Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12

Tale'' at the Lyceum Theater, London, on
the evening of the Sd, and was welcomed
by large and brilliant audience with the
utmost enthusiasm.
A GENERAL resumption of work in the
river coal mines in Pennsylvania will
probably take place this week at the adj
vance in wages demanded by the miners.
The resumption will give employment to
nearly five thousand men.
REPRESENTATIVE TowNsHEND, of Illi-
nois, win introduce in Congress in a few
days joint resolution to amend the Con-
stitution of the United States as to pro-
vide for the election of Senators by votes
of the people of the States.
MANITOBA farmers are indignant at the
refusual of Canadian customs officers to
give certificates to grain shippers from
Pembina to Montreal via the Northern
Pacific. The off GERS are acting in the in
terest of the Canadian Pacific.
THE president of the Board of Poor
Directors of Lancaster, Pa, on the Sd,
asked the tramps confined in the county
workhouse, 140 in all, who were willing to
go to Reading to take the strikers places
to sign paper, but only twenty-five COM
piled.
DANIEL MANNING's will was admitted to
probate at Albany, n. Y, on the 9th, by
Surrogate Woods. 1t made July 3,
1886, when Mr.. Manning was in Albany
attending the bi-centennial celebration of
that city, and bequeaths all his property
to mis- family.
THE most disastrous conhagration in the
history of Salida, Colo, occurred on the
ID. Twenty ono houses were destroyed
in the business portion of the town, in
Guiding Cornbuany's new hotel and the
Chicago Opera-house. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
NATHAN B. SUTTON was hanged at Oak
land. Cal, on the 9th. for the murder of
Alexander Martin, ranchman, in Sep
TENDER. 1886. Strenuous effor is were made
in Sutton's behalf for Communication of
sentence, but Governor Waterman re-
fused to interfere.
THE receipts of the Government from all
sources during December were S29, 325, 2S5,
and the expenditures $1,000, 6S2, leaving
a net gain of receipts over expenditures of
SIS, go, 603, which, after paying s., 800, 900
interest on the public debt, leaves a net
surplus for the month of $l5, 425,603.
THE President on the 4th, transmitted
to both houses of Congress the draft of a
bill to authorize the Secretary of the In
terror to fix the amount of compensation
to be paid for railroads through Indian
reservat ions in cases where such rights
are provided for by treaty or act of Con-
gress.
E. B. WILBUR, one of the most widely
known grain merchants in Buffalo, N. Y,
has gone to Canada. Tuscott & Heath
field are out 81. OO0 and s. s. McCrea,
freight agent of the Grand Trunk, is q
loser to the amount of $4,000, and a num-
Der of others are sad to be out various
amounts.
THREE Reading collieries, with capaci-
ty of $50 cars per day, We're at work on
the 9Th. They can employ 1900 hands. |
1t is not believed that any considerable |
portion of the miners employed by indi- |
vidual operators at the advance will re- |
fuse to cut coal if handled by nom union |
railroaders. |
THE great objective or thirty six-inch |
lens of the Lick telescope was success
fully mounted at San Jose, CAL, |
the LIST, and would have been |
turned on the heavens that evening !
had the sky been clear, but it having be- |
come obscured about shutdown no observa- !
tions were made.
THE December fire losses aggregated |
0,30S, 900, against $11 200, 900 for the same |
time last year. The total fire waste for |
the year 1887 amounted to the extraor-
not been exceeded since the great 1oston |
fire. This is about $13. 000, 900 greater than
the losses of 1886.
~
IT is reported that the Italian Govern |
ment is endeavoring through its minister |
to this country. to make arrangements |
with American manufacturers of steel for |
furnishing armor plates for Italian war |
vessels. the in tention being to secure a |
source of steel supply outside of Europe |
in the event of war.
THE commission appointed by Governor i
Sawyer of New Hampshire to investi-
gate the mental condition of Richard |
Woodham and Hannah Woodham, his |
wife, who have been confined in the |
Asylum for the Insane at Concord thir- |
teen years this month, have decided that |
they should be released.
ExEMPREss EUGENE has decided that |
The ceremony of the removal of the re- |
mains of Napoleon III. and the Prince |
Imperial from Chiselhurst to Farm
borough shall take place on the 9th. By |
private request of the ex-Empress none of |
the members of the royal family will be |
present, but the Queen will send wreaths
to be placed on the collins.
A MASS MEETING under the auspices of |
the Reading strikers was held at Phila-
delphia on the night of the 4th, and reso-
buttons were passed denouncing the Read
ing management for employing Pinker-
toms detectives; charging it with imped-
ing the traffic of the Sta te by refusing to
meet its employees amicably, and calling
on all merchants and business men to boy
colt the road.
Dr. TALMAGE announces a course of
sermons TO the women ef America, with
practical hints for men, the follow sub
jects among others: ''The Women Who
Have to Fight the Battle Of Life Alone"
S'Marriage for Worldly Success Without
Reference to Moral Character" ''Is En-
cagement as Binding as Marriage?"
hWomen Who Are Already Uncongenial-
" Married. Influences Abroad for the
Des truction of Women" "Wifely Ambi-
tion Right and Wrong" "What Kind of
Men Women Should Avoid" simplicity
as Opposed to Alteration" 'Reforma-
ton in Dress" "PIain Women" "The Fe-
male Skeptic" and Christian House
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