Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-11-20

vessels were wrecked, ana sailor
named VIM. O'Nei was drowned.
PREMIER STAMBULoFF, is about to
proceed on tour of Europe for the
purpose of endeavoring to persuade
each of the Powers to legalize the posi-
ton of Prince Ferdinand as ruler of
Bulgaria.
A REPORT became current, on the
18th, that Jay Gould had secured con-
trolling interest in the Union Pacific;
which Russell Sage says is just what is
wanted to straighten out the railroad
situation.
BIZ the wrecking of Her Majesty's
ship Serpent on the rocks twenty miles
north OF Cape Finisterre, on the night
of the 10th, two hundred and forty
seven men were drowned. Only three
men escaped.
News of an uprising in Honduras was
confirmed on the 18th. Order and COM
plete peace prevailed in the rest of the
Central American States, all assuming
a neutral position in the matter, which
is looked upon as unimportant and
purely local.
THE duel between NM. Deroulede
and LaqIerre, as the result of their re-
cent quarrel in the lobby of the French
Chamber of Deputies was fought near
Monceau on the 18th. Four shots were
exchanged without jury to either of
the com batants.
THE health OF Mr.. Balfour, Chief Sec
rotary for Ireland, is SO impaired that
the tour of inspection of the distressed
localities of ireland will not be resumed
at present. He VIII proceed at once to
the West of England, where ho will de-
vote himself to recuperation.
MR- STANLEY has placed at the dis
posal of the London Times all the docu-
ments connected with the controversy
about the rear guard including Bonny's
original report and the officers log
book. The Times began the publica-
ton OF the documents on the 18th.
A TRAIN on the London & rthwest
ern railway, which was crowded with
working people going to their daily la
Dor, collided with a goods train in the
tunnel at Chalk Farm, England, on the
18th. A brakeman was killed and sew
eral of the passengers were severely in
jured.
SERIOUS election troubles are re-
ported from the city of Rosario. in the
Argentine Republic, where party feel
ing ran so high that frequent fights oc-
Cured between the supporters of the
various candidates. The troops were
called out and order was eventually re-
stored, but not until several persons
had been killed and many wounded.
JAMES MCKEEvEI,, a Western Union
iinemaE, was killed by an express
train at Hyde Park, Mass, on the 18th,
while lifting pole that had fallen
across the tracks, pinning down James
III. Finnegan, foreman of the construc-
ton gang. Finnegan was severely
bruised but not seriously injured. His
brave rescuer leaves a family in Nova
Scotia.
THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Car
dinal Manning. four dukes and many
peers, commoners and college professors,
have signed memorial to the lord
mayor of London, asking him to con-
yene a meeting at the Mansion House to
discuss the subject of the persecution of
the Jews in Russia. The lord mayor
has accordingly called such a meeting
for November "a.
Mr. STANLEY will at once prosecute
Mr.. Barttelot, the brother of the late
Major Barttelot, and others for the pub
location of libels in connection with the
conduct of the rear column of his late
African expedition and Mr.. Stanley's re-
lation thereto. Sir Charles Russell and
Mr.. George Lewis a distinguished legal
practitioner of London, have been re-
tanned by Mr.. Stanley.
J. REGINALD BIRCHAIL was hanged
at Woodstock, Ont, on the 14th, at S:26
a. M, for the murder of Frederick c.
Benwell on February Il, $780, The job
was bunglingly done. and the fall
falling to break the condemned mans
neck, he slowly strangled to death,
with awful bodily contortions which
spectators quail
TIE State Department has received n
dispatch from Barbados stating that
the Brazilian squadron under Admiral
da Silyeria would sail from Barbados.
on the 18th, and would reach New York
on the oath. Measures were immedi-
ately taken for the reception of the
distinguished Brazilian with the cor
dialitv and good will accorded to act
ing Rear-Admiral Watkins, at Rio de
Janeiro.
THE scheme to raise $500, 600 to guar
antee the opening of the Johns Hop
kins Medical School for Women received
a great impetus in Baltimore, Md, on
the I4th, when over two hundred ladies,
representing the highest intellectual
and charitable circles from all over the
country, interested in the matter. met
at the Johns Hopkins Hospital to take
measures for raising the balance of the
fund, 500, 900 of which had already been
secured.
JOHN T. BURNS, the Lake Shore en-
rineer whose heroism saved the lives
of his passengers in the wreck at lrv-
ing, n. Y, recently, has received from
Colonel A. Andrews. proprietor of the
Diamond Palace, San Francisco, a
heavy gold watch, suitably inscribed.
Colonel Andrews is the gentleman who
two wears ago presented watch to
Miss Minnie Freeman, the Nebraska
school teacher who saved her scholars
from freezing in the great blizzard.