Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-09

gru,l Guaatg gegister
BY ELI D. AXE.
IRoNroN. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE vfceroy at Canton has issued
proclamation urging the Chinese 20 resist
the French.
Mr.. HENDRICKS went to the Louisviiie
Exposition on the 30th, and was the guest
of the Commissioners.
A PARIS journal predicts Franco Ger
man alliance unless England keeps her
finger out of the Chinese pie.
THE viii of Private Henry, who was
with the Greedy party in the Arctic re.
gions, was protated at Chicago on the Sd.
PoRTRArTs of the wives of Presidents
f9Gl and Polk have been hung up in the
- 6room of the White House at Wash
ing36n.
IT is now said that France is again will
ing to resume treaty negotiations il
China will pay an indemnity of 81, 00o, GOA
francs.
ApvIcEs from South Africa report 4
movement to raise local force to expe
the Beers from Bechuaualand and restore
English authority.
1t is reported that the British Govern
ment has ordered the bombardment Of
Dover by portion of the channel squad
ron to test the defenses.
JOHN P. ST. JOINS letter formally &C
cepting the nomination as the Prohibition
party's candidate for the Presidency wa:
given to the public on the soth.
THE Georgia State election took plac
on the LIST. There was no opposition t.
the Democratic ticket, and the vote il
consequence was light everywhere.
THE District Attorney at Washington
D. c., has entered suit to recover $1,000
sureties on the bond of Howsate, late dis
bursting officer of the United States Sigma
Corps.
ADMIRAL CoURBET will not lombard
any more Chinese forts until after October
LIST. IL is said the Admiral favors taking
Pekin to make the Chinese respect tn,
French f1ag.
GEORGES KEENAN,, well known in connec
ton with Arctic explorations, and whC
has been travelling in Russia during the
summer, arrived at his home in Washing
ton, d. c.. on the 30sh.
A SERIOUS collision occurred on th'
Denver s. Rio Grande Railroad about
eighteen miles from Denver, Col, on the
LIST. About thirty passengers were in
jured, none seriously.
In consequence OF the protest of the
italian Consul, the Sultan OF Morocco has
dismissed from office and imprisoned the
Governor of Demnah, who is charged with
having tortured the Jews.
In Quelling q mu.iny OF prisoners a
Mandalay a few days ago,t the Burmese sol
disrs set fire to the prison and shot 4so OF
the inmates while they were attempting
- A LONDON Tines Alexandria dispatch
OF the I'd says: Generel Wolseley has beer
ordered by telegraph to be back in Londor
by the end Of October. The command
OF the troops in Egypt has been as
sumed by General Stephenson.
THE great September "squeezs" in corn
at Chicago closed on the 3oth, the Elk
change floor presenting the widest scenes.
The ruling prices were from eighty. five to
ninety cents, at which figures the unfor.
tunate s.shorts'' will have to settle.
TwENTY-rHaEE houses burned at La
chine, Canada, the night of the 29sh. Loss
about SS5, 900; partly insured. Some fifty
families were turned out of homes. This
is the second disastrous confia grafton that
has visited Lachine within a short period.
TIE statue OF Admiral Dupont, which
is to stand in Dupont circle, Washington,
ID. c., has been completed in Philadel.
phia, and is expected to reach its destina
ton in October. II will be unveiled the
last of October or the first part OF Novem.
Der.
ORDERS were issued at the Navy Depart
ment on the 29,h, directing the commander
of the New York Navy Yard to put the
Nantucket and Alarm out of commits.
sion, and to send the Passaic to Norfolk,
These vessels arrived at New York on the
18th. -
QUEEN VICTORIA is trying to arrange s
marriage between Prince Victor and
Princess Marie o. Belgium. 1t is reported
that the Queen will place Buckingham
Palace at the service of the Prince oil
Wales, giving Marlborough House L
Prince Victor.
THE will of the late John w. Garrett be
Queaths his interest in the Baltimore s
Ohio Road to his two sons and daughters.
Five thousand dollars annually are 20 &C
to the poor of Baltimore, and 5000 an.
nualiy TO educational and charitable in,
situations and other deserving charities.
S
JOSEPH BUNKER, Chief Fire Marshal OF
Cincinnati. o.. died on the 18th from in.
juries received the day previous while
driving 20 fire. He was fifty years
old and had been connected with the Gin
cinnati Fire Department twensy-eighi