Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-12

THE charge of embezzlement against
Asa F. Leopold, Treasurer of Crystal Lake,
Mich, was withdrawn the other day and
Leopold has commenced suit against George
Bunkel, the accuser and who caused his
arrest, for $4,000 damages.
THE session of the Missouri Legisla-
ture was brought to decorous close at
noon on the ID.
THE debt of the United States on the
LIST, less cash in the Treasury, was 81 &c.,
931 ,2SS. The decrease since June 80 was
nearly $112, 100000.
ISAAC LEHMAN, a well-known Bleek-
er street manufacturer, had mysterious1y
disappeared from New York on the I'd and
was being anXiously sought by his rela.
tives. e-asss
BY majority of one the United States
Supreme Court on the I'd reversed the de-
cision of the Missouri Supreme Court in
the celebrated Kring case, and the pris.
oner will escape the gallows to which he
has been so often condemned.
A STATEMENT of the assignee OF
Friend Humphreys Sons, leather dealers,
New York, who failed recently, showed the
liabilities to be $445, 097; actual assets, $12O,
442.
LIEUTENANT DANENHOwER, of tho
Jeanette expedition, has been granted
leave of absence for one year.
THE baseball season was opened al
st. Louis, Mo-, on the 1st by a game be.
tween the st. Louis Club and the Grand
Avenues.
BIsMARCK's sixty-eighth birthday was
celebrated at Berlin, Germany, on the LIST in
grand style.
ALFRED DE LACOUR, a ,well-known
writer of plays and ballads, died at Paris,
France, few days ago.
IT is reported from Washington that
the Government will soon establish an ex-
detrimental farm near that city to ascertain
the causes of epidemic diseases among
cattle.
The Rev. Isaac L. Nicholson, d. D.,
the bishopric of Indiana by the Protestant
Episcopal Diocesan Convention early last
month, has declined the Office.
The residence of.the heirs of the late
Philip Verplanck, whose estate suffered
heavily through the late Judge Taylor's
mismanagement, was burned the other
morning by an incendiary. Loss, $4,000.
THE amount RENTED to Germany
from the United States for the relief of suf-
ferers by the Rhine floods up to the Cd inst.
was $152,376.
A FIRE broke out in Cate street, Mon
treal, Cana, few doors from the Theater
Royal, the other evening, and before it
could be extinguished 100000 damage had
been done.
The Atchafalaya River, in Louisiana,
continued to rise on the I'd. A portion of
the Pacific railroad track had been flooded,
and many plantations were submerged.
A GENERAL order has been issued by
the Navy Department changing the title of
the grade of master to that OF lieutenant,
and the title of midshapman to ensign.
A DISPATCH from Lordsburg, N. NJ,
on the ID said no news had been received
from Captain Black and his company, who
were in pursuit of raiding Indians, and it
was feared they had been ambushed and
5s.-.
HIRAM SIBLEY & Co., New York. the
other day forwarded 10000 packages of Sc
lected garden seed to the sufferers by the
late tornado at Grinnell, Iowa.
SECRETARY CHANDLER expects to have
all the naval construction authorized by
the last Congress. completed in fifteen
months.
THE firm of R. & c. Degener, New
FORK, in the West coast South American
trade, has suspended, with liabilities re-
ported at 100000; assets, S6o0,000. One
cause of the failure was attributed to the
of shipping various products
on account of the revolution in Ecuador.