Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19

gron County &e9iste,
BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events
THE British House of Commons
on the 9th voted-232 to 65--to exclude
Bradlaugh, should he again claim his seat.
THE Pensacola Ella Board of Health
has decreed that infected vessels arriving
at that port must remain at quarantine till
frost.
A TURCo-AMERICAN Commission has
been appointed to consider the establish
ment of petroleum depot at CONSTANT
nople.
A RECENT cablegram announces that
death of ninety per cent. of the cattle at
tackled.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the MINIS for the week ended July
We're $685. 800; corresponding period last
year, 1921, 423. $685. .N
THE New Hampshire Legislature,
which has been for several weeks trying to
elect United States Senator, had no quo.
rum on the 9th in either house. ~
THE City Council of Mound City, HI,
has offered 500 reward for the arrest and
conviction of the leaders of the mob who
lynched Howard in that city recently.
EIGHTY-EIGHT persons died from
cholera at Damieta, Egypt, on the Sth,
sixty-four at Mansurah, nine at Samanud,
seven at shirbin and one at Alexandria.
THE General of the Marine
Hospital Service at Washington received
advices on the 9th that the Norwegian bark
Vega was at Ship Island with yellow fever
on board.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
on the 9th motion that amnesty be
granted persons who took part in the Paris
and Montceaules Mines riots was rejected
304 to SO.
LITTA, the famous prima donna, died
at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Van
Elsner, at Bloomington, ILL.,, on the Sth, of
cerebro spinal meningitis, superinduced by
over exertion.
THE Acknowledgement at Washing
ton rules that the shipment of whiskey to
Bermuda, with a view to avoid duty pay
ments, is not an expectation within the
view of the law.
CHOLERA had broken out at Swallow,
China, on the 9th, and was raging violently.
In Egypt it's ravages continued. Another
death had occurred at Alexandria and the
Khedive meditated flight to Naples.
A RECENT storm did great damage in
various sections about Lancaster, Pa, to
the growing crops. The corn and oat fields
were beaten level with the ground, and to-
bocco fields were badly washed, necessi-
tating replanting in many cases.
THE Mississippi Independents held
their State Convention at Jackson on the
4th. The platform favors a free ballot and
a fair count, demands legislative super
NlSlOu VI IdliTOdCS anu luuOISeS LILO oOutu-
ern policy of President Arthur.
ADvICEs from Venezuela on the 9th
stated that locusts were making havoc in
many parts of the country. In one night
all the vegetation in the neighborhood of
Moron was destroyed. 1t was feared they
would soon reach the fertile valleys of
Caracas.
A &t,o
(m.) Episcopalian pastor, whose high
church tendencies have lately caused so
much controversy, the other day announced
that requiem mass would be said for the
repose of the soul of a man who was
drowned q month ago. About half his con-
gregation left the church. 49,.
In New York, on the 4th, the CONT
mental Guards, of Charleston, s. c., helped
the veterans Of 1912 to raise the stars and
stripes at the Battery. The cadets of the
Military Institute of Virginia were received
by President Arthur at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, and returned flag captured from
the 10th New York Regiment. r.,- ..1
NNETY-sIx deaths were reported to
have occurred from cholera at Damieta,
Egypt, on the eth, forty-eight at Man.
Surah, SIX at SnerDln, SIX at Samanuu, ana
one at Alexandria. Several cases had oc-
Cured among the gendarmes forming cor
dons around the infected districts and
fresh cordons around old and infected ones
had become necessary.
THE platform adopted by the Nation
al anti-Monopoly Convention, which closed
a two days. session at Chicago, ILL.,, on
the 9Th, calls for abolition of the national
banking law, establishment of the postal
telegraph and saving bank systems, a
graduated income tax, and restriction of
congressional taxation to necessary ex-
penses, and denounces gambling in the nee
essaries of life.
THE business failures throughout the
country for the seven days ended on the
9th numbered 100, which was considerably