Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-13
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

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The Chicago cable railway has killed
eight persons in five months.
EFFIGIEs Of Guiteau were strung up
sr burned in hundred places.
THE Democrats and the Readiusters
have each police force on duty at Peters
burg, Va.
PARNELL and his supporters have
been expelled from the House Of Commons
for obstructing legislation.
TIE Illinois Republicans nominated
Gen. John C. Smith for Treasurer and
Charles s. Stratton for Superintendent of
Public Instruction. s."
The President of. the Mexican Nation
ri Railway Company has sold in London
bonds for $40, 000, 200, which will complete
the main line from Laredo to the City of
Mexico. .. N
TIE Republicans of Kansas have
nominated for congressman at-large Judge
s. r Peter, E. N. Morrill,. Louis Hanback,,
and B. w. Perkins, representing widely Diff
sections of the State.
d CHEwroN, . Pennsylvania village, is
In state Of armed resistance against the
Buffalo, Pittsburg & Western Railroad
Company, which wants to lay . track ON one
Of the residence streets.
THE Board of Aldermen of Newport,
r. l., surprised the citizens by voting that
no liquor licenses shall be granted for the
year commencing July 1, and Mayor Frank
lin announces that he will use every effort
to enforce the law.
THE House Committee on Naval At
fairs advocate the insertion of clause in
the naval appropriation bill which will pro-
vide fer the construction of one new ship of
war OF the largest type, one second class
ship, and two gun-bearing torpedo boats.
TIE Hebrew merchants of Milwaukee
grew so indignant over the unannounced
shipment to that city of a train-load Of Rus
sian refugees that they severed their connec-
ton with the Jewish Alliance and dissolved
their local society, on the ground that Eng
land abused the charity Of America.
THE international conference is said to
have concluded that armed interference in
Egypt is necessary at once. 1t is not thought
accepted. Preparations have been made at
Woolwich by which 10000 British troops
could be almost instantly embarked.
1T will be remembered that on June
. Gufteau wept over a bouquet of roses
brought by his sister, and on his last day
sent q guard to the door for flowers. 1t is
charged that white roses had been saturated
with poison to degree that would have
given him immunity from the gallows had
he known 1t, or dared to eat them.
SEVERAL leading members of the st.
Louis Merchants Exchange, owning prop
erty and doing business on the Illinois side,
have organized the East St. Louis Produce
Exchange, and applied at Springfield for a
charter giving equal rights and powers with
the Chicago Board of Trade. Nearly three
hundred members Of the St. Louis Exchange
have applied for membership.
THE range of Secretary Blaine's for
eign policy is shown by his instructions to
Minister Comfy in regard to British designs
on the Sandwich Islands. The chief of the
State Department held that while the United
States had declined to exercise protectorate
over the people of Hawaii, it would not
permit the transfer of the territory or SOW
ereignty of the islands to any of the great
powers of Europe.
Roscoe CoNKLING had an interview
with President Arthur, the other day, In
che interest of foreign steamship companies
of New York. Soon afterward Congress
men Deuster and Guenther went to the
White House to learn If 1t were true that
the immigration bill would be vetoed, and
found that such was the case. There was
vigorous English used on both sides, and
there are threats that the bill will be passed
over the Presidents head.
The recent report of board of en-
gineers coDceding the claim of the Illinois
Central Road upon the harbor Of Chicago
has been disapproyed by Secretary Lincoln.
From the statement made by the board he
Is driven to conclude that the proposed ex-
tension of one hundred feet is an encroach-
ment which should be prohibited by the
Government, unless accompanied by strong
conditions which the War Department has
no legal power to make Or enforce.
THE general managersef all the South
western lines were In consultation in Chica-
go the other day. Three separate meetings
ton, the Colorado pool and the lumber pool.
The results were the adjustment of lumber
rates between Mississippi and Missouri
River points; the postponement Of the fur
sher consideration of the question of per-
centages, and an agreement to appoint
permanent arbitrator for the three associa-
lions.
MEMBERS of the New York Board of
Trade and Attorney General Russell have
held q consultation to devise some means
whereby the injuries to the business inter-
ests of the city by reason of the freight
handlers strike might be relieved. Mr.. Rus
sell finally decided he would apply for writ
of mandamus to compel the transportation
companies to carry out their contracts. This
writ will be In the nature of mandatory in |
function, and will require the companies to |
show cause why they have not performed