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

1T is reported that the Cunard line of
steamers, which has heretofore refused to
enter the cattle trade, will soon put the
steamer Catalonia into that service.
On the 10th the remains of Captain
Webb, killed in the whirlpool at Niagara,
were transferred to Oakland Cemetery at
Suspension Bridge. The Masons of the
world are expected to contribute to mon
umental fund.
THROUGH some mismanagement on
the part of the manager of the Opera-nouse
at Galveston, Tex, two theatrical combi-
nations reached there simultaneously the
morning of the 10th, each expecting to fill
an immediate engagement. A compromise
was effected by giving one company 500
ann passes to New Orleans.
On the 18th call for ten million three
per cents. was issued.
EGYPT has adopted the British plans
for sanitary reform i'll Alexandria.
In Russia efforts are to be male to
abrogate the anti-Jewish laws.
On the 10th the Russian Treasury
paid So, 900 rubles of the public debt.
BEING overweighted with snow the
roof of the Lackawanna round-house al
Hoboken, N. j., was crushed in on the 18th.
The steamer Celtic, of the White
Star line. has been spoken again. She was
jogging along satisfactorily under sail.
For the week ended on the 18th tho
business failures were 3}3, slight decrease
from the highest on record.
A NUMBER of Bedouin raids in South
ern Egypt have been repuised and several
uprisings put down recently.
A CALL for volunteers has been issued
in China. The ship channel in Canton
River has been blockaded all but passage
ninety feet wide.
The House Committee on Post-offices
ter-General power to establish postal serv-
ice wherever needed.
The fish merchants of Prince Ed
wards Island, are pushing their claims
against the Dominion Government for dam
ages resulting from the fisheries treaty.
AT the inquest on the victims of the
Brnton disaster a verdict was rendered
censuring the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany for not providing better safeguards
to protect the snow -shovelers.
THE Commissioner of the General
Land Office, upon reports of special agents
showing fraud in the entries, has held for
cancellation three entries in California,
thirty-siX in Colorado, nine in. Dakota,
thirty two in New Mexico, and one in Min
nesota.
The discussion of the Mississippi i'm
provement, Senator Plumb believes, will
finally result in the building of levees, and
if levees are built they can only be main
tanned in one Way namely trayersinp then,
by railroad. 1t is capable of demonstra-
ton that a railroad can be built along the
bank of the river, and he believed this
method would prove the only practicable
one for keeping the levees in repair. The
railroad would at the same time greatly in
crease the transportation facilities of the
Mississippi Valley.
IT has been decided by the Board of
Directors of the Philadelphia Geological
Society not to accept the gift of $4,000 Of
fered by Joseph E. Temple on the condi-
ton that the garden be opened free to the
public one day in each week.
THE State University Regents of New
York have refused chartor TO the United
States College of Medicine and Surgery in
New York City.
THE people of France and Germany
are taking the alarm over the threatened
reprisal Legislation in the United States in
retaliation for the prohibitory policy of
their respective governments in regard to
hog products.
AT Montreal, Can, the preparations
for the Winter Carnival are progressing. ON
a scale of magnificence eclipsing all former
efforts in that direction.