Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Chinese are still at Bac-Ninh.
The French have established their supply
depots.
Two men who got into a furnace to
sleep in Reading, Pa, on the night OF the
1st were found suffocated the next morn
ing.
The Egyptian forces are coneentrat-
ing on Khartoum, according to the latest
reports, and civilians continue to leave the
country.
EXCITEMENT and agitation over the
Speakership contest at Washington have
given place to speculation as to the House
committees and their chairmen.
GERMANY has intimated that she is
willing to cooperate with England to pro-
tect the interests of both nations in China.
CONGRESSMAN KELLEY has prepared
bill for the regulation of silver coinage,
which he will introduce at the first oppor-
tunity. .I5 1
The Canadian Government has
opened belt 800 miles long through the
Northwest territories for settlement.
CIGAR manufacturers of Chicago
have declared lockout against members
of Cigar-makers' Union, No. IA.
A LARGE number of indictments for
pension frauds have been returned by the
District of Columbia Grand Jury.
THE skeletons of twenty-three per-
sons and horses were lately found in Dickey
County Oak. 1t is not known how or when
they perished. .-.-. ..I.
CHOLERA is reported at, Foo Chow,
China. ......-,-
SAMoN, the Laconia On. " muir
derer has confessed.
The Europeans at Khartoum have
taken refuge at Berber. -. 80 e
MILWAUKEE has had dozen incen-
diary fires within the past month.
THE Pittsburgh Telegraph and Chron-
icle, evening papers, have consolidated, to
take effect January L. s7a,f SIS a.. F
A HEAVY snow storm struck the New
England coast on the Sd. .a-.a,,.-f
The National Butter, Egg and Cheese
Convention met in Cincinnati on the 4th.
A SILVER lode has been discovered
forty-five miles from Eau Claire, Wis.
THREE children were burned to death
in a tenement-house fire in New York the
evening of the Sd. -.i
SEVERAL large cotton and sugar
Warehouses; UhueO az LiFSi pun oiA WIG W.
loss, f60,0 80
FIVE lodges of Sitting Bulls tribe
from British America have surrendered at
Poplar River.
The steamship Alaska ran down a
pilot-boat off the Long Island Coast on the
Sd. Several lives were lost.
THE Captain and seven men of the
Nova Scotian steamer, Neufield, were lost
recently while trying to save another YES
sci.
CLEARING house transactions for the
past week show heavy falling off, as COM
pared with the corresponding week of last
year. ~.
THE Supervising Inspector of steam
vessels reports that the explosion of the
steamer Colorado at Buffalo, in September,
was due to the negligence and mismanage-
ment of the engineer.
The Governors building at Burlingr
ton, Ia, one of the most important blocks
in the city, occupied by a clothing firm, the
American Express Company, and contain
ing a large number of offices, burned early
the morning of the Sd. Loss, $4,000; in.
surance, $4,000.
JOHN MARTIN, of Elkhart, Ind. while
handling a gun carelessly on the Sd, re-
ceived it's contents in his body. It was
feared he would die.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the actor, had SO
far recovered his voice thai he was ena-
bled to appear in his play at Cincinnati the
night of the Sd, a#F..-