Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-08
PERSONAL AND GEhERAI.

THE liabilities of Truninger & Co., the
London bankers who failed on the 9th,
will reach one million dollars.
The Locust Gap and Locust Spring Col
| leries, operated by the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad Company, have sus-
pended indefinitely. Two thousand men
| are thrown out of employment.
BENZ. +. Bungalow, who was cashier o,
| the National Bank of the Republic in
| Washington. D. c., in 1882, and convicted
| OF embezzlemenr, was sentenced on the
18th to FIVE years in the Concord On. II. }
| Penitentiary.
| BIZ direction of the President an army
retiring board will convene on Monday,
the 18th day Of January, or as soon there
after as practicable, at Omaha, Neb., foz
the examination of such officers as may be
ordered before it.
NOTICE was posted at the Fort Pitt Iron
and Steel Works, at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
| the 18th that on and after January LIST
there would be general reduction on
wages of all men except those with whom
| the firm had yearly contracts.
THE New Orleans car lines and drivers
| have reached an agreement. The drivers
| will get an advance of S. a month all
around, but the other employees of the road
remain as before. Fifteen hours will con-
stitute a days work This is what the
strikers demanded and which was refused.
THE London Daily Telegraph declares
that in the event of any attempt by q for
eign power to annex territory contiguous
to Australia, the commander of the Brit
ish squadron has instructions to hoist the
British flag over the entire Louisiade and
Woodlark groups, comprising over 100
small islands, and also over Long Island
and Rocks Island, adjacent to New Zea-
land.
A FRENCH transport with troops from
Toulon is reported to have been sunk by a
Chinese cruiser between Singapore and
Saigon.
A PROPOSITION is before the Finnish
Parliament to establish woman suffrage
throughout that country.
TwENTY-sIX persons were injured in a
railway collision near Wigan, Eng, on the
29th.
GENERAL MANAGER WHITING of the
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron
Company, stated on the 18th that all the
collieries of the company had been idle for
weeks, and some for a longer time, and
that twenty-one collieries in Sehuylkill
County will not resume January LIST.
GOVERNOR BUM of Idaho has signed
the bill prescribing an anti-poly gamy oath
of Office for county and precinct officers.
THE President has approved the act de-
taching Grundy County, Tennessee, from
the Southern Division District of East Ten
nessee and attaching it to the Middle Dis
trict of the State.
SPECIAL EXAMINER BOWMAN, of the De-
partment of Justice, left Washington on
the .3Oth for a tour through the Western
States and Territories on official business.
CATHARINE MILLAR was found on the
Doth in clubhouse in Baltimore, Md,
where she had been for five days, nearly
dead from exposure Four toes of the left
foot were frozen off, the right foot badly
frozen and part of her nose also gone.
THE Northwestern Travelling Mems As
ISOLATION was in session at Chicago on the
30th.
A TERRIBLE fire was reported raging in
Pierre, OAK, on the Goth, and as
the mercury was twenty degrees below
zero and all the pumps frozen solid it was
impossible to control the fire. The stores
of Hollonback, F. Nasup Cavanaugh, R.
d. Jones, p. H. Johnston, wholesale
liquors; Samuel Y. Goodwin, same; Parks
Billiard Hall and dozen smaller build
ings were in flames, and buildings Were
being torn down to stay the progress OF
the fire.
IT is said that President Arthur has al
ready twenty pledges for the New York
BISMARCK will go to San Reno with his
family to remain six weeks.
ONCE more have the French met and de-
feated the Chinese in Tonquin.
Two collisions occurred ON the New York
elevated railroads on the 30th, due to fog,
but fortunately no lives were lost.
In some of the Spanish towns the recent
caused the death of hundreds
of people, besides injuries to great num-
bers.
EIGHT masked men lynched Pleasant
Anderson near Blakesburg, Ia, ON the
10Th. He was tried for murder a year ago,
and acquitted.
FOUR people were killed and thirty in
jured in a railway accident in England on
the LIST.
The New York Board of Aldermen have
been enjoined from confirming the appoint
ment made by the Mayor for Superintend-
ent of Public Works.
WIN. PEARSON, spiritualistic crank,
killed his infant child with a hammer at
y
to his wife that they both cut their threats,
which they did, but they were both alive
at last accounts.
HON. SAMUEL J. RANDALL and party
arrived at Nashville, Tenn, on the 3oth,
and were rendered most hearty receptions,
both public and private. In the evening
the ex-Speaker addressed a large audi
ence in the Opera house.
HON. DORMAN B. EATON President of |
the Civil Service Commission, is much |
pleased over Governor Cleveland's letter |
to the Civil Service League. In comment
ing upon the subject in general, Mr.. Eaton !
slaps the Republican party right and left. |
CALLERS in Washington on the LIST had |
to go about in drilling rain.
THE Presidents New Years reception |
was an elabor ate and recherche affair.
LORD PLUNKET, Lord Bishop of Meath, |
was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin on |
The LIST.
UNITED STATES SENATOR FRYE's father |
lied at Lewiston, Me-, on the list, in his |
eighty second year.
Mr.. BLAND does not think the bill to stop |
he coinage of silver will be reported IA
Forably.
REPRESENTATIVE LAIRD, of Nebraska,
vas severely injured at Washington on the
st while horseback riding.
A BALTIMORE g. OHIO train was wrecked
lear Grafton, w. Va, on the LIST. Two
men were killed and q number injured.
Hon. SAMUEL J. RANDALL and party |
.rrived at Birmingham, Ala, ON the Lat.
4 pubic reception was rendered the wish
ors.
IT is proposed that the next inaugural