Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-07

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BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE Swedish Ministry has resigned in
Consequence of the defeat in the Diet of the
Army Organization bill.
THE Russian Cars coronation oc-
CURED on the 9th with brilliant ceremo-
mics and no interruption.
THE Cuban sugar crop is expected to
fall twenty-five per cent. short of last
years, ON account of drought.
UP to the 9th inst. both the Demo-
Gratis and Mahoneites still claimed the adj
vantage in the late Virginia election.
IT was estimated that 1000 bicyclists
took part in the parade of the League of
American Wheelman in New York on the
2Sth.
The Quarter-Cen Celebration
of the United Presbyterian Church was
held on the Goth inst, at Allegheny City,
Pa.
The standard silver dollars sent out
from the minis for the week ended May 26
were $4,000; corresponding period last
year, 1878
THE publication of the Tralee Gre
land) Sentinel, which was stopped recently
by the authorities, has been resumed, but
the police remain in the establishment.
THERE We're 15S business failures
throughout the United States and Canada
during the week ended on the 25th, as
compared with III for the week previous.
THE American Peace Society, at Bos-
ton, has elected General Grant and Glad
stone honorary members on account of
their connection with the treaty of Wash
ington.
THE informers who testified in the
Dublin murder cases were being paid by
the Government the other day and fur
nished with facilities for leaving the
country.
THE Emperor of Germany has issued
a decree ordering the 10th and 18th of No
vember next to be observed as the four
hundredth anniversary of the birth of Mar
tin Luther.
A MEETING of the Ohio Republican
Committee has been called to consider the
ACCESSIBILITY of postponing the State Con-
vention till the Supreme Court passes on
the Scott liquor-tax law.
THE Russian Emperor and Empress
received the congratulations of the clergy
and high dignitaries on the 2Sth. Reports
from Moscow indicated that the enthu-
siasm over the coronation continued una
bated.
THE international exposition of rail-
way appliances at the Exposition Building,
in Chicago, opened on the oath. The May
or made a speech of welcome, while the
Hon. E. B. Washburne delivered the ad-
dress of the evening.
BENJAMIN BUNKER, grandson of Ben
jamin Chamberlain Bunker, owner of Bun
ker Hill at the time of the battle, died in
Norwich, N. Y, a few days ago, aged
eighty-six years. He was married to
Hannah Breed, descendant of the owner of |
Breeds Hill.
The grand national competitive drill |
and musical carnival az Nashville, Tenn,
ended on the Goth. The infantry drill re-
suited: Mobile Rifles, Mobile, Ala, first |
prize; Crescent Rifles, New Orleans, sec
ond prize; Tredway Rifles, st. Louis, third |
prize. In the artillery contest, Battery c.,
Louisiana Field Artillery, captured first |
prize.
The Gillian Minister at Washington |
has advices that the treaty of peace between |
his Government and Peru has been ratified. |
General Inglesias, who represented Peru |
in the negotiations, is supported by about |
fve-sixths of the country. The eXactions |
from the conquered Government include |
the cession for ten years of the territories |
of Tarapaca and africa.
THE State Convention of the Ken
lucky Republicans concluded its session at |
Lexington on the oath. The following |
ticket was nominated: Thomas q. Morrow |
for Governor; General S. S. Fry, Lieuten-
ant-Governor; Lewis c. Garrigus, Attor-
ney-General; Leroy r. Hawthorne, Audi |
tor; - Flournoy, Treasurer; j. B. Pink
erton, Superintendent of Public Instruc-
,
of the Land Office.
ARGENT decision of the Second Aud
itor of the Treasury that the acceptance of
positions in the civil service deprives per-
sons on the retired list of the army of the |
latter honor and the accompanying emolu-
ments affects General Daniel E. Sickles |
equally with Colonel Badeau, whose case
invoked the ruling. General Sickles has
been drawing 81, 600 a year as Brigadier-
General on the retired list since 1869, in
Guiding the time he served as Minister to
Spain.
AMID the booming of cannon, the
shrill whistlings of thousands of steamers
and the plaudits of masses of citizens, the
great Brooklyn Bridge was formally pre-
scented to the citizens of New York and
Brooklyn by the trustees on the oath, the