Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-09-20
NEWS AND NOTES.


A Summary Of Important Events.
SPAIN is worried by the discovery OF
Ssh intrigues in Cuba.
s COLONEL DAVID P. HOLLOWAY died
at Washington on the 9th,aged seventy-four
years. .
SIR HENRY MAxEE, Governor of New
foundland, died at the vice-regal residence
on the Sth.
HORACE GREELEY's farm was sold on
the sth. Miss Gabrielle NJ. Greeley was
the purchaser.
THERE was big meeting and ban
quet of the National League at Waterford,
Ireland, on the 9th.
NAVIGATION of the Straits of Sunda
is officially declared open. The earthquake
made but little change in the channel.
THE driving of the golden spike
which signalized the formal opening of the
Northern Pacific took place on the sth.
81 The issue of standard silver, dollars
for the week ending September s, was $751;
99S against $4,000 for the corresponding
period of last year.
THE Canadian Government contem-
plates allowing sum of money for each
child brought into the country through Car
dinal Manning's immigration schemes.
PRIMA DONNA PERRETA, "the night
ingale of Mexico" died August 90 at Ma
Of hor of
her opera company died of the same dis
ease.
THE National Vinegar Association
had petitioned the Internal Revenue Com
missioner for the privilege of running low
wines as high as twenty-nine per cent.
proof.
SUPERINTENDENT KIMBALL of the
Life-Saving Service has completed his in
spection of stations on the lakes. He rec
ommends telephone connections between
stations.
THERE were continued reports on the
10th of the damage to unmatured crops by
frost throughout the Northwest. The
Eastern States also suffered to a consider
able extent.
MEssRs. Moody, McGranahan and
Whittle, evangelists, leave the country Oc-
tober for Ireland, on an active missionary
campaign. They intend operating il the
south of Ireland.
THREE THOUSAND soldiers took part
in a parade by States on the 9th at Camp
Sheridan, Nebraska. Every Northern State
was represented. Thirty thousand visitors
were on the grounds at the campfire in the
evening.
JAMES KOwsKI, who escaped to this
country from St. Petersburg with $1,000
rubles belonging to his employer, and who
was arrested therefor in New York was re-
leased on the 10th owing to the want of an
extradition treaty with Russia.
ST. JOsEPH's Passionist's Monastery,
three miles west of Baltimore, Md, burned
the night of the 9Th. A church adjoining,
in process of construction, was also con-
siderably damaged. The damage is esti-
mated at from 10000 to $4,000; partly in
sured.
RECENT advices from Loando, West
Africa, state that Henry M. Stanley, after
penetrating far into the interior, returned
to Stanley Pool. 1t was believed that he
intended to travel through the country
covered in his former journey along the
east coast.
A WOMAN with an alias for every city
she visited has been victimizing citizens of
Easton, Pa; Indianapolis, Ind. :, Coving-
ton, KY, and lately Wheeling, w. Va. She
pretended to establish Mosaic Art class,
collecting money in advance and then leav-
ing for fresh fields.
THE excess in the value of exports
over imports for the twelve months ended
July 81, 1888, was $1O7, 379, 1885, The imports
of merchandise decreased S23, 49,, 054 the
year ended July 81, 1883, as compared with
the same time last year, and the exports
increased $19, 4S9,172.
A ROME dispatch of the 9TH says
the Archbishops of Cincinnati, New York,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and several pre-
lates were expected at the Vatican shortly
to confer with regard to the propaganda
upon the extension of the church regula-
tions to the clergy of America.
A PARIS dispatch of the 9TH says both
Governments, France and China, are equal
ly DESTROYS of securing peaceful solution
of the Tonquin question if it can be done
with honor. The general sentiment favored
the hope that all issues involved might be
admitted to the arbitration of England.
The condition of the National Treas
ury at the close of the week ending the Sth
was: Gold coin and bullion, 500, 66l $40;
silver dollars and bullion, $119,0a9, FOB;
fractional silver coin, S27, 40, 124; United
States notes, $57, s35, 191; total, 404, 2s6,62S.
Certificates outstanding: Gold, So4, 'o9, l6O;
silver, $40 800 PSI; currency, n,'3O,OOO. The
bonds redeemed to date under the 121st call
are $40, 2O0,55O.
MUTUAL benefit society of Chicago,
called the Red Cross, has come to the front
with proposition to take in the entire
membership fthe late Photographers Broth
erhood in body. The proposition is spo-
ken of a "new movement" but the tele-
graphers are assured by the late Master
Workman Morris that in accepting the
proposition they will not be violating their
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