Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-22
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PEhSONAI AND GENEHAs
MINISTER REID has informed the State
Department that the general conference
on weights and measures will meet at
Sevres. near Paris. September "a.
The body of a woman killed by train,
on the night OF the 11th. near Greenwood
Cemetery, Brooklyn. was identified as
that OF Mrs. George Thompson, of No. 40a
West Thirty-second street. New York.
IT was reported that Truckee, CAL, was
partially destroyed by conflagration on
the night Of the 18th. Owing to inter-
ruption OF telegraphic communication it
was impossible to obtain details.
GOVERNOR FORAKER Of Ohio refused to
honor the requisition of Governor Low
~ OF Mississippi for the extradition of
Superintendent Richard Carroll of the
Queen & Crescent railroad. over whose
line the party travelled to the Sullivan.
Kilrain fighting grounds.
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER SMITH, of Des
Moines, Ia, has issued circular fixing
department headquarters at Milwaukee,
thus practically abandoning the boycott
of the Iowa department on the G. A. r.
encampment. Large delegations of SOL
diers from Iowa will attend the encamp-
ment
PEOPLE are much alarmed in Sumter
County, Ala, because Of the mysterious
actions of the negroes, who are holding
secret meetings. buying firearms and
acting insolently toward the whites.
The negroes outnumber the whites Ave
to one.
A BOARD Of officers of the army, con-
sisting of Lieutenant Colonel Anthony
Heger. Captain John o. Skinner and
Captain j. c. Merritt of the medical de-
no ~ hox hno ,fn1 IN ook
at West Point on the 25th, to examine
candidates for admission to the Military
Academy.
SENATOR EvAITS, who is going abroad
to have his eyes treated, has been grant.
ed special passport by the State De-
partment.
PRESIDENT HARRISON will visit Indian.
apolis on the 22d, to remain two or three
days. The occasion for his return will be
the cornerstone laying Of the soldiers
monument. and the visit will also afford
the President an opportunity to attend
the reunion of his old regiment, the Sew
entieth Indiana, the date of which has
been changed to suit the Presidents con-
venience.
The State Department has received an
official invitation for the United States to
participate in the New Zealand and South
Seas exhibition to be held the coming
winter. On account of the absence of an
appropriation for this purpose the invita-
ton will not be accepted.
THE military, civic and decorative dis
play in Berlin, on the 18th, in honor Of
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria was
extremely brilliant.
EX-KISG MILAN of Servia, having re-
fused to give his parental consent to
King Alexander's meeting his mother
outside of Servia, ex-Queen Natalie will
start for Belgrade, on the 2Sth, and hold
the meeting there.
THE eleventh annual convention of the
Ancient Order of Foresters met in Min
neapolis, Mimi, on the 18th.
THE Grand Council of United Friends
of the State of New York met at Buffalo
in annual session on the 18th. About 800
delegates were present, including num-
Der of ladies representing councils of
women.
THE cruiser Chicago was taken from the
dry dock at Brooklyn, on the 18th, and
the Boston was put in the next morning.
THERE are 1000 Odd Fellows in Maine,
an increase of 706 during the year, and
the order is in flourishing condition.
The Hay and Straw Dealers Associa-
ton Of the State Of New York met in
Syracuse on the 18th The feasibility Of
establishing a State agency to regulate
the shipments Of the association was dis
cussed.
SEVERAL shoe manufacturers of Gin
cinnati have been asked their selling
prices. The offers came through Brad
streets Agency. and were represented as
coming from Englishmen who are al
ready in the East, where some purchases
have been made. Unlike the brewery
syndicate, this shoe syndicate offers cash
for all purchases, their purpose being to
run each factory bought as an individual
under charge of a manager.
FIVE more companies signed the coke
scale, on the 14th. and 1000 more ovens
were started on the 18th.
The old overland trouble was revived
at Fort Dodge, Ia, on the 14th, by the ar
rest of three settlers charged with ma
licious trespass, for returning to their
farms, from which they had been evicted,
and securing the hay crop.
JUDGE DAVID S. TERRY was shot through
the heart and instantly killed in the depot
at Lathrop, Cal, on the 14th,
by Deputy United States Marshal Nagle,
for Shaping Justice Stephen j. Field, Of
the United States Supreme Court in the
face.
The iowa State Republican convention
was held at Des Moines on the oath.
Every county in the State was repre-
sented. A resolution favoring Chicago
for the Worlds Fair in 1892 was adopted.
SUPREME JUDGE w. L. PIERCE. Of Cali
fornia, while talking on the street at San
Diego, on the 18th. with Ex-Governor
of Utah, was shot in the back by
W. s. Glendennin and severely wounded.
A decision given by the judge adverse to
is supposed TO have been the
cause of the shooting.
AT Carbon Hill, Walker County. Ala,
c. P. Seymour OF the
Kansas City Coal and Coke Mines was
shot from ambush, on the 14th, while rid
ing on horseback. Some time ago he
took several officers to Carbon Hill to
stop illicit distiling, and it is supposed
hat the moonshiners shot him.
ON the 14th, Civil Justice Ambrose
Mcneil, who was counsel for Sheriff
Flack in the recent fraudulent divorce
in New York City, resigned
rom the general committee and the or
yanization committee of Tammauy Hall,
suspension OF Judgment as
20 the propriety Of his course, and prom
sing to show that he acted uprightly in
he matter.
FERDINAND BAUER, aged thirty two,
German barber, of Columbus. o., COM
mitted suicide on the 18th. He placed a
A. caliber revolver at his head and a 3D.
caliber at his hea TT and fred, both shots
taking effect
THE Atlanta Consti tuition serves notice
upon Assistant Postmaster-GeneralI
Clarkson that Meth err the Administra- |
ton nor any of its servants will be per-
m1tted to SANDER and misrepresent At |
lanta.
THREE men were killed and several |
others seriously injured by the explosion