Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17


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BY Ell IR.- AXE III
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NEWS AND NOTES.
'nHXs SUMMARY ay96f IMPORTANT Events
This anne xat1on of New Guinea to
Queensland has been approved by the Aus
tralian Colonial Government.
The State Auditor of Iowa has re-
voked the certificates of a number of mu-
tual life insurance companies. i7''1 81
The Iowa Republican State Commit
tee has fixed the date of the State Conven-
ton on June 81, at Des Moines. t-.
The death of Rev. Josiah Hender-
son, Mrs. Stoves "Uncle Tom," occurred
at Dresden, Ont, on the 9th inst.
THE New Brunswick Legislature has
protested against an act of the Dominion
Parliament restricting salmon fishing.
A BILL prohibiting free passes being
granted to any one except railroad employees
and officers has passed the New York As
sembly. ...
A MARRIAGE has been arranged be-
tween the hereditary Prince of Anhalt and
the second daughter of the Crown Prince of
Germany. ..,...4 ..r,.,.e
BRTTfsH troops have been ordered to
- Port Said, Egypt, where committee is in
quiring into the causes OF recent disturb
ances there. ...-,.,-.. 80, ,.... ~
! The MEXICAN Government has made
a contract for the Improvement of Vera
Cruz Harbor. The work will cost 1,05S7 900
Mexican silver dollars. .'.r..... Ia
IA CONVENTION of Free-thinkers of
the United States and Canada is to be held
at Rochester, N. Y, beginning August %,
and continuing five days, ''' > re '.'r oa
7 MINISTER NORTON has presented
President Grevy a souvenir album given
by the citizens of Providence, R. l., in
honor of the Frenchmen who fell at York
town. 5.i.'tI!5. i.- - '-si't. "'' 20
e. THE Massachusetts Legislature has
adopted a resolution recognizing the abili-
ty, services and integrity Of Cakes Ames,
and asking for like recognition on the part
of Congress. a. &'i'-s D.. B. .';f' 80.
THE Prince of Wales formally opened
the School of Music at iKensington, Eng,
'on1 the 9TH. The Duke and Duchess of
Edinburgh and Gladstone were present at
the ceremony. i..i dDs%d IaL"'' iei
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Treasury Department has de
cided the Government has notifle to certain
lands in Fernandina, Fla.,' sold for direct
taxes in 1868, The pro lperty in controversy
is valued at 81 800, 900, 9f 7"~ .'#.'i
r. ~ tBstyrs ~ H. ,I5ti
z lat the National Liberal Club BAN
quetl at London, Eng, the other evening
- Mr.. Gladstone said the Government had
] met dangers from an unseen agency secret
. societies, successfully > - "a" - ali
CHIHUAHUA Apaches say that Charlie
McComas, whose father and mother were
massacred near Lordsburg, n. d, by In
Indians recently, is alive and we'll among
the Indians in Mexico, : ,- .rr.,y I-.n
II was reported on the Sd that in con-
sequence of revelations by informers two
hundred members Of tho Patriotic Brother
hood had lately left County Armagh, Ire
land, for parts unknown. s.l,.-.. Ie
TIE meeting of King Humbert of
Italy and Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria, which was to have taken place at Ber-
lin this spring, has been postponed until
the 9th of next November. 5- g..
AT i:s one hundred and fifteenth
annual, meeting, on the Sd, the New York
Chamber of Commerce reelected George
w Lane President. A memorial sketch of
the life of Peter Cooper was read
THE Dublin Qreland) grand jury re-
turned a large number of indictments on
the Sd, among which were true bills against
lyman, John Walsh and P. j. Sheridan for
murder. These three are in America
~ A BRANCH. of ODonavan Rosa S
irish Revolutionary League was organized
in New York few days ago, with men,
bership of one hundred. Dynamite was the
rock upon which the society was built
THE business failures throughout the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 4th numbered 1J2, as
compared with 49, the week previous.
Forty-four failures occurred in the West
ern States. d.
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The dynamite plot, it is claimed, was
formed in America and was betrayed to the
British Consul in New York and all the
particulars given to the English police, who
watched the conspirators from the moment
they landed there. 40
THE foreman of the jury in the star
route cases at Washington has called at