Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12

sro,l Gnnutp gegister
By ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
The Duke of Edinburgh is to be appoint
ed commander of the Mediterranean SQUAD
ron.
The Democratic majority in Maryland
Is placed at $1,000, with the Legislature
Overwhelmingly Democratic.
Mr.. DoRMAN B. EATON has been reap
pointed temporarily to position on the
National Civil Service Commission.
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THE Council of the Creek Indians has
decided by a close vote against selling the
e
AT the request of the English Govern
ment two Italian officers will witness the
manoeuvres of the Indian army in the La
hore District.
In the Stead trial in London the Judge
instructed the jury to bring in verdict of
mot guilty" as to Elizabeth Coombe, of the
Salvation Army.
OWING to disagreement over the Riel
question the editor of La Pdtrie at Mont
real has challenged the editor of LdNin-
erce to fight duel.
THE British and French representatives
in Hayti have requested their governments
to send men-of-war there at once to pro-
tect foreign residents.
THE monument to Major Andre, erected
by Cyrus W. Field at Tappan, N. Y, was
completely demolished ON the night of the
Sd by an explosion of dynamite.
AN experiment will be made at McKees-
port, Pa, to use natural gas for illuminat-
ing purposes, and, if successful, to pipe the
gas to New York and other cities.
THE New Jersey Legislature will have a
Republican majority of nine on joint bal
lot, and in the Connecticut Legislature
there is a Republican majority of twelve.
THE plurality for Robinson Republican,
for Governor of Massachusetts, is about
$4,000. The Democrats gain fifteen MEM
bers of the House and seven in the Senate.
THE President left Washington on the
Cd for Buffalo. He was accompanied by
Mr.. w. s. Bissell, of Buffalo. He intended
to return to Washington on the night of the
4th.
THE total imports of dry goods at the
port of New York during the seven days
ended the 9th were valued at 81 ,4S6, 473,
and the amount thrown on the market at
$1,4a2, 979.
REvoLUTIoNIsTs disguised as sailors
surprised the prison sentries at Cartegena,
Spain, on the Sd, and released twenty two
convicts. The leader and several others
of the gang were captured.
THE plant of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, within the District of Columbia,
was sold at auction on the 9TH, to satisfy
deed of trust, to Mr.. S. C. Elliott, the
plaintiff in the suit, for $1,000.
A STRANGE disease has broken out among
mich cows in the vicinity of Evan sville,
Ind, which in every case has proved fatal.
The disease attacks the eyes and from there
eats until it reaches the brain.
FORTY bodies await the completion of
the furnace of the United States Crema-
ton Society at Fresh Pond, L. I. TIL ere
are rumors that an attempt will be made
to prevent the operation of the crematory
under an old law.
THE Queen of Burmah is in a delicate
condition, and declares that fighting and
the smell of gunpowder will be injurious
to her health. 1t is thought that on this
account King Theebaw will submit tempo
rarily to British demands.
THE men who have been dynamiting
street cars in st. Louis have been arrested.
Their names are: w. p. Sears, NJ. W.
Weathers, Fred Pinkerton, P. S. Burns
and David keenan,. They are all Kni gifts
of Labor and street-car men.
JUDGE RoNLEAU, of Battleford, N. w. T.,
has tried forty-six Indian prisoners; six
teen of these were discharged, twenty mine
were sent to the Penitentiary for periods
and eleven were sentenced to hang Novem
Der 9th.
THE President received large number
of kilograms from prominent Democratic
politicians in all parts of the country, but
principally in New York, congratulating
him on the result of the election in New
York as an unmistakable Endorsement of
his policy.
ORDERS were received at Roach's ship
yard, at Chester, Pa, on the 9Th, to start
up on the 9th, and the machinery has been
put in order to that end. Naval Contractor
Steele, who will have charge of the COM
pletion of the cruisers, arrived at the yard
on the 9Th. About 800 men will be put to
work.
ACCORDING to the report of the Register
of the Treasury, of $1,071, AGO, 1862 United
States registered bonds only 81 1927 900
are held abroad. The Register recon-
mends the erection of building for the
permanent preservation of the records of
the Treasury, stating that the vaults now
used are in a bad condition.
INDIAN COMMISSIONERS ATKINS tele-
graphed the Secretary of the Interior
from Muskogee, I. T., on the 9th, that he
had found large number of squatters in
his progress through the Territory whom
ha bol;aua1 to ha He ex.