Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-12

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IRoNTON, - MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
<'STHE cable announced general scare
throughout Europe on the Doth over the
cholera in Egypt and its threatened spread.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES INGALLS,,
who has been in the United States service
forty years, has asked to be retired July /.
n IT lis estimated that the public debt
was reduced Sl7,5oO,O00 during June,
making the reduction for the last fiscal year
$40, 225 900. -....,-- .-.. ].
SIX HUNDRED and eighty Mormon
converts arrived in New. York ON the 1st
They came from England, Denmark,
Sweden, Wales and Norway. ''-.' " 60 =
DENNIS KEARNEY was in Chicago the
other day to attend the anti-monopoly con-
vention. He made the assertion that me-
'cfanics' wagesihad doubled in California
since the passage of the anti Chinese bill.
go THE Interior Department at wash
ington has decided concerning the pension
law. that ,''total permanent helplessness'
means permanent injury, requiring the
&, regular personal attendance and aid of
another person" ~
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"A. CONSPIRACY has been discovered,
the purpose of which is to betray German
military secrets. Arrests were being made
by Wholesale in Dresden, Berlin, Cologne,
Z Hanover and other cities on the 2Sth.' "'
'd The President has modified his origi-
nal order recognizing the internal revenue
collection service; The most importan Mt
modification concerns Kentucky, that
State being allowed one more district.
81 AFTER q three years fight in the
courts, the parties who had refused to pay
special tax bills for opening streets in st.
Louis, Mo-, the other day gave it up, and
satisfaction of Judgment was entered in
sixteen cases. '''--
= OKLAHOMA PAYNE has applied to the
United States Circuit Court at Topeka,
10
!. Secretary of the Interior and General Pope
from interfering with his occupation of
lands in the Indian Territory. .,.
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. BIZ the shutting down of the glass
ware manufactures at Wheeling, w. Va,
and vicinity, which occurred on the 30th,
twelve hundred men, two thousand boys
- and eight hundred girls were thrown out of
work. The shutdown was for six weeks.
THE Richmond (Va.) editors fought
at six O'Clock on the morning of the 30th.
near Wayesboro, Va. The weapons were
Colts six-shooters at eight PAGES. At the
first fire neither was hurt. At the second,
Elan fell with bullet in his right hip.
Beirne was unhurt.
The cornerstone of the new Univer-
sity of Vermont and the unwilling the stat
ute of Lafayette, took place at Burlington
a few days ago, in the presence of ten
thousand people, including the Governor,
and State officials and nearly all the living
ex-Governors of that State. .
CHOLERA swept away one hundred
and thirteen persons at Damietta, Egypt,
on the 2Sth. Fatal cases were reported
from Mansurah and Port Said, and Euro
peans were fleeing from Alexandria. A
quarantine against vessels from Egypt
had been ordered at all Turkish ports.
THE Post-office Department at Wash
ington has received information that the
Australian colonies have resolved to apply
for admission to the Universal Postal
Union. If the application is successful
Bolivia will be the only country with an
organized postal service not included in the
union. ~ sfi''H''s -'''
THE saloon-keepers of Cincinnati, o.,
on learning that the Scott law had been
pronounced constitutional, made haste to
take out certificates. Over $104, 900 had
been paid in within three days on the 2Sth.
The Board of Public Works was preparing
to appropriate 100000 of the amount for
street reconstruction. ...
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TO THE case of General Adam Badeau,
a retired United States army officer,
now Consul General at Havana, has
been referred by the Secretary of the
Treasury to the Court of Claims. 1t in
, wolves the question of the right of retired
army officer to enter the consular service
and draw two salaries. -aT
80 A RECENT statement prepared in the
office of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue at. Washington shows that the
aggregate receipts during May, 1885, were
$346,S1S greater than for the same month
of 1882. There was an increase of 1921 ,129
!. from Spirits; an increase of S220,527 from
tobacco; an increase of SS4. 049 from banks
and bankers, and a decrease of S1SS, a52
from miscellaneous articles. -....
A TERRIBLE hail storm, which lasted
thirty minutes, is reported to have visited
the town of Essex, Iowa, the other night,
breaking nearly every pane Of glass in the