Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-07

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: By ELI .. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PRINCE CHARLES has been pro-
claimed King OF Roumania.
MAYOR OvERsToLz has been renom-
mated by the st. Louis Democrats.
Hon. CARL ScHURz is to be banquet
ed both in st. Louis and New York City.
AFoRM1DABLE rebellion prevails in
Herat. Ayoob Khan is perhaps already
exiled or prisoner.
GEN. WooD is appointed High CON-
missioner in Southeastern Africa and Gov
ernor of the British possessions.
A BATTLE has taken place at Boleka,
in Basutoland. Col. Darlington and several
other British were severely wounded.
GEN. ADAM BADEAU has positively
declined the position of Charge d'Affaires at
al \ -
nomination.
COMMODORE ROBERT w. SHUFELDT,
of the United States Navy, has accepted the
command of the navy of China, at salary of
$4,000 per year.
CAPT. JOHN S. WISE, son of the late
Ex-Governor Wise, has announced his in
tention of accepting the nomination for Gov
ernor OF Virginia at the hands of the Read
Justers. He says he fully indorses Ma
homes course in the Senate.
THE Treasury Department is about to
issue an official report ON trichina and trich-
inosis, showing the absurdity of foreign ma
tions placing restrictions upon the importa-
ton of American pork, when, as will be con-
clusively shown, our hogs are generally
all of which trichina are indigenous.
THE Mexican Southern Railroad Com
pany has been organized in New York. U.
s. Grant was chosen President, G. NJ. Dodge
Vice President, and Russell Sage Treasurer.
A resolution was adopted requesting Gen.
eral Grant to proceed to Mexico to represent
the interests Of the company. Ex-President
Diaz, General Mejia, and ex-Minister Ro-
nero are interested in the project.
A SUDDEN rise in the Missouri mum
dated the town Of Pierre, Dakota, causing
a general evacuation Of houses and stam-
pede of inhabitants to the bluffs. Many
buildings were moved from their founda-
lions. The damage was still greater at Fort
Pierre, where a number of buildings were
hoated off or crushed by the ice. No loss Of
life is reported.
THE alarming increase of German
emigration is being discussed in the Reich
stag. A Polish Deputy attributed it to the
culturkampf and excessive taxes, and in his
province to unjust treatment of the Polish
language. He said last year 1890 persons
left that province. A Socialist Deputy con-
tended popular discomfort was not SO much
due to political as to an economic griev-
ance.
GOVERNOR WALLACE, of New Mexico,
has ordered Adjutant- General Frost to pro-
coed to Rio Arriba County with sixty stand
OF rifles and organize two militia compa-
MES as posse for the Sheriff.
The desperadoes in that region are led by
the notorious Ike Stockton, whose head
quarters are on the Colorado line, at Duran
go, and have driven away fifty desirable set
tiers.
THE Earl of Caithness, well-known
member of the British aristocracy, died sud-
denly in New Yerk City on the Goth. He was
. devotee to mechanical sciences, and was
the inventor of q steam traction engine tor
use on country roads. He also invented
tape loom, which is in general use in Eng
land. His greatest contribution to the world
was the gravitating compass, which bears
his name and is used by most of the great
steamship companies.
A CoNsrANTINoPLE dispatch of the
1oth says: The ambassadors have decided
to sign protocol declaring that they regard
the last offer Of the Porte acceptable.
Negotiations win accordingly be opened at
Athens to induce Greece to accept it. The
protocol acknowledges the frontier line last
offered, proves sincerely the Turkish desire
for peace, and admits the session of Epirus
Is almost impossible. It also advises the
Powers to recommend the acceptance Of the
Turkish proposal to Greece.
EMILE lola has contributeda an article
to the Paris Figaro on the Nihilists OF Rus
STA. He ridicules the idea that Russia will
become Republic at an early date. OF the
70,O00,000 inhabitants Of the Great Empire.
10000, 000, he says, ape peasants, intensely
ignorant, and devotedly attached to the
Gear, whom they call IS Little Father" The
revolutionists are confined to the towns, and
are powerless to create a revolution. NJ.
lola thinks that il the Nihilists persevere
In their work OF assassination, the infuriated
Peasantry may rise npin arms and create sad