Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-17

THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has purchased the Philadelphia, Wilmington
& Baltimore Road.
WILLIAM P. FRYE has received the
Republican nomination for Senator from
Maine, to succeed Blaine.
THE members of President Garfeld's
Cabinet, with the exception of Mr.. Lincoln,
were all sworn in on the 7th.
THE Apportionment bill, passed by
the House, was not acted upon by the SEN
ate, and therefore failed to become law.
JUDGE BANCROFT DAVIS, Assistant
Secretary Of State to Hamilton Fish, has been
rendered and has accepted the same position
under the present Administration.
Mrs. FRANCES E. WILLARD, heading
committee Of Temperance ladies, on the
9Th visited the White House and presented
to President Garfield an oil portrait of Mrs.
Hayes, which was designed and subscribed
for in commemoration Of her determined
stand for Temperance. President Garfield
accepted the gift, on behalf of the Nation, in
few well chosen words.
GEN. GRANT arrived in Washington
on the It'll, and was reported to be in close
conference with Logan, Cameron and Conk-
ling, the event causing no little speculation
in political circles. The Globe-DenaocrGt's
special is authority for the statement that
the Stalwarts are anything but pleased with
some Of the Cabinet appointments, that OF
McVeigh being particularly obnoxious.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, on the 9Th,
peremptorily removed from Office st. Louis
Police Commissioners Finney and Moffet,
the Governors previous polite request for
their designations having been unheeded.
The Governors action is based upon the re-
cent renort of the Grand jury, which ami
madverted quite severely upon some of the
official actions of the Commissioners named.
JAMES w. MCDILL, of Alton, Union
County, Iowa, has been appointed by the
Governor of Iowa United States Senator to
fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Senator Kirkwood. Mr..
McDill was born in Ohio in 1884, removed
to Iowa in 1877, served several terms as Cir
Of the FoTty-third and Forty fourth Con-
RIcSScSs nc HAS uCtC tdhSu ally SC1y oCOlNC
part in politics.
THE Democratic Senatorial Caucus,
held on the 7th, resolved to at once organize
the Senate, maintaining the old committees
as far as practicable. The Republican eau
Gus protested against organizing until the
Senatorial vacancies are filled, and it was
given out that should the Democrats insist
on doing SO the Republicans would reorgan-
ize as soon as they could secure majority.
There was also some talk of the special ses-
sion Of Congress being held.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD sent to the SEN
ate, on the 9Th, the following nominations
for Cabinet officers, which were unanimous
ly confirmed without reference or roll-call:
James G. Blaine, of Maine, Secretary of
State.
William Window, of Minnesota, Secretary
of the Treasury.
Wayne Mcveigh, Of Pennsylvania, Attor-
ney-General.
Thomas L. James, of New York, Postmas-
Samuel j. Kirkwood, of Iowa, Secretary
of the Interior.
Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois. Secretary of
War.
william Fl. Hunt, of Louisiana, Secretary
Of the Navy.
OEChE4Ah1 bLAINE llC1S StuG d lOtC
to the British Legation on the subject Of the
false reports sent by the Acting British
Consul at Philadelphia in regard to the prev
alence of disease among swine of the West
ern States. The Secretary reiterates
the statements made in Evarts's
note of the It'll of March, that all means
of information at the recourse of the De-
partment concur in showing the late pub
lished report as wholly without foundation,
and sends copies of resolutions of the Mer-
chants Exchange Of St. Louis and Chamber
of Commerce of Cincinnati, explicitly deny
ing the report Of disease among swine, and
showing the condition Of the stock in the
States Of Ohio and Illinois is exceptionally
healthy.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES and family left
Washington. by special car, on the 9th, en-
route to their Ohio home. At Severn Sta
ton, twelve miles from Baltimore, while
rounding curve at high rate Of speed, the
train came into collision with another train
Of empty passenger cars, drawn by two loco
motives, also running at full speed. The
effect of the collision was to throw the three
locomotives into the ditch, each q
shapeless wreck. The first and second
passengers-cars were partially telescoped
together. The car occupied by ex-Presi-
dent Hayes's family was the fifth in the
train ard escaped uninjured, although its
occupants were pretty badly shaken up. j.
Wyman Young, of Shamokin, Pa, was in
stantly killed, and some six other passengers
occupying the first car were more or less in
jured. OF the train men, John Oliver, a
baggage was killed; Harry Free
burn, engineer, fatally injured, and several
others seriously hurt.
THE Congressional Committee of the
National Greenback party has issued an adj
dress to the people Of the United States. The
national banks and railroad and telegraph
companies as at present controlled are de-
clared to be inimical to the rights of the peo-
pie, and no redress for existing grievances
can be looked for from either of the old par
ties. The Committee therefore earnestly
advises the formation Of clubs in every city,
village and town in the United States, with
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