Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-02-12

The London Times is not able toaccount
for Russia,s advance in Afghanistan un-
less it means hostility to that country and
England.
THE entire edition of Liberal paper at
Berlin was seized by the government on
| the 9th, on account of the radical tone of
the Hamburg correspondence.
IT is estimated that the Mahdi had 10000
! men around Khartoum, and also stated
that 1000 of General Gordon's troops de-
| serted him and joined the rebels.
THE man arrested on charge of being
an accomplice of Cunningham's in the
London Tower explosion gave his name as
Henry Burton. He was arraigned on the
9th and remanded for further hearing.
THE village of Battle Lake, Mimi, popu-
lation 500, twenty miles east of Fergus
Falls, was destroyed by fire the morning
of the 5th. Most of the buildings were de-
stroyed.
ALEXANDER JONES, mail carrier from
Grants Pass to Wilderville, Ore, Mrs.
George Gibson and two children and a
young man named McClung were drowned
on the 9th while attempting to ford APP
plegate Greek, which was swollen by re-
cent rains.
VIM. MORRISON, alias George Miller, the
supposed murderer of the wife and son of
Rev. Mr.. Smell, near Inkster, Oak, was
arrested at Anoka on the 9Th by Sheriff
McLaren, of Brainard.
THE French Chamber of Deputies on the
9TH refused the urgency on Tony Revlllon's
motion for %, 900 900 francs for distribu-
tion among the towns of France, owing to
the dearth of employment. The motion
was referred to committee.
FIVE HUNDRED employees of Pitts
burgh (Pa.) rolling-mill, struck on the 9Th
against a reduction of ten per cent. in
wages.
THE Oregon Legislature on the 9th was
still balloting for United States Senator
without result.
SPIES have been sent to Khartonm to
a scertain the real fate of General Gordon.
THE opera house and several business
houses were burned at Mt. Sterling, KY,
on the evening of the 9th.
ROME newspapers think that the fall of
Khartoum will draw England and Italy
into yet closer relations, with a view to
joint action in Egypt.
FIVE hundred mill employees at Lowell,
Mass, struck on the 9th against a reduc-
ton in wages.
FOUR Portuguese men of-war occupy
the mouth of the Congo.
DELEGATES are arriving at New Orleans
to attend the Worlds Cotton Convention.
A DISPATCH from Gibraltar says that the
Vicar eneral of that diocese has been
murdered by an insane butcher.
GENERAL WoLSELEY telegraphs that
the rebels around Metamneh, since hear
ing of the fall of Khartoum, have become
defiant.
The trunk line Presidents met at Com
missioner Fink's office in New York on the
9th. The Commissioner will take vaca-
ton instead of resigning as he intended.
VIM. THORPE, Chairman of the Town
Board of the village of Thorpe, Wis, was
shot and killed the night of the 9TH by his
son, for abusing the family. The son was
held for trial.
THE London Times condemns the mis-.
taken policy of the British Government in
its management of the Egyptian cam
paign.
THE Illinois Senate on the 9th passed a
resolution asking Congress to open the
Oklahoma lands for settlement.
MAJOR DYE, Chief of Police of Wash
ington, d. c., was once in the Egyp-
tian army, and relates his experience and
acquaintance with General Gordon.
Phelan, was arraigned in the Tombs Po-
lice Court, New York, large number of
dynamiters being present. Phelan asked
the privilege of carrying a revolver with
which to protect himself.
THE residence of Mr.. Gladstone at
Hawarden has been placed under special
police protection.
THE Governor of Pennsylvania has is.
sued a warrant for the execution of Ed
ward Brotheros at Wilkesbarre, on the It'll
of April Brotheros murdered, through
jealousy, man paying attentions to his
niece.
THE house occupied by Mike Burns,
few miles from st. Charles, Mimi, was
burned on the night OF the 9Th. Mrs.
Burns saved two children, but two girls
seven and eleven years of age persisted.
THE Wyoming Stage Company's stage
from Deadwood to Sidney, Neb., was held
up a few days since by three masked rob-
bers and the treasure-box broken open
and rified.