Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-22

grols County Register
BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
A BREAD riot Is threatened at Birming.
ham, Eng, by five thousand men who an
out of employment
ANOTHER shock of earthquake was fell
at Grenada, Spain, on the 18th, and caused
q revival of the panic among the inhabit
ants.
THE body of the late Major Charles B
Brady, of st. Louis, No., was cremated a
Lancaster, Pa, on the 18th, with Masonic
honors.
AN Anarchist plot was discovered a
Lyons, France, on the 18th, by which
arms were to be seized and a revolution
declared.
In il understood that Germany has re
jected the proposals of England regarding
Egyptian finances, and is disposed to coin
eide with France.
Earl. SPENCER, Lord Lieutenant of Ire
land, has prohibited the circulation of tn
last number of O'Donovan Rossa's paper
received in Ireland.
THE King of Spain has conferred upol
Nine. Christine Nilsson the Cross Of tn
Royal Civil Order Of Benefcence, as 1
recognition of her deeds of charity.
THE Committee of Ways and Means o
the House has authorized a favorable re-
port on the bill providing for the estab'
-lishment of export tobacco manufactures
The town of Earling, Ia, was almos
wiped out by fire on the 18th. Ten bust
ness houses, and the hotel and eating
house were destroyed. Loss, over 'Soo,ooo
THE Pennsylvania Senate on the 14th
adopted resolution requesting the Con
gressmen from that State to use their in
ifiuence to make the trade dollar a lega
tender.
PREMIER FERRY will agree to the neu
;tralization of the Congo State on condi
ton of the recognition of the French claim
of the extension of the limits of French
territory.
THE following were inaugnrated Gov
errors of the respective States on th'
18th: General John s. Marmaduke, Mis-
souri,; Jno. A. Martin, Kansas, and Hon.
Mr.. Gray, Indiana
GENERAL ROBERT MORTON BRINToN, tn
aHero of the Roundhouse," during tn
Pittsburgh riots in 1877, died on the 16tl
at his residence in Philadelphia OF neu
ralgia of the heart
THE House Committee ON Military AT
fairs ON the 10th practically killed th'
Edmunds bill passed by the Senate in
tended to place General Grant on the re-
tired list of the army.
MORE earthquake shocks were felt OIL
the 18th in the provincesof Spain recently
shaken up. The storms continued, AND
the suffering among the people reported a!
terrible in the extrems.
BISMARCK declared in a speech on the
18th that the Government would require
in order to meet the demands of farmers,
that the duty upon wheat be increased te
three times the present rate.
THE Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
freight yards at Fort Wayne were blocked
with trains on the 18th, which the strikers
would not allow to go ont. Mail, express
and passenger trains were not molested.
THE Standard Oil Company on the 18th
paid SOC, 900 for the property of the Central
Refining Company, located at Kennedy
Station, on the West Pennsylvania Rail-
road, thirty miles from Pittsburgh, Pa.
THERE were AS failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet,s during the
seven days ended the 10th, against 44S in
the preceding week, and 81, 3lS and 21O in
the corresponding weeks of 1854, 1883 AND
1882 respectively.
ADvIcEs from Panama are that an
alarming condition of affairs prevails in
the entire Republic, and a general war is
way in Cundinamarca, Boyaca, Santander
and Magdalena.
EMPLOYEES in the pillow works Of South
Bend, Ind, struck on the 18th and there
was riot which almost required the cal l.
ing out of troops. The cause of the riot
was because one hundred of the men re-
fused to quit work. There was some blood
shed.
THE effort to establish a female collie &c
in Baltimore, Md, under the auspices OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, has SO
far progressed that $135 200 Of the 500, 600
requisite is already subscribed. The indi =
cations are the remainder will soon be OBJ
tanned.
The discovery of the bodies OF four in
fants, ranging from the age of one to three
years, buried near Big Rock Bridge,
Franklin, Pa, on the 10th, created great
excitement. The bodies were found in
rough boxes, and one, at least, had been
buried.
RICHARD SHORT, who stabbed Captain
in O'Donovan Rossa's Office in
New York, was in the Cork dynamite con-
spiracy when Featherstone was arrested
in 1883, according to q statement that
comes from London, and fed to America
soon afterward.