Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27

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BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON, - MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary of Important Events.
THE Bosnian instruction has been
suppressed.
At. STEWART & Co., of New York,
are winding up their affairs.
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BLAINE as to be heard by the COM
mittee on Chileno- Peruvian matters. 3,4|
THE Mormon conference at Independ-
ence Mo-, has adjourned to meet next year
ut Lamont, Iowa
THE President thinks that he can do
nothing In the Fitz John Porter case. All
the Cabinet concur.
THE April report of the Department
of Agriculture indicates an increase of two
per cent. in the winter wheat acreage.
THE Mexican commander on the Rio
Grande has stationed troops opposite Lare-
do, and Americans are not allowed to cross.
UNITED STATES troops are expelling
stockmen from Cherokee lands on account Of
non-payment Of the tax levied by the In
dians. l.s.. 9-. # .. ...
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Pennsylvania to make 213 insurance compa-
mics show cause why their charters should
not be surrendered.
A PLOT for the assassination of the
Egyptian Minister Of War has been discov-
cred at Cairo, and many Cfrcassian officers
have been arrested for completely.
So deeply charged with electricity
was the atmosphere, between Chicago and
the Atlantic coast on the 18th, telegraph
wires were operated without batteries.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, on the 18th, six
or eight thousand workingmen in mass
meeting expressed indignation at the action
of the President in vetoing the Chinese bill.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's reception to
the officers of the army and navy. the other
night, was a brilliant affair. He was as
sisted by Mrs. Frelinghuysen and Miss Fol-
ger. t-.... ...
THE Saints at Salt Lake have been
advised by their preachers in the taberna-
Gle to boycott the gentiles. Gentle mer-
chants will probably retaliate by discharg-
ing all Mormon employees.
On the ground that it should have been
presented to the Probate Court of Chicago,
Judge LOOMS has refused to consider the
petition of Mrs. Scoville for the appointment
Of a conservator for the estate of Charles J.
Guiteau, and quashed summons thought
iessly issued by deputy clerk.
For some months Captain Howgate
has languished in Jail in Washington, being
allowed by Marshal Henry to make an &C.
casional visit to his family, in charge of a
bailff. Deputy Williams managed to lose
his prisoner the other day, and no traces of
him have yet been discovered.
TIE convention of the National Land |
League sitting at Washington adopted reso-
buttons urging continuance Of the policy of |
passive resistance in Ireland. James Mooney |
of Buffalo was elected president for the en-
suing year. The total Land League receipts |
In this country since the Buffalo convention |
were nearly 100000.
THE First National Bank of Buffalo |
has suspended payment. The concern has |
q capital Of 500, 200, and reported loans and |
discounts of 81, 054, $40. Hugh Young, Gov |
eminent Bank Examiner, finds that $50, 900 |
Of Federal court funds are unsecured, and |
S3S GOO in city and county deposits rest upon |
poor bonds.
The Irish Catholics of Turners's |
Falls, Mass, have decided to "Boycott" G. |
L. Rist, member of the Grand Jury which |
indicted for manslaughter David Mcmillan,
who shot Father Mccarthy. The boycotters |
think Mcmillan should have been indicted |
on a charge Of murder. Father Purcell |
told the people that Rist asked an improper |
question in the jury room.
THE following Presidential nomina-
lions have been confirmed by the Senate:
W. E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, Secre-
tary of the Navy; w. H. Hunt, Louis
lana, Minister to Russia; j. r. Partridge,
Maryland, Minister to Peru; John H.
Smythe, North Carolina, Minister to Libe-
ria; VIM. Williams, Indiana. Charge DAT
fairs to Paraguay and Uruguay; John j.
Knox, Minnesota, Comptroller of Currency.
r. w. STUBBs, Mayor of Polk City,
Iowa. was killed by burglar on the 18TH
Mr.. Stubs and wife were sleeping in a
chamber, and at an early hour in the MORN
ing Mrs. Stubs was awakened by hearing
footsteps on the stairs. Accusing her hus-
band he rose in bed and asked ssWho is
thereof The answer was, "You lay still or
you'll get shot" Mr.. Stubs told the per.
son to get out of the house and sprang up
from the bed, and as he did so the reflection
Of dark lantern was flashed on his face and
ut the same instant he was shot, the bullet
entering his breast and piercing his heart.
He reached the head of the stairway, when
be fell dead and rolled to the bottom of the
stairs. BY the light of the lantern Mrs.
Etuhhs discoyered there ,yera tyr, h,,roria=s