Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-03-12

The President has retained the services
of o. L. Pruden at the White House as
the bearer of executive communications
to Congress. Pruden has acted in this
capacity during many administrations.
THE total outstanding debt of the United
| States on March LIST was s., 4o5, 1923, $50, OF
| which amount 81 ,196, las, $50 is interest
bearing debt.
THE Senate on the 9Th, in executive ses-
sion, unanimously confirmed the Cabinet
nominations sent in the day previously
without any further opposition from Sena.
tor Riddleberger.
For the seven days ended the 9th there
! were 23S business failures in the United
States and 50 in Canada, a total of 2T7,
as compared with 2S4 the preceding week.
AN explosion of gas in Barkewel's new
| law building at Pittsburgh, Pa, On the
9th, badly shattered the interior Of the
| structure and injured several of the oc-
cupants.
THE New York Central announced the
reduction of It's dividend to one per cent.
on the 9Th, caused by the great falling of
i'll February earnings.
The Minnesota Legislature adjourned
sine die ON the 9Th with its business pretty
well cleared up.
KLAUS KEKMA, Hollander, was ar
rested at Grand Ra Dids, Mich, on a requi-
sition from the Netherlands, whence he
came about a year ago after forging his
fathers name to a check for $500 guilders.
A DESPERATE attempt was made on the
9th, by prisoner, to kill the presiding
judge of the Police Tribunal of Lausanne,
Switzerland. The judge escaped injury,
but the clerk and usher were badly
wounded.
DURING the hanging of DIR. Goersen in
Philadelphia, Pa, one condemned muir
derer died from fright and another was
seized with violent commissions.
In the German Reichstag on the 9th a
motion to restore the currency to BIZ
metallic standard was rejected.
MRS. TYLER, widow of ex-President
Tyler, called upon President Cleveland on
the 9th.
THE report that General Wolseley has
been recalled is denied.
EDWIN BOOTH denies that he con.
templates retiring from the stage.
FOREIGNERS at Ming Pc are threatened
with massacre by the Chinese.
THERE was large attendance at the
Worlds Exposition at New Orleans on the
9th.
JOE Goss, the pugilist, is dying at Bos-
ton of Bright's disease.
TROOPS in the vicinity of Suakim are
suffering ON account of the scarcity of wa
ter.
SEVERAL booksellers were fined heavily
at New York on the 9th and others were
sentenced to Imprisonment.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred on the
Illinois Central Road eight miles from
Grenada, Miss, the 9th. Three men
were killed and a number of passengers
injured.
MAMBRINo PATCHEN, the great trotting
sire, died at DR.. Herr's farm, near Lexing-
ton, KY, on the 9Th.
GRANVILLE delivered a long speech in
the British House of Lords on the 9th on
the Bismarck controversy.
A TERRIBLE mine explosion was reported
at Karwin, Austrian Silesia, on the 9th.
One hundred and forty -seven men were
they are saved.
WIN. CoRBIN and John Gaines, of Boone
County, Kentucky, fought about the kill
ing of dog on the 9th and both were
killed.
Two persons lost their lives in a hotel
fire at Bradford, Pa, ON the h, the build
sion.
INDIANS are making it interesting for
settlers on the Crow reservation in Dakota
recently thrown open to the public.
1T is denied that the Chicago, Burling-
ton g. Quincy is about to build a sixty
mile branch between Brighton, ILL.,, and
Louisiana, Mo-, so as to give the Hannibal
& st. Joe connection with st. Louis.
HERBERT BISMARCK visited the Prince
of Wales on the 9th, and conveyed COM
to the effect that Germany
was DESTROYS of maintaining cordial rela-
tions with England.
SENATOR VAN WICK has introduced b
resolution to find out all about the 'Back-
bone" land grant in Louisiana. Senator
Teller, who issued the papers while in
President Arthur's Cabinet, will have
chance to explain.
THE Post-o office and Custom h ouse at
OAK, burned ON the 9th.
T. S. ARTHUR, the well known author OF
and other literature, died in
Pa, on the 9th.