Iron County register., 1883-10-11

IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
r. S. MATHEWS, Republican nomi-
nee for Attorney General of Maryland. has
declined to run.
JAY-EYE-SEE beat st. Julian in the
great match race in New York on the 10Th
in three successive heats, thus dethroning
the old king of the turf.
AT the National Rifle Association fall
meeting at Creedmoor on the 2Sth the
Michigan State team won the Hilton
trophy by score of 1,o6e.
The National Convention of State
Insurance Commissioners at Columbus,
O., agreed not to try longer to establish a
standard fire insurance policy.
AN investigation is in progress
in the Treasury Department to ascertain
what has become of certain receipts for
several hundred yards of carpets.
BISMARCK is credited with having
made King Alfonso a Colonel of Uhlans for
the purpose of causing the Parisians to give
him cold reception and so engender a hos
tile spirit.
THE business failures for the week
ending the 2Sth number 1s0, as compared
with 1SS the preceding week, the feature
being very important disasters in the New
York clothing trade.
ON trial at Geneva for disturbing the
peace several Salvationists pleaded that
their actions were in obedience to the die
tates of conscience. The public prosecutor
insisted on sentence.
IT is charged that at the recent cleo
tions in the United States of Colombia the
party in power placed their partisans in
charge of the ballot boxes and surrounded
the polls with armed police soldiers.
The last point in dispute between
the British and Nicarauguan governments
respecting the long pending Mosquito coast
region has been decided, the propositions
made by Nicaragua having been accepted.
REUBEN E. CARROLL explained to
the Senate Labor Committee on the 9th
the system of railroad rebates by which all
oil producers are compelled to sell their
stocks through the Standard Oil Company.
JOHN MCGINNESS, sentenced to be
hanged at Harrisburg, Pa, October 4 for
the murder of his mother-in-law, has been
respited three months, that an examina-
tion may be made relative to his sanity.
JOHN ROACH has presented bill to
the Secretary of the Navy for $21 900 for
taking care of the United States steamship
Roanoke from 1877 to the present time, the
charges being made at the rate of S. day.
In connection with the recent arrests
of Russian army officers implicated in Nj
hilist plots, a large depot has been discov-
powder, dynamite bombs and printing ap-
paratus.
THE Women's Memorial Association
of North Carolina have arranged for the
removal of the remains of 107 North Caro-
lima soldiers buried at Arlington cemetery,
and the work has been commenced under
the direction of Mrs. c. w. Harris. They
will be taken to Raleigh.
JOHN B. CARROLL arrested On a
charge of forgery in the New York Water
Registers department., was taken to court
on the 2Sth. Upon the arrival of his lawyer
a plea of "not guilty" was offered. His
bail was fixed at $4,000, his uncle VIM. P.
Carroll becoming his surety.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND steel and iron
workers in Glamorganshire and Monmouth
shire, England, struck on the 1st against a
reduction of ten per cent. in wages. EN-
ployers urge, in view of English and Amer
ican competition, that they must either
close their works or reduce wages.
A DISPATCH from St. Petersburg of
the 1st stated that the Nihilists there had
issued circulars demanding that the Rus
sian Government put stop to the cruel
treatment of prisoners, especially women,
and enjoining the greatest caution upon all
Nihilists in consequence of recent arrests.
JOHN p. HOWARD, of Burlington, VT,
announces his purpose of giving a new
building for the Medical Department of the
University of Vermont and refitting the old
building for gymnasium. The aggregate
cost will be about $4,000. This will make
over $4O0, 900 Howard has given the Uni
versity within ten years.
AN attempt was made to rob the ex-
press car on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe train at Coolidge, Kas., on the morning
of the 29th by party of three masked men.
The engineer of the train was killed and the
fireman seriously wounded, but the Express
messenger pluckily defended his charge
and frustrated the intended robbery.
THE annual report of Secretary Max
we'll to the Cincinnati Pork Packers Asso-
citation shows total receipts of hogs at that
city the past year $751; against 763,6OS
the preceding year. Shipments for the
year, 242, ,O45, against 1s4,519 the previous
year. Average gross weight of hogs 247
pounds, against 240 the preceding year.
The King of Spain was grossly in
suited by the French populace on his ar
rival in Paris on the Goth by reason of his