Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-03-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the 10th.
| Four hundred men are out of employ
ment by the shutting down of one-third
| of the machinery at a Lawrence Mass.
| cotton mill.
WAR rumors at London almost pro-
| duced a panic on the Stock Exchange on
| the 18th.
THE Senate held a short session on the
| 10th, and after debate on the matter, by a
vote of yeas, SO; nays, 20. Senator Bl air,
of New Hampshire, was declared duly
qualified and was sworn in.
THE Hazen court-martial convened at
Washington on the 18th.
TWENTY-FIVE women recently graduated
as doctors at Philadelphia, Pa.
REVEALS of religion in the churches of
Buffalo, N. Y, now in progress, are I'M
precedented in their results.
JACOB FREY, of Toledo, O., committed
suicide at the grave of his wife on the
18th.
ITALY will Immediately undertake the
relief of Kassala.
The French, after five days fighting,
carried the Chinese positions around Re
Lung.
A QUARTERLY dividend of one and one
half per cent. was declared by the West
ern Union Telegraph Company on the
18th.
The English Government will build fifty
stern wheel stea mboats for use on the
Nile.
EDWARD D. CLARKE, of Mississippi, was
nominated on the 18th as Assistant Sec
rotary of the Interior.
STATE SENATOR BRIDGE, of the Illinois
Legislature, is again very i'll and is re-
ported failing rapidly.
THE British Government has invested
EGO, 900 for the benefit of General Gordon's
family.
THE Western Nail Association at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 18th, reaffirmed the old
card rate of 1925. Trade was reported
better.
Four ballots were taken for United
States Senator by the Illinois Legisla-
ture on the 18th without reaching an cleo
ton.
THE reported Russian advance in At
ghanistan causes a great deal of excite
ment in London.
THE trial of James D. Fish, formerly
President Of the Marine National Bank,
was begun at New York on the 18th.
ENGLAND and Germany have practically
made satisfactory settlement of matters
concerning West Africa.
OFFICIALS of the Russian embassy at
London deny that any preparations for
war are being made by Russia ON the
Afghan frontier
BEFORE making another pilgrimage the
Oklahoma boomers will hear what their
at Washington have to
say.
WEDNESDAY, the 18th, was Nebraska
Day at the Worlds Exposition.
THE Treasurer of the Salvation Army at
North Adams, Mass, has left for parts
unknown with the money of the shouters.
THE jury returned verdict of not guilty
in the case of Nellie :Horan at, Elkhorn,
Wis. charged with poisoning members o f
the family.
PADDY RYAN has agreed to meet Sulli-
van in a mill anywhere within 1OOmiles of
New Orleans during the month of May.
A CANADIAN who used very profane and
language in a boastful man
ner was paraly zed, rooted to the ground
and almost frozen, and rendered unable to
take food.
The American Bell Telephone Company
has declared a regular quarterly dividend
of three per cent, payable in April.
FRANK d. WARREN, alias T. D. Lyons,
wanted in New Orleans for forgery, was
arrested ON the Canadian line on the 18th
and $1,000 recovered.
A STRONG pressure is being brought to
secure the appointment of Jos. S. Miller,
Of West Virginia, as Commissioner of !
Internal Revenue.
The situation among the strikers along
The Missouri Pacific and Wabash lines re- |
NAMED practically the same on the 18th. |
No violence had been used, and there had |
been no real necessity for the presence of |
militia at the scene of troubles anywhere. |
THoS. SIMPSON was convicted of polyg- |
amy at Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 18th. |
PRESIDENT SEELYE of Amherst (Mass) |
College is seriously ill.
GENERAL GRAHAM arrived at Suakim on
he 18th.
A COLD wave passed over portions of |
Canada on the 18th, the temperature de-
'liningsto twenty degrees below zero.
THE Ladner Bros, bankers, of Phi1a-
ielphia, Pa, were found guilty of lar
,eny.
The National Temperance Association
net on the 18th in the Music Hall at New
orleans.
THE diary left by General Gordon COM
rises six volumes.
THE National Union League will meet
t Philadelphia, Pa, on the 18th instant.
GERMANY offers her services as media
Or in the Afghan dispute.
The Chinese lost 1900 men in defending
Zee Lung against the French.
GENERAL WALTHALL qualified tn
9TH Us the successor of Mr.. Lamar in the
Tnited States Senate.
IT is reported that the Fenians Davies
nd Morrisey have been arrested at Paris. |
THE Senatorial deadlock at Springfield,
l. remains ,unbroken. Several fruitless
allots were taken ON the 18th.
A DISPATCH received at London on the
,th stated that Kassala has fallen into
,e hands of Ell Mahdi.
"FRITz" EMMEr played star engage
lent before an Albany Police Court on the
9Th, the result of a spree and a row with
is son. He promised to mend his man
ers.
The London Ne,cs asserts that the G Ear
f Russia is SO chilling in his responses
hat is is doubtful whether hostilities can
3 averted.
A GLOOMY feeling pervades the stock
at Berlin, Russian ocks suffer-
~ the most. Prices have also declined in ,
Jenna.
ENGLISH holders of W abash bonds have
ecided to reject Mr.. joys plans of reor-
anization and to seek the removal of the {
resent management.
THE British Cabinet met at an early
our on the 10Th, and, it is said Adecided to
form Russia that England felt it her I
lty to guard the Afghan territory.
The Gear of Russia will pay the EN-
eror of Austria a visit during the sum. d