Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-03-05
In the Electric Light Convention. In ses-

In the Electric Light Convention, IN ses.
sion at Chicago on the 25th, J. E. Morri.
son, of Baltimore, was elected President o,
the association, with 81. NJ. Cleveland, oil
Hartford, E. M. Barton, of Chicago, and J.
H. Yarbro, of Nashville, as Vice-Presi-
dents. W. N. Hovey, of Boston, was
| elected Secretary.
THE locomotive engineers of the Union
Pacific have made satisfactory settle.
ment of their differences with the officers
of the road.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, the American
Minister to Turkey, dined with the Sultsn
on the 25tb, and talked over the CONNER
cial treaty.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR will escort Presi-
dent-elect Cleveland from the Arlington
Hotel to the Capitol on the occasion of the
latter's Inauguration.
SEVERAL hundred Catholics are said to
have been massacred recently at Yum Nan,
China.
The appointment of F. E. Warren as
Governor of Wyoming gives satisfaction
at Cheyenne.
MARTIAL law has been declared in
Bechuanaland, South Africa.
| JACK BURKE, the Chicago pugilist, has
challenged Paddy Ryan.
| JUsTUS SCHwAB, the New York Social
list, has been held for trial in the sum of
$500 on each charge.
| ADMIRAL CoURBET will take stand at
Shanghai to intercept vessels with rice
cargoes.
JOSE GALLEGos, the Mexican who MUIR
dered so many people at Las Novias, N.
NJ, was shot to death by mob
ENGLAND has refused to recognize the
French declaration making rice a CONTRA
band of war.
| THE British Governments Egyptian
policy was severely criticised in the
British House of Commons.
A JOURNALIST and a physician Of the
City of Mexico had duel on the Goth.
| The latter was wounded fatally, it is
| thought.
| DR.. BALAccI, French nobleman, who
tried to elope with Mrs. Grissarri, a
wealthy Spanish-American of Santa Fe,
was arrested in Mexico, and is wanted at
Santa Fe on a charge of larceny.
UNITED IRELAND declares that if there
are any demonstrations during the visit of
| the Prince of Wales to Dublin there will
be counter demonstrations which will
| overshadow any that Earl Spencer may
| order.
THE Washington Star states that Sena-
tor Garland was rendered aud has accept
ed the Attorney Generalship under Cieve-
land.
COWBOYS stopped Pacific express in
Dakota on the 9th and made the conduc-
tor dance the "can can" on the platform,
varying the monotony by shooting at his
feet.
JIM WATTS, a colored murderer, knocked
the jailer down at NicholasviIle, KY, and
was shot and killed by the jailer.
ACCORDING to the Eocty Euening, a
journal published at Wilmington, Del,
Senator Bayard will tender his resigna-
ton to the Legislature, as he has accepted
the State portfolio OF Cleveland's Cabinet.
THE Illinois Legislature took an inform
al ballot for United States Senator ON the
9th, merely to maintain the record.
THE consolidation of the two oil ex-
changes at New York is officially an
nounced.
KILOGRAMS from Korti announce the ar
rival of General Buffers forces at Gakdul.
NOSE CATION, of Union City. KY, on the
9th hanged his wife, whom he married
four years ago.
WIN. T. CoMSTOCK, a Justice of the
Peace, shot Geo. P. Smith near Valentine,
Neb., on the 9th.
CHAs. DEAN of Indianapolis, Ind, after
broodng over real estate troubles, ended
his career.
The Ohio Democratic members of the
Legislature will attend the inau suration
in body.
MRS. ANNA PARKS, over one hundred
years of age and born in County Mayo,
Ireland, was buried at Detroit, Mich, on
the 9th.
GREAT fears are entertained in shipping
circles at New York for the safety of sew
eral vessels overdue.
ANNIE KENNEDY, twenty-five years of
age, hanged herself at Detroit, Mich, on
the 9th.
THE rebels near Suakim are said to be
very active at present.
IT sic officially denied that France in
tends to occupy Tripoli.
THE sportsmen's tournament of the
Northwest terminated at Davenport, Ia,
on the 9th.
THE Prince of Wales will start on his
tour April I'd.