Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-04-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

III on the olS1. lG was grand affair.
No news of the French army in Tonquin
had been received for thirty-six hours uI
to the evening of the 31st and much un
easiness was felt at Paris.
OREGON had the most remarkable wealth
er during March. Vegetation is far ad.
vanced, and the earth's surface presents
the appearance of the middle of May.
COMMISSIONER BLACK issued an import.
ant circular to pension agents on the list.
GENERAL NEGRIER, the French officer
wounded at Lang Son, is recovering.
THE Emery candle factory at Cincinnati
O., was partially destroyed by fire on the
1st.
SCOUTS from General Graham's forces
found the rebels congregated in large
numbers at Tamai. Osman Digna had not
retreated.
Two more polygamists were arrested on
the LIST at Salt Lake and released on bail.
BISMARCK was formally presented with
the title deeds of the great Schoenhousen
estate on the 1st.
A LEO KNOTT, of Maryland, was nom
mated on the 1st as Second Assistant
Postmaster General.
IT is thought that Baron DeCourcel will
succeed Ferry as the French Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
TRACK laying on the Marshall & North
western Road in Texas was begun on the
LIST.
THE French had another encounter with
the Chinese in Tonquin and continued the
retreat.
EASTERN trunk-line managers were in
session at Chicago on the 1st, looking to
the restoration of rates.
THE rebels at Battleford, Manitoba, are
reported to have destroyed houses of set
tiers and killed several persons. The Sit
uation daily grows more serious.
The Senate Com mittee on the 1st re-
ported favorably the nomination of Henry
G. Pearson to be Postmaster of New York
city.
A DISPATCH received at Paris from Hanoi
reports the situation of the French army
in Tonquin as exceedingly critical
THERE was an uproar in the Illinois
House of Representatives on the 1st,
caused by the Speaker dismissing all of
the employees.
BIG BEAR with 800 warriors has Joined
Riel, the Manitoba rebel, and the latter is
now said to have 1000 armed men.
AT an early hour on the I'd General
Grant was reported weak and restless,
with little hope for a change for the bet
ter; in fact, his death was looked upon as
but a little way Off
r. p. HUGHES, the defaulter to the
United States as Marshal at Richmond,
Va, who was caught in Texas, has been
East.
AT a banquet at Odessa on the LIST, Rus
sian officers drank and responded to the
toast: "The Coming War with England"
The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that Rus
sia's reply is an acceptance of England's
but some other papers take
different view.
WHILE robbing store at San Vego,
on the night of the 1st, gun was acct
dentally discharged by one of twelve
Mexican bandits, causing the instant
death of the robber the ball struck. Cit:-
zens pursued the robbers.
Hon. NORMAN j. GOTHAM was. con-
firmed by the Senate as Commissioner of
Agriculture.
PROMINENT officials of the Amalgamated
emphatically pronounce false
the reports that the organization is in dan
ger of disintegration. President Wiehe
says the association is inherently as
strong as ever it was, and yearly becom-
ng stronger, both in membership and in
1uence.
THE extra session of the United States
Senate adjourned sine die on the ID.
THE Cree Indians at Manitoba have put
IN their war paint
TIE Courthouse at Minneapolis, Mimi,
burned on the Cd.
EARL CAIRNS died suddenly at Bourne
mouth, Eng, on the I'd.
T<,r, -
eported to be doing great damage.
BENIN DAVIS, a London solicitor, failed
N the I'd with 81, 100000 liabilities.
THE Government has decided to send an
rmed force to Aspinwall at once.
THE Senate confirmed the nomination of
Ienry G. Pearson to be Postmaster at
lew York.
RUSSIA is taking active steps to place
er navy on a better war footing.
GENERAL GRAHAM's army advanced to |
amai on the I'd. The enemy are reported |
ew in number and to have scattered.
The reign of terror continues in Rowan |
ounty, Kentucky. 1t is the result of |
lection rivalry. |
The exile of the Orleans Princes, it is |
lought, will be a feature of De Frey |
nets programme at Paris.
The Ohio Legislature passed bills to re- |
-ganize Cincinnati and Cleveland. Re- |
ublicans are not in a good humor over |
he measures.
The Chinese Legation at Berlin confirm |
le report that China has accepted the |
eace proposals made by Ferry.
The Exchange National and the Frank |
n Savings banks of Norfolk, Va, and |
ain Brothers, bankers, of Portsmouth,
a., suspended on the I'd.
A STRANGER giving the name of NJ. NJ.
NTH presented a check at a Madison
.owa) bank on the I'd. Banker Richards |
lspected forgery and called an officer.
he man escaped and was pursued, shots
eing exchanged, killing one of the pur-
lers' horses. The stranger wrote in
book that he would die be-
re being taken, and drawing a revolver |
lot himself through the head. Papers
'und ON the body gave his name as Ar
lur Muller.
The boiler Of David Hull saw-mills, /
ear Scipio, Ind, exploded on the I'd and
lied Anthony Cleaver, engineer, and ia
lily injured David Hull, Morton Hull
nd Alfred Hull.
NEAR Alexander, Genesee County, N.
:, on the I'd, Mrs. D. s. Spring, in fit of
assion, saturated her bedding with kero-
me, applied q match, and herself and
70 children persisted in the flames.
JAS. s. WHITE, charged with embezzle-
ent of $1,000 in Milwaukee city bonds,
as arrested at Niles, Mich, on the I'd, II
lille on his way to Canada.
MOODY and Sankey begin a series of re-
val meetings at Pittsburgh, Pa, on tho
b.
THE New Jersey House of Representa-
YES passed a compulsory education bill