Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-27


the professorship of modern Greek.
On the Goth the Terre Haute Qnd.)
Board of Trade was formally opened.
MOONEY. the Joliet Gil. } convict who
killed his cell mate, is on trial for murder
at Waukegan.
Sixty candidates have been selected
by Parnell for the elections in anticipation
of dissolution of the British Parliament.
AT st. Petersburg, Russia, four artil-
lery officers have been arrested charged
with participation in Nihilist plots.
AN expert writing in the Breeders
Gazette says the cattle plague at Neosho
Falls, Kas., is not foot and mouth disease,
but is the same as that prevailing in Illi-
nois and Iowa.
The Chamber of Commerce of Pitts
burgh, Pa, asks Congress to go slow in the
matter Of altering the patent laws.
SIX feet more of snow has recently
fallen in the mountains OF Utah, and more
slides are anticipated.
On the Goth George D. Roberts, of the
Postal Telegraph Company, made argu.
ment before the House Postal Committee
in favor of the proposition of that company
to contract with the Government for tele-
graphic service.
The House bill to return to China
the balance of the indemnity fund will be
recommended for passage.
THE Cuban refugees detained at Bos-
ton will be allowed to follow their own in
clination as to an abiding place.
AN Indictment has been found against
the Sheriff OF New York for fraud and ex-
tortion.
For the week ended on the 21st the
business failures in the United States and
Canada numbered 213, slight decrease on
the preceding week.
On the 21st the Sanitary Council of
the Mississippi Valley commenced its ses-
sion at Memphis, Tenn.
NEGOTIATIONS between the Porte and
Englandregarding Egypt have been broken
off.
ABOUT Is, OOO.OO0 francs is thought
by France to be the right figure for Chinese
indemnity.
On the 2lst all the prisoners in jail at
Erin, Tenn, escaped by overpowering the
jailer.
On the 21st break in the Brecken-
ridge levee rendered it certain that much
VI Uue DeSt pOTtlOH VI leuSdS L LID,
would be submerged.
AT Point Pleasant, W. Va, the Key
stone Bridge Company def1es the authority
of the United States Courts, holding forci-
BILE possession of a bridge which the Court
rules is in custody of receiver.
SECRETARY TELLER has been notified
of the completion of another section of the
Southern Pacific Railroad 242 miles in
length, from Mohave, A. T., to Needles,
Col.
The Committee of the New York
subject of food adulteration estimates that
3o,0 0O, 900 pounds of bogus butter is sold in
the State annually, aud recommends the
passage OF a bill imposing a penalty of
$500 to s., 900 fine and imprisonment for one
year for the sale of such adulterated butter
or cheese.
Ir has been resolved by the House
Committee on Patents to report adversely on
the bill to limit the lifetime of patent to
five years.
On the Goth the number of Post-offices
in the United States was As 1913, an increase
of ], I35 in less than nine months.
In WISCONSIN the outlook for winter
wheat is said to be somewhat discouraging
owing to the severe winter.
A DISPATCH of the 21st from Montreal,
Cam, said the snow was deep that one
branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway
had had no train for eighteen days.
SPAIN will construe any invasion of
Andorra by France as breach of interna.
tiOnal law