Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-12

SentatlVeS mas passed q Dill providing 1Or
biennial election of State officers and bien-
nisl sessions of the Legislature.
REPORTS that the whites were organ
liking to exterminate the male Apaches on
San Carlos reservation were said to be
given credence in the Southwest.
THE Jeanette Board of Inquiry con-
vened at Washington on the 3Oth, and three
of the late arrivals Of the crew appeared
before it. They had no complaints to make.
ADvICEs on the LIST regarding the
winter wheat crop, all sections considered,
were reported not encouraging. The pros
pect varied greatly with locality, but as
whole was unfavorable.
SECRETARY FOLGER's health was
much better on the 10Th than it had been for
several days, and it was hoped by those
about him that within week he would be
so far recovered as to be able to take trip
to Bermuda.
THE first star-mail route trial at
Washington lasted fifteen weeks. The
eighteenth week of the second trial began
on the I'd inst, when Merrick. of counsel
for the prosecution, resumed the cross-exam-
1natlOn OF ex-senator Dorsey.
IT was announced on the Goth that
the work of cleaning out the Braidwood
(Ill.) mines would be abandoned. No bodies
were discovered the day before, and it was
estimated 5000 carloads of material re-
manned to be removed. The mines would
be closed.
DIR. OTTo WILHELM STRIVE, Direc-
tor of the Imperial Observatory of Pulko-
wa, Russia, was in Boston, Mass, the
other day to test the object glass made to
order for the Russian Government, the
largest ever constructed-thirty inches in
diameter.
THE Secretary of State has authorized
Minister West to say to the Canadian au-
thorities that this Government has no OBJ
lection to such change of Canadian Gus
toms regulations as would admit of the i'm
from the United States in packages of less
than one hundred gallons.
COMPTROLLER LAWRENCE has rem
dered decision that the salary of Con-
gresham Ochiltree, of Texas, must be paid
to himself, notwithstanding his indebted
ness to the United States, on the grounds
that his Office is constitutional one, and
that if his salary was withheld he would be
deprived of the means of support and his
constituents of representation.
THE statement of the United States
Treasurer showed gold, silver and United
States notes in the Treasury on the 31st
ult. as follows: Gold coin and bullion,
$1S4, 324 1860; silver dollars and bullion, S1O7,-
1904; fractional silver coin, sd, so, 422;
United States notes, 81, 536, 262-total,
$363, S33, 13S. Certificates outstanding: Gold,
81, $40; silver, $70,59S, 400; currency,
s., 6SO, 900.
THE business failures in the United
States and Canada for the seven days
ended March 80 numbered 1S2, as against
1875 for the week previous, distributed as fol-
lows: Western States, IS; New England,
II; Southern States, 81; Middle States, %;
Pacific States and Territories; 10; New
York City, 8; Canada, 32. The number of
failures for three months were =, 500, against
2 ,121 for the same period last year.
CABLEGRAMs from London, Eng, on
the ID announced that the house of land
lord near Limerick, Ireland, had been plum
tiered. Detectives had left London for
America to search for two murderers. The
Limerick police force had been reduced on
account of the improved condition of af-
fairs. The British War Office was taking
measures to thwart the dynamite opera
tors. Threats against officials and Gov
eminent property continued to be made.
The Fenians We're accused of sending small
pox infection through the mails.
THERE came near being another dis
aster at the Braidwood Ull.) mine on the
LIST. A party of six men had gone into the
mine to bring out bodies which had been dis
covered, and when they started back they
found their way cut off by fall of stone in
the roadway. After much hard work the men
were rescued, but one of them was so over
come by the sickening stencil he had been
obliged to breathe that he had to be carried
home on stretcher. After this adventure
other miners refused to enter the mine, and
it was thought the search for bodies would
have to be abandoned.
ALL the Executive Departments at
were closed on the 2Sth, the
day of the funeral of Postmaster-General
Howe, their flags draped in mourning and
flying at half-mast. The pillars of the Post
flag placed at half-mast. Business was sus- |
pended in the afternoon. At Chicago the |
was draped in mourning. |
The funeral services at Kenosha, Wis, were |
exceedingly simple and appropriate, and |
were attended by many distinguished !
officials and others. The body was taken to |
Green Bay in the afternoon for interment at |
Woodlawn Cemetery.
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The Grand Jury of the District of |
Columbia returned three additional pre-
sentiments in connection with the star mail |
route frauds on the 9th. In one James T. |
Brady was charged with unlawfully re- |
ceiving 5000 from Price, the contractor: in |
the second ex-senator kellogg, of Louisiana, |
md Brady were jointly accused of conspir- |
ing with Price to defraud the Government |
by the expedition of routes; and in the |
third Kellogg, individually, was alleged to |
have unlawfully received from Price $a0,- |
600 i'm consideration of the exercise of his |