Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-29

srull Guautg gfgister
BY ELL D. AXE
rRoNToN MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
Ir is asserted that England and Italy
have formed an agreement in reference to
the occupation of Tripoli.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR gave his first state
dinner of the season on the 21st in honor
of members of the Cabinet
PRINCE ALBERT VIcFoR, eldest SON of
the Prince of Wales, is coming to the
United States before settling in England.
THE weather was intensely cold through
ont Canada ON the ed, the temperature
ranging from twenty to forty degrees be-
low zero.
SEVERAL nail factories and copper
works resumed operations at Pittsbur gh,
Pa, on the 21st, after lying idle for sever
al weeks.
OFFIcIAL reports of the Manufacturers
Record show that 100, 900 men have gone TO
work In manufacturing enterprises since
January LIST.
THE President held his second reception
of the season at tho White House on the
evening of the Goth in honor OF Congress
and the Supreme Court
A PROPOSITION has been made to post
pone the dedication ceremonies OF the
Washington Monument until about the
time of the Inauguration.
PARNELL, in an address to the electors
of Cork, on the 21st, said that the Irish
party would oppose every government
that refused to concede Ireland's rights.
TYR thermometer at the Mt. Washing
ton IN. HI signal station ON tho Odd, IN
dictated fifty degrees below zero, with the
wind blowing at the rate OF Ito miles an
hour.
MAJOR BURKE, Director General Of the
New Orleans Exposition, is said to be r-
reparably ruined in health as the result OF
oyer-work in connection with the enter
prise.
TIE will of the late Schuyler Colfax
has been admitted to probate. The estate
is valued at $50 900, unincumbered. Mrs.
Colfax and Schuyler Colfax, Jr., are the
sole beneficiaries.
ANA Alexandria dispatch of the 23d says
that the rebels are strongly intrenched &C
Metamneh, which fort it will be necessary
for the English to occupy before they can
proceed to Khartoum.
SECRETARY CHANDLER is informed that
instead of proceeding to Congo the officers
of the vessel Lancaster are abusing n I'm,
and are holding receptions and having
high old time at Nice, France,
A BILL having been introduced in the
Missouri Legislature to allow the sale OF
oleomargarine as such, the Butter Dealers
Association of st. Louis has determined to
fight it and all similar measures.
THE Chief of Police at Montreal, Cam,
has been notified that unless he quits in
terfering with tavern keepers in Hohelega
for keeping open on Sundays they will
blow up the City Hall with dynamite.
GERMAN colonization is making rapid
progress on the west coast of Africa. The
German flag has been raisei in Sierra
Leone, long held by England. This news,
IL true, may lead to serious complications.
CONGRESSMAN OATES claims that En-
riish nobiemen now own about 21,0oO,Ooo
acres of land in the United States. His
bill, If passed, will prevent aliens and for
eigners from owning land in this country.
NV. PHILLIPS of st. Louis, No., is at
indianapolis to enter suit in the State
Court against the Wabash ON behalf of the
Central Trust Company of New York and
James Cheney. The demand is for $780,
000, 600.
FULLY three-fo urths of the 1900 en-
ployes of Sanford & Sons carpet mill ut
Amsterdam, N. Y, returned to work on the
18th, after thirty days strike, accepting
the reduction. Members of labor unions
were excluded.
CONSIDERABLE anxiety prevails in Cath
Ollie circles over the alarming illness of the
Pope. who is confined to his bed with fever
occasioned by q severe attack of rheuma-
tism. Grave fears are entertained lest the
attack prove fatal
A BATCH of bones Of tho Saints and 9TH
or alleged sacred relics procured by Mgr.
Fabre, Bishop of Montreal, on visit to
Rome and dispensed among the faithful,
have been pronounced fraudulent by tho
pope and ordered to be destroyed.
NATHAN 81. COLE, the oldest man in
Rhode Island, died at his residence at East
Greenwich, the evening of tho sd. He
was 1OI years old ON the 18th of August last,
attended town meeting last November and
voted for President, since which time he
has not been upon the street.
TIE House COMMITTEES ON Railways and
Canals decided on the 2Ist to report
the bill providing an appropria-
tion for making q survey of the water
route to connect the waters of Lake Michi-
gan with Detroit River. The cost of the
proposed water route will be u. 754 ,S6a
BRADsrREEr's weekly review shows
that the severity of the weather had q
most unfavorable effect upon trade in the
West and Northwest. Failures for the
seven days ended the 23d were 3s6, as COM
paed with AS in the, preceding week and
$40 in the CORE spending week OF 1854.
TIE following United States Senators
m ovxa alocted on the 10th. George G.. Vest.