Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-01

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IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
THE Senate Foreign Affairs Commit
tee has agreed to recommend the passage of
the Mexican treaty.
THE woman suffrage amendment to
the State Constitution was defeated in the
Nebraska Senate few days ago.
PREPARATIONS for the spring drive in
Texas and the Indian country are said to be
further advanced than ever before at this
season.
FIVE of the murderers of Prof. Palmer
and party in Egypt have been sentenced to
death and the others to long terms of i'm
prisonment.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Exposition
$254,O00 on the 18th, with thirty committees
to hear from.
THE Paris (France) Municipal Coun-
ell has adopted resolution granting amnes-
ty to Anarchists tried and condemned at
Rheims and Lyons.
IT was reported recently that Portu-
guese squadron was fitting out to take pos
passion of portions of the West African
coast near the Congo.
THE Iroquois River, from the Indiana
line to the kankakee, was vast lake on the
10th. All the public buildings at Watseka,
ILL.,. were filed with refugees, who were fed
by the generous citizens.
THE flood danger had shifted on the
10Th to the lower river. The Ohio continued
to fall, but from Cairo to Memphis the situ-
- tion was more critical and much suffering
md damage were reported.
AT the scene of the Braidwood Ull.)
mine disaster the pumps were started on
the 10Th. but with not very satisfactory re-
suits. 1t was reported that more miners
were missing and that the full measure OF
the calamity was not yet known.
THE report of the Jeanette Board OF
Inquiry says that the condition of the vessel
at starting was satisfactory, and upholds
De Longs judgment in trying to reach
Wrangel Land to winter, and commends
the conduct and management Of officers and
crew.
FROM statement being prepared by
the Bureau Of Statistics at Washington, D..
c., giving the tonnage of vessels entered at
the principal and other seaports of the
United States from foreign countries from
1858 to 1882 inclusive, it appears that the
tonnage for the year ending June 80, 1882,
amounted to IA, 500, 499.
THE business failures in the United
States and Canada for the seven days ended
on the 10th were 254, being twentv-o
less than the previous seven days, distrib-
uted as follows: New England States, 80;
Western States, 80; Southern States, "a;
Middle States, As; Pacific States and Terri
tories, 9; New York City, Z, and Canada,
II.
In the conspiracy investigation in
Dublin, Ireland, James Carey, one Of the de-
PENDANTS, appeared as a government wit
ness on the 18th. He related his connection
with the Fenian organization since 1862,
and disclosed freely the doings of the Assas-
sination Society. He said Brady was the
man who cut Burke's throat. He cor
roborated Kavanagh's testimony in many
details.
THE high water in the Ohio and its
tributaries was beginning to recede on the
18th, and hope was again revving among
the sufferers. though there were thou
sands still homeless and hungry, as the extra
misfortunes incident to the flood had but
lust commenced. Relief would be needed
yet for several days. At ten O'Clock p. m.
the river at Cincinnati had receded to sixty
three feet five inches, being a fall Of two
feet eleven inches from the highest stage, on
the 18th.
THE first six weeks of 1888 present a
remarkable necrology-in the United States,
ex-senator Morrill,, of Maine; ex-Gov-
errors Marshall Jewell, Davis, of Texas,
and William E. Smith, of Wisconsin
Charles r. Thorne, Jr., the actor; William
E. Dodge, the Christian phiant:ropist;
Clark Mills, the sculptor, and DIR. George
NJ. Beard, the famous neurologist. Abroad,
In the first hours of the new year, Leon
Gambetta, the great French statesman, and
then Dore, the artist. and Wagner, the com :
poser.
THE Mississippi River rose nearly two
feet at st. Louis on the 18th. The Ohio con-
tinued to fall slowly at Cincinnati, where ex-
traordinary measures were being taken to
clear away the sfush and prepare for the re-
sumption of business as fast as the water re-
coded. The gorge broke at Toledo. taking
some bridges, but removing all fear of
further danger. Anxiety along the Lower
Mississippi continued. At Arkansas City
the swamps were filling up rapidly. bad
break was reported in the levee above Vicks.
burg.
THE flood in the Ohio River began to
recede on the 18th, but heavy rains will keep
it at full height for some time to come. At
Lawrenceburg, Ind, the refugees from in
undated districts were housed in the public
buildings. In these crowded quarters fif-
teen babies had been born and numerous
deaths had occurred since the breaking out