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

| ly City of Paris, came in collision with an
other transport off Malaga on the 4th anC
| sunk, carrying down twenty -four of the
crew. The remainder were rescued.
THE Wabash Railroad has acceded to
the demands of the striking machinists in
the shops south of Chicago, and they have
resumed work.
THE anniversary of Andrew Jackson's
birthday, March 14th, will be Tennessee
day at the New Orleans Exposition.
THE jackson Democratic Club of Colum-
bus, O., attracted great attention at the
capital by having a colored man walk in
| front clad in sky-blue swallow-ta tail coat,
bright red pantaloons and an enormous
| silver plate on his breast bearing the name
| Of the organization.
| THE Inauguration of Cleveland and Hem
bricks attracted the largest crowd to
Washington that has gathered there since
the grand review of twenty years ago.
| SHORT Senatorial caucuses of both par
ties were held at Washington on the 5th.
| THE dog show at the New Orleans Ex-
position was formally opened on the 9TH.
| ADMIRAL CoURBEr has commenced the
capture of rice boats in Chinese waters
A WOMAN took the gold medal of honor
at the Ohio College of Medical Surgery.
| NATIVES of Alexandria, Egypt, are
| growing tired of British rule
THE Wabash employees at Fl. Wayne,
Ind, struck on the 9TH against reduction
| in wages.
| JOSIAH LOCKE, formerly editor of the In
dianapolis Journal, dropped dead in the
| office of that paper on the 9th.
A NUMBER of Oklahoma boomers arrived
| at Wichita, Kas., ON the 9th, in the GUS
| tody of officers.
DIR. A. G. F. GoERsEN was hanged at
Philadelphia on the 9Th for poisoning his
| wife five years ago. He protested his in
| nocence to the last.
THE Illinois Legislature had stormy
| time on the 9Th over the Senatorial ques-
ton. No election.
AUSTRIA will probably retaliate against
France on account of the duties placed
upon cereals.
ALTHOUGH the progress of the disease is
not checked, General Grant is reported
feeling much better.
THE repairs to the House of Commons
and Westminster Hall, made necessary by
the recent dynamite explosions, cost $43,-
600.
THE Russian ambassador at London
had conference with Mr.. Gladstone on
the 9TH regarding the Russo Afghan from
tier question.
THE President received a great many
organizations on the 9Th prior to their de-
parture for home and a number of prom
inent citizens were among tho callers at
the White House.
A DEPUTY was fatally shot at
Marquette, Mich, on the 9Th, while at
tempting the arrest of hard character.
AN attempt was made on the 9Th to as
sassinate Prof. A. J. Esch, Superintendent
of German in the public scho Dis of Cleve-
land.
SENATOR GARLAND'S selection for At
torney General brings out a number of
candidates for the Senatorship from Ar
kansas.
The men employed in the Texas Pacific
and Missouri Pacific shops at Fort Worth,
Tex, quit work on the 9TH. Fires in en-
gines were killed, and freight trains side
tracked.
FIVE hundred Okl ahoma boomers were
reported in camp at Arkansas City, Kas.,
on the 9th, and the number rapidly in
creasing. They expected to start on their
raid on the 9th. Troops were awaiting their
arrival.
THE bill passed in the French Chamber
of Deputies on the 9Th raising the duties
on cereals.
GERMAN newspapers are considerably
worked up over the statements in the Lon
don papers regarding the charges in con-
nection with the Bismarck Gladstone COM
plications.
A BERLIN correspondent of a London
paper charges Bismarck with deliberate
deceit and falsehood in his dealings with
England in reference to Germany's course
In South Africa.
The Denver. Chamber of Commerce
adopted resolutions requesting the new
Secretary of the Treasury to pay out the
silver coin now boarded in the vaults in
order to stop the contraction of the cur
rency.
THE Cincinnati Price Current figures
that twelve states that produced sixty
seven per cent. of the wheat crop of 1884
now have stocks amounting to ITO. 000, 600
bushela exclusive Of the visible supply.