Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

MAJOR MCKINLEY was renominated
for Congress from the Sixteenth Ohio
district. on the Goth. by reclamation.
| THE Cincinnati Board of Education,
| by vote of II yeas to II nays, decided
! to hereafter cease to employ married
| women as teachers in the public schools.
HoLZuAY, the bandit of the norther-
woods, made another unsuccessful at
| tempt to commit suicide in the prison at
Marquette, Mich, on the 25th. He was
found lying in his cell i'll an unconscious
condition from loss of blood, he having
severed the arteries of his wrist with a
silver of tin secured from slop-bucket.
His scalp on the top of his head was also
reduced to pulp from attempts to dash
out his brains on the prison walls.
TIE Deputy Minister of Agriculture
of Canada declares that Asiatic cholera
will certainly visit the Dominion next
year, and that in order to check its ad-
vance he proposes to establish quaran-
tine stations in British Columbia.
A REIGN of terror exists at Bucyrus,
o. Citizens are boldly assaulted on the
streets at night, others are made to give
up their money at the muzzle of a re-
volver. while daring burglaries are COM
mitted nightly.
OWING to misplaced switch two
freight trains on the Burlington & Mis-
souri, River road collided at Mullen,
Neb., on the 25th, killing three persons
and seriously injuring six others.
PLEASURE BOAT was capsized at
Deal, England, on the Goth, and seven
of the occupants were drowned.
DIR. EDWARD SINCEN, editor of the
New Yorker Handels Zeitung, made
determined effort to commit suicide on
the Goth. He first took morphine, and
this proving ineffective, he stabbed
himself about the arms and body. He
had been drinking excessively of late.
CHARLES S. RAINEY, a civil engineer,
formerly of Pittsburgh. Pa, is illegally
imprisoned in Sorrado, State of Chipas.
Mexico, for drawing a revolver in self
defense upon some Mexicans with whom
he had dispute.
THE trip of the new cruiser San Fran
cisco, on the 27th, was entirely success
full. The boat made little over nine
teen and half knots per hour in the
four hours run. This earns the $780,
600 prize.
JOHN MENUS, an eX-Striker on the
New York Central railroad, narrowly
escaped lynching at Troy, on the 27th,
for firing three harmless shots from his
revolver, while on a train, into crowd
of strikers.
MINISTER LINCoI.y will deliver an adj
dress at the great Welsh national festi-
val. the Eisteddfod.
A BLOODY fight between the Social
lists and police of Berlin occurred on
the breaking up of a midnight meeting
of the former at two o'clock on the
morning of the Goth.
THE Queen of Roumania will spend
some time in Llandun, Wales, for the
benefit of her health.
THE Ohio State Democratic conven-
ton met in Spring field on the 21th.
THE projected chemical syndicate of
Paris has collapsed.
THE heat at Suakim is almost I'M
bearable. The natives obtain relief by
living nearly constantly in the water.
Business is almost at ssandstil1. Fam
inc prevails in the interior.
QUEEN VICTORIA sent a letter of con-
dolence, on the 27th, to the sculptor
Boehm on the death of his wife.
j. H. HEAToN, NJ. p, of England, ar
rived in New York City, on the 9th, for
the purpose of studying up the postal
system of the United States.