Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-09

IT is officially denied that France asked
the United States to act as mediator in the
Chinese difficulty. M
IT was so warm at st. Paul, Mimi, the
night of the I'd that people feared some
impending danger.
LATEST reports from Egypt are that
General Gordon bombarded and recap.
tured Berber from the rebels.
GEO. WOOD, a farmer living near Sedan,
Ia, was shot and killed by some unknown
! person on the night of the I'd.
THERE were 234 fresh cases of cholera
| reported in Italy on the Sd, and174 deaths,
| q small decrease as compared with the
previous day.
The bdcket-shop men of Chicago have
| assumed the aggressive in the war with
the Board of Trade.
FURTHER information from Salinas City,
Mexico, confirms the report of the recent
battle between the officers and bandits, in
| which many people were killed.
| NEWS comes from London that com.
mittee of the United Kingdom Alliance
Temperance organization has adopted a
| resolution of congratulation to Neal Dow
and the State OF Maine over the recent
Prohibition victory.
NEAR Fullerton, Vance County, Neb.,
on the 3rd, j. G.. Percival, his wife and
| child and Hugh Meyer were murdered by
unknown parties.
| II is thought the employees of the Oliver
Iron Works, at Pittsburgh, Pa, will strike
| in preference to accepting the 12H per
| C nt. reduction in wages.
WASH FLETCHER, colored, who was
hanged at Paducah, KY, on the 81, for
| the murder of Amanda Jackson, spoke for
an hour, protesting his innocence.
PIERRE LoRILLARD has brought suit
| against the managing editor of the New
York Star on charge of criminal libel, in
! that the paper accused him of making
| presents to pretty married woman, etc.
BRADsTREET's cotton report for Septem-
| Der indicates that the condition is not so
| good as reported for August when the
general average was not above fair. This
| is due to prolonged drought in many Sec
tions.
THERE were 1888 failures for the seven
days ended the Sd, as compared with
201 in the preceding week. Eighty per
cent. were those of smaller trades with
capital OF less than 5000.
BENZ. THOMAS. the NaIragansett In
dian. and the last President of the In
dian Council in Charlestown, was found
dead the night of the 2i, near Wood
River junction, r l., having been struck
by train.
The Treasury Department purchased
$50, 900 ounces of silver on the Sd for the
New Orleans and Philadelphia minis.
THE Chicopee Manufacturing Company,
of Chicopee Falls, Mass, announced on
| the 81 that it should run on three quarter
time, nine hours a day for five days in the
week. All the manufacturing establish
ments in the village are running on short
time.
THE Copyright Congress in session in
Brussels, passed a resolution On the 81
that the publication and reproduction of
musical works should have the same pro-
tee, ion as literary and artistic works, and
that the art ought not to be impeded in its
progress by customs and formalities.
THE fall of Berber will enable Colonel
Kitchener to reach Gordon from Dongola
and ascertain his wishes regarding the
Nile expedition and to the necessity of
the expedition going to knartoum. The
conference may result in the abandonment
of the Nile expedition.
AT Morrow, in Warren County, O., on
the Sd, an employee of the Pittsburgh, Gin.
clnnati and St. Louis Railroad Company
was fatally injured by the premature ex-
honor of Blaine's appearance. The man
died soon afterward, and another was
also in a critical condition.
It is stated that the United States in its
commercial negotiations with Spain, Of
fered to largely reduce the duties on
sugar and raw tobacco imported from
Cuba in return for reduced Cuban
duties on American cereals. The ques-
ton of the tariff is still undecided.
The steam whaler Borohead is reported
to have been crushed in the ice in the Arc
tic regions. The vessel is total loss. It
was owned by the Pacific Steam Whaling
Arctic Company, and was valued, with
out cargo, at S12O,o0). The crew was
saved.
ALBERT BOWEN, colored janitor of the
New Haven Comm Post-office, has con-
fessed to stealing letters from the mail
boxes. Among those stolen was the
$4,000 registered package of bonds from
George Crosby, New York, heretofore
mentioned.