Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-17
MISCELLANEOUS.


| destroyed two French batteries at Hanoi.
Several skirmishes have taken place.
KANSAS, it is said, will be called on to
| request the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Company te restore to the United
States $1,000 acres of land.
On the 9th high wind and tide carried
to sea large number of bath-houses, stores
and other buildings at Atlantic City, N. J..
At various places on the coast serious dam
age is reported.
A CHALLENGE has been issued by the
eight-oared crew of the University of Penn.
sylvania for race with any crew, coupled
with a threat to claim the championship if
the challenge is not accepted within sixty
days.
THE faculty of Harvard have again
declared against allowing college athletics
to be contaminated by professional train
ers, or spirit of money-making or of
thickness or jockeying of any kind.
The recent snow-storm in Central
Kentucky was the heaviest ever known
there. Snow fell to depth of fourteen
inches at Richmond. In many places
farther east the snowfall is the heaviest
for many years.
LIE L dClAC AVA oil StCuluCl 1OhIO, 1lOiA
Hong Kong, which reached San Francisco
on the 9th, brought only twenty-one Chi
nese traders. The trade in the famous
Canton certificates is supposedly checked.
IN Salt Lake City, Utah, a raid of
gamblers has begun, and on the 9th a large
number of the fraternity were taken into
custody.
THE National Bank of Mexico prom
ises a fourteen per cent. dividend for the
fiscal year.
IKE announcement of reductions of
wages in Pennsylvania iron-works con-
tinue.
FOUR locomotives were required to
haul the Canadian ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
train through the recent snow-storm to To-
ronto.
STATISTICS of pork-packing in the West
shows for all points to the 10Th inst. from
November total of 8, S45 900 hogs, against
4,025 900 year ago, being q difference of
49,, 900 hogs to date. Estimates for the en-
tire season foot up 6,0S5, 900 hogs, against
6,l32, 900 last year. The belief is expressed
that there is more likely to be an increase
in the number for the entire season than a
decrease. 1t is believed the average weight
will be below last years.
THE amount required for improve
ment on roads in the Yellowstone Park this
year is estimated at $4,000.
On the 10th five Indians were killed
in fight between bands of Chippewas and
Pottawattomfes in Wisconsin.
THE New York Chamber of Com
merce asks the President to take steps to
secure free commerce with the Congo re-
gion.
For the coming season St. Paul, Min
neapolis, saltwater, Milwaukee, Muskegon
and Terre Haute will be represented in the
Northwestern Baseball League.
IT is intimated that the Chicago Ex-
position building may be torn down, and
the National Republican Convention will
be without a house.
OK the night of the 10th about 50, 900
was realized at an entertainment for the
benefit of the poor in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Business men managed the affair, and only
local talent was employed.
On the 10th the Treasury Department
purchased $4,000 ounces OF silver for deliv
cry at the Philadelphia, New Orleans and
San Francisco Minis.
AT Goshen, Ind, Michael Self, a
night Waterman shot by Frank Grippe a
week previously, died on the 10th.
In New York the sum of S2,518 has
been collected for the families of French
fishermen lost at sea.
The Grand Jury at Milwaukee, Wis,
indicted Dennis Keller on the 10th for the
murder of John Clair. O mine boss.