Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-22
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

NEW AND Mules
A Summary Of Important Events.
IT was stated in London on the 18th tina
the sentence of Riel had been committed t.
imprisonment for life.
THERE were forty-:hree deaths fror
smallpox in Montreal on the 10Th. an,
several others in outlying districts.
THE Ser=ians, headed by King Milan
have crossed the Bulgarian frontier nea
Chaskoi and are advancing toward Sofia
THE Middletown (Ireland) branch of tn
National Land League is to be prosecuted
by the British Government for bovcot
ting.
IT has been discovered at Detroit, Mich.
that persons passing through from Mont
real have used forged vaccination certifi
Gates.
THE Sultan of Turkey gives the Euro
pean powers to understand that he vii
under no circumstances recognize the
Bulgarian union.
Mr.. PENDLEToN, Min lister to Germany,
purposes coming to an early agreement
with the German Government in reference
to the Bancroft treaty.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has leased from
the Frelinghuysen estate the residence IL
Washington formerly occupied by the
late Secretary and his family.
THE Cabinet meeting on the 10Th was
short, and was devoted principally to the
consideration of topics to be embodied III
the annual reports of the Cabinet officers.
THE Central and Southern Pacific Rail-
roads have alta ched immigrant sleepers
to their regular passenger trains, which
shortens the time to San Francisco two
days.
MARY Anderson began her American
season in New York, at the Star Theater,
on the evening of the 18Th, in ''AS on Like
It.n She was accorded most hearty well
come.
VIM. A. VINCENT, Chief Justice of New
Mexico, who appointed Stephen w. Dor
sew a member of tho commission to draw
grand and petit jurors, has been suspe nded
by the President.
THE London Times, commenting on Lord
Churchills address, says it strikes with
unerring instinct at the weak point of the
Liberal cause-past failures and 'dissen-
sions in the party.
CARDINAL NEWMAN, in an address at
Lon don, said the Protestant Church was
the bulwark of the country against athe.
ism, and wished all success to those de-
Tending the Church.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has re-
quested the resignation of Mr.. Benjamin
p. Davis, Deputy Fourth Auditor of the
Treasury, and has selected his successor,
but the name is withheld for the present.
CHEF BUSHYHEAD of the Cherokee Ma
ton is in Washington on business con-
nected with the Indian Territory. 1t is
said to be in relation to the 100000 paid
for the cession of the Cherokee outlet to
the United States.
THERE were at least twenty cases of
small -pox in Marinette, Wis. according
to advices of the 18th, the disease having
been carried there by a Montreal citizen.
Four deaths had occurred and many per-
sons had been xpcsed.
PETER McGEocH, the Milwaukee specu-
2ator, was stricken down on the 10Th by
what seemed like apoplexy, and for sew
eral hours his life was despaired of, but
he finally rallied under the careful treat
ment of his physician.
THE Postmaster General has decided
that guarantee associations can not go on
bonds for Postmasters. The reason given
for this decision is, that it is frequently
necessary for the sureties of Postmaster
to take charge of the office.
THE hopes entertained in London of
peaceful settlement of the Roumelian
quas ton have been shattered by a dis
patch, stating that the conference has for
mally declared that the Porte disavows
the union of Bulgaria an Roumela.
THE green glass bottle manufacturers
of the United States, in session at Pitts
burgh, Pa, ON the 18th, decided that in
view of the depressed condition of the
trade, reduction of from ten to fifteen
per cent. in wages is an absolute necessity.
THE PostmasterG General has decided
that the department was under no obliga-
tion to deliver mail matter thrown into
its collection boxes by Wells, Fargo &
Co. after they have cancelled their stamps,
and Postmasters have been instructed to
refuse such matter.
A DISPATCH was received at militia ry
headquarters at Omaha, Neb., on the
18th from Fort Robinson that no trace
could be found of the Sioux Indians re-
Gently reported to be committing depre-
dations along the northern frontier of
Nebraska and Wyoming.
Hu-.r How. go I,o,-
enue steamer Corwin. reports to the Treas
ury Department from San Francisco,
where he has just arrived, that the explo-
rations of the headwaters of the Kowag
and Notag rivers in Alaska were pushed
cruise of the Corwin.
THE total value of exports of domestic
cattle and hogs and of beef, pork and
dairy products from the United States are
as follows: September, 1885, 50, 794, 500;
for 1884, s., sos, GAG. Eleven months ended
September 80, 1885, So, 800, 059; for 1884,
81, 552 1885, Dairy products for five months
ended September 81, 1885, 6,553, 446; for
1884, $9,42e,7S9.
The United States Supreme Court met
on the 18th. All the judges, the new and
the old solicitors, the Attorney General,
General Butler and Belva Lockwood were
present. A number of lawyers were ad.
mitted to practice, among whom was
colored man. The court then adjourned
and called upon the President, who re-
ceived them in the red parlor.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued a circular to the customs officers, in
which he says that it appears to be inn