Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-08
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

A Summary Of Important Events.
e IT is expected that the project of es-
fabishing a double line of telegraph between
st. Louis and Chicago will soon be carried
into execution.
THE citizens of Alaska have held a
convention at Harrisburg and addressed a
memorial to Congress asking for Terri
torial Government.
i The National Prohibition Alliance
has issued call for a national conference of
Prohibitionsts in New York City on the 18th
and 10Th OF September.
The National Board of Health has in
structed quarantine officers to be especially
rigid in their examination of all vessels COM
ing from yellow-fever ports.
GEN. WILLIAM C. WIcKHAM, leader
OF the " straightout" Republicans of Vir-
ginia. has published letter giving his rea-
sons for opposing Malone and proposed CO.
alition with the Readjusters on the part of
the Republicans, and winding up with the
announcement that he will vote the State
Democratic ticket.
THE following has been anonymously
sent to the Chicago papers. 1t is regarded
as hoax: "Americans and friends of Ire
land are hereby warned against embarking
upon any vessel flying the British flag after
Thursday, September 1. Many may reach
their destination, but none are safe. By or
der of Central Committee
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Louis, through its Executive Committee,
has issued a call to the people Of the Missis-
sippi Valley for the selection of delegates to
a Convention to be held in their city on the
25th day of October, 1881, to deliberate ON
the question of improving the great Missis-
sippi River and its navigable tributaries.
EVIDENCE continues to accumulate OF
Capt. Howgate's financial crookedness as
head of the Signal Service Bureau. Vouchers
to the amount Of $4,000, purporting to be
for supplies purchased of New York dealers,
are pronounced forgeries by the firms whose
names they bear. 1t is now known that
Capt. Howgate kept several women the
payroll of his office who never performed a
days work, and whose relations with him
were of a decidedly questionable nature.
THE proclamation issued some time
since by the Indian Bureau, ordering all
white settlers to yacate the lands Of the In
dian Nation who have not paid their tax and
obtained a permit from the Indian authori-
ties, is now being enforced Lieut.. Shoema-
ker,with company of United States soldiers.
together with a force OF Indian militia under
Gov. McCurtain, have been stationed on the
border Of the Territory, near Fort Smith,
for the purpose of ejecting all settlers who
are not disposed to go voluntarily. Many of
the settlers claim to be unable to pay the
tax, and their forcible dispossession is said
to work great hardship, leaving them and
their families homeless.
PLANO, Texas, suffered from disas-
trous fire OH the morning Of the 9th. Fifty
seven buildings were destroyed, nearly all of
which were business houses. All the stocks
of goods were burned. There was no water,
and the town had no fire department to COM
bat the confiagration. The Post office with
all its contents was consumed. The origin of
the fire is not positively known. The aggre-
gate losses will foot up between $500 200
and $35O,000, with but comparatively small
insurance. Many people are left entirely
destitute. About the same time fire at
Abilene, Texas, destroyed thirteen build
Ings in the business portion of the town.
Loss, about $40, 900; insurance, $4,000.
PARLIAMENT was prorogued on the
9th. Referring to the Land bill the Queens
speech says: 81 warmly appreciate the zeal
and assiduity with which you have devoted
yourselves to the task of maturing measures
for improving the relations between owners
and occupiers of land in ireland and for 9TH
erwise lettering the condition of its agricul.
tural population. It is my earnest hope
that the new law may be productive of bene-
fits commensurate with the care you have
bestowed upon the enactments. 1t has been
my study to use the exceptional powers con-
fided to me in Ireland with vigilance and
tirmness, but with discrimination, while I
earnestly desire that the condition of the
country may so improve as to enable me to
dispense with or abate the use of temporary
and exceptional provisions"
A BUS containing load of passen-
gers from the Wabash Railroad, while 60
ing from the depot to the village of Lexing-
tor. Mo-, about 8 O'Clock on the evening of
the 25th, was stopped by party Of four or
five masked and armed men, and all the
passengers robbed of their money and other
S8ludDcSs lue ulStduCc ITOul tHC QepOG 10
Lexington is about four miles, through a
comparatively open country. The men evil
IDENTIFY were we'll acquainted with the
ground, and conducted the robbery in
manner that would indicate that they were
experts in the business. Immediately after
the deed they left in the direction of the rail-
road. As soon as the passengers arrived at
the town and acquainted the citizens with
the facts, number started in pursuit, de-
termined if possible to capture the out
laws.
GREENBACK Conventions were held
on the oath in New York, Massachusetts and
Mississippi. The New York Convention NOM
mated ticket headed by Epictctus Howe
for Secretary of State and adopted resolu-
lions reatiirming the Chicago platform OF
1880, and declaring that railroad corpora
lions should be prohibited from charging