Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-07
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.

Hon. HENRY STANsBERRY, Attorney
General in President Johnson's Cabinet, is
dead, aged 10.
The House of Commons, by = vote OF
ITS to 80, has rejected bill for the abolition
of capital punishment
THE temperance question is assuming
paramount importance in North Carolina
and threatens to disrupt both political par
ties.
Ex-GOvERNOR NELSON DINGLEY,
for Congress in the Second Maine District,
in place Of Frye, chosen United States Sena-
tor. h9t$ - 't'
EX-SENATOR DORSEY denies the re-
port that he has abandoned his residence in
Arkansas. q He says he will build him a
house at Hot Springs and make that place
his homer tas f5s'f.'Etl 81
UProN, Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury, has been sent on Government
mission to Europe. Prior to his departure
he placed his resignation in the hands Of
Secretary Window. f ~
CoNGREssMAN SPEER, of Georgia,
who,was elected as an Independent Demo-
crat, it is reported has declared his purpose
to vote with the Republicans in the organi-
cation Of the next House. 81
TRoops have been dispatched to a
point in San Juan County, Utah, 125 miles
west Of Durango, where an outbreak is
threatened by Pah Ute Indians. A number
OF scattle men have disappeared and are
thought to have been killed. els y
WoRK1NGMEN's organizations in New
York City are making an effort to obtain a
haf-holiday on Saturday. Some establish
ments have already yielded to their de-
mands, and the workingmen express de-
termination to press the matter to q general
adoption. 83 13 a!s
TEE Italian residents of Marseilles
are quitting the city in large numbers. The
animosfty between Frenchmen and Italians
has caused serious conflicts in various parts
of France, including Paris. Counter dem
onstrations have taken place in Naples, Pal
ermo, and other Italian cities.
ADDITIONAL removals of Post-office
Department officials include Capt. W. b.
Turner, in charge of the celebrated Star
routes, and VIM. Sickles, also in the Contract
Office. Turner is known to have been cog
infant of the frauds committed in his de-
partment, il not porticeps criminis.
JACOBS, one of the Democratic candi-
dates for United States Senator in New
York, has withdrawn his name, on account
of doubts regarding his eligibility, he being
q member of the Legislature. Clarkson B.
Potter, formerly Representative in Congress
from the Westchester District, has been
substituted in his stead. n
In consequence of the troubles in the
Indian Territory growing out of the different
interpretations Of treaty stipulations and of
the Permit laws passed by the Indian Legis-
lature in 1876, (requiring all white men re-
siding In the Territory to pay yearly taxi
the Secretaryio of the Interior has been ap-
peaIed to to .suspend the action of the tax
law until its validity can be passed upon by
competent authority. 7fa3 T" at..f}
GENERAL BRADY, through counsel,
made an application in the Washington
Criminal Court, on the 23d, for an immedi-
ate investigation Of the public charges made
against him in connection with the star-route
frauds. Col. Cook, Special Assistant Attor-
ney General, opposed the motion, on the
ground that the Government had not yet
prepared its case, and would not be ready
before the September term. The Court de-
MED the motion.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, at nearly
the last hour, granted respite of four weeks
to the. Talbot brothers, sentenced to be
hanged at Maryyille, Mo-, on the oath, for
the murder Of their father. The date OF their
execution is postponed till July %. Extra
ordinary efforts were put forth, to obtain
executive clemency, and it is understood
some important evidence was presented to
the Governor not produced at the trial.
Twenty, thousand people had gathered to
witness the execution, and as threats of
lynching were freely made, the armed guard
about the jail was doubled. A hfiH Tn
JOHN I. DAvENPoRT testified before
the Investigating Committee at Albany, N.
Y, on the i23d. He corroborated substan-
italy the statement Of Senator Strahan as to
the tender, Of the office of u. s. Marshal to
the latter, on condition that he should vote
against Conkling, but said he had no author
ity from President Garfield to act in the mat
ter. Had conversed with the President re-
garding it, but Strahan's position ON the
Senatorial question was not mentioned.
He had received permission from the Presi-
dent to freely disclose everything that took
place between them in reference to this at
fair.
THE deadlock in the New York Legis-
1ature continued Hnbroken on the 21st, with
no signs of any immediate solution of
the Senatorial puzzle. Ex-Vice- President
Wheeler has come forward as a leading can
didate against Conkling, and it is understood
he favors compromise by which the Stall
warts shall have the naming of one Senator
and the Half breeds the other. The Stall
warts held conference, which was adj
dressed at length by ex-senator Conkling.
He utterly repudiated any plan looking
to compromise, and stated as his
ultimatum the election OF two Stalwart
Senators or an adjournment to give the
people OF the State chance to pass upon the
questions at issue. The Half-breeds met
and were addressed nv Senator Woodin He