Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-01
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
IrrsKEANrs are selling in Paris politi
cal toy representing Bismarck and Ferr.
embracing.
RUSSIA win transfer her naval head
quarters in the Black Sea to Sebastopol
The cost will be s., 600 900.
THE visible supply of wheat on the 24t
was As, lit 600 bushels; corn, 3,669, 900 bush
els; oats, 2,4s1.o 900 bushels.
ADMIRAL CoURBET, commanding tn
French fleet in Chinese waters, is re
ported ill and greatly worried.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON has written 8
letter to a New York paper in reference tt
the race question in the South.
THE House Subcommittee on Pensions
has agreed to report an appropriation OF
$4,000 ,OeO for the next fiscal year.
THE Sultan of Morocco claims sovereign
tv over Timbuctoo, and desires to annex
TO his dominions the coast country south
of Morocco.
GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN read paper
before the Military Service Institute al
New York, on the oath, his subject being
ssThe Militia"
c1eAR makers and others held a meeting
AFT ST. Louis, Mo-, on the ed, and protest.
ed against the ratification of the proposed
Spanish treaty.
THE New Orleans Picayune favors
strongly the Nicaraguan Canal, and
thinks the United States should acquire
Central America.
WASHINGTON lobbyists bewail the fact
that their occupation is about gone and
thew have had no chance to make any
money this season.
THE funeral of Mo Ohio, chief of the
Menonimee Indians, took place at Apple
ton, Wis, ON the 22d, according to the rites
of the Catholic Church.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR attended services at
st. Johns Episcopal Church Christmas
Day and then had quiet family dinner at
the Executive Mansion.
THE Masonic Temple at Cincinnati, o.,
was burned on the oath, causing great loss
to the order, as we'll as business firms oc-
cupying stores in the building.
JOHN COOPER, a cotton factory proprie-
tor of Nottingham, Eng, arrived at New
York on the ODD with lao of his employees
and will start factory at Providence.
A COMMITTEE of Chicago citizens met on
the a6th TO take steps to prosecute vigor-
ously the people connected with the cleo
ton fraud in the Eighteenth Ward of that
city.
THE examination of Thomas Simpson
for polygamy was concluded at Salt Lake
City on the oath. He was held in y, 800
bonds to await the action of the Grand
Jury.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN has adj
dressed letter to Senator Miller, Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Rela-
lions, in reference to the Spanish -Ameri-
can treaty.
JOSEF ZENARI, manager of the Discount
Bank of Caraney at Labache, Austria,
who defaulted for 10000 forms, killed him.
self in the bank on the Goth when abou. to
be arrested.
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THE Cunard steamer Oregon was sighted
off Crook Haven, on the 23d six days and
six hours after her departure from New
York. This is the fastest eastward passage
ever recorded.
THE committee appointed by the New
York Chamber of Commerce made ma
iority report on the 22d in favor of the ratI-
fication of the Spanish treaty, the minority
report opposing.
THE contest for the New York Senator
ship is growing warmer daily. There
seems to be no doubt but that the friends
of President Arthur are working to secure
the prize for him.
BRADsTREET's review shows that trade
was generally quiet during Christmas
week, owing to the holiday season. There
were 27s failures during the week, as COM
pared with 80 during the preceding week.
THE New York Herald recently detailed
q man to investigate the condition of
affairs at Fall River, Mass. 1t was found
that the factory operatives were not in
such bad condition as had been reported.
THE United States Commissioner at
New York has decided that Joseph Moses
Bebrendt, alias Barnord, who forged bills
of acceptance for $4,000 marks in Ger
many, in November, 1885, shall be extra
dited.
THE Premier of the Government of VIC
toria has invited the governments of the
other Australian colonies to unite in a pro-
test against the seizure by Germany of
portions of the coast and islands of New
Guinea.
THE House Committee on Rivers and Har-
bors decided to remain at work during the
holiday recess in order to report the appro-
as soon as possible. 1t is thought
that the amounts will aggregate about
S1o, 900.
THE Coroner's Jury at Ithaca, N. Y, on
the oath concluded a three days secret in
vestigation into the death of Mark A.
of Lansing. The verdict says the
shot was fired by his son Charles, who has
been arrested.
The London Times, in commenting on
the Nicaragua treaty, says that England
holds a position of impregnable strength,
and will protest against any policy that
violates the rights covered blythe Clayton
Bulwer treaty.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai says that
81 900 Chinese troops are massed at the Pei
Ho fort, at Port Arthur, Gulf of Pc Chi
Lii. The works are mounted with heavy
guns, and the entrance to the port is
guarded with torpedoes.
ApvIcEs from Spain on the 23d stated
that great storm was raging on the Pc