Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-28

grou Gnruty Register
BY ELI D. AXE.
1RoNTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
A NoLLE PRosEQUI has been entered
route case.
The President has appointed Freder-
lex NJ. Cheny, of Massachusetts,, United
States Consul at Zanzibar.
SIxrY-FIvE clerks in the Washington
Departments were discharged on the 10th
on account Of exhaustion of appropriations.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN GEORGE BRIDGES
RODNEY, the oldest lawyer at the Delaware
bar, died at Newcastle, in that State, on the
18th.
The Thirty third General Assembly
of Illinois, after a session of five months
and eighteen days, adjourned sine die on
the 18th.
THE issue of standard silver dollars at
the United States MINIS for the week ended
June 10th was S193,499; corresponding
period last year, Sill ,49s.
The Colombian Government has sent
troops to the border in anticipation of
trouble with the ''capricious, exacting and
lawless dictator of Ecuador"
REAR ADMIRAL BALDWIN, of the
American Navy, gave a banquet on the
18th ON board his flagship at Cronstadt,
Russia. 1t was the closing festivity of the
coronation.
THE death of James Washington
Sheahan, for many years leading editorial
writer on the Chicago Qll.) Tribune, occur
red in that city on the 18th. He had been
sick a long time.
In consequence of a great exodus of
1aborers to the CHILEAN guano islands the
Bolivian Government has issued an order
prohibiting citizens from crossing the bor-
der without permission.
REPORTS of heavy rains, causing seri-
Gus washouts and damage to railroads in
Missouri and Illinois, were received on the
18th. Trains on many roads had been de-
layed, and in some instances business was
completely blocked.
The Grand Jury at Washington
brought in another Indictment against
Thomas J. Brady on the 10th, charging
that on July Is, 1880, he awarded mail
contract to J. B. Price and in the next No
vember received $1,000 as compensation
therefor.
JOHN AMBLER SMITH, on behalf of
the colored citizens of the Cherokee Nation,
filed a protest with the Secretary of the
Interior the other day against the payment
to Bushyhead and associates of $4,000 for
lands coded to the Government by the
Cherokees.
THE business failures for the seven
DAYS ended on the 18th numbered 1S6,
against IT3 last week. OF these New Eng
land contributed twenty-four, Middle
States twenty-six, Western fifty-three,
Southern thirty-five, Pacific States eighteen,
New York City twelve, and Canada nine
teen.
The London Times says the sem
fences of the dynamite conspirators, DIR.
Gallagher, Whitehead, Wilson and Curtin,
are severe, but, considering the heinous-
ness of the offense, they are not much more
than their deserts. All the London jour-
nails approve the sentences. The NetrS says
the convicted men deliberately declared
war against society, and they have no right
to complain of the consequences.
WAR has again broken out between
the opposing factions of the Greek Indians.
A party of SPEECHES followers, who had
been permitted to return to their homes
from Fort Gibson, 1. T.. where they had
been held since the recent trouble, were
furiously attacked by the Chicote faction
and several were killed outright and a
number seriously wounded and their prop
erty destroyed. Further trouble was APP
pretended.
In arguing the case in defense of the
dynamite conspirators in London on the
18th one of the counsel said it was Il matter |
of common knowledge that plots existed in
America to manufacture dynamite for use
against England, almost with the conniv |
ance of the American Government. The |
court required him to withdraw the state |
ment tending to impair the friendly re-
lations between the two countries. The |
trial ended in the conviction of DR.. Gala
CHER, Wilson, Whitehead and Curtin. The |
other defendants were acquitted.
THE Ohio State Prohibition Conven-
ton met at Columbus on the 18th. The |
principles promulgated indorse the national |
platform of Chicago of August last year,
denounce the policy of personal liberty |
advanced by the Democrats, and the policy |
of taxation in the Scott law, the Pond laws
passed by the Republicans, and the repeal |
ing of the Sunday law prohibiting drink
ing on the premises, also by the Republi- /