Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18

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By ELI %. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
A NUMBER of forged drafts on the lows
Loan and Trust Company are said to be il
circulation.
CONGRESSMAN BUcKNER does not thinl
anything will be done with the silver ques-
ton this winter.
dia, was given a brilliant reception on his
arrival at Bombay.
THE latest rumor is that all negotiations
between France and China looking to {
settlement are of again.
THE Hooking Valley coal miners strike
seems practically ended, and the old men
are offering to resume work.
On circles in the vicinity Of Bradford
Pa. are excited over new well which
produces $50 barrels an hour.
THE House subcommittee on Pensions
has agreed to report an appropriation oil
SOC, 0O0, 900 for the next fiscal year.
FIVE HUNDRED Tammany braves will
participate in the ceremonies attending
the Inauguration of President Cleveland
REPRESENTATIVES of the press and ar
tistic professions gave a dinner to Mime.
Patti the evening of the 18th in New York.
A HUNDRED hosiery operatives left Not
tingham, England, on the 10Th for Amer
lea, where places had already been en-
gagged.
GENERAL SHERIDAN will be Marshal OF
the day for the celebration, February list,
of the completion of the Washington mon
ument.
MISS MARY j. CALDWELL, a New YORK
young lady, wants to give 10000 as the
foundation of fund to start Catholic
college.
A CURIOUS political complication has
arisen in West Virginia as the result OF
the change of the time for State elections
voted upon October 14th.
THE Prince of Wales will not ask Parlia-
ment for an allowance for his eldest son,
Prince Albert Victor, until the young man
takes unto himself wife.
WILKINSON BROTHERS.. bankers, SYRIA
cuse, Ny. closed on the 10th, and their
affairs are in the hands Of a receiver.
Thew were rated high, and the failure was
a surprise.
THE flint glass workers of Pittsburgh,
Pa, struck on the 10th against the twenty
Der cent. reduction. Factories are run
ming with apprentices, who take the places
of journeymen.
Earl. GRANVILLE has Informed Prime
Minister Ferry that English negotiations
with China with view of settling the
Franco Chinese difficulty amicably, have
in failure.
A MONSTER jaguar escaped from Bar
rett's circus at Dayton, o., on the 10th.
The beast killed great many cattle and
hogs, and the people turned out and killed
it after an exciting chase.
THE General Term of the Supreme Court
in Brooklyn, N. Y, has affirmed the sem
tence of death against the negro Rugg, for
the murder of Mrs. and Miss Maybee, in
Queens County year ago.
THE American Base Ball Association
concluded its session at New York on the
18th. A number OF important changes were
made in the rules in reference to suspen-
sions, explosions, rain checks, etc.
THE possession of the st. Louis (Mo.)
Chamber of Commerce building was sur
ON the 10Th by the Chamber of
Commerce Association TO the trustees OF
the second mortgage bond-hoiders.
TIE Senate on the Sth confirmed Thos.
A. Osborn, of Illinois, as Minister resident
and Consul General to the Argentine Re-
public, and John Baker, of Illinois, as
Minister resident and Consul at Venezuela.
LORD CHIEF-JCSTICE CoLERIDGE of En-
gland on the 9th sentenced Captain Dudley
and Mate Stephens, of the Hignonette, to
be hanged. They killed and ate the flesh
Of companion while in a starving condi-
ton at sea.
A SERIES of mysterious deaths have oc-
CURED in family named Koran at White
water, Wis, a fifth of whom has just died
from poison administered by herself, after
,onfessing that she had caused the death
Of the others by the same means.
The Secretary of the Treasury has pre-
pared circular to take the place of all
previous circulars concerning the import
alton of old rags, providing that no old
Tags shall be landed in the United States
except upon thorough disinfection.
DAYTON, o., is exercised over a mysteri-
,us poisoning case in two families living
N a double tenement in that city. Four
persons were taken violently i'll with in
1ications of poisoning. ALI is theory, but
points to a street-car driver.
THE condition of the laboring classes in
he lumber regions OF Northern Michigan
8 said to be most wretched. Labor among
he Swedes can be had for ten cents day
With board consisting OF rye bread and
coffee and a meat meal three times a
week.
A LETTER from General Grant was read
n the Senate on the 9Th respectfully but
positively declining to receive a pension
from the Government even if the pending
Xii ehouIa mass ha hill was therefore