Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-10-12

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BY ELI D. AXE.
1hONION, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR left New York
the other night for the Thousand Islands.
AN epidemic resembling cholera has
broken out in Chiapas, Mexico, and is
spreading frontierward. f.
GENERAL. RossER is at the head of a
project to build railway from Winnipeg
to Hudson Bay, by which the grain of the
Northwest will find its way to Liverpool.
THE Treasury Department estimates
the reduction in the public debt for Sep
TENDER at $4,000, 900. Checks have been
cent out for 81, 3s9, o93 of quarterly interest.
DoNIPHAN, another star-route juror,
has made affidavit that he was offered bride
by one Shaw, representing himself as acting
for Col. George Bliss, to acquit ex-senator
Dorsey.
The Marquis of Lorne, in speech at
the agricultural fair in British Columbia,
said the colony would be distanced in the
railroad race unless it availed itself of all the
labor that came.
ABOUT forty delegates to the Califor-
mia Prohibition Convention withdrew, and
the remainder nominated r. II. Mcdonald
for Governor and William Sims for Lieu
tenant-Governor.
THE Greek Minister has had an
interview with Said Pasha, Turkish Prime
Minister, during which he declared Greece
would not renounce an inch of territory
ceded to her by the Porte.
THE long continued drought has
ruined the crops of Central America, and
now dangerous fever RACES along the coast.
Cholutcay, Honduras, is being decimated.
Izalco, in San Salvador, continues in erup-
ton. .-
THE Executive Committee of the Anti
Monopoly League of New York has formally
Endorsed the Democratic Nominees for Gov
ernor and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, an act
which is supposed to carry with it thousands
Of votes. ..- .-...
THE widow of President Tyler has
learned that some vandal visited the monu.
ment to her daughter in Richmond, Va,
and broke off the draping from the statue of
Madonna. writing beneath that the work
was a botch. jos i-
JUDGE BLACK, on behalf of the Nor
mons, will present to the Secretary of the
Interior argument in favor of the removal
Of Governor Murray, of Utah, in connection
with argument to prove the Utah Commits
sion unconstitutional.
FRED DOUGLASS says he is not ssthe
prominent colored MANI going to Virginia
in the interest of straightout Republicans.
He is in sympathy with Malone. He de-
ciines an invitation to Ohio for the reason
that he is too old to travel.
MILK SICKNESS, or some other d.
in Knox County, Ind, at an alarming rate.
They are dying by scores. One farmer lost
seven cows in one week. The disease causes
GENERAL Crook, on arriving in Ari-
iona, took company of Indian scouts from
Whipple barracks and visited all the bands
said to be disaffected. He states that there
is not hostile Apache in the territory, but
the Cheyennes are likely to return from
Mexico and commit depredations.
THE revolt among the Republicans of
New York grows alarming to the machine
leaders. Stewart L. Woodford urges Folger
to refuse the nomination, on the ground of
frauds. The Young Republican Club of
Brooklyn unanimously adopted resolutions
declaring the Saratoga nomination not en-
titled to respect ..-.,
JUDGE TURNKEY, of the United States
Supreme Court, has decided that railroad
company must honor its tickets, whatsoever
sells them, and that therefore the ticket en-
titles the holder to the rights of passenger
between points named. This opinion re-
verses the judgment of the lower court,
and lays down the law in an interesting way
upon one phase of the Understanding bust
ness.
The dispute over the remains of Gui-
teau has not yet been settled. The bones
are still in the possession of DR.. Shiffert, of
the Army Medical Museum in Washington.
They have not been articulated and are in a
perfect state of preservation. Rev. DR..
Hicks has not yet surrendered all claims as
to their disposition and Dr. Shiffert will not
give them up to any one except upon the
payment of $500 for his services.
Ex-Governor RAMSEY, of the Utah
Commission, states that the leading polyga.
mists offered to make no attempt to vote,
and have kept their word. The Mormons
can carry the elections by large majorities,
and will probably nominate Mayor Kane, of
Salt Lake, for delegate to Congress. The
effect Of the Edmunds law will be the erad
ication from politics OF all the able and
wealthy men Of the Mormon church.
AT the recent session of the Farmers
Congress, in st. Louis, President Hudson,