Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE American Bankers Convention
assembled at Niagara Falls on the 10th, with
large attendance.
THE Boer Government has been form
ally proclaimed. 1t is to be known as the
South African Republic.
BRADLAUGH is suffering from severe
attack of erysipelas, said to be the indirect
result of his personal encounter in the lobby
Of the House Of Commons.
MAUD has again lowered the trot-
ting record by quarter Of a second, having
made a mile in 2:10 IA at Buffalo, on the
18th. This leaves st. Julien just an even
second behind.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH L. STEPHENS, one
Of the best known citizens Of Missouri, who
has been identified with many Of the largest
enterprises of the day, died at his home in
Boonville, on the 18th, aged 55.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD, on the 10th,
performed his first official act since the I'd
: Of July, signing formal requisition for the
extradition of criminal who some time
since took refuge in Canada.
.4tEs -&
, The Cattle Commissioners selected
by the Secretary Of the Treasury have decid-
ed to make searching investigation at the
chief Western centers to make sure that the
live stock at those points is free from infec-
ton. a-
The Memphis cotton crop report for
July shows that continued drouth has re-
tarded the growth of the plant and caused
it to fruit and mature too rapidly. Worms
have appeared in few localities, but no
damage from this cause is so far reported.
GEN. GRANT has bought large and
very handsome house on the north side of
East Sixty sixth Street, between Fifth and
Madison Avenues, New York. The price
paid was 500, 200. 1t is understood the
General proposes to make this his future
home.
A CONFERENCE of Civil Service Re-
formers was held in New York on the 18th,
of which George VIM. Curtis, Carl Schurz
and Dorman B. Eaton were the principal
promoters. Senator Pendleton's bill regu-
lating appointments to the Civil Service was
Endorsed.
HON. o, H. BROWNING died at his
home in Quincy, ILL.,, on the 10th, aged rs.
He was Secretary of the Interior under
President johnson, and previously served in
the u. s. Senate, being appointed by Gov.
Yates to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Stephen A. Douglas.
MANY towns and villages in Western
Prussia have recently suffered much from
incendiary fires. The fact that the inhabit-
ants are Jews leads to the conclusion that
the incendiaries are Jew-haters. Anti-Jew-
ish disturbances have again broken out in
West Prussia and Pomerania.
THE Nebraska Supreme Court has
rendered decision that the high license
liquor law is constitutional in every particu-
lar. 1t compes saloon-keepers to pay ST. 900
license, give bonds in the sum of s., 900, ETC.,
in cities of over 10, 900 people, and in cities
of under 10 200 the license is $500.
1Utc1uSbtlOl1l IIAulUitlOu VI LlcC.
tricity at Paris was formally opened on the
10th, President Grevy and other prominent
officials assisting at the ceremony. Some of
the departments, especially that of the
United States, were in very incomplete
condition, but it was promised that 500 Ed
ison lights would be burning within few
days.
Coo;o1;cfo on ho1< Il
meetings to sympathize with Hartmann, the
Nihilist, and to protest against his extradi-
ton. Secretary Blaine, in reply 10 a letter
of inquiry from Hartmann's attorney. says
Hartmann's surrender has not been demand
ed, and he refuses to say what the State De-
partment would do in a hypothetical case
such as is propounded.
Two parties of hostile Indians are
now operating along the line of thesAtlantic
& Pacific Railroad in New Mexico, and three
companies of infantry from Fort SWingate
have been sent out to protect the settlers.
Garcia's settlement, twelve miles9from Ell
Rita Station, has been burned by the Indians
and five men and two boys were killed. Vol
unteers have been dispatched from Albu-
querque to guard the railroad line.
THE Southern Pacific Railroad is now
being laid at the rate of one mile per day be-
yond Ell Paso, and President Croker pre-
diets that the line will, by July next, be fin
ished to Galveston. He says engineers are
now running survey from Corinne to
Yankton, and a road can be built for one
third the cost of the Union Pacific, which
will be done If Gould consolidates the Atch-
fson, Texas Pacific and Union Pacific lines.
ADyIcEs from Havana received by
the National Board of Health state that dur
ing July there were ninety eight deaths
from yellow fever, and during the week end
ing August 8, thirty-six deaths from the
same disease, with 200 cases reported. Dur
ing June there were 235 deaths from yellow
fever at Vera Cruz. Yellow fever also pre-
walls throughout Colombia, at Gtayaquil,
San Jose de Guatemala and at La Iibertad
and Salvador, in the three latter places the
deaths averaging twenty daily. Along the
Isthmus Canal route an average of five
deaths has occurred dailv