Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-23
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE President has recognize Joseph
Oskerstrom, Vice-Consul of Sweden and
Norway, at Denver, Colo.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis for the week ended on the
11th was $780,, 800; corresponding period last
year S191, 000
A STRIKE of railroad telegraph opera
tors occurred on the 10th on the Baltimore
& Ohio and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati G.
st. Louis Railroads.
A FATAL disease resembling cholera
is prevailing among hogs in Berks County,
Pa. Some fifty had already died and sixty
more were fatally sick.
THE American Microscopical Society,
in session at Chicago, ILL.,, elected officers
on the 10Th and adjourned to meet in Roch-
ester, N. V, next August.
THERE are 6S2 furnaces in the coun-
try. OF these only 3S4 are in blast, yet the
stock of pig-iron has increased 144,935 tons
since the first of January.
AT the Chicago exposition next month
one of the attractions will be band of
Navajo Indians, who will illustrate their
mode of weaving blankets.
AT meeting in London. Eng, on
the 10th resolution was adopted to assist
100000 Irish to emigrate to British colonies
and to provide them with farms.
BISHOP LOGUE SAYS the people of
County Donegal, Ireland, have passed
safely through the crisis of distress by the
help of the Irish people throughout the
world.
DURING the four days session of the
National Educational Assembly at Asbury
Park, n. j., which closed on the 18th, its
industrious members considered more than
fifty addresses.
THERE were twenty-Dine deaths from
yellow-fever at Havana, Cuba, during the
week ended on the 18th, among them
George Stetson, formerly purser of the
steamer Niagara
OFFICIAL returns from siXty-nine of
III counties in Kentucky show Proctor
knott's majority for Governor to be over
$4,000. In the same counties Blackburn's
majority was $1,000.
THE deaths from cholera in Egypt
the 18th were 400. There were only
eleven deaths at Cairo. The Sanitary
Council has decided to remove the Gordon
around Alexandria.
A NATIONAL demonstration arranged
to take place on Parnell's estate in Ireland
has been abandoned, it is said because of
an intimation from the authorities that it
would be suppressed.
THE Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers, in session at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 18th authorized the Treas
urer to draw sum of money in support of
the striking telegraphers.
A COMPANY of Mexican infantry, en-
camped near Hermosillo, mutinied the
other day, killing the Captain and First
Lieutenant and fleeing to the mountains
with the arms and ammunition.
AN organization is reported to have
been formed at Washington recently for
the purpose of colonizing negroes in GER
tain parts of the South and separating
them as completely as possible from the
whites.
A RECENT cablegram announces the
death of DIR. Robert Moffat, the father-in-
law of the late DIR. Livingstone, the cele-
brated African traveller, and who was him
self for many years missionary in South
Africa.
IT is announced from Washington
that General Drum intends introducing
bill in Congress making the State Militia
partially subservient to the General Gov
eminent, which is to contribute to their
support.
THE British physicians from India,
who had had experience in India in cholera
epidemics, say the plague in Egyptis clear
ly different from Asiatic cholera. There
were thirty-two deaths from the disease at
Alexandria on the 18th.
THE Sunday law cases against the
Missouri Street Railway Company, at st.
Louis, on the 18th resulted in verdict of
acquittal under Instructions of the court,
the State being unable to prove that it was
not q work of necessity.
FOUR Pullman coaches filled with
knights Templar from Missouri, Tennessee,
louisiana Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Kentucky,
Illinois, Indiana and West Virginia, left
st. Louis, Mo-, on the night of the 18th for
the Triennial Conclave at San Francisco.
ENGLISH marine insurance companies
claimed recently to have made the dis
covery that band of pirate salvors ex-
listed in one of the most dangerous passages
of the Black Sea, and that pilots of several
nationalities were in collision with them.
A TREASURY official at San Francisco,
CAL, states that $1,000 900 worth of opium
has within ten years been struggled into that
port, Government officers receiving thirty
per cent. of the amount. He says $1,0O0,-
600 worth of the drug can be brought in at