Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-11

AhoNioN' - Z, MISSOURI
NEWS and NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE French Chamber and Senate was
prorogued December Goth.
IT was said the receipts of the United
States patent office for the past year were
$1,0OO,G0. =
The inauguration of Grover Cleve-
land as Governor of New York took place
on the LIST.
A LIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
In Halifax, N. s., the other night, lasting
twenty to thirty seconds.
The Indian chief Red Cloud visited
his grandchildren at the Hampton (Va.)
Normal School few days ago.
CHOLERA, it was said, was recently
devastating cities and villages in the inte-
rior of kurantieng provinces. China.
THE Senate confirmed the nomina-
tion of Robert c. Campbell. of Louisiana,
as United States Consul at Monterey few
days ago. '
DURING the seven days ended Deem
Der % there were 1913 business failures in the
United States, against 1917 for the previous
seven days.
THE Hawaiian Minister, Elisha H.
Allen, died suddenly in a cloak room at the
White House on the 1st during the Presi-
dents reception. .s...
AT Des Moines, Iowa, the Adjutant-
General celebrated the thirty-sixth ami
versary OF the admission of the State by a
salute of thirty guns on the 2sth.
GOVERNOR RUsK, of Wisconsin,, was
called upon to appoint all the officers for
Waukesha County except sheriff, the other
day, those elected having failed to file bonds.
A NUMBER of frightened depositors at
Rochester, n. Y, the other day drew $75,-
600 from the Monroe County Savings Bank
and S41 200 from the East Side Savings
Bank.
THE recently submitted returns of the
Fire Marshal at Detroit, Mich, show that
city to have spent over three and quarter
millions for building improvements during
the year. f....
A FATAL disease, believed to be a
brain trouble, recently broke out among the
horses at Oskaioosa, Iowa. The attack
usually caused death in from twelve 10
thirty hours.
AT meeting the other day of the
creditors of j. A. & w. Fl. Sweeney, sus-
pended bankers at New York, James A.
Sweeney promised that every cent due
should be paid. 49,.
The death of NJ. Leon Gambetta, the
French statesman, was announced at Paris
on the 1st. Py2ma, the result OF a trifling
wound in the hand received some time ago,
was the cause of death.
AT the recent sale of articles accumu-
lated In the Dead Letter Office, the proceeds
amounted to 81, 497, which sum was depos-
tied in the Treasury to the credit of the
Post-office Department.
FOUR hundred tobacco-growers of
New England held meeting at Hartford,
Conn.,, few days ago, and adopted petit
tion to Congress to impose a duty of 81
pound on all foreign tobacco except from
Cuba.
THE notifications of the convention of
the United States and Belgium for the ex-
change of money orders after January were
formally exchanged few days ago between
the Postmaster-General and the Belgian
Minister.
AT Cleveland, o., the operators of the
Massillon District coal mines a few days
since agreed to reduce the price of mining
from ninety-five to eighty-fve cents a ton,
and appointed committee to confer with
the miners.
Factions of the Creek Indians were
at war in the vicinity of Okmulgee, Indian
Territory, where desperate battle occur
red few evenings ago. A detachment of
Federal soldiers were sent to the scene and
disarmed $50 of Chicote's men.
The Milk River country it was re-
ported few days ago was overrun with
white hunters who were slaughtering the
buffaIoes. The Indians were becoming rest
less and the Agent feared trouble. The
presence of the military was requested.
HE Secretary OF the Standard Oil
Company testified before the New York
Senate Committee on corners the other day
that its capital was $500, 900; that it had
not bought or sold large quantities of oil to
affect the market, and did not deal in fu-
lures.
THE President the other day issued an
executive order setting apart certain lands
in Dakota Territory for the Turtle Noun
tain band of Chippewa Indians, and such
other Indians of the Chippewa tribe as the
Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle
thereon.
t AT a meeting of the Western Nail AS
sociation, held at Pittsburgh, Pa, the other
day, after a long diseussion, it was unanimous
ly decided to shut down all factories from
January ID to February 10. This action was
taken in view of the unsatisfactory condi-
tion of the trade.