Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-10

| THE Americans awarded Legion of
Honor decorations at Paris are Messrs.
Scribner, of tae Agricultural Depaz tnent
| at Washington: Manson, q yina-g grower of
Texas, and LOGGER, of Missouri.
| THE Australian system of voting wer +
into effect in Massachusetts with the open
ing of the year, aud the authorities of
| that State have requests from all over the
country for copies o. the law
IT is reported that Lady Salisbury, wife
or the British Premier, will present Mrs.
Joseph Chamberlain to the Queen at the
| trst drawing-room of the season.
A PANIC occurred, on the Sd, on the
| Liverpool Exchange in electric Sugar"
shares, owing to a cablegram reporting a
| damaging discovery in the process. The
shares fell from 81 to ID.
THE President has signed the act grant
ing to the G1trous Water Company right
| OF way across the Papago Indian Reser-
walton in Maricopa County, Ariz.
NEARLY all the coal-dock laborers at
| Duluth and West Superior, Mimi, struck,
on the Sd, against a reduction in wages
| from - to $1.75 per day. Three hundred
| men are out.
| AT dinner party given by Mr.. Charles
| Wilson, near Creston, Ia, on New Years
| Day, his family and nine guests were seri-
ously poisoned by partaking of meat
| sailed in a vessel of zinc.
THE floods in Italy are extending to
| Bastla, and doing much damage. In one
| house which collapsed, on the 4th, twelve
| persons were killed.
FRENCH Republican journals deride
| Boulanger's manifesto to the electors Of
the Department of the Seine as unworthy
| of serious discussion.
NEWS of the terrible murder of a little
| girl in a field close to a village road in
Co. o@-1,,, ~
| same general details as those in the case
| of the boy murdered at Bradford recently,
has been received in London.
WHEN the attention of Senator Reagan,
of Texas, was called to a telegram pub
| ished, on the 4th, saying that there was
| opposition to the reelection of his col
| league, Senator Coke, he said: "That is
| nonsense. Senator Coke will be re-elect-
ed without opposition"
| OF the $50 German and Italian immi-
grants landed at Castle Garden, on the
Sd, sixty were adjudged to be paupers.
A BRIEF dispatch from Admiral Luce
was received at the Navy Department, on
| the 4th, to the effect that yellow fever had
broken out on board the United States
steamer Yantic, while in Port au- Prince
harbor, and that he had ordered the YES
sci away from that port
A NEW corporation under the title of
the Sheldon Marble Company has ac-
quired ownership of the Sheldon, Sher-
man and Manhattan marble quarries. This
deal practically places the control of the
valuable Vermont marble-quarrying in
terests in the hands of but two companies,
the Vermont Marble Company being the
only formidable rival of the Sheldon COM
pany.
CASE ARNOLD, O laborer, ate siXty-two
raw eggs. on q wager, at the Peoples
Theater, Charlottesville, Ind, on the ID.
After the exhibition, Arnold adjourned to
q restaurant and INDUCED in a hearty
meal.
THE Idaho Legislature convened on the
I'd, after the holiday recess.
THE canvass for signatures to the great
protest against Mormon Statehood for
Utah closed, on the ID, with over 10000
nsaaes appended to the document.
THE iron cross-ties with which the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has been
experimenting on it's tracks at Jersey
City, n. j., have proved a failure and will
be replaced with white-oak ties.
GREAT anxiety is felt in Germany re-
gartfing Prince Bismarck's health. He
has been ordered to remain in strict re-
pose and not go to Berlin.
Much indignation is felt among all
classes of citizens of Idaho at President
mons.
The foreign relations committee of the
Senate, on the 4th, agreed to a favorable
report on the resolution of Senator Ed
munds declaring the sense of Congress ON
foreign control of the Panama canal.
DAVID IRVING, of Wilton, Mimi, died
and was buried on the Sd. He had
reached the age of one hundred and fif-
teen years, and had distinct recollection
of the events succeeding the Revolution.
THE friends of Travelling Passenger
Agent burberry at Cedar Rapids, Ia, have
procured gold-headed cane to presentto
him for Furnishing Editor Hunt.
IT is generally believed in London that
Stanley, and not Emin, is the ''White
Pasha-"
On the 4th, NM. Christics and Miiato-
witch resigned from the Servian Ministry.
\ new Cabinet will shortly be formed.
SEVEN persons We're drowned in the
Ludwig canal, at Neuremburg Bavaria, on
the 4th, by the breaking of the ice upon
which they We're skating.