Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-02
THE Secretary OF the Treasury has

THE Secretary Of the Treasury has
decided that the Department has no au.
thority to order sub-treasury offices to re-
ceive trade dollars the same as standard
dollars.
emery TwICHELL died in Brookline,
Mass, few days ago. He was a promi-
nent railroad man, and was once president
of the Baltimore s. Ohio Railroad Com
pany.
The United States Consul at Smyrna
reports a panic there on account of the
dread of cholera.
s. SUB-TREASURERs have received in
structions from Washington to honor no
paymaster's checks to officers or soldiers
unless the period covered by the payment
is stated.
AT Flora, Ind, the other day. Alex
ander Keys killed Samuel Stewart on the
street. The murderer had been compelled
to marry the daughter of Stewart, and his
subsequent desertion of the girl led to the
| slaughter of her father.
Two HUNDRED houses in Fond du
Lac, Wis, were submerged by the giving
away of several dams in Dane Creek few
days ago. The estimated damage was $25,-
900.
A PURSE of 81 800 has been given to
Mrs. Maddy, whose husband was killed by
one of the Polk City murderers during
the recent man-hunt in Iowa.
The middle belt of Minnesota from
Mankato east to the Mississippi River was
swept by tornado on the 21st. A st.
Paul journal of later date gives a list of
six persons killed and nearly one hundred
I'M, nd no RI tn
at 500, 900.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis for the week ending July q
was 1924 coo; Corresponding period last
year, 1885, 99.
TwENTY-FoUR loaded coal-cars on
the Philadelphia G Reading Railroad were
pushed off high trestle at the Elizabeth
port (N.J dock into Stanten.Island Sound
the other morning and totally wrecked.
A SERIOUS cholera outbreak was eX-
pected at Bombay, India, on the sd. In
Egypt the cholera epidemic was said to be
supplemented by leprosy. A physician
with forty assistants was to be sent from
India to Egypt.
a IT was reported from Washington on
the 23d that the Government would seek to
recover more than 100000 by suits
against various star-routo combinations.
IT was rumOred on the Esd that an
ARRAY had taken place between English
and French Marines at Port Said, Egypt,
and that several We're killed and wounded.
GENERAL f. 0. G.. ORD, of the United
States Army, who took passage on the
steamer City of Washington at Vera Cruz
for New York, and was taken down by yell
low fever, compelling his removal to the
shore while the vessel was at Havana,
Cuba, died in that city on the 23d.
A HOTEL and livery stable at Ports
mouth, n. H., were destroyed by fire the
other morning, the guests of the hotel es-
Gaping with difficulty. Twenty-six horses
were cremated in the stable and number
of vehicles were burned.
A SEVERE storm struck Asbury, Park,
n. j., on the afternoon of the 23d. The
Madison, Gilsey and Howard houses were
unroofed and six carriages loaded with
people were upset and wrecked. A num-
Der of tents were blown down at Ocean
Grove and an unknown colored man was
blown out to in boat.
SEVERE thunder storms prevailed
over large sweep of country i'll every di-
rection from Chicago, ILL.,, on the sd, and
telegraphic communication was greatly
impeded.
ITw reported on the 23d that seven
ty-five deaths from fluX had occurred at
Byhalia, Waterford and Victoria, Miss,
three small towns adjacent to each other
and short distance south of Memphis,
Tenn.