Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-06

with wheat were reported on the 18th ice
bound on the river Don.
ELECTRIC light wires are being placed
on one of the principal ave-
nuss in Philadelphia. Pa.
THE Life-Saving Service rendered as
sistance In three hundred cases OF disaster
during the last fiscal year.
IsMAIL PASTA, ex-Khedive of Egypt,
says the calamity in the Soudan is due to
of the central government at
Cairo.
THE adoption of the new time stand
ard is only preliminary to the adoption OF
q uniform code of signals among the rail-
roads.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYSEN has sent
instructions to the Asiatic squadron with
view to protect American interests in event
of war.
THE San Francisco Grand Jury have
indicted Miss Hill and her attorney for
perjury and conspiracy in connection with
the Sharon suit.
MINISTER WALLACE has made fresh
complaint to the Porte because OF delay In
bringing to Justice the assailants of Amerl-
can missionaries.
TESTS of American and English steel
rails, laid side by side for thirteen years in
Pennsylvania, show that the former are
the more durable.
THE Archbishop of Namur has been
appointed Cardinal, and it is expected this
win settle the difficulties between Belgium
and the Vatican.
CHINA has sent a circular letter to the
powers setting forth that If the French in
wade Northern Anam they will be opposed
by Chinese troops.
The. United States Supreme Court has
decided that the Brooklyn bridge. as con-
structed, can not be declared a nuisance or
unlawful structure,
THE Pope has made editor Dawson,
of the Charleston Is. CO. Neaos and Courier,
q Knight Of st. George for the stand he has
taken against dueling.
THE fiftieth anniversary of the run
ming of the first locomotive on the Philadel-
phia & Columbia Railroad is to be cele-
brated early next year.
CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAMSON, u. ).
N, who was court-martialed for extrava.
gance in the matter of repairing the Gov
eminent vessel Pinta, has been acquitted.
THERE is a report from Madagascar
that the French have bombarded town
without giving notice, killing five British
subjects, and destroying large amounts OF
neutral property.
As the Egyptians are about to send
out an expedition to try and keep open
road for retreat from Khartoum it is prob
able the Soudan provinces are to be aban
doned for the present.
SoJOURNER Truth, the noted colored
lecturess, died at her home in Battle Creek
Mich, on the Goth, aged 1Os years. The ole
lady has had all her faculties we'll pre-
served until quite recently.
A PENNSYLVANIA manufacturer, WHIT
neglected to put up a fire escape when no
titled, has been mulcted for $4,000 dam
ages by an employee who was crippled il
escaping from his burning factory.
The elaborate Evacuation Day cere
monies in New York on the 26th were seri
ously interfered with by rain. Broadwa,
was sea of umbrellas. The procession
was four hours in passing given point.
The Comptroller of the Currency ad
vocates reduction of revenue and CONVEX
sion of the longtime four per cents. int
threes as measures to prevent undue cor
traction of the National Bank circulation
A DARING thief entered the Mo-
chants National Bank at Des Moines, La
on the 26th during the noon hour, grabbe
n handful of notes and fed. He was pu
sued, but managed to elude capture
dropping portion of his booty, which IA
pursuers stopped to gather in.
A CRAZY ex-convict created sens;
ton at Jackson, Mich, on the 18th by pla,
ing the role of Pinkerton detective,
curing the use of special engine and a
resting an innocent farmer for the Croue
murder. An excited populace had nearl
lynched the prisoner before the facts wei
discovered.
A PARTY Oh uuutcIS COuSlSSih5
Fred. Jenkler, with his two sons Emil al
Frederick and printer named Dick Ha
tig, of Dubuque, Ia, are supposed to ha'
been drowned during a recent storm whlt
overlook them on the Upper Mississippi
Their boat was found bottom side up nil
miles below the city.
RAJ SCoTT, after two years separ
ton from his wife, returned to his nor
near Eaton, twelve miles from Munci
Ind, recently, and insisted that she shou
live with him agailA She refused, and
stabbed her to death with knife, tn
killed his own child and took dose of mt
phine, from which he died. s-Ss ~
ACoNyENr1oN of the, heirs of Wal
ron, Thomas, Delavill and others, to WIG
Governor Nichols, in the year 1866, grant
q large tract of land, which is now kno,
rs Mrrrisiana Flats, in New York Cit
was held in Mansfield, O., on the 23d a
attended by about 100 persons. A syn
cate has been formed andth heirs are CT