Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-01

gron County gesiste,
BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS and NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
THE Quebec, Cana, Legislature
opened its session on the 18th.
A BILL was the other day introduced
In Congress to pension Kit Carson's chill
dren.
PIP. PICKARD, of Perry County, has
been elected Comptroller of the Tennessee
Treasury.
SENATOR HOAR was reelected United
States Senator by the Massachusetts Legis-
lature on the 18th.
THE Italian Financial Commission
lately decided that specie payment should
be commenced in April.
OVER $4,000 had been subscribed at
Providence, r. l., recently for an equestrian
statue of General Burnside.
KING OSCAR opened the Swedish
Rigsdag on the 18th. The budget showed a
surplus Of 1, 200. 900 crowns.
THE Boston (Mass.) Historical Socie-
ty celebrated the 1O1st anniversary Of the
birth Of Daniel Webster on the 18th.
THE Democratic caucus of the New
Jersey Legislature has nominated John r.
Mcpherson for United States Senator.
In Sioux City, Iowa, the other day,
the frost had penetrated so deep that the
gas mains were separating at the joints.
THERE were 277 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 10Th, against 262 for the pre-
vious seven days.
The International Exhibition of Fine
Arts at Rome was opened the other day by
the King and Queen of Italy. Among the
paintings were seven by American artists.
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IT was reported that smallpox had
developed in the lumber camps near Rat
Portage. Manitoba, the other day, and the
Government had sent out physicians and
nurses.
THE Supreme Court at Providence,
r. l.. recently decreed that the holders of
trust notes against the Sprague estate were
to have dividend of ten per cent, the first
in eight years.
GEORGE DARWIN, son of the late
Charles II. Darwin, the evolutionist, has
been elected Professor of Astronomy and
Experimental Philosophy in Cambridge
University, England.
THE rubber manufacturers of the
United States, recently reported as about to
form 4 combination, met at New York the
other day but failed to unite on a plan to
control the gum trade.
A SUSPENSION of three days per week
was reported to have taken place in all the
collieries of the WiIkesbarre, Pa, district
on the 18th. 1t was thought the suspension
would last until March.
THE Oxford Iron Works at Belvidere,
Nj. which had been idle for some time
past, were the other day reopened by a new
company. The works, it was said, employed
several hundred hands.
The Comptroller of the Currency at
Washington has authorized the old National
Bank of Cambridge, o.. to commence BUSH
ness with a capital Of $1,000, 200 to succeed
the First National Bank.
AT the Republican Legislative caucus
held at Topeka, Hans, the other afternoon
to nominate a United States Senator, Pres
ton B. Plumb received the unanimous vote
of the caucus on the first rol-call.
IT was said lately that Japan was
about to adopt the American system of rail-
road building, and had organized union
steamship company, with a capital Of
So, 900, 600, to develop the trade of the En-
pire.
IT was said lately that there was
proposition for the State of New York to
purchase some $1,000 acres of land in the
Adirondack region and make a public park
of it, on the same plan as the Yellowstone
project.
IT was announced in q recent tele-
gram from Paris, France, that the balloon
in which Powell. a member of the British
Parliament, persisted in December, 1881, had
been found in the mountains of Surra del
PhedroZa, Spain.
THE Marquis of Harrington, the
British War Secretary, in \ recent speech in
London. Eng, declared that home rule
could never be permitted in Ireland, and
secuted the idea that the Government should
find funds to establish 4 peasant proprie-
tary.
THE Coroner's Jury who investigated
the recent locomotive explosion at Mans
field, La, by which three persons were
killed and several wounded. returned ver-
dict that the locomotive was made OF old
iron worked over and sold to the company
for new.
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