Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-13
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

A summary OF Important Events.
The public debt reduction for No
iSenber was 81 ,721 ,676.
THE excess value of exports over inn
> ports in October was $15.os1 ,5s6.
TIE Germans want to establish in
ternational regulations for sale of explo-
a sives: 80 i ESSE R+
CARDrNAL McCABE has issued pas
toraf letter denouncing secret societies in
Ireland. -
ANOTHER discretionary movement
has been discovered in the Spanish garri-
son at Barcelona. sTH,& a<a
az. The news OF the utter. rout of the
army of Hicks Pasha by the False Prophet
!, A. the Soudan is confirmed. af-r
1.-THE late Mrs. Charles II. Nottham
of Hartford, Conn.,, left 500, 900 to Trinity
College and Hartford Hospital. r.
the murder of Informer
Carey, was found guilty on the LIST, and
sentenced to be hanged December IL.
+, A SCHEME, has been started in the
East for holding the next Presidential Re-
publican Convention at Chautauqua, N. Y.
A .KHARroUM dispatch reports that
only one-third of Hicks Pasha's- force was
destroyed. The remainder are safe in
camp. Es3. 1888 1 inE.i '- ~
The business failures for the week
ending the Both in the United States and
Canada numbered 242 against 247 the previ-
Gus week. .alGt.i-
Is In the great billiard match in Paris,
between Schaefer and Vignaux, the latter
won, leading Schaefer at the close of the
game 124 points
RICHMOND STUART, colored, was
hanged on the 3Oth at Shreveport, La; Am
brose West at Macon, Ca, and Jos. Jewell
at San Jose, Cal. $3.50 80 .-.,....
: - CHINA has sent circular letter to the
powers setting forth that if the French in
wade Northern Anam they will be opposed
by Chinese troops.
THE total receipts into the National
Treasury from all sources last month were,
in round numbers, SIG, 300, 900, as compared
with $50, 2OO, 900 for November last year.
JAMES G.. BLAINE has written letter
opposing the proposition to distribute the
revenue surplus among the States and adj
vocating instead that the tax on spirits be
SO distributed.
IT is reported that England, Ger
many, Russia, France and the United
States will organize a joint naval force in
asrrr1r ,fs
in the event of war.
THE Marquis de Noilles, French Ann
bassador to Turkey, has been instructed by
his government to inform the Porte under
no condition will France allow Turkey to
intervene in Soudan.
: The issue of silver dollars for the
week ended December 1 was $343, 4S1; same
time last year, 500, 900. Coinage at the
minis for November was s., s24 $40, of which
900 were silver dollars.
.ARCHBisHoP CRoKE says if the Irish
people avoid crime and refuse to be trans
ported to America, the present generation
may yet see Ireland clothed in the garb OF
freedom under the Irish flag.
: LINCOLN, Ill, has another tragical
sensation in the murder of Samuel Remine,
q section foreman on the Illinois Central
Railroad, who was found on the night of
the 10Th with his skull crushed.
=, PRoFEssoR JOHN II. TIcE, the we'll
known astronomer and weather prophet,
died at his residence at Cheltenham, a
suburb of st. Louis, Mo-, on the morning OF
the Both, aged seventy-four years. ,..
A NEw YORK dispatch of the Sd said
the condition of Senator Anthony was
steadily imp rowing and no doubts were en-
tertained of his, ultimate recovery. 1t was
thonght he would soon be able to leave fol
Washington. ii iaa' ,fo.atfsJa
THE french decree abolishing the
prohibition of the importation of American
pork states that if pork is carefully sailed
there is no danger; of trichinosis. The
municipal authorities will seize any bacon
imperfectly salted. -. ..s4
REPORTS from Cape Race state that q
fearful hurricane from the east-northeas
prevailed the night of the ID. The sea rose
higher than, ever before known. Mucf
damage was done to shipping and it i:
feared a number of seamen We're lost.
2;;f.E 80
HON. JAMES G. CARLISLE, OF Ken
lucky, was nominated for Speaker on thu
first ballot the night of the 1st by the eau
Gus of Democratic Representatives of the
Forty-eighth Congress. The vote stood
Carlisle, 107; Randall, As, and Cox, So
Gen. Keller was the nominee of the Repub
lican caucus.
SINCE the window-glass blowers OF
Pittsburgh have been on a strike heavy inn
portations of glass have been made. Tit
blowers are delighted because, they say
the factory owners can't afford to see ar
import trade built up, and the manufac
turers are pleased because it shows they
can't increase wages.
,tABIock of buildings burned on the
Cd at MechanicsviIfe, Ia. Also the Masonic
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