Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-23
NEWS AND NOTES.
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PITNEY, Custodian of the Treasury,
has refused to testify before the Investigat-
ing Committee, and he maintains they can
not compel him to testify under oath.
ANOTHER American horse, Keene's
Foxhall, has carried of a foreign prize-the
Grand Prix at Paris, equivalent to the Eng
nsh Derby. There was great rejoicing
among the American residents.
IT is said the Missouri Pacific Railroad
will build an extension from Atchison to
Omaha. The route will be through Atchi-
son and Brown Counties, Kans., to Falls
City, Neb., and thence to Omaha.
The annual reunion of the Army Of
the Potomac took place at Hartford, Conn.,,
on the 9Th. Gen. Sherman was the ora
tor of the occasion, and devoted most of his
remarks to q scathing criticism Of jeff Davis's
book.
SAMUEL DILABEE,' Democrat, has
been elected to Congress from the Second
District Of South Carolina, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Representative o.
Conner. The Republicans abstained from
voting, holding that Mackey, O'Connor's OPP
ponent, was really elected last fall, and that,
therefore, no vacancy existed.
M. j. WALDRON, Superintendent of
the Railway Mail Service of the Southwest
ern District, with headquarters at Memphis,
has been indicted in the Federal Court at
that city for conspiracy to defraud the Gov.
eminent in securing mail contracts. The
Indictment was found on the testimony of a
bidder Of a river route in Louisiana, to
whom it is alleged Waldron offered to secure
q contract If paid thousand dollars.
Col. JOHN A. WALSH, q star-route
contractor, has begun suit in Washington
against Samuel p. Brown, on a SIC, 900 note,
which 1t is alleged was given as part pay for
securing the "expedition Of mail-route.
1t is understood that the Government officials
expect to obtain evidence through this suit
OF the connection between the contractors
and the Post-ofice officials, and the develop
ments are therefore awaited with no little
interest.
A DARING attempt to blow up the
Town-hall at Liverpool, England, was made
on the night Of the 9th. The police detected
two men placing an iron pipe containing q
lighted fuse against the building. The off,
GERS threw the pipe into the middle of the
street, where 1t exploded, causing no dam
age further than the SCATTERING of few
window-panes. The two men were subse-
quently arrested and found to be well
armed and supplied with money. They have
been identified as Irishmen named Mickey
EFT and Roberts.
PROF. RILEY, of the United States
chronological Commission, says the locusts
now appearing in the West and South are
two distinct broods; one is the thirteen-year
and the other the seventeen year locusts, land
this is. the first time they have appeared in
the same year since 1860. Prof. Riley says
these locusts can not do any damage except
to young fruit trees, in the limbs of which
they deposit their eggs. He says the notion
that these locusts sting human beings is a
fallacy; that a species of digger-wasp feeds
on these young locusts, and people have
been stung by these wasps, from which the
belief sprung that the locusts sting. He
says the locusts will suddenly disappear be-
fore long.
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THE reported arrest of Father Muir
ply at Skibbereen, under the Coer-
cion act, provoked riot, during which the
Branch Bank of Munster was wrecked and
other property destroyed. A special train
with troops was dispatched from Cork, and
at last accounts the military were quartered
in the Town Hail. A party of fifty ma
rines, sent from Bantry to quell a
riot at Bally Depot, were routed by
the mob and compelled to return
under the protection Of a priest. A large
number of evictions have been made at New
Pallas with the assistance of the troops, who
dispersed the crowd at the point Of the bay
onet. Serious disturbances have occurred at
Cork, at Bodyke, in County Clare, and else
where. Many additional arrests Of promi-
nent Land Leaguers are reported.
THE Ohio Republicans met in conven-
ton at Cleveland on the 9Th. Senator Sher-
man was made Permanent Chairman, and in
. speech of some length he took occasion to
say: 1--WE have no room in this country for
a leader who commands and dictates.
There never has been and there never
will be room for . private dictator or
q sboss.' The man who attempts it
had better make his will beforehand"
Reaffirming old principles, resolutions were
adopted indorsing the administration of
President Garfield and approving that of
Gov. Foster. Following Is the ticket: For
Governor, Charles Foster; for Lieutenant
Governor, j. G. Richards, of Jefferson Coun-
ty; for Member of Board of Public Works,
George Paul; for Treasurer, Joseph Tur-
ney; for Judge of Supreme Court, Nicholas
Longworth. of Cincinnati; for Attorney
General, George X. Nash.
AN exciting event occurred in the
New York Assembly Chamber on the 9th.
just previous to the vote for United States
Senator being called, Mr.. Bradley, Stalwart
Republican member from Cattaraugus
County, AROSE in his seat, and having received
recognition from the Speaker, said: 81
received last night So 500 to pay me for vot-
ing to-day for Chauncey NJ. Depew. I have
deposited the money with the Speaker of
this House, and now ask for committee
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