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

Srpn Gollntg gegister
by ELI d. AXE.
1RoNToN. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
gagged rooms at the Arlington Hotel,
Washington, to be taken March ID.
BIsMARcK's organ urges that an Anglo
German squadron be at once sent to the
Congo country to vindicate the neutrality
laws.
EXTREMELY cold weather prevailed
throughout Ontario on the I'd, the temper
allure ranging from zero to thirty degrees
below.
THE First Battalion of the Royal Irish
Regiment won General Wolseley's prize OF
f100for making the quickest passage from
Howas to Debbeh.
A ROME dispatch of the 9Th announces
that Cardinal Jacobini, Papal Secretary OF
State, has decided to resign his position,
and will soon retire.
GENERAL GRANT has not smoked since
November 10th, and is recovering from
the affection CT the tongue and tons lis that
the weed caused him.
LORD LANsDowNE, Governor-Genera Oh
Canada, received cable dispatch on the
9th announcing that Lord Dufferin, vice.
roy of India, had been shot.
THE Secretary of the Navy has author
lied G. II. Storey to make further explor-
alton in Alaska waters, and preparations
are being made for years trip.
The President gave his annual dinner at
the White House ON the evening OF the Attn
to Justices of the Supreme Court. Chief
Justice and Mrs. Waite were not present.
Hon. THos. A. HENDRICKS and party,
en- route to New Orleans, were given a
public reception at. Atlanta, Ga, on the
5ta. The Vice President-elect delivered
an address.
Mrs. VICTORIA HULsKAMP (nee MORT
SINH, says "she and Ernest" like the
West. She denies the Boston story about
how she came to fail in love with the Bos-
ton eoachman.
THE will of the late Schuyler Colfax
has been admitted to probate. The estate
is valued at $3.50, 900, unincumbered. Mrs.
,Colfax and Schuyler Colfax, jr., are the
sole beneficiaries.
The Virginia members-elect to the For
ty-ninth Congress met on the 4th and de-
cided to push the name of Hon. John o.
Barbour for Postmaster General In MI.
Cleyeland's Cabinee.
TIE British Cabinet Council on the 9th
decided to give General Wolseley carte
blanche to ia Ike any steps he thinks neces-
sary in Egypt. He will be requested to
recapture Khartoum.
CUNNINGHAM, the alleged dynamiter.
has been identified as the man seen in the
vicinity of each of the recent underground
railway explosions in London Immediately
after their occurrence.
THE annual meeting of the National
Stove Manufacturers Association in Chi
cago was concluded ON the 9th. 1t was re-
solved to make prices for the current year
the same as during 1884.
The Porte has asked the Italian Govern
ment to explain the presence of its fleet in
the Red Sea, and hopes Italy will do moth
ing to interfere with the amicable rela-
tions of the two countries.
The River and Harbor Committee de-
.cided on the 9th to eliminate the section in
the appropriation bill which makes Cap
tain Eads the advisory engineer of the
Mississippi River Commission.
CUNNINGHAM, alias Dalton, charged
with being connected with the Tower ex-
plosion in London, was arraigned on the
I'd in the Police Court, and remanded. The
prisoner was heavily guarded.
THE Republican members of the Illinois
Legislature met in caucus on the 9Th, and
nominated by reclamation and rising
vote General John A. Logan as their can
didate for United States Senator.
EDWARD w. FILLMORE, a cousin of ex-
President Fillmore, died at Elgin, ILL.,, on
the 9Th, of consumption, aged seventy
three. He served in the Ninety-fifth ILL.,
inois infantry during the war OF the rebel
lion.
THE Democratic caucus of the Illinois
Legislature met the evening of the 4th,
and on the first ballot selected Hon. VIM.
R Morrison as the candidate to be voted
for in the election for United States Sem
ator.
A CANADIAN detective relates how he
learned the password Of the New York
dynamiters, and his experience at some
of the meetings he attended. He claims
to know all their plans for operation in
Canada.
Poison was found in the stomachs of
John Sullivan and wife, who were found
dead in Ansonia, Conn, on the 9TH, and
the theory of the murder is that the wife