Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

conclusion the Emperor received all the
Admirals on board his own yacht and
rendered them his congratulations.
A FORCE of Egyptian troops occupied
Sarras on the 5th. A garrison will be
permanently stationed at that point to
guard against a repetition of the recent
dervish invasion.
THE proposed Congress of American
Republics at Washington is attracting
some attention from the European press,
but is nowhere treated as an event likely
to lead to important results.
A FATAL disease among horses is prev
| alent in the vicinity of Montgomery,
Ala The malady is called albuminaria.
| THE latest official news from Port au-
Prince is to the effect that Hippolyte was
defeated in a final attack on the city and
that his army had begun a retreat
! FLOYD COUNTY, Ga, on the 9th, voted
| against prohibition by a majority of 600
out of 1000. The election was quiet and
orderly, though the campaign was Wig
orOus and exciting one.
| PATENT COMMISSIONER MITCHELL left
Washington on the Sd, on his vacation
| He will be absent about month.
| The tenth annual convention Of the
| Photographers Association of America
was opened in Boston on the 9th. Aboat
400 photographers were present from all
| parts OF the country.
| THE steamer Munchen, from Bremen
with 200 immigrants, arrived at Balti-
| more. Md, on the 9Th.
CAPTAIN WIN. DAVIDSON, who was quar-
| termaster of Stewards Confederate Cav.
| airy, died in Fauquier County, Va, on
| the 9Th.
WHILE Fred Kelse, a brakeman, was
making coupling in the yard at gohns-
| burg Pa, on the 5th, his heel was caught
| by an approaching car He was dragged
under the wheels, both legs being broken
and his shoulders mashed.
The excursion steamer Annie, plying
on Mobile Bay, was burned at her wharf
| on the 9th. Loss, 5000; insurance. 3d.
COO The fire was probably of incendiary
] origin.
| The British men of-war Black Prince
and Invincible collided on the 9th, while
starting for the naval parade, and both
| were badly damaged
The National waterways convention at
West Superior, Wis, was called to order
at two O'Clock on the afternoon of the 9th,
by Judge Solon Fl. Clough. E. p Bacon,
| of Milwaukee, was made temporary chair
man, and F. e. Searle, Of st. Cloud, Sec
rotary.
A NEW candidate for the commission
| ership of the General Land Office, has
appeared in Washington He is Judge
Croft, of Nebraska, and his name
has been mentioned recently in conuec-
ton with a possible appointment on the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
THERE was fight in the Montana Con-
stitutional convention, on the 18th, over
the location of the capital. In commit
tee Bozeman was agreed upon, but on
this being reported to the convention the
| friends of other cities fGbustered until
recess was ordered.
The prisoners confined in Fort San
Juan de Ulloa, at Vera Cruz, Mexico, rev.
olted recently, and the troops shot twenty
of their number and auelled the uprising.
THE announcement of the verdict of
Guilty" in the Maybrick case, on the
9TH, caused great excitement among all
classes in Liverpool, who had been watch
ing the trial with intense interest. After
the verdict became known thousands Of
people assembled around the entrance to
the court room and hooted the judge as
soon as he made his appearance.
POSTMASTER LEWIS and the Republican
leader Colonel A. E Buck were burned
in effigy, on the 9Th, in front of the court
house in Atlanta, Ga, in the presence of
probably ten thousand people, for the
appointment of a negro to a place in the
registry department of the post Office.
AN all-day debate took place in the
Washington Territory Constitutional
convention, on the eth, over the clause to
exempt church property from taxation.
The question was finally settled by leav-
ing the whole matter to the Legislature.
THE National Electric Light convention
at Niagara Falls, on the 9Th. adopted a
memorial to Governor Hill of New York,
asking him to use his influence for the
repeal OF the law for execution by cleo
tricity.
PEOPLE in the wool trade think that
Boston, who failed on the It'll, can settle
their affairs SO as to pay all debts and
leave about ninety cents on the dollar
for the stockholders.
SAMUEL billiard, of Philadelphia, was,
on the eth, declared elected grand chan
celor of the Knights of Pythias of Penn
sylvania, and Jno. j. Davis, of Pitts
burgh, was chosen master-at-a arms.
The man arrested at SCOTS boro, Ala.
has been positively identified as the alb
sconding Treasurer Tate of Kentucky.
One of the detectives who arrested him
has since been arrested on an old indict-
ment for burglary.
OFFICER RoBEL, of Mankato, Mimi, was
shot, on the 9Th. while attempting to ar
rest two tramps who were annoying peO-
pie. The tramps made their escape.
On the afternoon of the 7th, two explo-
sions occurred on board the yacht Cedar
Ridge, lying at the wharf in Buffalo, N.
V, by which four deaths by fire and
drowning occurred, and three persons
were severely injured. The explosions
were due to naphtha, by which the boil
ers were heated.
THE popular movement in Liverpool,
London and elsewhere in England, to
obtain a reprieve for Mrs. Maybrick,
sentenced to be hanged for the murder of
her husband. is assuming enormous pro-
portions.
operator ON the Rome, Watertown g. Og-
densburg railroad at Miller's station. N
Y, is missing, and his accounts have
been found to be $500 short.
THE train on the Rio Grande railroad
known as the ''Modoc'' was held up by
train-robbers near Crevasse, Col, on the
9Th. About 5000 and twenty watches
were contributed by the passengers.
The steamer Henry E. Bishop. for
Coney Island, with about one hundred
passengers aboard, was found to be on
fire just before leaving her pier at West
Tenth street, New York City, on the sth.
The passengers were all landed safely,
amid some excitement, ard the fire,
which was in the engine-room, was soon
put out.
CP to the 9Th no trace had been found
of the Thompson Springs (Utah) tram
robbers.
FERDINAND W. HoEFFLE, of New York,
partner of E S. Allen in the iron bust
ness, was arrested, on the sth, charged
with completely in Aliens issue Of forged
street railway stock.
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