Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-04

IRONTON. : MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
YELLOw-FEvER and smallpox are
epidemic at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
A LONDON dispatch says it has been
agreed to give the whole of the Transvaal te
the Beers.
THE monument to the Confederate
dead at Culpeper, Va, was unveiled or
the 21st in the presence of several thousand
people, with appropriate ceremonies.
LATER details of the capture of Sfaz
portion of the town is held by the Arabs, who
fire from the houses and prefer death te
yielding.
The fifth biennial Convention of the
National Cotton Exchange Of America met
at St. Louis on the Goth, seventy. delegates
being present. President John B. LATTE
declined a reelection, and Mr.. Louis Bush,
Of New Orleans, was chosen as his success.
sor.
A TELEGRAM from Fort Smith SAYS
that Governor Overton, of the Chickasav
Nation, has issued a proclamation disbandine
his militia, with the understanding, howev.
er, that their services may be required
shortly. The men are leaving for theil
homes.
GORDON, one of the Land-League ira
versers, convicted of having melted Grove
to murder, has been sentenced to a year.,
imprisonment. Gordon Is the first Land
Lacquer of any prominence against whom
the Crown lawyers have been able to obtain
asverdict.
The Navajos are so greatly dissatis
fed with their Agent, Galen Eastman, thai
they have risen in open mutiny, and all the
Agency employees have fled from Fort De.
fiance to Fort Wingate for protection. Tht
Indians want Col. Edward Hatch reinstatel
as Agent.
THE National Educational Association
met at Atlanta, Ca, on the 10Th. The adj
dress of welcome was delivered by Governor
Colquitt and the inaugural address by the
President Of the Association, j. H. Smart, OF
Indiana. Two hundred delegates were
present, representing thirty States.
THE Mississippi State Prohibition
Convention met at Jacksonville on the Goth
with 200 delegates, from thirty-seven coun.
ties, present. The action OF the Convention
looks to getting the next Legislature to sub.
init to the people an amendment to the Con.
stitution prohibiting the liquor traffic.
A DISPATCH from St. Petersburg,
dated the 18th, says the Nihilist Executive
Committee held a great and solemn meet.
|, ing. Several exiles came from Geneva tt
attend. 1t was resolved to give the Cza1
one more warning. and if he does not heed
it he and all his advisers will perish.
The Democratic members of the late
New York Legislature have issued an ad.
dress to their constituents, reviewing in de.
tail the causes for the lengthy Senatorial
deadlock, and referring in no complimentary
manner to the methods and tactics employed
by the Republicans to settle their fractional
disputes.
THE statue of General j. B. Nc.
Pherson was unveiled at Clyde, o., or
the 22d, in the presence of twenty one Posts
OF the Grand Army of the Republic and 8
large number of soldiers and citizens. The
statue is the gift of the Society of the Army
OF the Tennessee. Speeches were made by
ex-President Hayes and others.
The Ohio Temperance Reformers, il
convention at Loveland on the Goth, nomi
mated the following ticket: Governor, Abran
Il. Ludlow: Lieutenant Governor, Jasor
McVeigh; Judge of the Supreme Court, Gid
con T. Stewart; Attorney General, Lev
Mills; Treasurer, Ferdinand Shumaker
Public Works. Abner Davis.
THE Socialistic Congress, which was
prohibited at Zurich, assembled at Londor
on the 10Th. Louise Michel, the amnestieC
French Communist, Prince Krapetkine, the
Russian Nihilist, and other prominent lead
ers were in attendance. The sessions of tn.
Congress were strictly secret, but publ,
meetings were also held, at which red flag
were freely displayed and the most incendi
airy speeches made. Mrs. L. Lecompte, sale
to be a delegate from America, was one O.
the principal speakers.
with posse in pursuit of the train robbers
reports that he was at the house in RAJ
County, near Crooked River, where three O
the robbers took supper Saturday evening
after the robbery. They were seen by sew
eral citizens, and were well mounted on ba,
horses considerably faded. They started il
southerly direction, and were next heart
from at Lawson, where their number wa
augmented by four coming in the direction
Of Excelsior Springs, and were riding at in
tervals of ten to twenty PAGES. Here al
trace seems lost, showing that they scattered
and either went into hiding or crossed tn,
Missouri River singly. The train mems de
scription Of the robbers corresponds eXactl!
with that of the citizens who have seen them
THE deadlock in the New York Leg
islature was finally broken on the ed by thu
election OF Elbridge G. Lapham as United
States Senator to fill the vacancy caused b,
the resignation of Roscoe sConkling. Th,
Stalwarts stood firm till the last in their de
termination to force the calling of a part,