Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-09

grua County gegister
By ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary of Important Events.
A BIG combination to secure control of
all the leaf tobacco in the country is said
TO be in process of formation at Louis vile,
Ky.
1t is reported at Ottawa. Ont, that Sir
Charles Upper favors commercial reci-
procitv between Canada and the United
States.
Mr.. Cox, the Irish Commoner, was con-
yicted on the 1st and sentenced to a
months Imprisonment. When this term
is up he is to be rearrested.
THE President and the Cfvil-Service
Commissioners have just completed and
promulgated a number of impor tant
changes in the Civil Service rules.
DR.. MACKENZIE made another examina-
ton of Crown Prince Frederick Williams
throat on the 50th. The tumor inf1amma-
ton was reduced and no signs of cancer
were found.
SIXTEEN youths of Dromore, Ireland,
have been sentenced to imprisonment for
one week with hard labor for lighting
bon-fires to celebrate the release of Will
lam O'Brien.
MGR. ADAM, of California, presented to
the Pope, on the Sd, photograph of
Gabriel, an Indian Ca tholic one hundred
and forty years of age, for whom he ask ed
a special blessing.
PRESIDENT AGAssIz has decided to send
twenty-five tons of concentrated ammonia
down the burning shafts of the Calumet
and Hecla mine, in the Upper Michigan
Peninsula, at once, to put out the fire
completely, if possible.
THE annual banquet of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association of Balti-
more, Nd, took place at the Hotel Rem
merit on the night of the ID, and was at
tended by representative business men to
the number of two hundred
THE business failures during the seven
days ended the Sd numbered for the
United States. 247; and for Canada, 50,
or a total of 279, as compared with 81 for
the preceding like period, and 261 for the
corresponding week of last year.
SERIOUS riotino was reported from
Shenandoah, Pa, on the evening of the
3d, started by an attack of mob of men
and boys on the non union miners as they
were leaving their work. Several persons
were wounded, and more trouble was ex-
pected.
THE San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce, on the I'd, adopted the majority
reports of the committee recently ap-
pointed to con slider the tariff as affecting
sugar interests of the Pacific coast. The
report advocates that the present tariff
be maintained.
GENERAL SHERIDAN was driven around
Boston on the 25th, and was greeted
every where by tremendous crowds, who
cheered him wildly. A public reception
was given in Faneuil Hall at noon, and
the place was packed, the crowds extend
ing far out into the street
TWO cow boys, named Arthur and Potts,
attempted to run the town of Buffalo
Gap, station on the E1khorn road, in
Dakota, on the 30th, when The citizens
turned out in full force and killed both of
them. Who fired the fatal shots no one
knows. nor wants to know.
THE blast furnaces of the Troy IN. W
Steel and Iron Company were banked on
the 30th, the employees having refused to
accept ten per cent reduction in wages.
The efforts of the State Board of Arbitra
tion were not successful. About three
thousand men are thrown out of work.
CAPTAIN RITcHIE of the State Line
steamer State of Indiana was presented,
on the Sd, on behalf of President Cleve-
land, with a gold watch and chain, and
Campbell, the first officer, with a binocu-
lar glass, for saving the crew of the ship
Triumphant of Boston, abandoned at sea.
PROF. VIM. MCFARLAND, one of the old
est actors in the country, was found dead
in bed at his home in Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the 31st. Mcfarland supported Mac
ready when the great Engiishmau was
in this country, and later the elder Booth,
Adams, Edwin Forrest and all the old
timers.
THE special report of Colonel Switzler,
chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury
department., IN regard to inception, de-
velopment and present condition of the
commerce of the Mississippi and Ohio
rivers, and of the numerous bridges which
cross them, is completed and in the hands
of the public printer.
A VAST industrial parade, many miles
long and occupying two hours and a hal f
in passing given point, was the carni-
val attraction at St. Paul, Mimi, on the
1st- Every important business house in
the city was represented, many by
elaborate floats, showing goods tasteful
ly displayed and others by crews of
artisans at work.
JOHN WELSH, Edward Williams and
Edward Kimberly were arrested at Balti-
more, Nd, on the 30th, on the charge of
having cut the throat OF Rose CLANCY,
housekeeper for Welch. All the accused
are known to have spent the night of the
10Th in Welch's house, and on the morn
ing of the 3oth the woman was found dead
in bed with her throat cut.
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THE signal corps station at Nantucket
rep orted on the Goth upwards of fifty
vessels in the ice near Nantucket, and
from Great Point to Tuckermuck shoals
many of them were adrift, having lost
anchors and chains. The ice is ten inches