heart disease. He was sixty years old
and a native of England.
MANAGER HORACE PHILLIPS Of the Allie
ghenyBase-Ball Club was so ill, on the 9th
that his physician called another medica
gentleman for consultation. 1t was de
cided that the patient would have to sub
NIT to an operation.
APPEALS are being made in Berlin fol
funds to aid the sick and wounded il
Africa
THE Government of Bulgaria is negoti
ating with the Krupps for eighty field ant
garrison batteries, to be furnished i'm
mediately.
AT the request of the Emperor the prac.
tice of horse-racing on Sundays and holi-
days in Prussia has been stopped by the
local authorities.
ANOTHER awful river disaster occurred
at Plaquemine, La, on the night of the
oath. The steamer John H. Hanna and q
valuable cargo of cotton was totally de-
stroyed by fire, and large number OF
passengers persisted in the flames or were
drowned.
I'm of Tod Toto
ices in the English church at Naples
greeted by the people while going to aud
from the church.
THE British man-of-war Hyacinth ar
rived at Honolulu from Tahiti, recent.
ly, with twenty-four men of the crews
of the bark Virgo and ship Hermann,
which foundered during gale while an
chOred off Malden's Island November 81
The captain, mate, carpenter, cook and
two seamen of the Virgo were drowned.
EDWARD HIGGINS, Jr-, who was city
collector of Baltimore, Nd, from 1883 to
1885, died, on the 18th, aged fifty three
years. Mr. Higgins was director in the
Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company,
and a member of the firm of Higgins,
Cobb s. Co.
GEO. B. RENoU, aged forty, his son, Bur-
tai Renou, aged fifteen, and Ammon
Veasey, aged thirteen, were drowned, on
the 18th, while skating on Round bay at
Lake Village, n. H.
AN old man named Snow was struck by
the Lockport passenger train on the New
York Central railroad at Tonawanda, n.
Y, on the 18th, and instantly killed.
THE IdgeJldtt asserts that King Milan of
Servia has drafted an act of abdicatiOn,
,t, ha will oh n~f1 II
A. G.. CLAY and Newton Nolan, while
to break into Jail at Vicks-
burgh, Miss, ON the night of the 9th, for
the purpose of liberating a prisoner
Green, were shot by City Marshal
Mcmahon and both men were badly
wounded
SENATOR BECK arrived in Savannah.
Ga, on the 9th, and will spend some time
in the city.
THE Bulgarian Government has signed
a contract with the Krupps for a million
francs worth of shells.
AT Hehyn, Ala, Turner Bryant was
shot dead by his father law, B. L.
Chambers, while trying to force an en-
trance, on the night of the 23d, to Cham
bers' house, where Mrs. Bryant, who had
left her husband. was living.
PATRICK DALTON, young Staten Island
IN. W policeman, has been sued by Ida
N. Lawson for $4,000 damages for breach
Of promise
THE new bridge over the Ohio river at
built for the Chesapeake &
Ohio railway, was opened onthe 18th.
FORTY men from each provincial gar
-isOn in Servia, have been summoned to
Belgrade to be present at the opening of
he Skuptschina.
ATTACHMENTS for s, 500 have been levied
IN the establishment of r. H. Washing
on & Co, of Greenville, Miss, dealers in
ancy dry goods, by Memphis, st. Louis
md New York firms.
GEORGE BUSHKAMP, the second victim of
he StrObel fire at Cincinnati, died on the
9Th from injuries received by the falling
walls.
BY the fire on the steamer Left Erics-
on, which was burned to the waters edge
IF Allki Point, W T., on the 24th, FIVE
ives were lost, perhaps seven.
DURING fire in the tenements - and 81,
3owery, New York, on the morning of the
9Th, Charles Stacker, aged twenty six,
vas probably fatally burned, and a num-
'er of other tenants were saved with diff
iculty by the police and firemen.
ANDREW GRIMES. a drunken sailor, stab
Jed and killed John Martin, the mate of
brew the body overheard. The only ex-
,lanatiOn he gives of the affair is that he
nd the mate chad a row.
THE switchmen's strike in the Union
Pacific yards at Denver, Col, so far as
he company is concerned, appears to be
lear its end. Several of the crews re-
urned to work on the 25th. The company
vas working about half force.
Mr.. JOHN BRIGHT, the English states
nan, rallied somewhat on the 26th.
FRANK j. MEYERS, aged eighteen, cook
n Toledo CO., restaurant, in attempting
o close an iron shutter at the rear of the
estaurant building, pushed it against an
lectric light wire, on the 18th, and re-
eived a shock which knocked him to the
round He was instantly killed.
THE Berlin correspondent of the Lon
on Standard says there is reason to be-
ieve that the German Government will
lot restrict its action in East Africa to
be land and sea blockade, but that
lieutenant Wissman has been ordered to
rush the revolt on the coast and to es-
ablish stations SO as to insure order.
THE Abban Flour Mills at Waltham,
England, have been burned. The loss is
10000.
A MARRIAGE has been arranged between
lrch- Duchess Valeria and Duke Francis
f Tuscany.
THE latest adyiceS from Belgrade show
ling Milan's utter distrust of the Radical
majority. 1t is officially announced that
e will open the Skuptsehina with an in
ugural message instead of a speech
rom the throne. The message will not
equire an address in reply.
The failure of Douglas Henry was an
Ounced on the New York Stock Exchange
n the Goth. He has no outstanding con-
racts.
WHILE a party of seven were out sailing
II the bay about six miles from San