Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-25

grou County 8egister
BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
1t was reported lately that the Lenigh
valley Railroad ksd carried $685., al ton:
OF coal last year
A LETTER Of coincidence was recently
emit by the Russian Princess Dolgorouki on
the death Of Gambetta.
A SENSATION was caused Pesth the
other day by pamphlet predicting war be.
tween Russia and Austria.
The authorities at Montreal insisted
lately upon taxing Jewish temple because
q fair was held In the building.
IT was reported that earthquake
shocks were felt the other day Throughout,
the Province of Mureia, Spain.
The police OF Cleveland, O., recently
completed q census which showed the popu-
aation Of that city to be 1880.
AT Woolwich, Eng, the statue of the
al ~ l. la
the Zulu war was few days ago unveiled
by the Prince of Wales.
AT recent special meeting of the
Portland, Ore, Board of Trade resolutions
were adopted indorsing the action of Cap.
tain Merriman in Smelling the Indian village
in Alaska.
At its session in Des Moines the other
day the Iowa State Agricultural Society Sc
lectsd Des Moines as the place of holding
tie next fair and elected officers for the en-
suing year.
LORD DUFFERIN lately informed the
Egyptian Ministry that Great Britain would
withdraw from the Treasury control, and
suggested the appointment OF European
financial adviser.
REPLYING to question, in the Ger
man Reichstag recently, General Won
Kanuke, Minister of War, said the Gov.
eminent had no cause either to increase OF
improve its artillery.
THE Maritime Exchange at New York
lately protested against the passage of a
pending bill in Congress to transfer the ad-
ministration Of the revenue cutter service TO
the Navy Department
In the suit of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company against the United States.
judgment for plaintiff for $50, 1913 was rem
dered by the District Court of Claims at
Washington the other day.
WILLIAM GOUvERNEUR MORRIS, Col
leetor Of Customs at Sitka, recently stated
that last season q small force of men made
over S25O, 200 by surface digging on the
mountain sides in Alaska.
TIE other day verdict for $4,000
was rendered against the New York & Long
Branch Road in a suit for damages for the
death Of c. W. Woodruff, killed in the ac-
cident near Long Branch last summer.
1t was reported at Montreal, Cana,
lately that project was on foot to unite the
Crank Trunk, North Shore and Rome &
Watertown Railways with the Richelieu
and st. Lawrence Navigation Companies, in
general traffic combination.
STRAGGLING bands of Indians, en-
route from San Carlos reservation to Join
Ju in Sonora, were seen frequently near
Tombstone, Arizona. The Governor of
Sonora the other day ordered out a large
force OF troops to intercept the hostiles.
THE work for the Garfield statute to
be placed in the hall of the old house at
Washington, and for which the Ohio Legis-
1ature appropriated $40, 900 last winter, was
awarded to Henry Neehaus, of Cincinnati
The statue is to be military figure full
size.
AT the Census Office in Washington,
d. c.. one hundred and five clerks were
discharged the other day; $50 clerks re-
manned. 1t was said that if an appropria-
ton was not made within thirty days the
entire Office would be closed until the LIST of
June.
DURING a late session at Providence,
r. l.. the Bricklayers' National Union rec
commended unions TO vote for eight hours q
day, regardless of wages. A recommends.
ton was adopted that fire-proof brickwork
be regarded as brickwork to be done by
regular bricklayers.
The Board of Trustees of the Uni
versity of Lewisburg, Pa. Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary, recently received from
William Bueknell, OF Philadelphia, check
for 81 ,O00. 900. including his own subscrip-
tfon of $500, 200, made on condition that
$4,000 more would be secured.
A FEW days ago Professor Mitchell,
of the Coast Survey, before the Mississippi
River Commission at Washington, D. c.,
pronounced himself as unqualifiedly in favor
of the works in progress on the river. He
thought the entire work of improving the