Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-11

THE graduating exercises began at
the Annapolis Naval Academy on the 9th.
MINISTER PHELPS gets words Of COM
mendation from the London Times.
A PART Of the stone coping of the Court
house at Augusta, Ga, fell, killing col.
ored man named Harris.
A BRITISH protectorate has been forra ed
over the districts of the river Niger in
Africa.
SERGEANT JAMES CAMPBELL, OF the
Third Artillery, stationed at Washington
barracks, attempted suicide on the 9Th by
shooting.
MEMORIAL HALL, Paramount Park,
Philadelphia, was slightly damaged by
fire on the 9TH. It contained valuable art
collections.
THE French have ordered a Gordon to be
formed on the Pyrenees to keep out the
cholera.
IT has been discovered that Scott, the
absconding Manhattan Bank teller, was
confirmed poker player and loved rum
punches.
CHARGES of bribery and corruption have
been made in the Illinois Legislature, and
a committee of investigation has been put
at work.
AGITATION and protests of the people
have accomplished reduction of the ex-
ira duty on spirits in England.
AT Cincinnati, O., on the 9Th, Inspector
of Police James Dunn and Chief of Detec-
tives Charles Wappenstein were arrested
on charges of blackmail.
SIR PETER LUMsDEN has been inter-
viewed in Vienna on what he calls RUS
sia's absurd demands" He declares he
will not return to India
THE Greenback- La Dor party of Ohio met
at Columbus on the 9th, adopted rssolu-
tions and nominated full State ticket,
headed by J. W. Northrop for Governor.
CRISIS is at hand in the English Cabi-
net, Mr.. Chamberan and Sir Charles Dixie
having threatened to resign.
REWARDS have been offered for the ar
rest and conviction of the parties who at
tempted to blow up the special car of
Superintendent Warder Cumming at Mar.
shall, Tex.
THE hospitable and liberal manner in
which Secretary Bayard has been re-
ceived in Missouri is the subject of much
pleasant comment in Washington.
1T is reported from Washington that
matters are being shaped so that within
the next thirty days there will be more
removals and appointments than in the
past three months.
CONSUL MACKEY, at Rio Grande do Sui,
Brazil, has been exonerated and commend
ed for his chastisement of an insolent edi.
tor.
A CONFIDENTIAL clerk in the United
States sub-Treasury at New Orleans has
absconded, and the Assistant Treasurer
will have to make good over $50, 900 stolen
from the Government.
Cashmere earthquake were not so greatly
exaggerated after all Many hundreds of
people were killed. The telegraph lines
are Frustrated and news is hard to get.
O'NIEL & Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa, lead
ing coal operators on the Monongahela
River, have demanded reduction of one
half cent per bushel in the rate of mining.
The men say they will not accept.
AN explosion of gas occurred at Isabella
furnace, Barneston, Pa, on the 9Th. VIM.
Butler, an employee, was killed and several
others were injured. The cause of the ex-
p1osion is unknown.
A CANON CITY (Col) special says: Ny
riads of young grasshoppers, evidently
just Matched out in warm sand, have made
their appearance on the south side of the
Arkansas River, opposite this place. 1t is
said that the insects are not much dreaded
The locusts will be incapable of doing
much damage.
CONSUL RAINE told Berlin interviewer
recently that he would undertake to re-
vive the comm ercial relations of Germany
and the United States.
If reports from Southern New Mexico
are correct the Indians are leaving trail
that it ought not to be hard to follow,
marked as it is by dead bodies, ruins OF
homes and other evidences Of their fiend.
ish barbarity.
THE Grand Jury at Montreal, Can, have
returned true bills on twenty two indict-
ments for forgery and uttering forged
letters against Hall and Fox. The for
geries were upon the Bank of Scotland.
ONE of the largest life insurance policies
ever pal was that of 800, 900 paid on the
9Th, by the Equitable Life Insurance Soci-
ETY. to the widow of Norman B. Harwood,
of Ormand, Fla. Mr.. HARDWOOD was killed
by fall from his horse on the 10th of last
month