Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-31
DAKOTA farmers will shortly hold
convention to consider their grievances
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convention to consider their grievances
against railroads and elevators.
THE Government Commissioners OF
the Union Pacific Railroad, in their report,
express the hope that all the Missouri Riv.
er lines will subscribe to the triparSite
agreement. It sets forth that the Novem-
Der surplus was greater than that OF No
vember, 1882, and that the history of the
road justifies the policy of liberal land
grants. A plan is suggested to extinguish
the debt by semi-annual payments of a
fixed sum.
The Pittsburgh manufacturers are
said to be making overtures to the glass.
blowers, who have been on a strike six
months.
A SUIT for damages against a Lieu
tenant in the navy has been decided in ia.
vor of two men who were injured in care
less target practice at the Boston Navy
Yard.
The Coroner's jury in the case of Mr..
and Mrs. Bonecker, murdered recently
near st. Louis, No., returned verdict on
the oath that deceased came to their deaths
at the hands of some person or persons un.
known. The authorities have clue,
though slight, which it is thought may lead
to the capture of the murderer.
A COUNCIL of war has been called by
General Gordon in Cairo, Egypt.
On the 25th, Antonio Derita, on trial
for murder in st. Louis, Mo-, was acquitted.
BODIES continue to drift ashore from
the wrecked City of Columbus.
For the week ended the 25th the fail
ures in the United States and Canada mum.
bered 317.
HOSTILE outbreaks against all for
egners are reported in China.
On the 25th fifteen corpses were found
in one chamber of the coal mine at Crested
Butte, Col. Thirty-four bodies in all had
been recovered.
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the
Horticultural Convention at Kansas, City,
Mo-, calling on Congress to establish a
board of forestry.
ADDITIONAL evidence is reported to
have been discovered tending to throw
light on the Zura Burns tragedy. Carpen-
ter has been indicted and committed to
jail, bail being refused.
A wORKINGMAN who killed a detec-
tive in Vienna, was arrested on the 18th
and was found to have revolver, a dyna-
mite bomb and poisoned dagger in his
pockets.
The wife of Ike Buzzard and three
members of the gang of outlaws were ar
rested on the 25th near Lancaster, Pa.
A BLOCKADE has been established by
Admiral Courbet against the entry of war
materials to Tonquin.
In the Mississippi River at st. Louis,
No., the situation OF quite feet Of boats
and tugs looks exceedingly critical.
Ex-MAYoR DANIEL MCAULEY, of In
dianapolis, Ind, has been arrested in New
York for violating the lottery laws.
On the 25th James Anderson and
Zach Snyder were hanged at Mount Ver-
non, Ind, for the murder of James Van
Weyer.
THE Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cided that the city of Chicago has right
to tax occupations. The case had been ap-
pealed by livery-stable keeper.
SUIT for $4,000 damages has been
brought by Mr.. Silkman, a well-to-do citi-
zen of Yonkers, N. Y, against his brother
in-law, Crosby, for having him locked up
in lunatic asylum to get possession of his
property.
The Capitol Commissioners in Geor-
gia have been unable to agree upon a de-
sign from those submitted, and have called
in an architect to assist them.
The now famous electric girl of
Georgia has started for the North, where
her peculiar powers will be exhibited as a
source of profit