Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25

Sron County 8egister
BY ELI D: a E.
IRONTON, MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
A PETITION is being circulated In
Boston, Mass, for stay OF execution In
the case of Guiteau, on the ground Of In
sanity.
A CYCLONE which swept over the re-
gion of Shreveport, La, the other day,
killed three persons and damaged much
property.
THE Nebraska Legislature has been
asked to investigate charges of corruption
in connection with the election of United
States Senator Van Wyck.
THE Senate select committee on wo-
man suffrage have agreed to recommend an
amendment to the Constitution providing
that the right to vote shall not be abridged
on account Of sex.
THE wife of Sergt. Mason has made a
strong appeal to President Arthur. The
President said he had great sympathy for
her, and the petitions for the pardon of her
husband would be laid before the Cabinet.
DIR. Kaye, Assistant Under Secretary
for Ireland, has received death warning.
The Government is in possession of infor-
nation leading to startling revelations.
Three important arrests were made in Cork
on the 18th.
COVERS were laid for 400 at the brew
ers' banquet in Washington the other night.
Speeches were made by Senator Voorhees,,
Representatives Young and Butterworth,
Count Beust, and the Acting Commissioner
of Internal Revenue.
INDICTMENTS have been found at
Washington against William Brockway and
Charles Smith for stealing from the Treas
ury Department the plates and dies from
which were printed the spurious bonds
placed on the market by them.
RECENT heavy rains in Arkansas have
caused incalculable damage to crops and
mill property. The cyclone which swept
through Montgomery County was far more
destructive than Mt first reported. Several
lives were lost and at least one hundred
families were made homeless.
THE pension appropriation bill has
been completed. 1t sets aside 100000, 900
for the next fiscal year, of which nearly all
is on army account. The bill provides that
the income from the navy pension fund
shall be devoted to the needs Of that branch
Of the service, so far as it goes.
THE Egyptian chamber of notables
have convened to lay plans to depose the
family of Mehemet Ali, of which the pres
ent khedive is a member. The ministry is
preparing the forts on the northern coast,
and many Europeans are leaving Cairo. 1t
is rumored that France has proposed to
England the dispatch of an allied squadron
to Alexandria.
Mrs. LUCAS and Mrs. Simpson, Pres
ident and Vice. President of the American
Silk Growers Association, have on exhibit
ton in Washington piece of black silk, in
tended for Mrs. Garfield, which was made
from cocoons sent from fourteen States of
the Union. The ladies have also samples of
silk ribbons made from cocoons by feeding
the worms upon other than mulberry leaves,
one of the handsomest being from worms
fed on the leaves of the Usage orange.
In connection with the statement that
agents of Faure, the Partisan electrician,
have come to this country with the Faure
batteries for the storage of electricity, a
New York paper informs capitalists that
Faure's storage patent is in interference in
the patent Office with one of Charles F.
Brush's numerous patents of a similar char
acter, and that Brush, in case recently de-
cided in that office, proved priority Of his
invention back of the earliest date claimed
by Faure for his French patent.
THE Dauphin County (Pa.) Court
has dissolved fifty-eight mutual assessment
insurance companies, which were lately
proceeded against by the Attorney General
at the instance of the Insurance Commits
sioner of the State. The number the In
surance Commissioner found doing BUSH
ness IN violation of chartered privileges is
213, and against all Of these proceedings
have been begun, with view to their dis
solution. Only about twenty companies
contest the right of the Commonwealth to
dissolve them on the allegations made.
THE Washington Post makes the fol-
lowing positive statement: Chief Justice
Carter and Judges Macarthur, Hagner and
James held a consultation on the 18th, sum-
ming up arguments Of counsel in the apppli-
cation in the Guiteau case for a new trial.
The consultation lasted four hours, and was
marked by the most searching examination
of the authorities and most rigorous analy-
Els of every point made in the arguments.