Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-23


IRONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
Summary Of Important Events.
SEVERAL heavy coffee importing
firms have failed in New York.
FouRTEEs deaths from diphtheria
have occurred at Fox Lake, Wis, and the
public schools have been closed for the year.
JUDGE STRONG, it is said, will resign
from the Supreme Court bench, to accept
the position Of counsel for the Philadelphia
& Reading Railroad.
THE President has accepted Secretary
Thompson's resignation, and designated Sec
Rotary of War Ramsey to act as Secretary OF
the Navy ad interim.
PRINCE, Democrat, has been reflect
ed Mayor Of Boston, and seven of the twelve
Aldermen are likewise Democrats. The
Council stands 40 Republicans to 26 Demo-
Gratis.
THE Lake Erie and Western Railroad
IS to be extended from some point on its line
between Lafayette and Munice, Ind, to St.
Louis. The me n road will be about $50 miles
long. '3f.
SECRETARY THOMPSON will resign
from the Navy Department to accept the
Craftsmanship OF the American Committee
on De Lesseps' Panama Canal, at salary of
$4,000 q year.,
SEIDENBERG & Co., cigar manufac-
turefs at New York and Key West, Fla, have
failed. Their works are the most extensive
in the country. Liabilities about half mil
lion; assets not stated.
GENERAL GRANT visited Washington
on the 18th, to remain few days. A dele
cation Of the s'Boys in Blue' escorted him
from the railway station to the residence of
General Beale, who entertained him during
lis stay in the city.
NE is reported, upon apparently good
terribly, that Jay Gould has virtually ac-
Louis fple control of the Iron Mountain
g = I .and S through the purchase of 10000
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facts esd il said to be $2,000,0O0.
ANAL Il s,a -
q the SNT caucus of the Republican
10 netf the Senate and House, held on
p cS nnshg of the 9th, resolved that the Re-
world. cninority should oppose the pend
covers a'ale for counting the Electoral vote
IN furopns authorized by parliamentary
no labor -
ting It promplicans and Low-taxers of
:nS i H. p-ora rdy.sid to be maturing combi-
ton to continnovernor Hawkins, Repub
ourselves Of eveaited States Senate, and
Journal as an the gubernatorial chair,
Events .. me eh wosignation of the Lieutenant
sei-rdor.
A STATE Convention of Kansas Farm
ers is called to meet at Topeka, on the 18th
of January, to consider among other things
the relation that railroads sustain to the peo-
pie, and to adopt such measures as will Sc
cure justice between producers, shippers
and transportation companies.
THE fate of young jackson, the
freighter, has finally been ascertained by the
finding Of q portion OF his remains near the
place where he was captured by the Indt-
ans. He was shot and killed. The body of
the indian johnson has been exhumed and
shows that he was shot, as stated by his COM
panions.
The November report Of the Mem
2is Cotton Exchange says the gathering of
~, crop has been greatly retarded by the
and wet weather, not over 63 per cent.
WSn average having been picked to date.
average yield is % per cent. less than
ear. About one-half the crop has been
Tueted.
In 0oNDoN dispatch of the 18th says:
government has definitely agreed upon
Tuegramme regarding special powers for
In Maintenance of law in Ireland. The
,1spension Of the habeas corpus constitutes
An important part thereof, and this will be
proclaimed Immediately upon the conven-
ton of Parliament.
The President has nominated Judge
William b. Woods, Of Georgia, to be Asso-
ciate Justice of the U. 8. Supreme Court,
vice Strong, resigned. Woods Is now U. S.
Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, compris-
ing Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Texas. He was appointed
from Alabama. but is native of Ohio.
AMONG the first bills which will be
reached in the House will be the Eaton Tar
iii bill for the creation of commission of
experts to investigate the Tariff and report
their conclusions and recommendations to
the next Congress. This bill passed the
Senate at the last session and is now lying
upon the Speakers table in the House in
such position as to be one of the first meas
ures reached at the coming session.
PENSACOLA, Florida, suffered by a
disastrous confagration on the night of the
18th. Nine-tenths Of the business portion of
the city was burned, embracing all the build
ings from Romano Street south to Tarragossa
Street, four entire blocks. Among the prin-
cipal buildings destroyed are the Merchants
Hotel, Courthouse, Custom house and
Post-office. There is not a newspaper office,
drug store or stationery store remaining. The
loss isroughly estimated ats 900 900; insured
for about half that amount. The city's
single steam fire-engine was in the shop un-
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