Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-29

gron County aeeister
BY Eli D. AXE.
IRONToN, = :, MISSOURI
NEWS And NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
TIE Democratic caucus in Rhode
Island has instructed for William Sprague
for Governor.
The Canadian Government last year
operated l,o97 miles of railroad it is said at
net loss Of S13.4s3.
! The Empcccr of Germany has de
clined to accept the resignation ct Admiral
Won Stosch, Mfnister OF Marine. e..
IT is said ire projected works for the
improvement OF the Delaware breakwater
will require i've years for coEspletion.
The issue of standard silver dollars
for the week ended on the Eth was S191,
500; for tie corresponding period last year,
$132, 0gG- .-......,-. .-..--.. .r
The krabs in the districts of Assyr
and Yeaaer, Arabia, have risen in insur.
rection sand are in daily conflict with the
Turkisd. troops. -..g .ll.F s~- .r.
TREE captains and five lieutenants
of the regular army We're placed on the re.
tired list on the 10th for disabilities incur
red IN the service. az 80 H.'a .s-
THE Peninsular Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company has been incorporated tC
run from New York to Yucatan, Chiapas,
Tallahassee and Oayaca.
Count DE CHAMBoRD, replying to an
address from the workingmen OF Lyons re-
Gently. declared that the Republic wa:
leading France to ruin.
EFFORTS were being made recently tc
have the Arkansas Legislature extend the
time Of tax payment to planters who hat
lost heavily by the overflow. rs
"A DISPATCH from Vicksburg, Miss.
on the 10th, announced that the Iazo'
country, WHeTe Tue loOOt 1 c
ported serious, was now safe.
A COURT-MARTIAL has been ordered
to try Commander Horace E. Mullin, wht
had charge of the steamer 'Ashuelot wher
she was lost on the coast Of Asia.
THE business failures reported in the
United States and Canada for the seven days
ended on the 10th numbered 90, twenty
seven less than the week previous.
GENERAL DIAz was being hand
sornefy entertained at st. Louis, Mo-, on the
10th, from whence he would 60 to New
- York as the guest of General Grant
REV. S. d. Cox, of Washington, has
been appointed President Of a church board
of extension by the Conference OF the NJ. E.
Church, South, at Charlestown, W. Va.
THE New York Supreme Court has
continued the injunction restraining the
Manhattan Elevated Railroad Company
from carrying into effect the merger agree.
ment. ..-..... t...
only five feet of water remained to
be pumped out of the Diamond Mine a
Braidwood, H., on the 18th, and the bodie.
any time.
TT was reported on the 10Th that two
OF the Arkansas train robbers had been cap.
tured near Fayetteville by the Sheriff OF
Franklin County, and that they had made
confession.
"A TREMENDOUS explosion occurred
on the 18th in some Of the Government, Off
ces at London, Eng, and it was generally
believed that an attempt had been made &c
blow up Parliament.
EFFORTS were being made in the
British Parliament recently to cause the
Government to hasten measures for the re-
covery from the United States OF the sur
plus Of the Alabama award.
THE ice in the Yellowstone River
broke at Glendive, MIMI, the other da,
while. mail-carrier and two other mer
were crossing, and when last seen they were
floating down the river on the ice.,
INDIAN AGENT TUFTS, of the Musco-
gee agency, has reported to the Secretary Of
the Interior that there was danger OF q bat.
tie between the opposing factions of the
Creek Indians and asked for troops tc
maintain order.
a TAILORING firm of Denver, Colo,
has begun action for conspiracy and
fraud against the Tailors' Union of thai
city. for having induced journeymen in the
firms employ to quit work, greatly to the
injury of the business of the firm.
ISLAND No. 81, located in the Missis
sippi River, forty five miles south OF Helena
Ark, had been almost completely washed
away by the fioud on the 18th. Report:
from all points on the river below Vicks.
burg we're of the most encouraging charac-
ter.'f s ...