Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-07

THE latest sensation In London is the
failure of p. w. Thomas & Co., whose liza.
bilities are over s. ,00O, 900 and assets moth.
ing. One of the members of tie firm has
absconded.
AT Troy, NY. on the 31st, the police
broke up patrol of union molders main
tanned at the Malleable Iron Works, where
non-union men are employed.
On the 31st three human bodies
packed in whisky casks and shipped from
Baltimore to Chicago were seized by the
police, and John Garrison, a veterinary sur
geon. who paid express charges on them,
was arrested. 1t is supposed to be dis
secting.room consignment.
SINCE June SO the public debt reduc-
ton has been $50 ,007, iSS.
On the LIST the National debt less cash
| in the Treasury was s., 4S6, tS3, 719.
For the week ended the LIST the fail
| ures reported in the United States and Can
ada numbered 373.
SYKES, who killed Kate Townsend, in
New Orleans, has been acquitted.
IT is expected that the garrison at
Tokkar, in the Soudan, will speedily be
forced to surrender.
On the LIST John G. Collins, q Califor-
MIA stage-robber and murderer, was hanged
at San Francisco.
On the 1st the rivers were reported
out of their banks in Western Pennsylva-
| mia, and considerable bottom land was in
INFLATED.
A RAID was made by sixty policemen
on cockpit at Philadelphia, ia, the night
of the 1st, and ninety-five spectators and
seventy-two chickens were captured.
A DELEGATION representing the labor
organizations of the country is at Wash
ington favoring legislation to prohibit imt
portation of foreign laborers under con-
tract.
THE recent disaster on the Monon
route near Indianapolis was caused, it is
supposed, by weakening the truss of the
bridge by withdrawing some of the rods
while making repairs.
A NUMBER of prominent citizens of
Reading, Pa, raced horses on the highway
recently, and have been arrested for it I'M
der an old law passed in the last century.
The penalty for it is confiscation and sale
of the horses and cutters.
IT is reported that Post-office In
speetor Lanier, recently dismissed the
service, las fled to South America. He is
charged with swindling large number of
Postmasters out of considerable sums by
calling on them for funds to aid in the ar
rest of criminals.
In the United States Court, in San
Francisco, Judge Hoffman in long ex-
planatory decision on the ist on the Chi
nese habeas corpus cases, concluded that in
accordance with articles of the treaty, Chi
nese who We're in the United States at the
date of the treaty, November II. 1880, and
who left the United States before the pas
sage of the restriction act May 1G, 1882, are
entitled to land.
LAST year the Marquis de Moeres
shipped $4,000 sheep from Wisconsin and
Iowa to ranges in Montana. He now re-
ports that ffty-five per cent have died.
The animals swell up and bleed at the nose
| before death. Post-mortem examination
disclosed extravasation of blood in the in
testines 1t is an incurable disease hereto
fore unknown.
WITHIN the past three years one hun
dred and thirty-five companies have been
incorporated under the telegraph compa-
nies' act," in New York. The total capital
represented by these organizations is $225,-
| 100000. In no other line of incorporation do
the records of the Secretary of State show
such competition.
A CONSOLIDATION has been effected
of the Iowa and Minnesota Telephone Com
pany, with headquarters at Dubuque, Ia,
and the Iowa Union Company, of Daven-
port. Committees were appointed for the
extension and Improvement of the line.