Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
"A Summary Of Important Events.

NEWS AND NOlEO.
~ "A Summary Of Important Events.
s. SUff has been begun to recover $780,
427 from the sureties of ex-Treasurer Polk
of Tennessee.
TEwFIK PAsHA, the new Turkish Min
lister, presented his credentials on the, 1lth
at Washington. i---z,s s.#.e% -
'~ JUDGE WYLIE expressed his belief on
the 18th that the star-route case would last
more than another month"; .,isuI '& .
The May reports on crop prospects
indicate a falling off of 100000 bushels
in the winter wheat yield. ta, no,
MORE than 3,4OO emigrants sailed
from Queenstown for America during the
week ended on the 10th inst.
THERE was heavy frost in the sec
ton about Montgomery, N. Y, on the 14th.
In the low lands some ice formed.
THE President has appointed Norman
n. Camp Superintendent of the Assay
Walters, suspended.
THE business failures for the seven
days ended on the 18th numbered 156, as
compared with 152 last week. The Western
States had forty-five. .. ..
THE Virginia tobacco crop is re-
ported endangered by ravages of the fly.
In many instances the farmers have had all
the plants destroyed.
THE order for the court-martial OF
Paymaster WATSON has been temporarily
suspended, pending further examination as
to the extent of the defalcation. .
A BILL has been introduced in the
British House of Commons providing that
at the expiration of leases tenants shall be
compensated for improvements.
A VERY complete report on the spring
wheat crop of the Northwest indicated on
the 18th that the prospect was more favor
able than for several years past.
The Prince of Wales, Duke of Rich
mond and Archbishop of Canterbury will
officiate at the opening of the International
Fisheries Exhibition at London, Eng.
The Colombian Government proposes
to make the Canal Company pay the cost of
maintaining police supervision over the
host of workmen brought into the country.
THE Fisheries Exhibition opened on
the 18th in London, Eng, with a grand
flourish, and the Hygienic Exhibition at
Berlin, Germany, was opened by the
Crown Prince on the same.day. 'tf a
Tucson (Ariz.) advices indicated on
the 18th that the force of renegade Apaches
in Mexico was considerably larger than
General Crook bargained for and it may
take six months to subdue them.
TREvELYAN stated in the British
Commons on the 10th that the assisted emf
grafton movement was conducted with
view to comply with the American rules
prohibiting the landing of paupers. ...-,-
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A NEW counterfeit five-dollar gold
coin has made its appearance. 1t purports
to be coin of the United States struck at
New Orleans in 1s43, is heavily plated and
forty-nine and one-half grains light.
Ex-Governor SEYMOUR, of New
York, says he would favor law making it
a crime for any resident within our borders
to plan or aid in violent measures toward
persons in this or any other country.
LONDON eng dispatches report that
the ministerial party in Parliament is
steadily losing strength, and that much of
the abstention in the House of Commons is
deliberately planned to weaken the Min
istry.
CHIEF-JUsTICE BECK, of the Colorado
Supreme Court, has decided the act inop-
erative under which Packer, the San Juan
ghoul, and seven other murderers were
convicted. All would be Immediately re-
leased.
The National Board of Health has
Tenn, that after June 1 next they will have
to bear the expenses of quarantine the
Mississippi River between New Orleans
and Memphis. .- ....
THE Duke of Connaught, third son of
Queen Victoria, has been appointed to the
command of a brigade in India, in order to
give him an opportunity to qualify himself
for the office of Viceroy of India, which
the Queen desires to see him occupy. ~
THE District Court at Virginia, New,
has granted decree of divorce on the suit
of Theresa Fair against United States Sena-
tor James G. Fair. There was no contest,
and Mr.. Fair settles upon Mrs. Fair 81 ,200,-
600 in money and United States bonds and
the family residence in San Francisco.
AT five o'clock on the evening of the
18th destructive cyclone struck Kansas
City, Mo-, from the southwest, and cutting
a path about block wide through the city,
destroyed property worth fully 100000,
killed three persons outright and wounded
some fifteen others. A number of smaller
towns in West Missouri and in Kansas also
suffered severely. j :" ii'.' ''''
THE statement of the United States
Treasurer showed gold, silver and United
States notes in the Treasury on the 18th
as follows: Gold coin and ,hulliOu. SOL.