Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-27

Sroll County gegister
By ELI D.sAKE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
SENATOR SABIN, of Minnesota, has
been elected chairman of the Republican
National Committee.
The efforts to persuade the O'Donnell
Jurors to join IN recommendation for res
pite proved unavailing. i.=, 90 So IRE
THE ceremony of comforting the pal
lium on Archbishop Elder was solemnized
at Cincinnati on the 18th.
A CARGO of 100, 900 cwt. of American
wheat recently arrived at Laubein, Bohe-
mia, the first American wheat ever received
there. .
GENERAL ANsoN G. MCCooK was
nominated on the 18th by the Senate Re-
publican caucus for Secretary of the
Senate.
THE business failures in the United
States and Canada for the week ending the
14th numbered 325, against 3O7 the proceed
ing week.
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would be easier to defeat Ell Mahdi by al
lowing him to push down the Nile to the
first cataract.
THE German Crown Prince arrived
at Rome the morning of the 18th. He was
welcomed to Genoa on the 10th with great
pomp and ceremony.
Ii seems the Egyptian troops did not
desert in the late battle near Suakem.
More than 400 corpses have been counted
on the field by British officers.
THE articles of Incorporation filed by
the Bennett Mackey Cable Company cover
routes to various countries in Europe, the
West Indies, Mexico. China and Japan.
CONGRESSMAN ROBINSON, Governor
elect of Massachusetts, has been granted
indefinite leave of absence, and on the 14th
took leave of the House and left for home.
THE British Government notified
Egypt Great Britain is unable to interfere
in Soudan, but will try to induce the Porte
to dispatch an expedition thither by way
THE Japanese Government is indig-
nant because an exhibit of goods just from
the factory, displayed at the Boston Expo.
sition was described by the Boston journals
as "a rare collection of ancient works of
art" -.. ..
THE Democratic Senatorial caucus at
Washington on the 18th agreed upon the
same candidates for officers of the Senate
nominated two years ago, and resolved to
resort to no dilatory opposition to organi-
cation.
A CHOCTAw murderer was executed
at Scullyville Courthouse, /. T., on the
18th. The Sheriff and a deputy held the
mans hands while another deputy shot
him with a revolver, in accordance with
the sentence of the Court.
THE police raided five Chicago gam
bling-houses at one o'clock the morning of
inmates. The faro and roulette tables,
chips and other gaming outfits captured
were taken to the police station and
burned. e ..s- .F.
A BURGLAR who was removing from
Cincinnati to st. Louis was stricken with
paralysis on the train on the 18th, which
possibly accounts for his falling into the
hands of the police on his arrival at st.
Louis. A complete outfit of burglars tools
was found in his luggage.
A DISPATCH of the 18th from Schney-
den, Holland, says the coast in that vi
cinity was strewn with casks of powder
and dynamite from wrecked vessels. Forty
thousand kilogrammes of powder and SOC
kilogrammes of dynamite were picked UP
by the customs authorities.
AT Durango, Col, on the night of the
10th, Bruce Hunt, son of Ex-Governor Hunt,
was shot and killed by "Big Ike," a negro
desperado, who was in the act of robbing
the Bank of Durango. Hunt was one of a
party who had been waiting for the rob-
bers. The murderer escaped.
THE Winona & st. Peter Railway
Company's elevator at Winona, Mimi, to
gether with $4,000 bushels of barley con
tanned therein, burned on the 18th. The
Schlitz Brewing Company's warehouse and
the Diamond Joe floating dock took fire
from flying embers and were also destroy
ed; loss $125,0O0.
ROBBERS entered the house of S. p.
Creasinger at Maple Rapids, Mich, the
morning of the 18th, chloroformed Mr.. Z
ransacked the premises, securing $500 IL
money and a quantity of other valuabtes
and then set fire to the house. Mr.. Crea
singer recovered his faculties in time tt
make his escape from the burning building