Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-01-13
NEWS AND NOTES.

4 summary Of Important Events.
FIFrY-kINE national banks were or.
ganized in 1880, eleven passed into vol .ant.ry
liquidation, and three failed.
JUDGE WILLIAM B. W5ops, the new
~ appointed Associate Justice, has taken
his place on the supreme Bench.
TIE State police claim to have discov-
cred new secret organization of Socialists
extending over the whole of Germany.
COMMUNICATIONS with the Transvaal
is entirely Interrupted by the cutting Of tele-
beyond a few beleaguered parties the country
has passed entirely out of the control of the
British.
THE !. Hodge Opera-house and the
Gargling Oil building, adjoining, at Lock-
port, N. Y, were burned on the 9Th. Sew
eral firemen and citizens were injured by
falling walls. Loss about 500, 600; insur-
ance, $4,000.
REV. JOHN WEsTRUP, who was ap-
fist missionary to Mexico, was murdered
and horribly inutilated by twenty Indians,
near Monterey, on December 81 The Mex
lean authorities gave chase, and captured
three of their race who were concerned in
the murder.
The Land League trials at Dublin are
progressing quietly. The impression pre-
walls that the traversers will be acquitted. 1t
is reported that Enfield rifles have been for
some time regularly shipped from Birming-
ham to Ireland. The Government has or
dered the removal of the locks from rifles in
the armories of volunteers.
ABSTRACT of the public debt state
ment, Jan. 3: Decrease during December,
$500, 43o; cash in Treasury, $685., 299, 739;
gold and silver certificates, So, 241, O10; GER
tificates of deposit outstanding, 81 ,005, 900;
refunding certificates, 1922, 400; legal-tenders
outstanding, S346, 1851 .016; fractional curren-
cy outstanding, 81, TAI $50. Total debt, 3d.
099, 1856, o96; total interest, 21,596,379.
The Cheyenne River and Lower
Brule Sioux have accepted the terms offered
them by the Chicago & Northwestern and
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroads
for rights Of way through their reservation.
They are to receive S. per acre for every acre
Of land taken by. the railroads. The con-
tracts were duly signed at Washington in
the presence Of the Secretary Of the Interior.
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The Legislatures of California, Ne
vada, Tennessee and Texas met ON the Sd Of
January; Delaware, Florida, Nebraska, New
York. Ohio and Pennsylvania on the 4th;
Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Mime.
sofa, Missouri and North Carolina on the 9Th ).
Indiana and Mississippi on the 9Th; Con-
necticut on the 7th; Arkansas on the 10th;
Kansas and New Jersey on the 18th; West
Virginia and Wisconsin on the 18TH. ~
TEN lives were lost by a. tenement
house fire in New York City, on the morning
of the 4th.. = Plumbers were thawing out
some frozen water pipes at No. 80 Madison
Street, when can Of gasoline used by them
exploded, setting fire to the surrounding
wood work. The flames quickly commune
Gated to the stairway, up which they rushed
with terrific volume, cutting Oft this means
of escape to the occupants of the
upper floors. The building was five
stories high and occupied by eight families.
Those on the lower floors jumped from the
windows and escaped with more or less
bodily injuries. The upper floor was occu-
pied by Mrs. Ellen Sheridan and her family
of four children and Mrs. Cassidy and three
children. These, together with girl named
Egan, were all suffocated or burned to death.
GENERAL WALKER, the Census Su-
perintendent, has issued a statement giving
the population of the various States and
Territories. In some instances the figures
are appropriated, but they are very nearly
correct. New York leads all the States with
population OF 5,Os3, 173. Pennsylvania fol-
lows with 4,2S2, 1873. Ohio comes third with
3,197, 1914, and is closely followed by
Illinois with 4 population of 3,07S,636;
Missouri has 2, 1859, O91; Indiana, ,97S, 1858;
Kentucky, 1,64S.599; Iowa, 1924, 463, and
Michigan, 1,634, 096- Kansas has 995, 1876.
Nevada, with 62,265, is the State of the small
est population, and Delaware's is the next
smallest, being 1864. Colorado, the
youngest of the States, had 1914 $40 people
when the census was taken. OF the Terri
tories, Utah, with 143, 907, has the most peo-
pie, and Dakota, without Mormons, has
1874, 500 peopie. The total population OF the
United States il 81, 152, $50. ~ .als.e'.5st sssf
A DUBLIN telegram of the 1st an
nounces that arrangements are being made
for the organization Of flying columns
to- scour the country, as was done
during the Fenian rising. It is intend
ed to start nine columns-two from Dub
lin, two from the Currah, one from
Athlone, one from Cork, one from Fermoy,
one from Limerick, and one from Belfast.
Each column will consist Of troop of cav
airy, division of artillery with two
grlns, four companies Of infantry, ten
sappers, detachment OF the
Army Service Corps, detachment of the
Hospital Corps, and one ambulance wagon.
Three thousand soldiers are now stationed
inDnblin. =. "a dispatch from Cork says
the want Of employment everywhere is felt,
and nowhere more keenly than In those dis
tricts where the agitation has taken the
greatest hold. Extraordinary efforts are be-
ing made in different parts Of the country
for the purpose OF starting public works.
Land League meetings, announced