Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-02-05

| HE Pittsburgh d Lake Erie hoau mas
announced a reduction of freight rates
from Pittsburgh to Chicago.
THE crew of the British bark Wellington
mutinied off Cornwall, and the Captain
| was killed and the mate wounded. The
vessel was towed into Plymouth and the
crew arrested.
| SOME of the Detroit (Mich.) cigar fac
| tories have reduced the rates OF wages,
and the union will resist the cut.
| A BREAK is reported in the levee at De-
sonia, on the Mississippi, and much dam
age was feared.
A BILL was introduced in the Wisconsin
| Legislature on the 10Th appropriating 80,
600 for the State weather service.
| ATELEGRAM from Secretary Teller &c
the Silver Convention at Denver, Col, on
! the 10Th, was the cause for loud and long
cheering.
Rev. STEPHEN GLADSTONE, son of the
English Prime Minister, was married on
the 18th to Miss Mary Wilson, daughter of
a retired physician.
| THE second days session of the National
| Board of Trade at Washington, d. c., on
| the 10Th, was followed in the evening by a
/ banquet.
| In the New York State Senate on the
Congress to appropriate $4,000 for the
/ Hennepin Canal.
| JAMES DoNoHuE, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
| proposes to enter an ejectment suit against
property-owners of Detroit for 800 acres OF
/ property in the heart of the city, valued at
| 1000, 600.
THE inaugural address of Governor
| Oglesby of Illinois was submitted to the
| Legislature on the 30th.
| FORTY persons are reported killed in a
recent railway accident in Australia.
DR.. BURBANK, of the United States
Navy, died suddenly at Portsmouth, N, H.,
on the 30th.
Iowa has taken most of the premiums
for dairy products at the New Orleans Ex-
position.
The Emperor of Germany is again well
enough to go out driving.
THE Union League Club of New York
will tender President-elect Cleveland a re-
ception.
THE Montreal carnival was practically
| concluded the evening of the Goth with
ball at the Windsor Hotel.
MONSTER temperance meeting in New
York on the evening of the 30th was adj
dressed by three Bishops. The attendance
was enormous.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the New
Jersey Central Railroad on the outskirts
of jersey City, n. J., ON the Goth, by
which several cars were derailed and
smashed, and many of the passengers in
jured, some of them fatally. A broken
wheel was the cause.
A DISPATCH received from Shanghai on
the 30th, stated that it was rumored in
that city and generally believed, that the
French fleet under Admiral Courbet, and
the vessels COMPRISING the entire Chimes Sc
fleet, met off Matsai and a sanguinary
naval battle, lasting several hours, fol-
lowed.
THE authorities at Scotland Yard have
received information that an attempt
to blow up the British Museum with dyna-
mite is imminent, and have taken extraor-
binary precautions to prevent the catas-
trophe.
The business failures for the seven days
ended the Both numbered for the United
States, 81; Canada, 81; total, 354; as
compared with the total of All the proceed
ing week, and 420 the week previous.
THE Secretary of the Interior thinks that
while the Oklahoma lands retain their
present status they will be source of con-
slant trOu bic.
THE newspapers of San Francisco, Cal,
have entered upon a crusade against the
iniquitous practice just discovered of white
mothers selling their babes to the Chinese.
A REPORTER is said to have been insult
ed at Vienna by the Reichsrath, and until
that body apologies the meetings will not
be reported by the local newspapers.
JONES, alias Jimmy Carroll, the notori-
Gus American burglar, who was released
from the Penitentiary at Kingston, Ont,
on the 9th, exhibited American bonds
to the value of 800, 200.
The session of the National Board of
Trade at Washington, D. c., on the 30th,
was a lengthy one. Special attention was
given to the discussion of the pending
treaties.
A MEMBER of the Paris Municipal Coun-
Gil moved an appropriation of $1,000 200
francs for labor associations, but the mo-
ton was voted down by an overwhelming
majority.