Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-10

BY ELI d. AXE. t
IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE death of Rear Admiral Edward
Middleton, retired, occurred on the 2Sth at ;
Washington, d. c. ,
In consequence of threats the Guild
hall at London, Eng, was placed under
strong police guard on the 10Th.
SECRETARY FoLGER has appointed
committee to investigate the alleged fraud
ulent importation of Hawaiian sugar.
REAR-ADMIRAL BALDWIN, of the
United States Navy, has been ordered with
his staff to attend the Russian Cars cor
onation. /
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the MINIS for the week ended April IS ,
was S16S, 900; for the corresponding period
last year, $161 900.
( SEVERAL more arrests were reported
in Ireland on the 2Sth in connection with
murder conspiracies and a number of sus-
poets had fed the country. :
SECRET negotiations were reported to
be proceeding between the British and {
American Governments on the 30th with a
view to the extradition of seventeen Irish I
suspects. S
The forthcoming volume of diplO-
matte correspondence shows that the invi- ;
tation of the United States to the proposed :
Peace Congress was promptly accepted by ,
nearly every nation to which it was sent. Z
THE New York Central Labor Union {
on the 10Th discussed the relation of the d.
labor question to the revolutionary move
ment in Europe. There was said to be con- t
siderable feeling in favor of the use of l
dynamite.
GREEN B. RAUM, United States In
ternal Revenue Commissioner, has resign ,
ed, and his resignation has been accepted =
by the President. The explanation was .
that he could do better for himself in pri- ,
vate business. .. 80 q
ESTIMATES on the 18th from the towns
in Mississippi over which the recent tor S
nado swept placed the number of the killed G
at 1873 and of the wounded at $685. The
property loss was said to exceed half S
million dollars.
AN important arrest of counterfeiters q
is reported to have been made at New Y DIRK |
few days ago, eight of a gang who had
been operating in Pennsylvania, New Jer- y
ser Kentucky Virginia, Maryland and New =
York having been captured. =
THE Lord Lieutenant of Ireland wit
col he Hama IF n of
grants for America the other day, helping .
children into the boats and encouraging the l
older ones. His sympathy was reported to
have "created profound impression"
CHARLES F. KRING, who had been v
tried six times for the murder of Dora /
Broemser in st. Louis, Mo-, and thrice SEN I
fenced to death, has been released on 49, 900 c
bail, having recently been granted new
trial by the United States Supreme Court. S
THERE were 1872 business failures {
throughout the United States and Canada t
during the seven days ended the 9th, r
as compared with 205 the week previous. f
The New England States had %; Middle
States, %; Western, IS; Southern, SO; Pa e
cific States and Territories, Is; New York a
City, II, and Canada, 49,. a
ONE of the planks in the platform :
presented at the Irish Convention in Phila- q
delphia, Pa, on the 9th declares that the
course of England in first reducing the Irish r
peasantry to abject poverty and then send $
ing them penniless to America is unnatural,
inhuman and an outrage upon the Ameri- =
can Government and people. a.st !
EIGHT officers, including n Colonel, l
were arrested at st. Petersburg, Russia, on
of hahn tod
with the Nihilists. Sixteen officers were Z
arrested at Smolensk 1t stated
widespread military conspiracy had been
discovered. Documents were found at
Smolensk showing the coronation of the {
Gar would be undisturbed, but something
very serious would happen Immediately
thereafter.
THE trial of FitZharris, known as ,
sSkin-the- Goat" one of the alleged prin- '
cipals in the murder of Cavendish and f
Burke, was begun at Dublin, Ireland, on a
the 3Oth ult. The prisoner pleaded not
guilty. Counsel for the prosecution argued ,
that although Fitzharris did not personally .
stab Burke, yet he was cognizant of the act
and was the implement of murder, as Ihe .
drove off the assassins red-handed. The de- !!
tense would endeavor TO prove that Fitz-, 9
harris merely drove the murderers in the =
course of his vocation as a cab-driver and
did not know what the object of the errand
was.
THE threatened cigar-makers' strike b
for advance of wages at Albany n. Y, i
resulted in the discharge of all the strikers I
on the 3Oth ult., the manufacturers refusing
to grant the increase. At Wheeling, w. O
Va, the manufacturers acceded to the de- t
mands of the men. At Chicago, ILL.,, nearly {
all the manufacturers advanced wages.
Twelve manufacturers at Philadelphia F
granted the advance. One factory q
granted an advance in New York. AT st. 4
Paul, Mimi, the men got an advance. A q