Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-08

gran Gonmtp greister
BY ELI D. AXE.
1RoNTON, MISSOURI
NEWS and NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
The British Government has fur
nished Irish informers with iron huts TO,
their protection.
81. A MASSACHUSETTS Legislative Com
nnittee has reported in favor of municipal
suffrage for women.
THE American Peace Society has
hcome into possession of So, 900, bequeathed
by Rev. George c. Beckwith. ...
THE State Department at Washington
fhe other day made formal request of the
S6uauidu ouIuOTltieS IOr the return OF Hall,
the New jersey fugitive.
IT was reported from Nashville, Tenn,
on the 9th that the accountant had found
the deficit of NJ. T. Polk, late State Treas.
urer OF Tennessee, to be $292, 427. 10.
: The Judiciary Committee of the
Maine Legislature has reported against
changing the time of holding the State elec.
lions from September to November.
THOMAS M. BOWEN and H. A. w.
Tabor were elected United States Senators
for the long and short term respectively, on
the 9th, by the Colorado Legislature.
THE death of Henry E. Lightner, at
the age of eighty-tour, occurred at Balti-
more, Nd, few days ago. He was the
hero of Keys "star. Spangled Banner"
The business failures in the United
States for the seven days ended on the Goth
were 81, against 274 for the seven days
previous. Seventy occurred in the Western
States.
THE British troops engaged in ma
neuvers at Alexandria, Egypt, ON the Goth, in
imitation of the siege of Cairo. The dis
play gave rise to rumors among the natives,
creating some excitement.
A ABORTION of JUS band of Apaches
were committing depredations near Del Rio,
16O miles west of San Antonio, Tex, the
other day, and Indians in large numbers
were reported on the Mexican side.
THE Court of Claims, in session at
no dou do
Judgment for $50, $50 in favor of the eX-
ecutors of James Green for the use of the
Mansion House, at Alexandria, Va, during
the war.
IT was reported at Washington the
other day that the claim made by Red Cloud
for compensation for ponies taken and sold
by the Indian Bureau revealed the fact that
no record could be found to show where the
money went.
THE Piute Indians in the northern part
of Nevada and near the line Of Oregon were
reported to be in a starving condition the
other day. The intense cold had prevented
them from hunting. There were said to be
about 500 Of them.
DAvITT, in a speech at o meeting of
the Land League ut Dublin, Ireland, re-
Gently, said that if Gladstone could give a
legislative blow to laudIordism his name
would be revered by every generation of
the liberated victims.
THE Kentucky courts lately overruled
q motion to quash murder indictment on
the ground that the jury was chosen in ac-
cordance with the State law from whites ex-
clusivelv. The United States Supreme
Court has reversed the ruling.
IT was announced at Washington on
the 25th that Rear Admiral Pierce Crosby
had been ordered to command the United
States naval station in China, and that Com
modore Temple would be ordered to COM
mand the South Atlantic squadron.
LYONS, France, was reported in
state Of great excitement January 2Sth. It
was rumored that Anarchists intended to
storm the prison OF St. Paul, where Prince
krapotkine was confined. Troops and po-
lice were posted in the neighborhood of the
prison, and other precautions We're taken.
AT the Trades Assembly meeting at
Cincinnati, o., the other night it was
stated that the difference between the mol
ders and stove manufacturers, which began
with the year by proposal to reduce wages
fifteen per cent, had been adjusted by ar
bitration, and work would be resumed with
out reduction in wages.
A RECENT telegram from Dublin,
Ireland, stated that important evidence had
been obtained in regard to the preparation
of outrages the last two years in the west
OF Ireland. The police it was said antici- |
pated capturing all members of the oIgani-
cation which promoted the crimes, also per-
sons concerned in the murder Of Lord |
MounimOrriS,