Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-15

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BY ELI .. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE public debt reduction since June
30 amounts to $39, 5s4 40.
THE national debt, less cash in Treas
ury, November 1, was 81 .5l1 ,5o6,7SI.
THE Chinese Legation at Paris are
considering the question Of demanding
their passports.
AN emissary of the Nihilists, who
claims to have been sent to assassinate
Bismarck, has been arrested near Dantzic.
THE issue of standard dollars for the
week ending November amounts to ST.
400, against ], 043, 900 for the corresponding
period last year.
THE Federal Court in San Francisco
intimates that Cinnamon formerly resi-
dents, who left prior to the issuance of re-
turn certificates, are entitled to land.
IT is reported from Portland, Oregon,
as almost certain that the wheat surplus of
Oregon and Washington Territory will be
1000 tons less than heretofore estimated.
IT is reported that Governor Ireland
of Texas, in addition to calling out State
troops, also asked for United States assist
ance to put down the supposed negro up
rising in Milan County.
A SERIOUS race riot occurred in Dan
vile, Va, on the Sd during which a number
of persons were killed and wounded. The
town was placed under military surveil
ance and order restored.
MARI CHURCHILL, the missing st.
Louis girl, was found on the Sd at Indian
apolis, Ind, where she has been employed
in the laundry department of the Insane
Asylum since September 5.
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EXTRAORDINARY precautions were
taken on the I'd to guard the Southeastern
Railway in England in consequence of an
anonymous notice that the train carrying
the Duke of Connaught was to be blown
up.
The body of w. a. Seely, land buy
or from Michigan, was discovered near
Mitchell, Oak. on the 9th. Over 500 was
found on the body, which had a bullet hole
through the head, while revolver lay near
by.
ORANGEMEN seized the City Hall at
Londonderry on the 1st to prevent the Lord
Mayor of Dublin from delivering lecture
there. Troops and police lined the streets
to preserve order. Several persons were
shot.
MEXICAN silver ore is now being
shipped to the mint at New Orleans
more easily accessible than the minis of
Mexico. Five hundred pounds of pure sill
yer passed through San Antonio, Texas,
on the Sd.
Mrs. ANNA OTTENDORFER, owner of
the New York Stats Zeitung, was recent
ly presented an autograph letter and silver
decoration, in recognition of her humani-
tartan work among her countrymen in
America.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, was swept by
cyclone on the afternoon of the 9TH, which
destroyed a vast amount of property,
caused the death of at least four persons
and the injuring of thirty or forty more,
some quite seriously.
MISS MINNIE HILL, niece of the late
Senator Hill, of Georgia, was bridesmaid
at fashionable wedding at West Point, in
that State, a day or two ago, and there first
met Todd Reed, one of the groomsmen. They
were married the same day.
THE people of Swan Island, in the
Gulf of Mexico, are nearly starving. A
schooner which visited the island October
"a, reports the fourteen people there as
living on wild hogs and cocoanuts, and out
of ammunition with which to shoot the
hogs.
The Public Land Commissioner rec
ommends the repeal of the Forestry act,
because it, like the Desert Land act, is fla
gravity abused by spectators means
of securing large quantities of land with
no intention of carrying out the terms of
the law.
The P0stmaster-General has dis
missed from service Post-office Inspector
Amos P. Foster for rendering the depart
ment false and fictitious accounts. He was
stationed at Austin, Tex, and'w render
ing accounts for per diem services which
he never performed.
JUDGE ISAAC S. LANDLORD, a promi-
nent Republican politician of Princess
Anne, Nd, addressed a large meeting
there on the night of the Sd, and then
started to walk home. He was found dead
by the roadside next morning, but with no
marks of violence upon him.
The Secretary of State on the LIST re-
ceived from the Geographical. Society of
France a very handsome gold medal in