Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-30

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BY ELI D: AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE French supplementary elections
can gains.
THE telegraphers' strike has been
officially declared ended, and the operators
were returning to work throughout the
country.
A DIVER recently discovered the hull
of the brig New Dominion, which disap-
peared in 1872, at the bottom of the shoals
near Cape Breton Island.
RUSSIA has been asked for an ex-
PLANTATION regarding the expulsion of
British Jew from st. Petersburg, where he
represented a London banking house.
In the first seven months of this year
French imports increased $4,000, 900 francs
and exports decreased $4,000, 600 francs, as
compared with the corresponding time last
year. - '"'
A JEWISH representative of a London
banking house has been expelled from Rus
STA, and the decree is to be enforced prohib-
iting Jewish manufacturers from, employ
ing Christian workmen.
AMONG the papers read on the 18th
before the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, in session ut
Minneapolis, Mimi, was one on the adul-
iteration of American butter. &C.
J. w. PATTON and E. E. Hartsook.
sub-professors in the Virginia Military In
stitute, were arrested at Lynchburg on the
18th on suspicion of being about to engage
in duel and bound over to keep the peace.
On the 18th it was reported that
Surgeon Owens, of the Pensacola Navy
Yard, had yellow fever. There were three
cases outside the yard on the 18th, and
there were fears that the disease would
spread.
In the British House of Commons on
the Canadian cattle, suffering from foot
and mouth disease at Liverpool, had been
in contact with infected cattle since reach
ing that port.
THREE Standard Bearers tainted from
exhaustion, and Sir Alexander Wood, aid
to the Grand Commander of California,
was thrown from his horse and had both
legs broken during the Conclave procession
in San Francisco on the Goth.
A COPY of the new commercial treaty
between Mexico and Germany has been
published in Galveston. By it's provisions
Germans are to pay no taxes not levied on
Mexicans, and are to be exempt from mill
tary service and forced loans.
IT is reported in Washington that an
application will be presented to the Presi
dent asking the pardon of Paymaster Was
son, who was recently convicted in Texas
of defrauding the Government and sent to
the Leavenworth Penitentiary.
THE Madrid newspapers declare that
French spectators raised 150, 0G0 francs for
the purpose of corrupting the Spanish
army and bringing about the recent up
rising. 1t is alleged that some scattered
of Spain.
A PROMINENT physician of Westfield,
N. Y, DR.. j. B. Campbell, committed suicide
on the 18th by taking chloral. Cause,
drink. Wilder Rixford, a farmer in COM
Portable circumstances, living in the same
vicinity, shot himself in the right temple,
the ball emerging from near the left ear.
hop dol, Of
1000, with no money in the treasury, and
two Councilman oppose the borrowing of
funds for current expenses. Mayor Wilson
therefore discharged all but three police
men and all the firemen the other day, and
ordered the electric lights and gas cut off.
The Prohibition State Convention,
in session at Eaton Rapids on the 10Th,
voted to raise 500 900 as campaign fund,
Endorsed the platform Of the National Con-
vention at Chicago, and declared in favor of
constitutional and statutory prohibition of
the manufacture of liquor as a beverage.
JUDGE JEREMIAH BLACK died ut ten
minutes past two O'Clock 3. m. on the 10Th
at York, Pa. He had been sick for some
time, and on the 18th was apparently some
what improved, so that faint hope of his
recovery was entertained. He then sank
gradually during several hours and was
conscious to the last.
THE business failures throughout the
United States and Canada for the seven
days ended on the 18th numbered ITO, as
compared with 49, of last week. The dis
tribution was as follows: New England
States, %; Middle States, 2l; Western
States, 81; Southern States, %; Pacific
States, u; New York City, 6; Canada, %.
A VETERAN of the Mexican war,
George W. Bromley, who, it is claimed,
killed the Seminole Chief, Osceola, in the
Florida Indian war, was buried at Darby,
a suburb of Philadelphia, on the 10th. He
was born in 1917. a few years ago he de-
clined commission and retirement with
pay. He had been a soldier in the regular