Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-24

9rnn County gegister
BY ELI d. AXE.
1RoNToN. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary q Important Events.
THE Auditor s,Departmento Of the South.
ern Pacific Railroad is being removed
from Houston, Tex, to New Orleans.
A MEETING of the National Prison As.
sociation of the United States will b.
held in Detroit, Mich, October 18th tt
21st
IT is said Bismarck and the Crown
Prince Frederick William disagree on the
policy to pursue in the trouble witt
Spain.
The police of St Petersburg have beer
ordered to renew the measurs of strin.
gency adopted during the darkest days OF
Nihilism.
1t is reported that the Sultan will mo-
agree to the main proposals of Sir Henry
Drummond Wolff regarding the occupa-
ton Of Egypt.
W. h. MORRIS and wife. of Mount
Pleasant, Tex, has sued the Yves tern
Union Telegraph Company for $1,000 for
non-delivery of a message.
GERMANY proposes, If Spain refuses
arbitration on the Carolines matter, to
ask conference of European gov ern-
ments and the United States.
THOSE who pretend to know say there
will not be a general strike along the
Union Pacific, and that Wyoming viii
soon be entirely clear of Chinese miners.
The Miners Association and the
Knights of Labor have arrived at an I'M
Outstanding, and the strike in Pennsyl-
vauia will be supported by both organi-
cations.
The Columbia Rolling Mill, at Lancas-
ohc
heating furnace, was started up on the
14th after a long suspension, giving en-
ployment to several hundred hands.
FIFTY-Two active members were pres
emit at the annual session of the Supreme
Council, thirty third degree, A. A. Scot
fish Rite for the Northern jurisd iction of
the United States, held at Boston on the
10th.
The Director General of the North,
Central and South American Elk posi- tion
states that the buildings, grounds, etc,
reception of exhibits, and exhibitors are
requested to forward articles at once.
THE Board of Naval Officers appointed
to consider plans for the construc ton of
the new naval vessels met at the Navy
Department on the 14th. The Board ex =
poets to have the report ready to submit
to Secretary Whitney within a couple of
weeks.
PRAIRIE fires have ragged in the vicinity
of Bismarck, Oak. with unusual fierce
ness. At least fifty farmers are burned
out of crops and houses. Losses range
from ST. 900 to S., 900 each. The aggre-
gaze loss Is over Sto,OUU. luere HAS Doeu
some loss of human life.
THE London morning papers of the 18th
contained column obituaries lamenting
the death of Jumbo. The Telegraph,
over its report Of the death and history of
the famous elephant, displays large head
lines reading "Sad End of jun DO"
''Killed by Collision with Railroad
Train"
LIEUTENANT GEO. NJ. STOREY, COM
manding the expedition to Alaska, re-
ports to the Secretary of the Navy, under
date of July 18th, his arrival at Hotham
Inlet on July 11th. He was to start on
the day of writing with the larger part of
his stores for the head waters of Putnam
River.
Ar the Cabinet meeting on the 18th the
policy of the Government in the silver
question was discussed. No definite &C.
tion appears to have been taken. 1t is
probable that the matter will be further
considered when the absent Cabinet Of
fcers, Messrs. Bayard, Endicott and Gar
land, return.
THE smallpox epidemic continues to
spread at Montreal, and the number of
cases is SO large that the authorities re-
fuse to furnish information to the press.
The opposition of the French Canad ian
citizens to all sanitary precautions is
largely responsible for the terrib BILE condi-
tion of affairs.
THE second heat of the international
yacht race, between the Puritan and Ge-
nesta, was sailed on the 10th, and after
an exciting contest was calamity won by
the Puritan; and so the American cup
still remains on the west side of the At
lantic and the superiority of the CENTER
board craft is maintained.
COLONEL ALEX. MCDONALD aud Lieu
tenant s. W. Groesbeck, of the Sixth In
fantry, have been detached to meet at
Ogden, Utah, the Chinese Commission
ers from San Francisco to investigate
the difficulties which recently occurred at
Rock Springs, Wy, and to act as their
escort during the inv estigation.
THE bulk of the mails over many of the
Star routes running through New Me xi CO
has been so largely increase owing to
the terms of the postal convention be-
tween the United States and Mexico pro-
viding for the free exchange of mails,
that the contractors are becoming clamor-
GUS for increased compensation.
OFFICIAL returns show that ninety
three per cent. of the deaths from small
pox at Montreal are French Canadians
who are averse to vaccination. OF the 12S
deaths from smallpox in that city last
week, 10S were French Canadians, and
thirty per cent. of the death rate is