Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-17

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BY ELI d. AXE.
lRONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
LORD LoRNE has sailed for England.
Hon. LIONEL SAcKvILLE-WEsT the
new British Minister, has arrived in Wash
ington.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR went to New
York on the Sd, to remain until after the
State election.
THE Executive Committee of the Mis-
souri, River Improvement Association have
called Convention to be held at st. Joseph
on the Goth of November.
IMMEDIATELY following the adjourn
ment of the Senate the President appointed
Stratham Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va, in
place Of Wilson, suspended.
BOTH houses of the Minnesota Legis-
lature have passed the bill for the readjust-
ment of the old bonded debt Of the State, at
an interest not to exceed 5 per cent.
THE late Governor Wilt, of Louisi-
ana, left his widow and five children in pow
erty and committee of leading citizens has
appealed to the people of the State to pro-
vide fund for them.
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark, has been de-
clared by Governor Churchill a city of the
first-class. This grade has been reached in
two years and three months from the date
of the erection Of the first cabin.
THE State of Guatemala sent special
envoy to Washington to personally convey to
our people and Government the sympathy
and coincidence of that Government upon
the death of President Garfield.
THE bank of Walker & Co., at Zu-
rich, Switzerland, is reported to have been
robbed of $4,000 francs and all negotiable
securities and its books burned. The bank
has supended. Unpleasant surmises regard
ing the affair are current.
AN order has been issued by the
President, directing that the Pension
Agency at st. Louis be removed on the 1st
of January to Topeka, Kans., and Nathaniel
Adams, of Manhattan, Kans., has been APP
pointed Agent, vice Rufus Campion, whose
term has expired.
THE annual report of United States
Treasurer Gilfillan shows an increase in re-
ceipts over the previous year as follows:
Customs, ST. ,637 GIL; internal revenue, SILL
255, 110; sales of public lands, 81 :, 1876, 356;
miscellaneous sources, $3,177, 702; increase
in surplus revenue, $S4, 1S5,751.
CHARLES j. FoLGER, the newly-ap-
pointed Secretary of the Treasury, was
born in Massachusetts, in 1918. His first
office was Judge of Ontario County, New
York. He served eight years in the State
Senate, was Sub-Treasurer of New York,
and now holds the position of Chief-Justice
OF the Court Of Appeals.
The London Times in its financial
article says that purchases of Confederate
bonds are believed to be entirely due to the
action of clique prepared to run up the
price of any rubbish if they think there is
the faintest chance of alluring the public in
to joining in the venture. There has been
decline in the prices offered.
THE police at St. Petersburg have ar
N ho
ing dangerous explosives. Socialist pamph-
lets were found in the rooms. The man is a
student in the School of Mines. Nihilist
proclamations have been distributed about
the city and several copies thrown into the
barracks of the Imperial Guard. The Gar
has lately received MANY threatening mis-
sives.
THE cotton statistics for the present
season show falling off in the receipts at
every Southern port, except New Orleans,
from last year, the decrease in some cases
being considerable. The estimates of the
total crop made by members of the New
York Cotton Exchange vary from 5.175, 600
to 6,5OO,0OO bales. Bradstreet's reports
would indicate the smaller estimate as being
the nearer correct.
HE dISuIllcut Ou tuC ulOtlOL W ScL
aside the criminal information in the star
route cases began in the District Court at
Washington on the Sd. The Government
was represented by District Attorney Cork
hill; Brewster, of Philadelphia; Bliss, Of
New York, and Cook, of Washington; the
defense by Totten, Wilson, shellabarger,
Robert g. Ingersoll, Sypher, and Jefferson
Chandler, of st. Louis.
LATER developments regarding the
failure of the Mechanics National Bank
of Newark, N. j., confirm the report that
the institution is hopelessly wrecked. Stock
holders will be called upon to pay dollar for
dollar for the full amount of stock held by
them. Depositors will get about fifty cents
on the dollar. 1t has been ascertained that
Baldwin. the Cashier, specialized some in
Wall Street, but it is not known that he met
with any serious losses there. The firm of
Nugent & Co. protest against being made
the scapegoat for Baldwin's deficiency.
They claim that RaIdwiI, yyac their Maid