Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22

BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS and NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
Two French columns had marched
to queli an Insurrection in Southern Algeria
on the Sth.
NINETEEN nations were represented
in the recent trade mark convention al
Paris, France.
THE anti-Alonopolists of Nebraska
have raised $3.50, 900 to publish new morn.
ing paper at Lincoln.
THE Minnesota Chippewas com.
planned to the Interior Department lately Of
trespass on their lands.
AN electric tram-car recently tested in
London, Eng. ran a distance of four miles,
fulfilling the conditions claimed for it.
THE Secretary of the Interior has
leased several tracts of the Yellowstone
Park for periods of ten years at two dollars
per acre.
THE recent flight of Patrick Eagan
was charged as a moral acknowledgment OF
Land League completely with the Irish In.
vincibles.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Arkansas Legislature which provides the
ldeath-penalty for robbers of railroad trains
stages and steamboats,.
THE Georgia Democratic State Elk.
ecutive Committee has called a convention to
meet at Atlanta, April 10, to nominate Z
candidate for Governor.
The river was slowly falling at Mem
phis and Helena on the 9th, but reports OF
great distress in the inundated districts
were constantly coming in.
A MEETING of the committee of Eng.
lish holders of Virginia bonds at London the
other day resolved to take all possible
measures to vindicate their claim.
The Secretary of the Navy has in.
mediately prepare plans for the five new
war ships provided for by the late Congress,
AT q recent meeting of twenty-one
delegates representing the South Yorkshire
and Lancashire eng iron trades, it was
resolved to restrict the output of finished
iron.
Two new breaks occurred in the Pan
Their Forest Levee, above Helena, Ark, on
the 9th, making four in all, and the whole
aggregating two miles in length and five feet
in depth.
THE New Jersey Senate has passed,
almost unanimously, a bill prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes or tobacco in any form to
minors, under q penalty Of twenty dollars
for each offense.
REAR-ADMIRAL j. w. A. NICHOLSON,
who was in command of the United States
naval vessels present at the bombardment OF
Alexandria, Egypt. in July, 1882, has been
placed on the retired list.
THE National Cremation Association,
to be operated on the cooperative plan, for
the purpose of disposing Of the remains OF
members after demise by cremation, has
been organized in Philadelphia, Pa.
TIE homeopathic physicians of Mas
sachusettes petiioned the Legislature OF
that State recently for the establishment OF
an additional insane asylum, to be under
the control of their school Of medicine.
DIR. EBEN TouRGEE, who sixteen
years ago founded the New England Con-
servatory of Music, in Boston, Mass, now
the largest music school in the world, has
presented the institution to the Board OF
Trustees.
THE river declined slowly at Helena
on the 18th and the levees there still held.
There were several hundred negro refugees
to care for. From Memphis and Arkansas
City the reports were encouraging and il
was claimed the worst was past.
A MEETING of shoe manufacturers in
New York the other day determined to re-
sist in the courts the royalty demanded by
the Donald Mckay Company for the use Of
their machines. The Company's patent eX'
pired July 6, 1879. Since that time ovel
So, DOC, 900 have been paid them.
A SUIT for S5O,OO0 damages has been
brought by Colonel Thomas Worthington.
OF Cincinnati. o., against Third Auditor
Keightley, of the Treasury Department, fol
alleged stateme nts contained in official re
ports that tended to defeat the PLAINTIFF
claim for pay for supplies furnished Camp
Dennison, o., during the war Of the rebel
lion.
PRINCE GORTsCHAKOFF, with whose
career the history of Russia the past quarter
of a century has been intimately linked ,diet
at Baden Baden few days ago, in TIT
eighty fifth year Of his age, after having
been for more than sixty years in officia
employing MT, beginning as legation attach'
and ending as Chancellor Of the Russian
Empire.
THE Secretary of the Interior has de
cided a case involving the claim Of the State
OF California to q tract Of land of about 100,
600 acres lying upon the borders OF Lake
Tulare. The decision approves the Creigh'
ton SURVEY and awards the lands to tn,