Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

LIE fOTEc mas informed UTeab DElU-
ain it intends sending fleet to the Red
Sea. - 81 ~ 81
FOURTEEN THOUSAND Yorkshire
(Eng.) miners are idle in Consequence of a
strike of colliery boys. t 8
Levy Bros. e Co., New York cloths
iers, have made an Assignment; liabilities,
3. 470,639. -
AT Dardane1fe, Ark, James Under.
wood was hanged on the 9Th for the murder
of Robert J. Pendergrass.
A TEACHER at Irkutsk, Siberia, was
arrested and shot within twenty-four hours
for striking the Siberian sGovernor-Ge
eral. - =
f. THREE hundred employees are thrown
out of work by the burning of the packing
house of Sinclair & Co., Cedar Rapids. La.
A SAN FRANCISCO pool of operators IS
booked to lose from two to three million
dollars by the decline in wheat freights.
A sLEEPING-CAR on the Chicago ex-
| press, New York Central Road, out of New
York City, took fire near Poughkeepsie on
the 7th and the interior burned out. Two
passengers were scorched.
| The British Government continues to
prohibit Nationalist meetings in Ireland.
The Congressman from the Pacific
| slope held a caucus on the 7th and agreed
ON course to pursue in regard to bill to
remedy defects in the present Chinese I'M
migration law. .s.-., s..5 Ii ~
DISTRICT ATTORNEY PECKHAM, OF
New York, has given an opinion that the
| conviction of dealer for violating the Ii
quor law revokes his license. -se..e-
AT the annual dinner of the Brook
lyn Revenue Reform Club on the 7th Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher made a speech adj
vocating the abolition of the tariff laws.
! THE building record of the season
| for st. Paul, MIMI, shows over $500 new
residences. $S,410,0O0 have been expended
on new buildings during the past summer.
THE United States Brewers Associa-
ton will hold its next annual convention in
Rochester, n. Y, on the third Wednesday
i in May. 1884. The twenty-fifth anniversary
| of the association will be celebrated in New
| York in 1885. - ~
| THE German Crown Prince was ban
quoted the evening of the 9th at Seville.
The Mount Hickory Rolling Mill,
Erie, Pa, was totally destroyed by fire
the morning of the 9th. .s .;.t.- -. -
AT New Haven, Conn.,, the Salvation
| ATUly has openly ucliSo tuC authoi AcAOS. VI
the city.
THE Union Rolling Mill at Cleveland.
O., was damaged $S0,OOO by fire the morn
| ing of the 9th. e.. .--.a .s.. 49,. i..a =
| The puddIers at Lancaster, Pa, have
been notified of reduction in wages to
take effect December 10.
MARYLAND cotton-mill owners say
the business outlook is the least satisfac-
tory they have ever known.
EXPOSURE is made of q corrupt ring
of contractors in connection with the New
York Department of Pubic Works. :
The German Crown Prince will
shortly make visit to the Pope.
The United States Treasury now
holds $432, 131, 397 cash.
FEvERs prevail among the French
troops in Madagascar E..,
THE New York Board of Aldermen
has called for statistics regarding damage
to life and property by electric light wires
BEN BROWN, q colored waiter, has
been arrested at Waterbury, Conn.,, fol-
stealing 81, 900 worth of diamonds from the
Eldridge mansion.
The French have reconnoitred within
two miles and half of BAG Mini.
PROCEEDINGS have begun for dissolu
ton of the charter of the Produce Bank Of
New York for impairment of capital.
THERE will probably be no reorgani
cation of Senate officers till after the holi
days.
A DELEGATION called on President
Arthur on the Sth to ask his interference il
behalf of O'Donnell.
AN early adjustment of relations be-
!, tween Prussia and the Vatican is expected
SANTA Rosa ISLAND, off the coast o
California, contains $4,000 acres, owned b,
one man, who keeps so 600 sheep. His WOO
clip last June was 49, 900 pounds.
THE Southern Pacific train robber
are supposed to have been heard from
.. Five desperadoes robbed the town of Bis
bee, Arizona, the night of the Sth, killing
three men and wounding a woman.
IF. FINLEY, a Colorado ranchman
whose home was at Deer Trail, on the lin
of the K P. Road, committed suicide in hi
, room at Denver hotel the morning of tn
9th by cutting his throat with a razor. Do
nestle infelicity. .-sls.e 81
3 The worsted mills at Millbury
1 Mass, burned; loss $4,000. Fire in tn
/ Standard Bagging Co.'s works at Bosto
? caused loss of $4,000. il..
w. G.. BARRETT and E. j. Cattell
, Philadelphia brokers, are held in $1,000
each to answer a charge of embezzling Sc
curities belonging to customer.
= GEO. FRANCK of Orange, N. j., ha
+ been '.shadowed" by detectives on the hun
a for Phebe Paullin's murderer. They hav
q annoyed him SO that he attempted suicide
r LABAN STEPHENS was convicted o
the Sth at Jackson, O., for participation i
the murder of Anderson Lackey. Th
Jones brothers, previously convicted, hav
n been sentenced to be hanged December
= JOHN HAWKINS, young farmer. hy
:, ing near Bedford, Ind, comm tied suicid
on the 9th by hanging. He leaves larg
family. Ill health and reverse Of FORUM
is supposed to be the cause. - -.
The intercolonial conference at Syo
new voted not to recognize land purchase