Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-10

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BY ELIsD. AXE. !
IRONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
WILLIAM HALLER, q prominent So
cialist, died at Cincinnati on the LIST.
THE Ohio General Assembly voted to
take part as . body in the Inauguration Of
President-elect Garfield.
Mr.. A. w. SoPER has been appointed
General Manager of the st. Louis, Southern
& Iron Mountain Railway. 1st1*@c
THE President, on the LIST, issued q
proclamation converting the Senate in special
session at noon on March 4. st
THE Jury in the case Of Col. Cash.
indicted for. killing Col. Shannon in duel
In South Carolina, failed to agree.
FERNANDO WOOD was member elect
7 Of the .Forty-seventh House, and a special
election will be held in his district to choose
The International Cotton Exposition
Of Atlanta organized with ii. T.. Kimball as
President and Senator Brown Chairman of
i Executive COMMITTEES. a"
PREsIpENT-ELECT GARFIELD and
family arrived at Washington on the morn
ing Of the LIST, having left Mentor by special
$ train at noon on the previous day.
JAY GOULD and party left st. Louis
on the LIST by special train for a tour of in
spection over the railway lines controlled by
him in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkan-
: A DUBLIN telegram of the 28th says
Mr.. Hearne, land agent to the mother Of
the late Lord Mountmorris, was fred at by
two men, near his residence at Ballinrobe,
and mortally wounded. He received six
pistol shots. t@
SIR EVELYN, WOOD succeeds Gen.
Colley, killed in the recent engagement with
the Beers. The latter's defeat it is said
does not seriously affect the military situa-
ton, as the British main body was not in
volved in the fight.
A TERRIBLE gale prevailed off the
coast OF Newfoundland on the LIST. A num-
Der of vessels were lost with all on board.
Every boat in st. Johns Harbor was de-
stroyed. The storm Is said to have been
the worst known in sixty years.
sfH
ii Mr.. E. SMITH, a member of the Chi
cago Beard of Trade, was robbed the other
night of s., 500 in bills and 1850 diamond
pin which he had placed under his pillow
before retiring. He was discovered in an
insensible condition in the morning, having
evidently been stupefed with chloroform.
No clew to the robbers.
THE public debt statement issued
March shows decrease in the debt for the
month of February of $11 ,S43, 155. Cash in
the Treasury, $233, Dos. 176; gold and silver
certificates, So, AZ, 74O; certificates OF de-
post outstanding, 81, 1865, 600; refunding GER
ti6cates, $7S2, $50; legal-tenders outstanding,
$346, 1881 ,o16; fractional currency outstand-
ing, $1,000, 347, less amount estimated as
lost Or destroyed tss,a75, sa4), 81, 144,413.
GEN. CoLLEY, with six companies of
British soldiers, suffered most disastrous
defeat at the hands of the Beers at Spitzkop,
on the 9th ult., Gen. Colley himself being
a killed, together with the greater portion of
his command, which consisted of twenty
two officers and 62Tmen. The British occu-
pied the summit Of hill, up which the
Beers charged four times, the last attempt
to capture It Icing successful, as is alleged,
solely on account of the British running out
of ammunition. A
PRINCESS AUGUSTA VICTORIA, the
d bride elects of the eldest son of the Crown
Prince Of Germany, arrived at Berlin on the
96th, and was publicly received by the EN-
peror and royal family. The occasion was
made grand fete day, business throughout
(, the city being suspended and the streets and
buildings decorated in holiday attire. The
religious ceremony of the marriage was per-
formed on the evening Of the 9th, grand
court reception being afterward held, fol-
lowed by State banquet.
A wRECKING train on the Hannibal &
st. 10. Railroad was dispatched from Brook
field, Mo-, on the morning Of the LIST to the
assistance of a regular passenger train, pre-
yiously ditched, near Bevier. The relief
train encountered q broken rail while going
over bridge near New Cambria, and several
cars were precipitated into the stream, caus-
ing the deaths of five persons and the injury
Of twenty others. Those killed were DIR. O.
H. Wood, w. S. Hallett, John Corners,
George swick, A. Jury and E. F. Lock.
= The Minnesota State Capitol at ST.
Paul burned on the night of the LIST. The
fire broke out while both Houses Of the Leg
islature were in session, and the flames
spread so rapidly that some Of the law
makers had to escape by means of ladders.
The building was burned to the ground, en-
failing a loss to the State of about $100, 600,
besides the destruction Of the Historical and
Supreme Court Library, which can not be
altogether replaced. The State records and
trust bonds were stored in fre-proof vaults
and thereby saved.
THE Irish landlords, in consequence