Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-24

grou Gonutg gegister
BY ELI D. AXE.
IRoNToN. MISSOURI
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NEWS AND NOTES.
A summasyof Important Events
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A DREADFUL pIsgue is playing sad
havoc in the villages of Mesopotamia-
GENERAL EcKERT says twelve hun
dred miles Of Western Union wires will be
laid this year toward Mexico and the Pacific.
CARL SCHURz has been banqueted by
the German-American citizens of Baltimore,
and will receive similar compliment in
Boston.
THE Navy Department has purchased
the whaling steamer Mary and Helen, for
500, 600, to be sent IN search of the missing
Arctic explorer Jeanette.
IT is not believed that Alexander III.
will in any material way modify the repres-
sive policy against the disaffected In Russia
which was carried outby his father. -
GOVERNOR PILLsBURY of Minnesota
has appointed Gen. A. J. ,Edgerton to the
United States Senate, to fill the vacancy
made by the appointment Of Window to the
Cabinet. e :.
GENERAL HANCOCK was entertained
by the Manhattan Club in New York City,
on the night OF the 18th, nearly all the lead
ing Democrats of the city being present,
the most notable exception being MI. Tilden.
THE Mexican Telegraph Company's
cable from Brownsville, Texas, to Vera Cruz,
via Tampico, has been completed and con-
gratulatory messages have been exchanged
between the Presidents Of the United States
and Mexico. aA 3aC so f3@
BRIG.-GEN. EMORY UPTON, U. S. A.,
committed suicide by shooting, on the 10Th,
near San Francisco. Gen., Upton was q
well-known authority on military tactics,
and author of work on that subject The
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ajs JOHN T. RICH has received the Re-
publican neutrality-suspicious. to an cleo
tion-for Congress In the Seventh Michigan
District, to fill the place of Conger, resigned.
Mr.. Rich Is a member of the present State
Senate and has twice served as Speaker of
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THE Czarowitch has assumed the gov
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THE President has nominated Stanley
Matthews, Of Ohio, Associate Justice Of the
United States Supreme Court; Don a. Par
dee, Of Louisiana, United States Circuit
II .Judpe at the. Fifth Judicial Circnit. John
W.. Powell. of Illinois. Director Of the United
States Geological Survey; Thomas j. An
derson, Postmaster at Topeka, Kansas. !"
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AhE WeA-knoWn passenger steamer
.tirely DESTROYED by fire at her wharf in St.
Louis on the night of the 18th. She had Just
arrived from New Orleans with a large list
/. Of passengers, 4 when the fire f. broke
out under a. the cabin stairway in
the forward part OF the boat. The
flames spread SO rapidly that all on board
had to fee for their lives, leaving their bag
gage behind them. The GOODNESS OF Captain
Bryan was doubtless the means of saving
many lives. The Howard was built in 1870,
and cost $24O, 900. Her cargo was valued at
100000. .f a.4ss s.es 4as.
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aIter three years gOod BEHAVIOR The same
privilege will be accorded political 'eziles,