Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-21

gron County aegister
BY Ell %. AXE.
1RoNToN. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
CoLoUITr's majority over Norwood
for Governor of Georgia is about 10000.
UP to the 18th, % deaths had result
ed from the Pittsburgh railroad collision.
The Democrats of the Fourth Illinois
District have nominated n. C. Warner for
Congress.
IT is reported from Valparaiso that
Chilli and Peru have accepted the offer of
mediation by the United States.
THE Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided that no claim will be recognized by any
miner or settler to any mineral or other land
upon the Ute reservation based upon set
Element or occupation previous to the formal
opening of that reservation.
IT is reported that the British Gov
eminent has determined to prosecute the
leading members Of the Land League for
conspiracy. Prosecution will be founded on
the reports of speeches at country meetings
and proceedings of the League in Dublin.
A
THE Porte has handed the ambassa-
doris of the Powers at Constantinople a note
announcing the surrender of Dulcigno to
Montenegro. The note expresses the hope
that the pressure of the Powers will be re-
linquished as regards the settlement of 9TH
er pending questions.
THE Mormon Conference at its recent
session elected John Taylor President, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Brigham
Young. George Q. Cannon and Joseph F.
Smith, the latter nephew of the original
Joseph Smith, were chosen First and Second
Councillors respectively.
DE LESSEPS announced at a recent
meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences
that operations for carrying out the scheme
of the Panama Canal are about to be begun
under the auspices of the Syndicate COM
posed of the principal financial establish
ments of America and Europe.
THE Wabash Railroad on the 18th be-
gan cutting passenger rates between Chica-
go and St. Louis, on the ground that their
depot in Chicago is SO far from the business
center of the city as to give the other roads
the advantage. The cut was promptly met
by the Chicago & Alton, and brisk war in
rates seemed imminent.
TROUBLE between the whites and In.
dians in Oregon is apprehended on account
of the killing of two Indians by white man
named Anderson Evarts, in difficulty grow
ing out of the latter having charged the In
dams with stealing from his cabin on Baker
River. The Indians were reported to be
gathering for revenge and the alarmed set
tiers were fleeing to places of safety.
THE Commissioner of Pensions has
issued circular explaining the delay in an
inl attending to the claims of veterans and
relatives of veterans. He says that the pas
sage of the Arrears act overwhelmed him
and his assistants with work, and that, with
the system now in force, they can not hope
to clear up matters very soon.
The Memphis Cotton Exchanges crop
report for the month Of September shows
of excessive rains, causing serious damage
from shedding, rust, worms and rotting.
OF the crops gathered, the estimated yield
ranges from $50 to 1900 pounds per acre,
averaging $50 pounds seed cotton. AS COM
pared with last year the average yield is 80
1-2 per cent. less.
SPOTTED TAIL, Chief of the Brule
Sioux, has sent 1882. 80 to Secretary Schurz,
that six young men of the tribe, who are to
be tried for the massacre Of the whites near
the White River Agency, may secure the
services of able lawyers to defend them be-
fore the courts of the Great Father. The
letter accompanying the money abounds in
many professions of Spotted TAILS desire for
exact justice for himself and his children.
THE cornerstone of the Egyptian
obelisk to be erected in Central Park, New
York, was laid on the 9th with impressive
ceremonies, in the presence of large num-
Der Of people. A principal feature of the
occasion was the Masonic procession and
ceremonies, in which all the Communicates
of Knights Templar and Masonic Lodges of
New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark
and adjacent cities and towns participated.
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SECRETARY SCHURz has made public
the report of Superintendent Walker of the
Census Bureau on the alleged census frauds
in South Carolina. The General gives his
reasons for believing the census of 1870 was
grossly defective, and that the census of 1880
is substantially correct. He says: 81 know
of no reason why any further charge should
be made against the enumeration re-