Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.

A Summary of Important Events.
AT meeting held in Washington to
celebrate the centenary of the birthday of
Daniel Webster, Jan. IS, committee was
appointed to procure a monument to COM
memorate the fame of the dead statesman.
LIEUT.. MCDoNALD, Fourth U. S.
Cavalry. who has been scouting in New
Mexico with twenty Indian scouts for hos
tile Apaches. crossed the line into chihuahua
and was arrested by the Mexican authorities
for the invasion.
THE National Board of Health has
declared smallpox epidemic in the United
States, and directed the inspectors of several
OF the most important quarantine stations to
see that the regulations of the Board are
properly enforced.
A CONCESSION has been granted to
the Mexican southern Railway for colonial
ton along its routes. The Government pays
S35 per individual and $50 per family. Not
less than 500 families must be settled during
the first five and 1000 the first ten years.
Three-fifths of the colonized must be Euro
chase the Tehuacan Railroad.
GOVERNOR MURRAY'S message to the
Territorial Legislature OF Utah says that sin
no sense is sovereignty of the church over a
State of the Union with constitution and
laws; that political power is welded by
church authority throughout Utah; that the
officers Of the church exercise authority in
temporal affairs; that the sovereignty of the
church is supreme and its practices are fol-
lowed, the laws and courts of the United
States to the contrary.
THE new turnpike bridge spanning
Rolling Fork, near Lebanon, n.y., was I'M
dermined by freshet and fell while six men
were working on it. Aloysius Hayden was
instantly killed, John Black had an arm
broken, and a man named Mattingly was
severely cut on the head. James Wathen
leaped into the water, a distance of sixty
feet, and swan out unhurt. E. Perkins
was severely wounded and suffered concus-
sion Of the brain, causing delirium. Joseph
Shively had an arm broken.
THE most extensive confagration
known in Atlanta, Ga, since the burning of
the city during the war occurred January
21st. 1t is said to have originated in Frank
Blocks bakery, corner of Alabama and
Pryor streets. A strong wind was blowing,
and for three hours the fire ragged with the
greatest fury and threatened to destroy the
entire business portion of South Atlanta.
The total loss is estimated at $500, 900. John
o. Wickham, of Richmond, Va, was
burned to death in his room at the Windsor
Hotel.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decision of the Baltimore (Md.) Court in the
case wherein Col. Bonaparte is executor of
the estate of the late Eliza Patterson,
amounting to $435, 900. mostly in stocks and
bonds. The bonds and stocks were issued
by the States of Ohio, New York and Penn
sylvania, and the executor claimed th:: they
were not taxable in the State in which they
were held, but all taxes that could be at
tached to them were paid in the State where
issued. The Supreme Court decided the
property taxable in the State where held.
GUITEAU address ID the jury, Jan. 81,
reading from manuscript, with an attempt
at every conceivable form of oratorIcal and
dramatic effect. At times the intensity of
Iehis utterance seemed to reflect upon him.
)'self, but the effect was transitory, and, with
the exception OF one instance, there was no
indication of breaking down. Leaning to-
ward the jury, he solemnly said: 81 tell
you, gentlemen, as sure as there is a God
in heaven, if you harm hair of my head
this nation will go down in blood. You can
put my body in the grave, but there will be
a day of reckoning" Mr.. Porter began his
closing argument on the Esd. After sketch
ing the circumstances leading up to the
crime, and pointing out with fervid Ian
ruase the damning wickedness of its eNecu-
ton, with an irresistible torrent Of denun-
citation and invective he analyzed the pris-
oner's character, pointed out the glaring
defects in the insanity or inspiration theory
of defense, and declared the crime the re-
suit of diabolism on the part of cow
ardly ruffian thirsting for notoriety.
AVERY important measure introduced
in the House by Mr.. Beltzhoover, of Penn
sylyania, provides that it shall be lawful for
any citizen of the United States to present
to the Supreme Court petition setting
forth. under oath, his reasons for believing
that from sickness or any other cause, the
President of the United States is unable to
discharge the duties of his office, and to ask
that the President show cause why such du-
ties should not devolve upon the Vice. Pres
ident. The court shall then rule that the
President shall reply to the said petition,
and upon such reply being filed the court
shall decide; that, if in said proceedings,
the Supreme Court shall determine that the
President is unable to discharge his duties,
this decision shall be so rendered, and the
ice-President shall thereupon act as Presi-
dent until, for sufficient cause, the Supreme
Court may decide that the disability has
ceased to exist, when the President shall
again assume the duties of the Presidential
Office.
THE bill to establish a uniform paper
currency introduced by Mr.. Hazeltine, of
Missouri, provides that all paper currency
now in circulation, or that shall hereafter be
issued, within the United States shall be
made lawful money and full legal-tender at
its face value for all taxes, revenues and