Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19
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don It's fueDlO ancA st. Louis line, and
to stop its exte asion in New Mexico
about half way between Coneios and
Santa Fe. Orr the other hand, the At
Gibson Comp any agrees not to build to
Denver or Leadville, or to any other
point west of the line of the
Denver and Rio Grande Road at
Pueblo, where the line is to end.
The A'chison Company is granted the
privi' .ege of building a line to its coal
field in Colorado, which is to he used
for coal trains emily. Various stipula-
til ,ns in regard to compensation, the
division of the southern business, etc.,
are included liz the agreement. which is
to continue for 10 years and is to be
protected by G. decree of the Court.
TIE consolidated Pacific Railway |
lines are hereafter to be designated as
the Union Pacific Railway Company
S.H. H. Clark is to be General Manager;
with headquarters at Omaha; James T.. 1
Clark, General Superintendent of the
Union Division, Omaha; S. T. Smith,
General Superintendent CT the Kanses
Division, Kansas City; j. M. Yannel2,
Auditor; Thomas L. Kirnball, General
Passenger Agent; E. P. Nining, Genszal
Freight Agent; all at Omaha.
THE Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention, held at Harrisburg on the
4th, elected delegates pledged to1ote
for the nomination of Gen. Grant for
President at the Chicago Conven-
ton. The resolution to instruct
the delegates to support Gen. Grant
and to vote as a unit on all questions
that may come before the Convention
was hotly contested, but was carried by
vote of 1873 to 113.
TIE New York Herald has opened an
Irish relief fund and headed it with the
handsome sum of 800, 900. The Herald
says: 'sReturns by counties from Ire
land show that 312, $50 persons are slow
ly starving, and the outlook for the COM
ing month is gloomier than prediction
has yet painted. Local efforts are be-
coming feeble. People look to the world
for suceor.''
The British Parliament was opened
on the 9Th. There was royal pro-
Keession to the Parliament House. The
2I3een,a saeeca &as r 81 toby by aaa
Icy should such step beoon,o
necessary, and they have also stimn1stoJ
tne employment of labor bv adraaoou
vi Terms more liberal than those nre
scrloed by the existing lava pro
posai viii be submitted to you for nro.
lung Iunds required for these excent +
aona. advances on security of pronertv il
a: administered n by the Church Temnorai o
Tues Commissioners az
IHE report of the special co,,,;.4 81 :,
u tne Indian Commission appointed ~ b,
investigate the case of ex-Commiss; ia
1ay1 mas been published. The oo..
ra .'ee ma upon the evidence that the
;" was fully informed re-
alulng the sale and purchase of tho :,
aanng'on Mine in Arizona, which h tm'
= s'nsac',on was carried out by ex-Agent
arr ana son of Commissioners H. or,
eo In the matter under $2.t
u assumed .s name of Edward Knapp. rise
III that Inspector Hammond acted I
"so-oetween in effecting the neooti- has
'on. Inc ostensible purchaser of tb;s Sou
rus was a Mr.. Hagencamp of New fro o.,
'Sey' businessS associate of NJ.
Iyt's. The ev;dor VI Mf. chill,
commissioner withheld imnortont ' ~
cbarooa IN reference pital
lilo ponoing against Agent Hart. stroy
: no positive proof was elected ing o
.ne commissioner was corr,,ntl,- in tn
rested In the mine transaction nv ~ rescu
promising Agent Harris offenses on. . aged
o ~ for his share tbera;n ~
= find Hayt's removal NO. curra,
o proven facts in the case Atlani
also state that no evidence was drifts
~ showing any employees of the the wi
IN Service. other tho 'ho the III
~, were implicated in the transao t nn y
Inc report of the committee was was en.
TED by the full Board. ~ At
lne purchase of the lines of road ao, $
ng from Selma, Ala, to Pensaco1. si s,nu
eat Louisville & Nashville Railwav wife. !
lia.ion has secured an extension get, a
uul1 OF Mexico, complet;no o. the hou.
ken line from CHICAGO 70 a. gu about Il
of Pensacola Row o oeep to the he
called hi
bill, to provide fo,. ~, The Do
ment of crimes unon ~ ~ Tue burned a
tions, has bee, ',o ihuian borhood,
use Comn,;t4 eeu upon by AT the tin
Do a. on Indian Affairs. der arrest
'."' the laws of the States The III
IN which are located the will repor
ions' relating to the crimes of Agricultu
manslaughter, arson. rano The r,
and robbery shall starvation
and taken IN ha oe tradicted.
thin such rosor.: "no IN Israel B
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