Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-14

Srntl Goiluty gegister
By ELL d. AXE.
IRoNToN. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
NINETEEN lepers were shipped back to
China from San Francisco on the 7fh.
THE Agricultural Department estimates
the wheat crop for this year at 4So,o00, 600
bushels.
Four earthquake shocks occurred at
Frascati, Albano, and Castelle Roman, a
few miles southeast of Rome, Italy, on the
9Th.
An inventory of Commodore Garrison'a
estate shows: Liabilities. $1,47I, 22s; nom
inal assets, ST, 697 ,92S; actual assets, 49,
81, Sis.
TWELVE persons were killed and an I'M
mense amount of property destroyed by
severe hail storm near Sebastopol, Russia,
on the 9TH.
The Treasury Department on the 18th
purchased $4,000 ounces of silver, for de-
livery at the Philadelphia and New Or =
leans minis.
THE Catholic Total Abstinence Union,
in session at Chicago, on the It'll, declared
in favor of legal restrictions upon the
liquor traffic.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has au-
fborized the Third National Bank of st.
Paul, Mimi, to begin business with cap
ital of $4,000.
MAJOR ERNST, of the corps Of Engi-
neers, has filed at Washington his annual
report upon the river improvements be-
tween st. Louis and Cairo.
The Secretary of the Interior appointed
Robert E. Carpenter of Dodge City, Ia,
Superintendent of Yellowstone National
Park. to succeed P. H. Conger, resigned.
MISS EVA MACKAY, daughter of the Cal
ifornia millionaire, was betrothed on the
9Th at Naples to NJ. Colonna, representa-
tive of the well-known family of Colonna.
THE new Bankers and Merchants Tele-
graph Company has completed its lines
from Chicago to Milwaukee and Madison.
Wis, and are rapidly working toward st.
Paul, Mimi.
THE Secretary of War has informed the
Indian Bureau that orders had been issued
to the commanding officer of the Division
of Missouri to expel all intruders from the
Indian Territory.
THE acting Secretary of the Interior on
che 9TH declined TO grant the motion in be.
half OF homestead claimants for reconsid-
Grafton of the decision in the Eureka
Springs. (Ark.) case.
THE Greedy relief squadron, bearing the
remains of the victims, arrived in New
York harbor the evening of the 18th. Cen
erals Sheridan and Hancock were at Gov
ernor's Island waiting to receive the bodies.
THE trades labor demonstration at Ham
ilton, Ont, on the 4th was an immense
success. The procession was mile long.
A noteworthy feature was the marching
of young women, cotton and shoe opera
tiveS.
SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT new
money order offices have been established
by the Post-ofice Department.. to begin
business at once. These offices are dis
tributed throughout all the States and
TERRITORIES.
Tar Democrats 81 BOSTON, Aass., held
ratification meetings in fremont
Temple and Faneuil Hail the evening of
the 9Th. Able addresses were delivered
and there was much eQthusiasmlfor Cleve-
land and Hendricks.
THE Eighth Ohio District Congressional
succeeded on the Stl,, after
three days. deadlock and 5I7 ballots, lin
Hon. John Little, CT Xenia,
Captain Bushnell withdrawing and being
chosen Presidential Eiector. ssss,
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON writes to a.
friend in New York that she hopes to see
, grand National conservatory ofsyocal
art established in America. She wishes,
IS the result OF her Lies artistic work, to
be at the head of such an enterprise.
CHOLERA Is rayaglnS the Departmene OF
Herault, especially the Commune Gfgean,
where there are 1000 Inhabitants. Seven
persons died there during the tseenty-four
hours ended the evening ofthe It'll. and
eighteen cases were under treatment.
DURING the twenty-four hours ending at
D p. m. on the 9TH there were i've deaths
from cholera at Marseilles. Five'deaths
at Aries and six at Toulon. The
record of the hospital at Toulon was: Adj
q: discharged, 10; deaths, i; I'M
der treatment, c.. sl6oksa so.
Tile commission appointed by the
French Government to make experiments
similar to those of NJ. Pasleur in connec-
ion with the finding of a cure for hydro
phobia, has reported that investigations
iecisively confirm the correctness of that
theory.
DURING the week ended the Sth there
we're .256 failures in the United States re-