Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-04

THOMAS KEEGAN, of Hollidaysburg, Pa.
| was buried on the 2Sth. aged one hundred
| and eight years. He carried pike in the
| Irish rebellion of 1898, and came to this
country seventy five years ago. His first
| vote was tor Andrew Jackson and his last
for Cleveland.
SECRETARY TRACY, on the Goth, Endorsed
the report against the extension of time
for the completion of the gun boat Petrol
submitted by board consisting of Chief
Constructor Wilson, Engineering Chief
Melville and Captain Harrison. of the
Steel Inspection Board.
EIGHT Democratic inspectors were re-
moved, on the 10Th, from the special Gus
toms agents department of the New York
Custom House.
No CREDENCE is given in San Diego
Cal, TO the reported fight between Amer
leans and Mexicans at the mines in Low.
er California, and no details have been
received.
IT is probable that American pork will
be excluded from France.
A NAVAL commission was at New Or
leans on the 18th, seeking a site for a
navy yard.
O'DoNovAN Rosa has issued call for
convention of the friends of Ireland tc
devise means to overthrow the English
Government.
NICHOLAS n. BELL, superintendent of
the Foreign Mail Bureau, Post Office De-
ment, has resigned.
n. L. ROBINSON, of Virginia, chief law
clerk in the Office of the Attoraey-Geu-
eral, resigned on the 10Th.
Two HUNDRED weavers of the Berkeley
tR. L. mills struck, on the Doth, ON &C.
count of a change of speed involving a cut
in wages.
DISPATCHES received from Auckland,
on the Both, state that terrific hurricane
had swept over the Samoan Islands and
waters, wrecking the American war-ships
Vandalia, Trenton and Nipsic, and the
German war vessels Olga, Adler and
Eber. Four American officers and forty
six men, and nine German officers and
eighty-seven men were drowned
THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
way Company will reduce hours of labor
of shopmen, bridgemen and carpenters,
after April IS, from ten to eight hours a
day, with a proportionate reduction in
wages.
THE mill operatives of Manchester. N.
H., voted on the Goth, to ask for half
holiday on Saturday, and appointed a
committee to wait on the agents of the
various mills and present their demands.
IT is said that Lord Randolph Churchill
occupies the position of man without a
party, being rejected by the Tories and
distrusted by the Liberals.
THERE is a hitch in the negotiations
looking to the formation of the proposed
National Salt Syndicate, and many manu-
facturers are apprehensiye that it will
fall through
THE Dublin Freeman's Journal says the
appointment by the United States of the
hunted outlaw, Patrick Egan, to such an
important post as the mission to Chilli, is
a striking comment on the conduct of the
English Government.
Mr.. THAYER, the new Minister to the
Netherlands, took the oath of Office at the
State Department on the Goth.
AT the office of the Reading Coal and Iron
Company in Philadelphia it is stated that
the increase in the output of coal for the
next two years will be at least 2,001, 900
tons. This will be done through the four
new collieries that are being sunk and the
reha Utilization of old mines that have not
been worked for several years.
On the oath, in proceedings in New
York City for an accounting between c.
r. Griggs and c. K. Garrison, judgment
was entered in favor of the Garrison es
tate against Griggs for S219i,1 31. The
litigation arose from disputed ownership
of the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad.
THE published statement that Patrick
Egan is not citizen of the United States
is without foundation. Mr.. Egan be-
came naturalized citizen in Lincoln,
Neb., on the Goth of February, 1888.
ARTICLES of incorporation were
filed with the Secretary of State of
Colorado, on the 2sth, of the Colorado
6 Pacific railway. The capital stock
is 100000. 1t is proposed to build
from Grand Junction, Col, to the point
where the Colorado river empties into the
Gulf of California. and thence TO San
Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles.
IT is proposed to confer the freedom of
the city of Edinburgh on Mr.. Parnell. A
majority of the Town Council favor the
proposition.
JOHN FLEMING, an inmate of the Michi-
gan City (Ind.) prison, has been returned
to Kokomo for trial for the murder of
Sheriff Robert Jones of Grant County.
THE Irish leaders of the Commons and
the Parnellite counsel have held CONFER
ence and mapped out plan Of campaign
to be put into execution when the COM
mission reopens.