Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-03
TERRESTRIAL AND GENERAL.


A BAND of desperadoes, who have
been murder ing quiet people and burning
churches near PottsvilIe, Tex, are being
hunted down by Sheriff's posse.
A TERRIBLE explosion, supposed to
have been caused BY an internal machine,
occurred at Birkenhead, Eng, on the oath.
Nobody was killed. A lamp-lighter OBJ.
served two men watching the canister burn.
ing from an opposite dwelling house. APP.
preaching the canister he kicked it a few
yards, when suddenly it exploded, breaking
windows in all houses in the vicinity. The
two men disappeared.
The Paris Temps protests against the
rumors Of English mediation between
France and China, and adds: 'France al
ways pays great attention to England's
counsel, but must see her claims In Ton
quin protected. 1t is not for England to
offer mediation If China doesn't ask It.
CHRISTMAS DAY was a very disagree
able one in England with the weather as
execrable as can be imagined and with
dense fogs, not only in London but all
along the coast. Many vessels are re.
ported ashore, especially along the stretch
of land between the Lizard and Portland
Light.
The steamer Marengo arrived in
Halifax, N. s., on the 18th, towing the
steamer France, the main shaft of which
was broken. The Marengo picked her up
on the Goth. The France was from London
for New York.
A PARIS dispatch of the 18th says a
passenger train met with an accident ON
the railroad between Avincourt and Paris,
vi ILL .I -,
jured.
REPRESENTATIVE PRICE of Wisconsin
proposes to lay before Congress bill to
give a pension of ten dollars per month for
the term of their natural lives, and to their
widows if dead, to every officer, soldier,
seaman or marine who served ninety days
in the war of the rebellion.
SECRETARY FoLGER is again on duty,
having recovered from his recent indispo-
sition.
The Haytian insurgents are reported
to he captivating.
THE wife of General Rosecrans died
on the Goth.
Ell MAHDI, the False Prophet, is ex-
pected before Khartoum in few days.
ALL trains and travel of all sorts are
badly impeded by snow in the East.
THE Post-office deficiency for the cur
rent fiscal year is estimated at $5,OO0.OOO.
THE Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern gross earnings for the year were $751;
$50, 0C6.
DIR. BEATTY, Coroner at Lamberton,
Cam, suddenly expired while holding an
inquest on the 26th.
A FIREMAN was killed on the Goth in
4 collision between two trains at Louisa
Va.
A LONG BRANCH train was derailed
he engineer killed.
A. ID. SMrrN & Co., heavy cotton
mill operators of Providence, K. l., have
Jailed with liabilities over 81 100000.
A RECENT snow slide at Telluride,
Col, carried away fourteen men, OF whom
light were killed and four badly hurt.
A STRIKE of $4,000 coal operatives in
is anticipated in consequence
# a proposed reduction of wages.
AN officer was killed and several per-
ons injured in a riot at Ida, Russia, on |
he 26th growing out of trouble between |
contractors and workingmen.
A FAMILY of nine persons were
rowned a few nights ago by the freshet |
n Hardes Creek, KY, across from Madison, |
nd.
THE native press in India urges agi- |
alton in favor OF the bill to give native |
Magistrates the same powers as English
Justices.
A STEAMER was chartered on the 26th
n New York to take 10000 barrels oil petro-
cum to Italy. This is q new feature in the
xport trade.
AN escaped Michigan convict who
vas recaptured at Malone. N. Y, on the
9Th, stabbed the Sheriff and Sherif's son
nd wife in a fruitless attempt to escape.
SIX stores burned at Saranac, Mich,
n the 9th; loss s15,O0o.
THE Egyptian rebels are said to be
rowing more aggressive.
GENERAL GRANT was severely in
ured on the oath by a fall on slippery
idewalk.
A COMMUNIST newspaper Office
n Paris was mobbed by students ON the
9Th.
THIRTEEN hundred Egyptian troops
ad reached Khartoun on the 10Th and tue
arrison numbered 4, o.
FIFTT-THREE men of the wrecked
teamer Plantyn have been landed at
)porto by the brig G.. ID. r.
THE Spiechee party of the Creek Ma
ion will send delegation to Washington
o talk over their troubles.
THE Canadian Trades Congress has
dopted resolutions declaring againsD
'hinese immigration.
The American Fire Insurance Com
any Of New York will close it's business,
it's risks TO the Home.
Ii is reported that Henry K. Rath-
one, of Albany, N. Y, killed his wife and
suicide in Han yer, Germany.
In the Bond trial at Hillsboro, Ill, on
ne 27th the defense put a witness on the
tand who materially weakened their case
3 to Montgomery's alibi.
KING HUMBEKr of Italy accedes to
ne Pope's wish that the monument to Vic
,r Emanuel be erected inside the chapel
lstead of in the center of the Pantheon.
GENERAL GRANT was reported better
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