Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DAVID NJ. REID. eX-state senator of
Connecticut, died, on the 5th, at
Bridgeport. He was chairman of the
Connecticut Worlds fair managers.
THE Lehigh Valley strike has been
settled. President Wilbur and other
officials of the railroad company, on
the 5th, met the state boards of arbi
tration of New York and New Jersey.
Terms of virtual agreement were
reached, although they had to be rati-
fed by the grievance committee. After
the conference the state boards sub
mitted the terms to the cOmlnlttee
mentioned.
AT meeting of the senate finance
committee, on the 5th, Senator Voor-
ling the tariff bill in the senate. An
other important development was the
determination expressed by a number
of the democratic members of the COM
mittee to take up the tariff question i'm
mediately.
IN fire at Langdon, Pa, on the 4th,
which destroyed six dwellings, Jacob
Gunnly's 6-year-old child persisted in
the flames.
A PERMANENT camp for German
troope has been esta bIished in Rhen-
ish Russia. near the Belgian frontier.
1t is intended as a point of concentra-
ton for eight army corps.
The funeral of Maj" Pauline Cush-
man, the female Union spy, took place
at San Francisco. on the 9Th, under the
auspices of the Woman's Relief Corps.
The Pennsylvania steel works at
Steelton. Pa, giving employment to
about 5, 500 men. will close down from
Christmas until February, and perhaps
longer.
THE grip is epidemic in Leavenworth,
Kas., and the death rate is the great
est ever known there.
Mrs. JULIA HUFF, a Young lady en-
ployed in the family of NJ. ii. Nc
Arthey, in Cleveland, o., was muir
dered on the evening of the 18th, in
| front of the house by a man with
whom she had been walking. He sud
denly turned upon her and cut her
throat from ear to ear. He escaped.
Mrs. LUTHER ORR. % years old, COM
mitted suicide at her home in Fort
Scott, Kas., on the 5th, by cutting her
throat with razor. She committed
the deed while standing in her parlor
HcT 1-flOuIu-olt udoS III ueT
arms. When neighbors were attracted
by the infants screams her lifeless
body was found lying across the child
on the floor.
| THE Brazilian cruiser America. which
sailed from New York for Rio Novem-
Der %, for the purpose of fighting the
rebel Admiral Mello's war ships, is ly-
ing at Bridgetown, Barbados, SO Sc
riously disabled by the act of an UNI
known traitor among her crew that
she will probably be unable to con-
tinue her voyage for several weeks.
| The Haskell & Barker Car Co. of
Michigan City. Ind, which shut down
last August, resumed operations on the
nth. The company employs 5000 men.
about half of whom were given work.
THE inquest upon the remains of the
late Prof. Tyndall resulted in YER
dict that the professor died from an
overdose of choral accidentally admin.
istered by his wife in mistake for sui
phate of magnesia.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL OI.NEY has ap
pointed W. NJ. b. Shaw special assist
ant to the United States attorney for
the district of Kentucky.
THE directors of the Manchester (En
gland) ship canal made q private I'M
spection of the whole length of the
canal on the 7th. The formal opening
of the canal will take place on Jan
uary 1. when the ship sophie Wilhel
NINA, from Nova Scotia. and two steam
:. ers from Galveston, TEX, laden with
d cotton, will lead the profession of ship.
Oefrom Eastman to Manchester.
NEARLY 800, 900 IN hold was fount
ecreted in the bed from of the lat.
1seph Deitcf at Iyenapolis, on tn,
nniech WA brew and CAV,
xeely TO bene sstitufiona II
tWm he provisS< I
Ting not lnss kh3 ~