Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE committee appointed to prepare
an improved plan for carrying mails by
rail, has sent its report to Congress.
TRAINS were reported blocked by
snow on the I'd in Eastern Canada.
A NUMBER of Cincinnati boot and shoe
firms have declared the Board of Arbitra-
settling difficulties between employers and
employees, failure.
The flood in the Ohio River had close
ly approached the danger line on the I'd.
In France a revolutionary uprising is
apprehended in the Southern provinces.
DURING the past year the railway
foreclosures covered eighteen roads with
] 1854 miles of track.
THREE of the Southern Pacific train
robbers are in custody. One has confessed.
THERE is an accumulation of evil
dence to show that old man Griffiths, of
Salem, O., was shot by his own son and the
body robbed.
On the 1st the National debt less cash
in Treasury was 81 ,49S, 041, 723. The actual
reduction for December was $11, 743,337.
SUIT has been brought by man whose
eye was put out by cinder falling from
the Manhattan Elevated Railway for $780,
900 damages.
THE Court of Appeals of st. Louis,
Mo-, declines to interfere to save Kate
Douglas from hanging. The judgment in
the case of Conrad Rose, however, is re-
versed and a new IL al ordered.
FROM one to three deaths daily from
cholera still occur in Cairo, Egypt.
An election will be held in Massachu-
sets on the 18th for Congressman, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Governor Robinson.
For the third time VIM. McHugh,
the Cincinnati wife-murderer, has been
convicted of murder in the first degree.
On the I'd the Sullivan combination
became embroiled in free fight at Denver,
Col. Sullivan was run ont of a hotel by the
proprietor, who fourished revolver. One
policeman was knocked out and all the slug
gers were finally jailed:
In his report the Secretary of the
the American Iron and Steel Association
says shrinkage for the year in prices was
four dollars on No. l anthracite pig-iron,
three dollars on gray forge pig-iron and
five dollars on steel rails. 1t is thought the
bottom has been reached.
The surrender of the last band of
Apaches from Sonora is said TO have had
an excellent effect on the mining interests
of Arizona and New Mexico. A feeling of
greater security prevails and capital is be-
ing freely invested.
Two more torpedo boats have been
ordered by the Chinese Government from
Germany.
THE earnings of the Denver & Rio
Grande Road for the past year show an in
crease of Il, O3S, 900.
The fire losses for the United States
in the year past aggregated S1o3,0o0,00l.
THE New Jersey wife and child muir
derer, Martin, was hanged on the sd at
Newark.
On the Sd five more victims of the
Toronto railroad disaster died, making
twenty -eight in all. i
IT is said the Rothschilds are nego-
tiating for the purchase of the French Gov
eminent railways.
The Democratic Editorial Association
of Indiana held its annual meeting at Indi-
annapolis on the Sd.
The delegate convention of Pennsyl-
vania coal miners commenced its session at
Pittsburgh on the Sd for purposes of organ
ization.
1T is reported that Baker Pasha is
trying to open line of retreat for the gar
rison of Khartoum, and that Ell Mahdi is
gaining ground.
CURRIEN, the Alsatian who wanted
to shoot the French Prime Minister Ferry,
has been sentenced to three months inn
prisonment
IT is estimated by the Director of the
Mint that between five and six million trade
dollars are in the hands of the people at
large.
The nail-workers throughout the
country are trying to arrange it so that |
hereafter the mills can be kept going in |
winter and shut down in hot weather.