Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-08

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BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
THE Marquis of Lansdowne was duly
sworn in as Governor-General of Canada
on the 23d.
IT is said the King of Portugal con-
templates Indicating on account of the
worry of Liberal agitation.
THE contract for turret armor for the
United States Monitor Miantonomah has
been awarded to an English firm.
CHOLERA is again becoming general
in Egypt, and panic has resulted. There
" ere twelve deaths at Alexandria on the
9th.
THE Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria hopes that the army of occupation in
Bosnia and Herzegovina may soon be re-
duced.
THE wool-growers of Washington
Territory have formed an association, and
will work for the restoration of the tariff on
wool.
THE Ceur de Leon gold excitement
has reached Salt Lake City, and miners
are starting north to the new placer dig
gings. ,...
RICHTER, Secession deputy in the
German Reichstag, has been sentenced to
six months imprisonment for insulting the
royal family.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CoRKHILL esti-
mates that soldiers and their relatives have
been defrauded of 81 5000 by the crooked
pension agents.
HENRI RoCHEFORT charges the
French Ministry with having an under
standing with the Due d'Aumale to restore
the Orleans dynasty.
VIM H. JENKINS & Co., door manu-
facturers, New York, have failed for $179,-
wv harvey ~ W. hdtSy SaPo anu
furs, of Chicago, have failed for 100000.
CoUNr,VoN MoLTKE celebrated his
eighty fourth birthday on the 26th at his
estate at Kreisau in Silesia. The day was
observed in Germany as a national holt
day. W.; .-.t.- ..
In June last ex-Alderman John
Geiger, of Cincinnati, O., disappeared. On
the 10Th a body, identified as his by watch
badge and pocket-book, was found in Mill
Creek.
The trial, for hypothecating pay ac-
counts, of Lieut.. c. E. Hargons, of the
Fifth Infantry, has resulted in sentence
of one months suspension from rank and
command.
DESIGNS have been invited for the
main building of the Worlds Industrial
Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Or
leans. The building is to embrace 1,OO0,-
600 square feet.
Mrs. LANGTRY started on the 25th on
her professional tour through the country.
Her first engagement is in Montreal, and
from the United States she will probably
go to Australia.
IT was reported on the 25th that j.
s. Grinnell, State Senator from Greenfield,
had been nominated for Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor by the, Massachusetts, Democratic
State Committee.
KAN GI SHANK, better known as
Crow Dog, sentenced to death for the MUIR
der of Spotted Tail, made his escape on the
Doth at Deadwood, D. 7. He was allowed
to go out unattended.
In the past. twelve months imports
have decreased So, IA 1862 and exports in
creased 81, 1885, as compared with the
preceding twelve months. Excess of ex-
ports was $117, 1926, 800.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
National Indian Association took place
in Philadelphia on the 2sth, when Bishop
Whipple, of Minnesota, made an address.
Miss Mary L. Bonny was reelected Presi-
dent.
THE Peoples Railway Company, of
indianapolis, a concern organized with an
authorized capital of $175, 900, has be-
gun suit against the Chicago Times for
$500, 900 for reflections ON the company's
character. ......-. .-.
ALEX. MITCHELL, the millionaire
President of the Chicago, Milwaukee s. st.
Paul Railroad, was tendereda grand recep-
ton by Milwaukeeans on the 26th, in honor
of his safe return from Europe. The mill
tary turned out.
EX-COLLECTOR BEARD, of Boston,
makes statement to the effect that during
the administration of VIM. A. Simmons as
Collector of that port, an extensive system
of smuggling was carried on with the knowl-
edge of the officials.
A PETITION against the appointment
of Sumner Howard, of Michigan, as Chief
Justice of Utah, has been signed by about
half the bar of Salt Lake City and will be
forwarded to Washington. 1t is said to be
in the interest of Judge Hunter.
INDIAN COMMISSIONERS PRICE reports
a decided advance among the aborigines in
the matters of husbandry and Industrial
schools. He recommends that Congress
confer civil and criminal jurisdiction on