Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-25

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Col. CHARLES Button was arrested
on the 10Th in New York on a charge of at
tempting to negotiate two $1,000 ocean
steamer bonds, lately stolen from Harvey
Mccall, of Philadelphia. f.,. ''t
LIEUT. HovGAARD, the commander
of the Danish Arctic cruiser Dijmphna, is
the man who so accurately predicted where
the Jeanette would be abandoned and
where her crew would land. . |
INthe Catholic Congress at Naples on
the 10Th a letter from the Roman Duke was
read, declaring the 60 900 Catholics in Italy
ready to strike for the restoration of the
temporal power of the Pope.
THos, TAYLOR, arrested on a charge
of absconding from Chicago with funds of
the Bricklayers' Union, of which he was
Secretary, was turned oyer in New York
on the 18th to Chicago officers.
FRANK r. SHERwIN, of New York,
arrested in Chicago in proceedings growing
out of the defalcation in the State Treasur-
er's office of New York, has submitted to
the custody of the Court at Albany.
THE Imperial railways in Austria
may be little old-fashoned in some re-
spects, but every passenger car has in it an
indicator which as the train moves for
ward shows upon dial the name of the
next station. -
A MOB of French Anarchists in Lyons,
on the 10th poured bucket of petroleum
over policeman and set him on fire. The
man was terribly burned. The mob after
ward attempted to fire the stables of the
municipality.
STATE Veterinary Surgeon Bridge
visited Trescottown, Pa, on the 10th and
ascertained that cattle reported as suffer
ing with pleuro-pneumonia were merely af-
flicted by capillary bronchitis. The dis
ease is contagious.
THE value of exports of petroleum
and petroleum products for August, 1883,
was s. ,229, 292, against $500 ,440 for the
same time in 1882. For eight months end
ed August 81, 1883, $50, 917, 1872; same time
in 1882, $50, 946,s56.
The latest and most extensive ex-
periments made in France regarding the
transmission of power by electricity proved
practical failure. At distance Of nine
miles only fifteen per cent. of the generated
UPto the close of business on the 10th
there had been received at the Treasury
Department for redemption $23,5S9, 800
United States bonds, embraced in the 121st
call, leaving still outstanding $6,410,10C
bonds included in that call.
MEMBERS of the Corean Embassy
called at the White House. on the 10Th in
III, r. oDf
the President, attended by all members of
the Cabinet. The presentation was made
by Secretary Frelinghuysen.
A SUIT of the Government against the
bankrupt estate of Jay Cooke & Co. to re-
cover on Treasury notes alleged to have
been improperly redeemed by the Govern
ment, was decided in Philadelphia on the
10th in favor of the defendants.
MORE complete returns from the
election in Ohio indicate an increase in the
Democratic majority, and it will probably
be considerably over 10000 The Senate
will be two to one Democratic, and the
House is estimated at forty-three Republi-
cans and sixty-two Democrats.
SECRETARY FoLGER received informa-
ton ON the 18th from Port Townsend, Wash
ington Territory, of the capture of eleven
Cinnamon who, in violation of law, landed
on the coast near that port. The United
States officers at that port directed the re-
turn of the Cinnamon to the place whence
they came.
ESTIMATES at the National Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate that the cot
ton crop will not exceed $500, 900 bales.
Corn will average something like "a bush
els per acre, or total crop about 1,62o,OOO,-
600 bushels. Wheat will show a decrease
of nearly 1OO,000,000, about 414, O,OOO
bushels. Oats will show up splendidly.
THE Supreme Court of the United
States, in a decision delivered by Justice
Bradley ON the 10Th, declared the Civil
Rights law passed in 1875 unconstitutional.
Justice Harlan dissented. The cases in
point involved the right of colored persons
to equal accommodations in hotels, in la
dies cars, in railway trains and in the
dress circle in theaters.
LATER returns from the election in
Iowa indicate that Sherman's majority will
reach $4,000. Complete returns from fifty
nine counties, which include heavy Demo-
cratic ones, give him 1890. Partial re-
turns from the remaining counties give him
$1,000. His plurality will not be less than
1900, The lower house is close. The Re-
publicans now have "a; the Opposition, Al.
OF the remaining five the Republicans will
get three The Senate now stands: Repub-
cans AZ: Opposition, s; in donht. J.