Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-21

MILITARY and naval movements on the
coast Of China look warlilke. Pirates are
also active and are ravaging the country.
THr Army Of the Tennessee, at its meet
ing at Lake Minnetonka, elected all the
present officers for the ensuing year. Chi.
cago is the next place OF meeting.
JAMES @. BLAINE has instructed friends
In Indianapolis to enter suit against the
publishers of the Sentinel of that city for
alleged libel concerning his marriage.
s TRLEGRAMs received az Washington
! from Consul Mason report cholera de-
creasing in the cities of Marseilles and
Toulon. but spreading in other localities.
THE Marine Hospital Service is in
formed that there were four deaths from
yellow fever at Mazatlan, Mexico, during
i May, eight during June, and twenty dur
ing july
GOVERNOR MURRAY Of Utah tele-
graphed on the 14th to the Indian Depart
ment that the Ute Indians were on the
war-path in Colorado and Utah, and asked
that troops be sent to protect the whites.
GRAVE diggers at Les Omerques,
France, on the 14th noticed slight move
ments on the part of two supposed corpses.
By application of friction circulation
was restored and the parties recovered.
THERE were 264 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
week ended the 10th against 276 in the pre-
ceding week and ia, 14S and "a in the cor
responding weeks Of 1888, 1882 and 1881
respectively. H ls.4H r
LATEST advices are that China will re-
sist the French demands. Meanwhile the
French are equipping troops to go to
China, and the latter Government is
strengthening forts along the coast to pre-
pare for the worst.
CHOLERA is growing less fatal at Mar
settles and Toulon than it has been, but
the disease seems to be spreading in
France and Italy. Warm weather renders
the situation even more critical than it
was several days ago. ,s"e
THE gross earnings OF the Louisville &
Nashville Road for the last fiscal year. $14,.
81, O92; operating expenses (6l.4S per
cent. J, $3.50, 1872; after deducting other ex-
.penses, net profit of the year, 81 ,0S5, $50.
The surplus was Ssl ,59o.
THE Executive Committee of the Anti
Monopoly League held a meeting in New
York on the 18th, and after considerable
discussion and the transaction of routine
business, adjourned without indorsing
either of the Presidential candidates. 's
"A NUMBER of arrests have been made in
the City of Mexico of prominent persons
alleged to be concerned in a conspiracy to
depose President Gonzales, assassinate
General Diaz and make Jose Maria
Iglesias President. 1t is said they will all
be shot.
SURGEON IRwIN, at Cape Charles quar-
antine station. autographed the Surgeon
General of the Marine Hospital Service on
the 18th that he had detained the schooner
Taylor, from Porto Bello for Baltimore,
with three cases OF supposed yellow fever
on board.
THIRD OFFIcER KELLY of the steamer
Bear says the Greedy party admitted,
when they came on board, thaEthe had
eaten the dead bodies Of Henry and ks
lingbury in rider to keep life intheir own
bodies. At the time of the rescue every !.
one wassworn over to secrecy.
THE United States Consul at Sierra
Leone, reports to the State Department.
that he has been ,compelled: to 1eaye: the
Consulate by the prevalence of .: severe
form of African fever prevailing, there,
and from which ten of the sixty European
residents have died since May 10Th
THE remains of Lieutenant 3 fsiing burg,
one of the Greedy parry to the Arctic ress1
gions, were exhumed at Rochesters y. Y-,fI
and upon examination it was found hats
the body had almost been picked cleans OF
flesh. The belief is general that zanzibar
ism was INDUCED in by the survivors,
THE Missouri Democratic Stats'Conven-
ton at Jefferson City on the 18Th
made further nominations as follows: ID.
Z. McGrath, Secretary of State; James
NJ. Seibert, Treasurer; John Walker, Aud
itor; Robert w. Mccullough, Register of
Lands; Francis N. Black, Supreme Court
Judge.
ON account of the trial of two brewers |
at Iowa City, La under. the prohibition
law, a mob on the 18th, clipped the Pros |
cutting Attorney of his clothing and tarred
him in the street They assaulted a wit
ness, and roughly handled officers of the |
law. The crowd was excited and intoxi.
Gated. A scitizens' meeting was held to
1aits foFce to auell tnsrist.
TIE values of ths az pots of dbmestic
cattle, hogs, and. of beef. pork and dairy
products from the 0nifed States for the |
seven months enasA July 81 1884. were
s5a, s2s, 44a; 1854 So, $50. 1cs. Beef and
pork products e the nine months ended |
Jelly 81, 1sl; 81 seo, SO; 1888, $77,719, 1856.
Dairy pr6dufts for the three months ended
July q, fssl s'ass Dig; 1883, sc, 20. ssa
rhz Bfttfsh aovsFnmefk decided on the |
,t5shto sendsa ffeet al S6y>b with the
Hordcn relief expeiity6n and contracts
Tor building tlaeni &fgfe being made.
They arctic be BULL s. Ehgfand ana to be
,eompletad within twenty .seven working
days. under penalty Of nve dollars per !
day for each boat in caSe OF aon-fulfillment |
of the contract. The boats will. be thirty. |
two feet long by seven ride. carrying four
teen men each. e
! LIEUTENANT GREELx and his family
took possession .on> Saturday OF q cottage
on Seavy's Islaad owned By the Govern.
ment and included inn the limits of the
Navy Yard where they ~ pass the au-
fenn. The other survivors orr, expedi-,
ton are quartered at the Navy ,Ifard Hos
4itAl, they, ~ we'll as Lieutenad1I ereely, /
ing under close medical sup vision.
,1ey are all naking excellent brogSes to-
Yard conp1ete recovery -
= s.
TIA BAxouEr was tsnaersd at ths M mon.
Hhe night OF the 18th to the off,c frs of
fuSsreeiy relief expedition,by the l3meri.
yhfc Xacht Club. j. Frank Eawence.