Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE works of the Para Rubber Com
pany at South birmingham. Mass,
which were shut down December Is last,
were started up in the calendar and mix
ing departments, on the 9Th, giving en-
ployment to $50 operatives
Mr.. THOMPSON, chairman of the
Firth of Forth Bridge Company, and
Sir John Gowler, have been created
baronets, and Messrs. Baker and Arrot,
respectively engineer and contractor of
the bridge, ha re been knighted.
RIOTING took place at Setubal, Portu
gal, on the Sd. The military were
called out to dispense the rioters and re-
store order, and firing into the crowd,
killed two and injured twenty.
THE Irish Land bill to be introduced
by the British Government, contains
clauses to assist emigration and to abol-
ish the land courts and land commits
sion.
A BILL authorizing the Canadian Pa
cific Railway Company to issue further
bonds to the extent of Sc, 600, 900 to aid
in the purchase of ocean steamships
passed it's final reading in the Dominion
Parliament on the Sd.
THE majority of the House committee
on Territories completed their report
on the bill for the admission of Idaho,
on the 5th. The report is favorable
and will soon be presented in the
House.
SENATOR WIN. Il. ALLISON was, on the
4th, reelected to the United States Sen
ate by the Iowa Legislature. Each
house voted separately, and Mr.. Allison
receiving a clear ajority of eight
votes. the necessity of 8 second ballot
in Joint session was obviGtcd.
THE Chinese Government is massing
troops on the frontier of Siberia, and
the Russian authorities are apprehen-
sive that a Chinese attack upon the
Russian forces on the border is medi
tated at an early date.
THE proprietors of the Pittsburgh
(Pa.) Times, the youngest and most
widely circulated newspaper in the
Smoky City, have purchased lot for
The erection of $500, 900 building.
THE Halifax On. s. Chamber OF Com
merce, on the 5th, adopted a protest
against the proposed Increase in the
duty on flour; also n resolution urging
the removal of the duty on American
corn.
a CONFLICT in which several lives
were lost is reported to have occurred
on the lower Amoor between irregular
Russian troops and Chinese gold-diggers
who resisted an attempt IL drive them
from the placers which they have
worked for the last generation.
SECRETARY WINDOW announced. on the
18th, that the Treasury Department had
resumed the purchase of four per cent.
bonds at 1913 or less.
OF the sum put up by Mr.. Parnel to
defray the expenses of the action
brought by him in the Scottish court
against the Times, and subsequently,
abandoned, $3.50 have been retained to
him.
An English syndicate. capital SIS, o0o,-
900, is said to be trying to buy the Tufts
and the Puffer soda water apparatus
works OF Boston, the Matthews of New
York, and the Lippincott, of Philadel-
phia.
f. y. HoNEN. representing the Stand
ard Gig Saddle Company. Jackson,
Mich, went to Dubuque, Ia, recently
on regular trip, called on customers,
paid his hotel bill and sent his baggage
to the depot He then mysterlously dis
appeared. He had large sum of money
when last seen Hovey was not addict
ed TO dissipation Foul play is feared
A NEW and clever smuggling scheme
has been discovered in New York by a
customs inspector. i number OF sup
posed packages of macaroni from Medl-
terranean points were found to contain
fine shawls instead. There were 40
boxes and ten bags seized. The goods
We're consigned to Chicago The matter
will be sifted thoroughly.
HENRY ID. LECATo was held for trial
at Philadelphia, on the 5th, upon the
charge of stealing about $4,000 worth
of diamonds and jewelry from Sanford ~
Cook, of New York, for whom he was
Philadelphia salesman.
THE first deep snow of the season fell
in the lumber districts OF Pennsylvania,
on the night of the 9th, and postponed
lumber work is being pushed day and
night