Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-30
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of important Events.

A Summary Of Important Events.
THE New Hampshire Prohibitionists
have nominated an Electoral ticket, besides
Congressman and full State ticket, and will
make an active canvass of the State.
THE latest advices are that q great
combination movement of the Mexican
American troops is taking place to catch Vic
torio, and, if possible, end his career.
THE Massachusetts Greenback State
Convention was held at Worcester, on the
22d, with 400 delegates present, one of whom
was woman. A full State ticket was placed
in nomination, headed by Gen. Horace Bin
ney Sergeant for Governor.
MEMPHIS had grand celebration on
the 22d, in token of its deliverance this year
from the yellow fever. There was process
sion three miles in length, representing
nearly every branch of business and trade,
and the streets and buildings were gayly
decorated. Thousands of visitors were in
attendance.
THE International fleet now lying at
Ragusa, which is to maneuver in Turkish
waters, consists of twenty vessels, manned
by 800 men, and carrying 100 heavy guns.
The foreign Consuls in Dulcigno have been
warned by the commanders of the fleet to
remove their families to place of safety.
This is thought to be preliminary to the exc
cution of the orders under which the men
of-war are acting.
GEORGE A. WEICHTTER went from
Chicago to Milwaukee to pay visit to his
divorced wife and children who resided in
that city. He spent Sunday with them in
an apparently friendly manner, but after
bidding them good-by mt night he drew a re-
volver and shot his divorced wife through
the neck, after which he went into the yard
and shot himself through the head, dying in
stantly. Mrs. Weichtter will probably re-
cover. ,g..
REGARDING the result of the Maine
election, Senator Blaine ON the Goth tele-
graphed Chairman Jewell of the National
Republican Committee that the vote is so
close between Davis and Plaisted that the
official count will probably be necessary to
determine which is elected. The official re-
turns can not be counted, or even opened,
until the meeting of the Legislature in Janu-
airy. The Democrats claim that Plaisted has
a majority of $50 over Davis.
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THE coal mining troubles at Corning
in Perry County, o., have reached such
pitch that the Governor, in response to the
Sheriff of the county, ordered several COM
panies of militia from Columbus to the
scene of the difficulty. On the night OF the
10Th the striking miners charged upon the
negroes who had taken their places. The
commander of the militia ordered them to
halt y,;o nh iS o1od
Several shots were fired by the mob, when
the troops returned the fire, causing the RI
oters to retreat with the loss Of several men
wounded. L,
DR.. T. P. TALBorrl editor of the
Greenback Standard at Maryville, Nodaway
County, Mo-, was assassinated in cold blood
on the night of the 18th, at his residence
about seven miles south of the town. He
was sitting down by window, reading,
when bullet fired from gun through the
closed window struck him in the side, in
fiicting mortal wound. He died on the fol-
lowing day. There is no clew to the perpe-
traitor of the crime, nor no known motive
that could have induced it, but it is believed
that the assassin was some person who had
personal enmity against his victim.
THE National Liberal League, at its
recent session at Chicago, adopted plat
form declaring, among other things, that
there should be no legal, political or social
disabilities on account of religious belief or
of absence thereof; that all laws requiring
religious tests in order to qualify any person
to sit on jury, testify, vote, hold office or
do any public act should be repealed as a
relic of barbarism; and that all laws regard
ing marriage, which is civil contract, and
divorce, births and burials should be placed
on a purely secular and scientific basis and
have their justification only in their use to
society. i e
The Maine Greenback Convention, to
nominate a ticket of Presidential Electors,
met at Portland on the 21st, 465 delegates
being present. A resolution was presented
indorsing the action of the State Committee
recommending fusion with the Democrats
and the nomination of joint Electoral tick
ct, to be composed Of four Weaver and three
Hancock Electors. Considerable opposition
was developed, but the resolution was finally
adopted. F. NJ. Plaisted and Congressman
Murch were the strongest advocates for
fusion. After the adjournment of the Con-
vention number of anti-fusionists, headed
by Scion Chase, met and organized, and
nominated full Greenback Electoral ticket.
AN adjourned meeting was held at St.
Louis, on the evening of the 21st, to hear the
report of committee previously appointed
to examine into the legal questions involved
in the projected settlement of the Indian
country. Ex-Mayor Joseph Brown pre-
sided. Ex-Judge j. NJ. Krum read the re-
port of the committee of lawyers. 1t was to
the effect that at least that portion of the
Indian Territory west of the ninety eighth
degree, embracing 14,OOO, 600 acres, Is open
to exemption by actual settlers, as the In
dians had only the right of occupancy, and
that was given up in 1866. Another commit
tee was appointed to further. by every law
full means, the opening and settlement OF the
territory.
THE Missouri River Improvement
Convention, held at Kansas City on the 21st,
adopted resolutions uging upon Congress
the duty of bestowing upon the Missouri