Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-10
In Canada measures are being taken

In Canada measures are being taken
to induce the Canadian Pacific Road tc
make Halifax, N. s., its winter port in
stead of Portland. Me.
For 1888 the gross earnings of the
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Rail-
ways was 81, 104 AL; net earnings $780,
341; net profits after payment of fixed
! charges, A,2l3,7O3.
THE appropriation bills have been as
signed by Congressman Randall to SUBJ
committees for preparation. An effort will
be made to report all the bills before the
1st of May.
For the past year the Northwestern
earnings show an increase of S1,140,926.
THE bank of Henner & Moore at
Morris, Mimi, has closed; liabilities, $780,
900.
THE iron trade of Lake Superior is
reported in a very depressed condition.
ONLY three out of ITO English Lib
eral members of Parliament whose opinions
have been obtained are opposed to giving
Ireland the same rights and privileges as
enjoyed by England.
On the Sd, at meeting at the Grand
Hotel, San Francisco, Cal, to make ar
rangements for holding a Worlds Fair in
that city in 1887. it was resolved to provide
a guarantee fund of million dollars; when
obtained to petition Congress and the State
Legislature for appropriations. The feel
ing was strongly in favor of carrying the
project through. The meeting represented
three hundred million dollars.
The railroad accident re ,ord is grow
ing at fearful rate in tae new year.
On the 18th another victim of the Or
ange riots died at Harbor Grace, N. F.
1t is said the House Committee on
Expenditures contemplate Investigating
the Department of Justice.
DURING January dividends and inter
est to the amount OF $27O 10000 will be dis
bursed in New York.
UPWARDS of thirty arrests have been
Sudeiken murder.
A LARGE number of persons have
been dangerously poisoned by eating
tainted meat in a Montreal tCan.) convent.
UNLESS England will assist in the de-
Tense of Egypt, the Khedive tavors giving
the Soudan to Turkey.
On the night of the Sd special guards
were placed on the London railways in an
ticipation of Fenian mischief.
For the week ending the 9TH the
business failures were 313 for the United
States and 20 for Canada, the largest num-
Ter ever reported.
THE earnings of the Union Pacific for
the eleven months ended November 30 de-
creased S451 ,242, and expenses increased
$242, 554.
AN unusually large number of work
men are idle in Pittsburgh, Pa; busine IS
is increasing in the iron trade, and the
outlook is hopeful.
On the 18th at Eastman, Ga, a negro
murderer under sentence of death attempt
ed suicide, but was carried to the scaffold
when almost irsensible and hanged.
The Insurance Commissioner of
Massachusetts, recommends the imposition
of penalty upon domestic companies for
illegal reinsurance in unauthorized COM
panies.
On the 4th stock train of twenty cars
was showed in on the Wabash Road eley en-
miles south of Chicago, and all attempts to
extricate it failed. 1t was supposed the
stock had all persisted. Trains were blocked
or delayed in every direction.
The steamer Wisconsin, which left
Milwaukee for Grand Haven, Mich, on the
evening of the Sd was compelled to put
back to Milwaukee, where she arrived after
being exposed for forty hours to a terrific
gale and intense cold. She was covered
with ice three inches thick, and her Captain
says it was the worst weather he ever expe-
rienced, the thermometer indicating twenty.
three degrees below zero.