Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-09-13


enue during July and August was $685.
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THE Telegrapher's, Brotherhood has
dissolved connection with the Knights of
Labor.
ONE HUNDRED Canadian cattle sus-
spected of being diseased were killed on ar
rival at Liverpool on the 3Oth..
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PARNELL recently said he, hoped that
the, migration scheme would render it I'M
necessary for Ireland again to ask aid from
abroad. so
THE Captain and officers of the United
States frfgate Vandalia We're entertained at
a ball and supper BY the Montreal Yacht
Club on the 30th. HE';f< -.. -
THE Earl and Countess of Carnarvon
arrived in Quebec On the ID, and were the
guests of Princess Louise and the Marquis
of Lorne at the citadel. ZIG, .:,,5s r.
The Home for Destitute Children of
New York City, near Princes Bay, with
accommodation for 1900 boys, was dedicat-
ed. by Coadjutor Archbishop Darlington
on the I'd. -. -. 81. -t:t
A NoToRIoUs forger and ex-convict
was arrested on the 1st in New York while
attempting to dispose of coupons cut from
bonds which were stolen from the North
ampton Bank in 1876. go. "a
Two men were arrested in Glasgow,
Scotland, on the I'd, charged with having
been connected with attempts to destroy
property with dynamite in that city last
january. Their names are Casey, and
Kelly. So,
man address before the Chamber, of 4
Commerce of Greenock, Scotland, Hon.
Alex. Mckenzie said he thought Canada
would soon return to Free-Trade and that
theidea of separation from England was
absurd.
THE Washington Star of the 30th
said it was rumored tEat an investigation
which has been made will disclose startling
and sensational developments as to how
the verdict in the Star-route trial was
secured. I
COLONEL, E. B. WHITMAN, a promi- !
nent Free Soiler in Kansas in ''Border Ruff
fam times, and later having charge of Ma |
tional Cemeteries in the South under Gen.
eral Thomas, died in Cambridge on the I'd,
aged seventy.
JUDGE GEORGE HoADLEY, Demo- |
cratic nominee for Governor of Ohio, left !
home on the I'd for Philadelphia, to place |
himself under the care of DIR. Bartholomew.
He was 1aboring under a combination of |
malarial and nervous disorders. ~,
THE Marielin Chemical Works of
Black Rock, Conn.,, burned on the 31st and |,
nearly all the stock. The loss on building |
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were owned by stock company, of which !
n. G. Miller of New York is President.
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THE New Orleans Grand Jury in its |
recent report suggests as sanitary meas |
lire that cremation be established under the |
direction of officers of the Charity Hospital |
for the purpose of burning the bodies of |
those who die from contagious diseases.
DETECTIVE Sergeant William E. |
Kinds, of New York, killed himself the |
night of the I'd in the bathroom of house |
in which he boarded with his wife and two |
children. q He had lately been drinking
heavily and was financially embarrassed.
ROPER Commandery No!i1, Knights
Templar, of indianapolis, spent the I'd at
Davenport, Ia, on their way home from
San Francisco. They were the guests of |
Davenport and Rock Island Knights, who |
gave them an excursion down the river, |
and otherwise made the time pleasant.
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REPORTS of the 30th say the French |
harvest returns were unsatisfactory. Of |
the eighty-ive departments, thirty-seven
report crops above an average, while fiji |
teen report average crops and thirty-three |
crops below an average. 1t is certain that |
1o~, Of
the coming winter. -4;-s.' "
REPORTS of the 31st stated that the |
drought in Eastern New England, which |
had lasted five or six weeks, had become |
so serious that crops had been greatly in. |
jured, with the prospect of still further |
damage if the drought was not broken. |
Farmers were compelled to take their cows |
from the pastures and feed them on winter |
hay. - sf I
= An Amsterdam dispatch of the I'd |
says it was believed 100000 persons per- |
ished in North Bantam in the recent cal |
amity. 1t was also believed that the garri- |
son and fort at AMER were swept away,
the extensive plain of vocanic stone
formed in the near Hampong, Sumatra,
preventing communicating with Felokbe-
1onge and southwest Java.
INTERNAL Revenue Commissioner |
Evans said on the Sd that all claims for
rebate of the tax on tobacco, snuff and CT
gars, numbering 1850, and amounting to
$3.50 ,039.5S, had been filed in his office;
that the work of scheduling the claims was
being rapidly pushed, and when Congress
met, it was probable that matters would be
in shape for prompt legislation. sf
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The Washington City Post-office was
supplied with the first installment of the
new postal notes on the 30th. They are
printed in yellow ink and bound in books
of 500, with stubs that are to be filed up
with brief statements of the amounts of
detached notes, and other particulars.
Eighty thousand books have been sent to
the various money-order offices of the
country. ..