Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-05

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BY ELI D: AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
Rev. JOSEPH RADEALACKER was con-
isecrated Bishop of Nashville, Tenn, in that
city on the oath.
The Duke of Connaught opened the
Irish Lace Exhibition at the Mansion
House on the 25th.
The French Senate has passed a bill
providing for direct postal service between
Havre and New York.
The winning horses in the races at
Chicago, ILL.,, on the 25th were Sadie Nc
Marry, Apollo, April Fool and Viola. !
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The steamer Scandinavia sailed from
Queensland few days ago for America
with 671 Mormon emigrants on board. +
: The death of Archbishop James F.
Wood occurred at the Archepiscopal resi-
dence, in Philadelphia, Pa, on the Goth.
, THE cases against A. E. Boone, known
as the star-route straw bond cases, were
nolle pressed on the 25th at Washington.
GENERAL CROOK was ordered to
Washington on the 18th for consultation as
to the final disposition of the captured
Apaches. .-.i tHausa! i'''
THE Paris, France, municipality has
voted 10000 francs to defray the expenses
of the delegates from, Paris to the forth
coming Boston Exhibition. - :n!tos 81
An executive order was issued on the
18th for the reorganization of internal rev.
enue collection districts. The number Of
districts was reduced from 126 to 81 y
8 GOVERNOR Buffers request for a
committee 70 search for rascality in va
rious departments of the State Government
has been refused by the Massachusetts,
Senate.
The eighth annual meeting of the
American Association of Nurserymen and
Florists opened at st. Louis, Mo-, on the
10Th, President Norman j. Coleman in the
Chair. There were 143 delegates in attend
ance.
THE liabilities of McGeoch, Evering-
ham & Co., Chicago, whose failure was an
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growing on the 18th. The Receiver saidhe
ness.
The Treasury Department has de-
cided that the new tariff act abolishes ex-
emption from duty of beet sugar machinery,
the section of the statutes allowing the ex
emption not having been reproduced in the
new tariff.
Two HUNDRED and eighty-ive of
General Crooks captives arrived on the
23d at the San Carlos Agency. Of this
number 24S are women and children.
Secretary Teller insisted that they should
not be placed on the agency.
GREAT distress was reported among
the fishing families along the Labrador
coast on tho 18th, owing to the detention of
the spring supplies by the jam of gulf ice
along their shores. TWAS feared that some
deaths from starvation had already &C.
Cured.
THERE was no abatement of the floods
in the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers on
the 21st. The water had passed the highest
point touched in the past twenty-five years
at st. Louis, and from every part of the
Lower Missouri Valley advices indicated
considerably higher rise.
LOUISE MICHEL, the French Socialist,
has been sentenced to six years. imprison-
ment and ten years. police supervision.
OF the other prisoners charged with rioting
and pillage, Pouget and Monset got eight
and one years. imprisonment, respectively,
and two others were acquitted.
THE President has appointed the fol-
lowing cadets at large to West Point Mill
tary Academy: Manning j.. Logan, Illinois,
son of General Logan; Andrew Curtin
Quay, Pennsylvania, and Pierrepont Is
ham, Illinois, with Robert A. Emmett, New
York, and Samuel d. Hatch, Iowa, alter
mates. .-.-.s. .f.s.- .- B. -.
ADvICEs of the oath stated that the
floods in Nebraska extended over the whole
southern country, caused by heavy and con-
tinued rains raising the Nemaha River. Sew
eral families were drowned in Pawnee Coun-
ty, sixteen persons in all. The damage to
crops and personal property was very
great. The floods were subsiding.
THERE were ISL business failures
throughout the United States and Canada
during the seven days ended on the I'D, as
compared with 1856 during the week previ
GUS They were distributed as follows:
New England, 10; Middle States, 90; West
ern, 4S; Southern, 43: Pacific States and
Territories, 81; Canada, %, and New York,
Z.
THE Mississippi River came to stand
at st. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th, but the indi-
cations were it would be rising again. The
situation in the submerged district of the