Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-21
A MErr1sG was held in Cooper Insti-

A MEETING was held in Cooper Insti-
tute, New York, the night of the 18th, to
approve a bill giving the Mayor absolute
power in appointing the heads of depart
ments. There was a large attendance.
TIE strike of tobacco factory en-
ploves at Petersburg, Va. is ended.
The Ohio river continued to recede
slowly at Cincinnati on the 18th, and rising
at points further down. Relief boats were
sent out from Pittsburgh, Cincinnati.
Louisville and other points, the Secretary
of War having chartered seven in all. Re-
ports of great distress multiply daily. All
praise the activity with which the War
Department has acted. People on the Low
er Ohio were hopeful that the food would
not be as high as last year.
A CALL has been issued by Enos
Brown, of Denver, Col, Chairman of the
Colorado Wool Growers Association, to the
wool growers of Colorado, Kansas, Ne
braska, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico,
to meet in convention at Denver, March 12,
for the purpose of forming State organize
lions and combining to prevent further re-
duction of the tariff ON wool.
For the past year the net earnings of
the Denver & Rio Grande Road were 81
49,, 900.
A JUDGE and other Greek officials
have been carried of by brigands on the
Albanian frontier.
The passage of the bill for the extern
sion of the bonded period on whisky is be-
ing urged BY many bankers.
AT last accounts the Chinese Imperial
Council had decided to defend BAG n ma to
the last extremity.
The rebels have been warned by the
principal chiefs year Suakem to respect
their territory or expect hostilities.
BERLIN dispatche intimate that Eng
lands delay in proclaiming protectorate
over Egypt is due to fear Of offending
France.
On the 18th posse from Deadwood,
D. T., had fight with cowboys, one man
being killed and one wounded ON each side.
The posse held the field of battle.
The Post-office Committee will re-
port favorably to Congress the bill author
izing the Postmaster-General to stop the
delivery of registered letters and money
orders to lottery companies.
By the submission of the Merv tribes,
only .Afghanistan remains between India
and the Russians. This will be a heavy
blow to tho British power in the East.
AT Youngstown, o., the people, had
a sensation for couple of days recently.
A young lady died there and still gave such
signs of life that the physicians could not
decide whether or not she was merely in
trance. On the 18th they pronounced life
extinct.
A MASS Convention of American In
ventors has been called to begin March % of
this year, in the great Music Hall and Elk.
position Building in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The call 1ecites generally that "the great
monopolies of the country have made strong
efforts to destroy the present wise and be-
neficent Patent laws, and there have been
none to antagonize the representations
thus made. To this end the inventors of
this country have determined to form
permanent organization. wholly and solely
for the purpose of being able by combined
efforts to show Congress and the people
that it will be detrimental to the inter.
ests of the country to accede to the de-
mands of the monopolists." The conven-
tion to be held will seek to adopt some united
form of action, or form State associations.
All inventors and patentees who can at
tend, and desire to do so, are invited to ad-
dress at once the Chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee, J. S. Zerbe, editor of the
american Inuentor, 1873 West Fifth street,
O., who will forward each ap-
plicant the badge to entitle the holder to
admission on the floor as a delegate. The
citizens of Cincinnati have subscribed lib
eral guarantee fund to meet the expenses
of the convention.