Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-14

ate, is off, the option having expired
at midnight on the 9th. Mr.. Thomas
Nj. Patterson has purchased the control
ing interest. and will soon assume its
editorial management. Mr.. Patterson
is well-known leading Democratic
politician and criminal lawyer.
THE warfare of the Farmers Ali
ance in North Carolina and the Rich
mond & Danville railroad against Sena-
| tor Vance grows more formidable daily.
HENRY GEORGE and his wife arrived
in London on 18th. He is in excellent
| health and spirits, and expects large
results from his visit to Australia.
A SERIOUS revolt occurred in the
Massachusetts State prison at Charles
town, on the 18th, and the entire avalla-
BILE police of that city and Boston, were
required to assist the warden and his
subordinates in restoring semblance
of order.
THE big paper mill at Beloit, Wis,
one of the model strawboard mills oil
the country, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th. The loss is
estimated at $40, 900; covered by insur-
ance.
ton. of Brooklyn, at Newport, r. l..
was entered by burglars while the fami-
lv were at dinner, on the 18th, and
SIS, 600 worth Of jewely belonging to Mrs.
Knowlton was stolen.
THE deaths from cholera at Jeddah,
Egypt. average 100 daily.
A FATAL case of cholera in Madrid
was reported on the 18th.
THE brick barn on the farm of NJ. Es-
terlee, in Exeter township, near Read
ing Pa, was burned by incendiaries on
the night of the 9th. Loss, $50, 900;
partly insured.
CATIIARINE SWEET, who lives at
Providence, r. l., was the victim of a
murderou5 assault on the 9th. Her hus-
band, Jerome Sweet, thirty-five years
old, an ice peddler, for some reason I'M
explained, poured kerosene oil on her
and set fire to her clothing. The doc
tors say she can not recover. The hus-
band was arrested.
ACTING SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE
BYRNEs of New York City sent out a
general alarm to all the police pre-
cincts, on the eth, announcing the de-
sertion of 800 sailors and marines from
the men-of-war Chicago and Atlanta,
and ordering their arrest By ten
o'clock at night fifty of the deserters
had been captured and lodged in police
sta lions.
THE Treasury Department has grant
ed the application of the Swedish Lin
mean Monument Associa ton for the
free entry OF bronze statue of Carl
Won Lime, recently imported and in
tended for presentation to the Com
missioners of Lincoln Park, Chicago.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th, a
boiler in John Jacoby's saw-mill at Null
berry, Ind, exploded, killing Engineer
Will Shoemaker and injuring John ia
CODY. Allen Jacoby, Mont Rhodes and
two children Of Alfred Collins.
IT is understood that General McCooB,
now stationed at Fort Leavenworth,
Kas., will be placed in command of the
Division of Arizona.
MANAGER GAUL of the Mackey sys-
tenn on the Sth. granted the demands of
the Terre Haute Qnd.) switchmen for
a raise to the Chicago scale. The same
was granted the men at Evansville, and
trains imm ediately began moving and
clearing the blockade which had &C
cumulated during a twenty-four hour
suspension.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, Lord Salisbury
and Count HatZfeldt, the German Am
bassador to London, held a conference
at Osborne House, on the Sth, at which
the formalities in regard to the ces
sion of Heligoland to Germany were
concluded.
TIE remains of William Kemmler
were buried in quicklime in the prison
cemetery at Auburn, n. Y, on the 6th.
PILGRIMS returning from Mecca are
forbidden by the authorities to embark
at Jeddah.
IT is stated that ex-Queen Natalie,
of Servia, has resolved to devote the
bulk of her fortune to the erection of a
nunnery in Russia, IN which she will
install herself as abbess.
EDoUARD DE BAURNFELDE, the most
distinguished Austrian poet of modern
years, died in Vienna, on the Sth, st
the advanced age of eighty-nine years.