Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-26

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BY ELI d. AXE.
1RONTON. 49, MSSOURIs
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
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! The Parliament buildings at Vienna,
Austria, were filled with police on the 10th
inst, on account of warning of attempts
to destroy them.
The london eng Board of Pub
lie Works was taking precautions against
the introduction of explosives into the
sewers on the 18th. f
THE Mexican Government has an
nounced that there was no obstacle to the
requirement of land in that country by cit
liens of the United States.
PARNELL has announced that if the
projectors Of the Irish Convention, to be
held at Philadelphia, Pa, would postpone
it until autumn he might be able to attend.
THE lumbermen of Wisconsin, it now
appears,will have a full supply of logs this
season, although the prospect a month ago
was that there would be considerable
shortage. 81
THE business failures for the seven
days ended on the 18th inst. numbered 1S9,
as against 1917 for the week previous, of
which number fifty-four occurred in the
Western States.
THE Treasury Department at Wash
ington has decided to accept the proposal
of The Hawaiian Government for the coin
age of silver for the insular kingdom at the
San Francisco mint.
THE twenty-third annual St. Louis Fair
will be held Monday, October 1st, to Satur-
day, October 9Th, 1888, both days inclusive.
Fifty thousand dollars have been appro-
priated for premiums.
JUDGE HIGHLEY, of Cincinnati, has
decided that demonstrating as commonly
practiced in tests of skill in Workmanship
comes within the purview of the law
against cruelty to animals. ...t
THE Secretary of the Milwaukee
{Wis.) Chamber of Commerce estimates
that the winter wheat crop will fall twenty
per cent. below that of last year and 3d.
OOO, 900 bushels short of the average for the
past five years. -t-.'.
WINGED that there has been no reshipment of
Chinese sugar through the Hawaiian ports
to evade payment of duty. The expense of
rehandling, he says, would be greater than
the duty evaded.
THE Treasury Department at Wash
ington has been informed that a quantity
of vine cuttings from China have been inn
ported into the port of New York which
the Custom-house officers think were in
Tested with phylloxera.
JOHN WALSH, who Informer Cary
swore initiated him into the Invincibles,
and who was arrested in France upon that
charge recently at the request of the Brit
fish Government, but not held, arrived in
New York few days ago.
UNDER the new postal law, it is said
salaries of postmasters in the small
offices will be greatly changed, the Govern
ment getting less and the postmasters
more. The receipts from the sales of
stamps will be reduced twenty per cent.
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GENERAL RALPH ELY, ex-Auditor-
General of Michigan, died at his residence
near Cross Village, Emmett County, aged
sixty-two. He was Colonel of the Eighth
Michigan during the rebellion, and made
Brigadier-General the latter part of the
war.
In the Phoenix Park murder trial at
Dublin, Ireland, on the 18th the evidence of
Joseph Smith, one of the accused, was ac-
copied, and it was said Mullett would also
turn approver. The case for the prosecu-
ton closed. The defense in Brady's case
was an alibi. 49, s....-. %.
For nine months of the current fiscal
year the internal revenue receipts of the
United States were sos, S25, 19S, being an
increase of more than two and a half mil
lions over the same months of last year.
Receipts from the 1st to the 18th of April
show decrease of $AS,517.
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THERE We're heavy storms on the
14th throughout considerable portions of
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa and
Nebraska, as well as in the Southwest.
Portions of Arkansas were visited by de-
structive hurricane. Everything in the
track of the storm was swept away and a
number of people were killed or injured.
MINISTER WEST has laid before Sec
rotary Frelinghuysen communication
from the British Government to the effect
that English agents or detectives had been
sent to this country to watch the move
merits of Irish agitators, and to discover, if
possible, whatever shipments of explosive
materials may be made from American
ports to England.
THE official canvass of the recent