Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-07-24

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BY ELI d. AXE.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
The failures in the United States for the
week ended the 18th. numbered 1872.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is acting Secretary
of War during the temporary absence of
Secretary Lincoln.
THE Treasury Department on the 10th,
issued warrants for the payment of $780,
600 on account of pensions.
PAUL HAMMER, the Mormon missionary
for whose arrest a warrant was recently
issued in Austria, has come to America.
An American lady named Mrs. Eddie
ston was killed in the recent Manchester
6 Sheffield Railway accident near Peris-
ton.
LIEUTENANr-CoMMAND PENDLEToN
has been dropped from the naval service
for failure to pass the necessary examina-
tions.
MALCOLM HAY, OF Pennsylvania charges
that Henry Watterson misrepresented his
action in the Committee on Resolutions
at Chicago.
The funeral of the Prince of Orange
took place at The Hague on the 18th, rep
resentatives of all the royal houses of Eu-
rope being present.
THE Hon. Robert Henry Lyttleton was
married at London, Eng, on the 18th to
Miss Edith Santley, daughter of Charles
Santley, the celebrated singer.
B. F. SHIvELY, Secretary of the Anti
Monopolist Committee, says that General
B. F. Butler will certainly be an indie
pendent candidate for President.
THE Paris Academy of Medicine urges
the establishment of cholera hospitals at
all large railway stations and decides dis
infection illusory and Ineffective.
GENERAL MERRITT, American Consul
General, has appointed a physician to ex-
anime as to the sanitary condition of YES
sells leaving London for New York.
HOLLAND and England will jointly de-
mand of the Rajah of Tenom the surrender
of the crew of the Nisero, shipwrecked on
the Sumatra coast some time since.
THERE were sixty-six deaths from chol-
era in Marseilles during the twenty -four
hours ended at 9 p. m. on the 18th. Eleven
more deaths are reported from Toulon.
JUNE rains in California caused loss to
wheat amounting to seven and one-half
per cent. of the gross yield of the State.
Damage to other crops was also great.
A PLOT to blow up the Gear during his
stay at Warsaw has been discovered,
and Justice of the Peace, suspected of
in the plot, has been arrested.
THE executive committees of the Postal,
Bankers & Merchants and Baltimore &
upon plan for pooling for twenty-five
years.
Coal miners of the Hooking Valley of
Ohio have called upon Governor Hoadly
to remove the foreign armed police en-
ployed at the mines. Trouble is ex-
pected.
COMMERCIAL affairs in Cuba are desper-
ate. The Spanish Bank has refused to dis
count notes, and Iiquidations are numer.
ous in all cities of the Northern and South
ern coasts.
THE result of the Post-office Civil Ser
vice examinations in st. Louis, Mo-, has
been made known. The required percentage
was made by seventy-two clerks and thir.
ty-nine carriers.
The board appointed to represent the
at the New Orleans EXPOSE
lion will also take charge of the Govern
ment exhibit at the Louisville and Cincin-
natl Expeditions.
J. NJ. ALLEN has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the Sixth
Mississippi District; ID. E. Robinson by
The Republicans. The Independents in
iorsed Chalmers.
CUBAN insurge nts are ravaging the
plantations of parties favorable to the Gov
eminent. The Captain General has called
4 conference of officers to devise plan to
cope with the guerillas.
EARL. GRANVILLE, British Foreign Sec
rotary, has refused the request of Spain
for a revision of the protocol of COM
merclal treaty between England and Spain,
and negotiations will therefore cease.
The Postmaster-General has addressed
a circular to Postmasters in free delivery
cities instructing them to allow carriers
fifteen days leave of absence with pay
each year, supplying their places with $500
substitutes.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYSEN has in
structed the American Consuls in Europe
to employ competent physicians to inspect
all vessels and passengers departing for
the United States, and to refuse clean bills
Of health in cases of suspected infection.
THERE have been two cases of cholera
ut Holtava, Russia, one Of which resulted
fatally. The Siberian plague is raging at
Pskov. There had been twenty. deaths up
to the 14th. Precautionary measures seem
to prevent the spread of the
disease.
THE draft of the postal Convention be-
tween the United States and Mexico has
been amended by the MEXICAN Govern
ment In seyera1 particulars and the consum-
nation Of the treaty will be delayed some
time ~ Che necessity for its consideration
by thk PoA-office Department.